"What's Next?" With Steve Blasen

Live Well Therapeutic Massage

As the owner and masseur for Live Well Therapeutic Massage in Monterey, CA I have the pleasure of meeting extraordinary humans. From military, business owners, golf pros, health pros, winemakers...the list goes on. Many have interesting stories, journeys, & breakthroughs, my mind began to stir. I need to take this somewhere - podcast! Then COVID hit & our lives changed. We were forced into lockdown, I was forced to look at life's uncertainty. I thought "What's Next?" Hence the name - "What's Next?" A podcast with interesting everyday humans sharing their life's journeys & passion.

  1. 10/20/2025

    Benjamin Forest: Trip Of A Lifetime (Book Release & Interview)

    Benjamin was our very first podcast guest back in 2021 (S1E1), and then we caught up with him in 2024 (S4E5) after his life had settled down quite a bit. Today, Benjamin is back with us after writing his first book, "Trip Of A Lifetime", which is available on Amazon as well as Kindle! Benjamin shares his insights and motivations for writing "Trip Of A Lifetime" and relates his personal experiences with psychedelics as a means to healing, recovery, and self-love.https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mashttps://instagram.com/livewelltm_montereyhttps://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWellhttps://livewellmonterey.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmashttp://www.youtube.com/@StephenBlasensWhatsNextPodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-next-with-steve-blasen/id1634517783 Episode 1: (S1E1) - https://youtu.be/rawM8POLROoEpisode 2: (S4E5) - https://youtu.be/RMa-0pOLo_AAmazon Books:https://www.amazon.com/Trip-Lifetime-Psychedelic-Healing-Loving/dp/B0FPDPXXXD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JCBJZBZRCY57&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXhkKv_8MuCJWmFJkJii3wNxr2gxMiRzPORz_5nmRdZjdUumQgQ2c9C5P1raBw5j5FsGKJR_0RW3_p-fjdtvaRTRC_zNuO9EDWKBflZpMevQyhg70bUzMwAE7ruUBGW9qI8PCAXxFY8Qywp9gnLdHwhQaFTO0kzf8Q5yn-CieFiYQ4Th_DX9VbzAWUaLRSlE14JyuNcKndAgsqqiqbGcegZqDFIFlrjmK2oN8_pxAAw.GGU_nIGYXcIzHJpOL0SIjwQCJMsyiI7LnhbLOYLFJoc&dib_tag=se&keywords=trip+of+a+lifetime&qid=1760563483&s=books&sprefix=trip+of+a+lifetime%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Trip-Lifetime-Psychedelic-Healing-Loving-ebook/dp/B0FPDHWRS8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JCBJZBZRCY57&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXhkKv_8MuCJWmFJkJii3wWHtGXeWmeRSjOuEJnKh3IMSEhkUw5kw7s8sEz6ekAAHEho-eR1P5Wm3XeSrPxPuTc_ofSUE3fgLaARtNjpkrfW73-xa2vZg_aWhq3oOKw8YYswLKI5x43TjKRixMIA431ugC3wHRLY053AUpqh3H15odpE9HfzpoVDL5YASWMBsyhys6CAUpRxWNe7aOuV97A-GHzPQPAUTPINe7KlMjU.z8sx0hULaLN2JLGOVOgQFcUtRC1VYhEkknn3jAycIeo&dib_tag=se&keywords=trip+of+a+lifetime&qid=1760562821&s=books&sprefix=trip+of+a+lifetime%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1Tags:#benjaminforest #tripofalifetime #ptsd #civilian #spiritualhealing #psychologicalhealing #spiritualawakening #alternativemedicine #psilocybin #dmt #psychedelics #airforce #retiredairforceltcolonel #podcast #podcasting #ivewelltherapeuticmassage #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    1h 41m

  2. 03/10/2025

    Hannah Lonergan: Ayurveda, Healing & Building a Healthy Self Through Yoga!

    We welcome back Hannah Lonergan to today's podcast! She brings her insight and charm to the Live Well Studios, and we bring that to you! We hope you enjoy our time with Hannah today! From Hannah's Website: I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner & Yoga Instructor. My goal with Health with Hannah is to personally work with you, to help deepen your relationship with your mind & body through Ayurveda and Yoga! I look at your health from a global perspective. We will look at body, mind, spirit, diet, lifestyle, relationships... everything - and determine what is not working. Then WE fix it! You & I will work together towards developing a sustaining & compassionate connection with Self-nourishment that feeds the soul. As we are each unique individuals, the solutions to your health issues will be unique to you. There is no wholesale “take this to fix that” approach in Ayurveda. In Her Own Words: Hannah discovered yoga more than a decade ago and began her teaching journey in 2018. Through her 200-hour yoga certification program (Monterey), she was introduced to Ayurveda, where it quickly became her passion and central to her teaching philosophy. Hannah received her Master’s Degree through Maharishi International University in Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine. In furthering her education, she traveled to Kerala, India (the birthplace of Ayurveda), where she studied and received certification in Ayurveda & Panchakarma through Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital & Research Centre. Hannah also interned with Susan and Jeff Turner, the doctors at Living Ayurveda clinic, who were her true inspirations in pursuing this healing modality, which re-instates ‘care’ into ‘Healthcare’. Ayurveda is a holistic approach to well-being that believes ‘health is life. ’ Hannah believes that self-love is central to well-being and that a restoring of vitality, of the inner being, of faith in the self needs to occur. She takes her personal lessons of healing and finding self-love into her Ayurvedic work with clients and into the classroom in the form of Self Love Yoga. Her approach to introducing clients to the benefits of Ayurveda is to highlight the ‘whole-person' in any healing journey. Hannah guides each individual on a personalized path to creating equilibrium by removing toxicity and restoring health through diet, lifestyle, and herbs. Hannah’s appreciation for the internal and external benefits of movement led her to expand her teaching offerings to include Barre. Her Barre Certification program (Santa Cruz) focused on a full-body approach to this ballet-inspired exercise, which cultivates lengthening & toning within the body. Hannah is now certified through Yoga Alliance with a 500-hour yoga certificate after completing the Ki Yoga 300-HR Becoming A Master Teacher & Mastering the Business of Yoga program (Santa Cruz) in 2020. She hopes to teach her students that embodiment of health is possible, transformation is possible, and living a soul-filled life is the purpose. Hannah offers Ayurvedic consultations, packages & workshops; she also teaches Yoga and Barre, both publicly & privately (in-person throughout Monterey County, California & virtually). Recorded: 03/03/2025 hannah.lonergan25@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/healthwhannah/ https://www.omoasis.com/ https://www.healthwhannah.com/about-me https://www.healthwhannah.com https://www.healthwhannah.com/freebook http://www.youtube.com/@StephenBlasensWhatsNextPodcast https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell https://livewellmonterey.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-next-with-steve-blasen/id1634517783 Tags: #hannahlonergan #healthwhannah #yoga #yogainstructor #barre #barreinstructor #ayurveda #foodpreparation #breathing #dis-ease #integrativemedicine #healingjourney #livewelltherapeuticmassage #podcast #comedy #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    47 min

  3. 02/24/2025

    The Return of Austin Palacios!

    The Return of Austin Palacios Today's podcast of "What's Next?" features the triumphant return of Austin Palacios!More fun and great stories, along with some moments of truth and reflection.We ALWAYS have a good time when Austin stops by!Recorded: 2025-02-04https://instagram.com/livewelltm_montereyhttps://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWellhttps://livewellmonterey.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmasTags:#livewelltherapeuticmassage #podcast #comedy #austinpalacios #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast #gypsysoulgarage

    2h 34m

  4. 02/17/2025

    Ryan Hokpins of Lavender Farms Company Stops By to Share a Wealth of Knowledge!

    Our guest tonight is Ryan Hopkins of Lavender Creek Company, the co-owner of a local lavender farm in the Monterey Area. We learned a ton while talking about the lavender industry and how it is used in many different facets of life and healing. We hope you enjoy today’s podcast and maybe even go and check out what they have to offer! From Their Website: Lavender Creek Co. is a family-run lavender farm and brand of soothing lavender products. Our story started when two California natives, Myriah and Ryan, met in Los Angeles. They both had career office jobs but dreamed of leaving the city and starting a farm and family business. That said, a few years later they were married in Carmel Valley, pregnant with their first, and had purchased a beautiful old creekside ranch on Carmel Valley Road! Today, their mission is to grow delicious fragrant fields of lavender and create naturally healthful products that soothe and enhance peoples’ lives. Myriah and Ryan’s interest in lavender started originally with Myriah’s fascination with essential oils. Ryan loved to listen to Myriah talk about the properties and the history of all the many oils. So, when the idea to make dried lavender boutonnieres and handmade lavender soap for their wedding came up, they were both excited to get hands-on! Through this experience, and a little research, they learned that lavender was the perfect drought-resistant plant to grow in California. The little lavender seedlings in their hearts had sprouted and they set out to launch Lavender Creek Co! (Originally recorded 2025-02-04) Contact Information: 45217 Carmel Valley Road Greenfield, CA, United States 93927 Website: lavendercreekcompany.com Email: info@lavendercreekcompany.com Instagram: @lavendercreekcompany Facebook: facebook.com/lavendercreekco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKuaJGMLkfg&t=49s&pp=ygUWbGF2ZW5kZXIgY3JlZWsgY29tcGFueQ%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXENrNnJhY&pp=ygUWbGF2ZW5kZXIgY3JlZWsgY29tcGFueQ%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1jSAhdrWA&pp=ygUWbGF2ZW5kZXIgY3JlZWsgY29tcGFueQ%3D%3D https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mas https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell https://livewellmonterey.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas Tags: #ryanhopkins #lavendercreekcompany #lavender #healing #fragrence #lavenderfarm #englishlavender #podcast #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassage #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    48 min

  5. 02/10/2025

    Karen Lewis, Holographic Memory Resolution (HMR) Traumatic Memory Therapist, Is Today's Guest!

    On thisSpecial Sunday Edition of the "What's Next?" podcast, we sit down with Karen Lewis of Mississippi who is involved with Holographic Memory Resolution(R), HMRFrom Her Website (https://www.ahealingpath.life/) :PRIOR TO HMR, Karen had been declared by two rheumatologists to be 100% disabled with rheumatoid arthritis and had been diagnosed with 34 diseases, primarily autoimmune. Many medical specialists and traditional talk therapists had been very helpful, but her condition continued to deteriorate. After only 3 sessions of HMR, Karen returned to her psychologist who dropped her notepad and declared, “I never had any hope you would get to this level of healing.” NO TOOLS: This psychologist knew all about Karen’s childhood trauma but didn’t have a tool to use to safely address the issues. Neither did the five psychologists Karen had seen in ten years prior to this one. THE JOURNEY BEGAN: This began Karen’s journey to continue to heal with HMR and learn its techniques so she could help others heal from their own childhood trauma. She now tests negative for rheumatoid and almost all of the other “diseases”.Holographic Memory Resolution(R), HMR, is an integrative trauma processing approach developed by Brent Baum that has evolved over 30 years based on the work of David Cheek, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, David Grove, Richard Schwartz & others.YouTube: @elizabethmayer1327https://www.ahealingpath.lifehttps://ahealingpath.squarespace.com/blog-/how-hmr-enhanced-my-lifehttps://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT05001399http://hmrtraining.com/http://michaelsgift.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4dQIYFCEhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mashttps://instagram.com/livewelltm_montereyhttps://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWellhttps://livewellmonterey.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmasTags:#michaelsgift #ahealingpath #karenlewis #holographicmemoryresolution #healing #childhoodtrauma #trauma #hmr #podcast #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassage #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    1h 25m
  6. Jason Adelaars Is Our 1st Guest of Season 5: Diver, Engineer, Hydroponic, and Story Teller

    01/27/2025

    Jason Adelaars Is Our 1st Guest of Season 5: Diver, Engineer, Hydroponic, and Story Teller

    Welcome to Season 5! Our guest today is Jason Adelaars! Hydroponics, Diving, Oceanic Research, Weather, and Agriculture are just a few of his deep interests and we go over all those and more in today's podcast. During the podcast, he shares a story of diving in Bali and being underwater when an earthquake aftershock struck and he describes the incident. It's an incredible story! In His Own Words: Environmental data acquisition systems engineer with 20 years of experience developing and implementing innovative engineering projects with the mission of minimizing the impact society has on our environment. Now my focus is on scalable climate adaptation strategies. I've worked within the scopes of soil, groundwater, wetland, ocean, weather, agriculture, and hydroponic monitoring solutions. Passionate about troubleshooting & problem-solving while moving projects forward; collaborating with partners to yield best results; and making a positive impact on our community. Recorded on 2025-01-21 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mas https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell https://livewellmonterey.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas Tags: #hydroponics #diver #diving #oceanicresearch #agriculture #climateadaptation #mbari #csumb #ucriverside #rvdavidpackard #steinbeck #ricketts #westernflyer #thelogfromtheseaofcortez #thelibertywreck #thesmithmoorewreck #lakesuperior #mosslanding #vegg #podcast #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassage #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    1h 7m

  7. 01/19/2025

    Body Art, Piercing, & Jewelry Specialist Cody Vaughn of Vaughn Body Arts in Monterey!

    I've known Cody for many years, having neighboring businesses and shared clients from time to time and I was excited to have him on the podcast. As you'll hear, he was born and raised here in Monterey, came up through the music scene with his band Pride Subject, and became Monterey County’s first and only studio dedicated exclusively to body piercing which he established in 2013. His story is super interesting! I believe you'll enjoy getting to know Cody Vaughn! In His Own Words: I was born and raised in Monterey and have been piercing since 2004. I have attended The Fakir Intensives (basic & advanced) and attend the annual Association of Professional Piercers conference to continue to further my piercing education. I have been a proud member in good standing with The Association of Professional Piercers since 2009. In addition to operating Vaughn Body Arts, I also work as an instructor for The Fakir Musafar Foundation (piercing workshop in San Francisco), volunteer with The APP, and have taught body piercing in the USA (APP/Fakir), Mexico (LBP), Russia (RuAPP) and Brazil (Gep). I served as President of The Association of Professional Piercers and was a board member from 2014-2020. Vaughn Body Arts 1101 Del Monte Ave, Monterey, California 93940 (831) 241-6466 https://www.vaughnbodyarts.com/ https://www.yelp.com/biz/vaughn-body-arts-monterey https://www.facebook.com/VaughnBodyArts/ https://www.instagram.com/vaughnbodyarts/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mas https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell https://livewellmonterey.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas Tags: #codyvaughn #bodypiercing #bodypiercings #bodypiercingstudio #piercing #bodyarts #daithpiercing #fakirintensives #associationofprofessionalpiercersconference #associationofprofessionalpiercers #vaughnbodyarts #fakirmusafarfoundation #pridesubject #metalmusic #podcast #podcasts #podcasting #livewelltherapeuticmassage #livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey #steveblasen #whatsnextpodcast

    1h 6m

  8. 01/19/2025

    70 Years of Sobriety Between Steve & Robert Ford: On Our New Years Eve 2025 "What's Next?"

    Tonight's podcast was recorded on New Year's Eve for 2025 and we feel it is quite relevant, given the celebrations happening worldwide tonight. Both Steve and Robert are recovering alcoholics and have 70 years of sobriety between them, as well as a deep passion for those who are entangled in addictions. These next 80 minutes are full of reflections, memories, perspectives, and support for those who are in or near the grip of addiction. https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell https://livewellmonterey.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas Tags: #sobrietyjourney #soberlife #alcoholaddiction #alcoholicsanonymous #addictionrecovery#podcast#podcasting#livewelltherapeuticmassage#livewelltherapeuticmassagemonterey#steveblasen#whatsnextpodcast

    1h 21m
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As the owner and masseur for Live Well Therapeutic Massage in Monterey, CA I have the pleasure of meeting extraordinary humans. From military, business owners, golf pros, health pros, winemakers...the list goes on. Many have interesting stories, journeys, & breakthroughs, my mind began to stir. I need to take this somewhere - podcast! Then COVID hit & our lives changed. We were forced into lockdown, I was forced to look at life's uncertainty. I thought "What's Next?" Hence the name - "What's Next?" A podcast with interesting everyday humans sharing their life's journeys & passion.

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  • Creator
    Live Well Therapeutic Massage
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Live Well Therapeutic Massage
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    "What's Next?" With Steve Blasen