Fearlessly Failing with Lola Berry Lola Berry

LA Diary!

Righto, what a week! I have a movie review for you, a brill new west side hike and I even spotted a rattle snake! 

First up: Movie Review. Civil War with Kirsten Dunst, and as you'll hear her husband Jesse Plemons accidentally got his role. His scene is so confronting and terrifying. 

You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w

Next up we have foodie reviews; we have health bars, cookies and sushi in this week's roundup!

I also talk about doing breathwork with the beautiful Daisy of Spiritual Mixtape who's also Monday's guest. Here's Monday's ep incase you missed it! Listen to Monday's episode here!

If you want to learn more about breathwork and Daisy then check out her insta here: https://www.instagram.com/spiritualmixtape/ and here's her website: https://www.spiritualmixtape.com/

Hope you loved this episode, reach out and get in touch on insta if there's anything you'd like me to check out in LA!

Big love,

Lola 

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Today's hot seat is with the wonderful breath work and meditation teacher, creator of Spiritual Mixtape; Daisy Mack. 
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Meet Daisy Mack, founder of Spiritual Mixtape! 📼

She’s humble, grounded, kind and here to talk to us about breath work, self improvement and why having the freedom to choose what you really want to do is so important. 

Daisy had a great executive career as an agent and manager to some of the biggest names in the world. She was VP before 34! She had status and money but was also on the brink of burnout. Daisy figured out that the root of all her problems was stress. When her Dad fell ill she quickly changed her priorities so she could be with him while he was in palliative care. This was the beginning of her stepping away from her high powered job to find her true purpose. Daisy’s dad who’s passed now taught her a saying “you can only be you” which has stuck with her and helped her navigate changing careers. As you’ll hear in today’s chat Daisy explains that through perseverance, curiosity and a desire to be better that eventually she was able to connect with can find her true self. 

Spiritual mixtape was born from discovering her true purpose and it blends her two passions; music and breath work. Spiritual mixtape put simply is a support network. Imagine curating your own spiritual mixtape with all your helpful healing modalities on it! 

I have been lucky enough to do a couple of breath work sessions with Daisy and holy smokes they're powerful. Daisy holds space for you to clear, ground, connect and manifest. I'm already counting down until i can do the next one. You can book in for a session here: 

https://www.spiritualmixtape.com/book-a-session

To find out more about Spiritual Mixtape check out Daisy’s website here:

https://www.spiritualmixtape.com/

I’m loving listening to Daisy’s pod, you can subscribe and listen here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spiritual-mixtape/id1708209957

And you can follow Daisy on insta here:

https://www.instagram.com/spiritualmixtape/

And just for something special here’s a video of Daisy teaching a little sip of breath work. This one's for anxiety. So you can dip your toe in here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2LrbOJIB6s

Big love gang, hope you love this ep as much as I do! 

Lola 
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Welcome back to the LA Diary!

This week i have a movie review for you! I saw Monkey Man and LOVED it. You can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqa3YTtwvaU&t=37s

There's also lots of Trader Joes snack reviews and Boss and I had our first date night in LA at a lovely restaurant called Figaro!

I also tricked Matt in going on my fave LA hike, when i say tricked him, it's a ltitle longer and tougher than i let on at the begining! 

Hope you love this ep, thank you for all the pod love!

Lola 
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This is a re release of David from earlier in the year, but since he was our monday guest, we thought it was only fair to re release it!

 

Happy Wednesday!
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Strap yourselves in for this one! David is back on the pod! In this episode I take David to LA true crime locations and I don’t tell him anything about them until he tunes in and tells us what we feels and senses. Not to give anything away… but the Lana Turner murder house will blow your mind! 

This was recorded chronologically in the order in which you hear it. All locations and details listed below. 

If you love this ep then there’s more where this came from, this is our second true crime pod. The first one we recorded in the East parts of LA and this episode is all based around the West neighbourhoods of LA. To check out the first true crime ep look up episode #234 and you can listen to it here too:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fearlessly-failing-with-lola-berry/id1478245620?i=1000568640297

 

Before we get stuck into this episode I’d like to place a trigger warning here that we do discuss these true crimes, so we do talk about murder, motive and death in this episode. 

 

Righto, back to today’s ep. Here’s the locations in order of us visiting them today. 

 


Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood House: this is where she passed away in 1962 from a barbiturate overdose. They’ve been trying to stop this house from being demolished. David’s take on this spot and what happened is very interesting, I don’t what to give anything away here but ready yourselves!!
Nicole Brown’s Brentwood House: this is the location where OJ Simpson brutally attacked and murdered her and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994
Lana Turner murder Mansion: this is very interesting! You’ll hear in the episode but we had no idea that we were at the location to the day exactly 66 years after this murder took place. 4th of April 1958 Lana Turner’s on again off again mobster boyfriend was murdered in her house. Johnny Stompanato was one of Micky Cohen’s bodyguards and he was allegedly threatening to kill both Lana, her daughter Cheryl and Lana’s mother this night. Lana was present as was her 14 year old daughter Cheryl. Story goes that Cheryl was studying for her mid-term exams at school when she heard them arguing and she ran to the kitchen to grab a knife to scary him off. She ran upstairs to her mother’s bedroom where Lana and Johnny were arguing and when the door opened Johnny swung at Lana, she then stepped out of the way and her daughter Cheryl stabbed Johnny. To which he replied “what have you done.” It was ruled as “justifiable homicide” but there are rumours that this could have been planned all along. Let’s hear David’s take on it! 
Greystone Mansion: this one is a sad story where two bodies were found and nobody knows if it was a double murder, double suicide or a murder suicide. Ned Doheny, son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, was found dead on February 16, 1929 in a guest bedroom of Greystone Mansion alongside the body of his longtime friend and assistant, Hugh Plunkett. David gives us his take on this which makes the story even sadder. 
Santa Monica boardwalk: this is where the Tool-Box killers Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris picked up their teenage victims in 1979. They had met in prison 2 years prior. Then when they were both released they bought a van and would abduct girls from the sidewalk in Santa Monica, then rape and brutally murder them with the things they kept in their toolbox. Norris was the first to plead guilty. Bittaker was found guilty. In fact I’ve interviewed someone who went to visit Bittaker in San Quentin prison, crime fiction author Candice Fox, you can hear Candice talk about sitting down with the serial killer in that episode. It’s episode #105 and you can listen to it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/fearlessly-failing-with-lola-berry/id1478245620?i=1000516661468

 

So there you have it, that’s our true crime West side of LA episode with the beautiful David the medium guiding us and sharing his insights. 

 

Hope you love this episode, it’s