The On Purpose Podcast
Conversations that inspire, uplift, and benefit the listener. Host and producer Lynn Thompson welcomes authors, musicians, educators, philosophers, and new voices with stories and ideas to share. Episodes include discussion forums, featured guests with an audience, one-on-one conversations, and monologues. Many feature music thanks to Black Fedora with Sneaky Jazz (Zapsplat). In August 2024, Living on Purpose reached 20 years in the making! Launched as a radio talk show on CHLY in British Columbia (2004-2009), Living on Purpose has been a podcast since 2007 on numerous channels. The On Purpose Podcast (twin of Living on Purpose) has been available on Podbean since April 2020. Thanks for listening! Please scroll beyond the podcast tiles to learn more about Lynn Thompson and Living on Purpose Communications for editing audio projects, creative consulting, and collaborating with authors on their publishing journeys. Thank you!
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Episodes
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Sunday Dec 11, 2022
Serendipity in December 2022 delivered podcast host Lynn Thompson to her 1972 journal, which, as you will hear, inspired her to revisit her phone conversation in 2007 with CBC radio host Shelagh Rogers, thanks to Andrew Binks, writer, editor, and published author, who was on the same swim team as Lynn 50 years ago.
Okay, what??
In 2007, Shelagh was the host of Sounds Like Canada on CBC and later, for 15 years, she hosted The Next Chapter. The connection is that she wrote a glowing review for one of Andrew's books.
(A P.S. to posting this conversation: Shelagh's final broadcast of hosting that show was on June 24, 2023 after a "thrilling" 43-year broadcast career.)
Lynn's phone call with Shelagh on the "live" Living on Purpose broadcast on CHLY almost didn't happen, as you will hear. Thankfully it did happen, as you will also hear! A few minutes of a frame around their 13-minute conversation.
Thanks for listening to The On Purpose Podcast (twin of Living on Purpose). Appreciation for Black Fedora with Sneaky Jazz and Carol Welsman with a glimpse of "New Day" from her album Inclined.
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tonya Pomerantz is a middle-aged, menopausal woman helping women all of ages find their voice. She is a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, loves animals (especially dogs), ice cream and lives in a state of perpetual gratitude. Since she discovered her passion for career development, Tonya has worked in the employment world, supporting people as their figure out how to listen to their journey and use their skills to add value to the world.
Thirty years later, Tonya talks with her editor Lynn Thompson about the journey with book in hand, Sex, Self-Esteem & Sheer Stupidity - Surviving your 20s and Beyond, published by Spotlight Publishing House!
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Together, with their teams, Sandy Levey-Lunden and Becky Norwood are delighted to announce I Just Want Peace is a #1 International Bestseller.
Here is the edited 20-minute audio version of Becky's Spotlight Publishing Launch Day interview with Sandy on Wednesday, July 27.
Sandy's editor, Lynn Thompson, is also in the house.
Significant thanks to Morgan Hawthorn, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and Sandy’s assistant, who is keeping track of innumerable details in Sandy’s home office.
Heart-full acknowledgment to the team of editors and Power of Clearing coaches who have been holding steady for months in the evolution and birthing of I Just Want Peace, Sandy’s legacy book!
Thanks for listening and enjoying music for The On Purpose Podcast (aka Living on Purpose) with an appreciation for Black Fedora, Sneaky Jazz.
P.S. Lynn first met Sandy in 2008 and recorded with her and Len Satov, before organizing and attending the Power of Clearing workshops in Nanaimo, BC, in Canada.
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Today, Wednesday, July 27, 2022 is Book Launch Day with Sandy's legacy book. More info about the book here and this audio is a glimpse from Lynn Thompson's 2008 interview with Sandy Levey-Lunden about what Sandy calls The Clearing Process. Becky Norwood of Spotlight Publishing interviewed Sandy on the launch day for her book and you can listen to the 20-minute edited version here.
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sir Darren Jacklin contributes an abundance of tips in forty minutes that have impacted the quality of his life and innumerable others, covering:
1) The secret to living is giving2) It's unexplainable3) Zappers and sappers4) You matter5) What do you want6) Your thoughts7) Challenge8) Hour of power9) A problem10) Opportunity zone11) Be memorable12) Being relational13) Failure as feedback14) Behind the scenes15) Level up
Lynn Thompson's 50-minute conversation with Darren is on Podbean and in highlights of 17 minutes. Darren is the author of Until I Become. Music for The On Purpose Podcast (aka Living on Purpose) with thanks to Black Fedora, Sneaky Jazz. Thanks for listening.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Sixteen years since their first conversation on Living on Purpose, the occasion of Dan Millman's new memoir is an excellent reason for host Lynn Thompson to welcome Dan (in New York) and eight guests on Zoom (from Ontario, British Columbia, Portugal, and other USA locations). For an hour, they follow each other around, talking about highlights of his eighteenth book, his memoir, Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit, The True Story of My Spiritual Quest, as well as life, death, purpose, what we can control, and how four mentors (and bullies earlier in his life) helped shape Dan's learning and teaching. Enjoy!
Here is Dan's talk with Lynn in 2006 by phone on the "live" broadcast of Living on Purpose on CHLY in Nanaimo BC Canada.
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Saturday Apr 16, 2022
Do you remember your dreams? Reflect on them? Welcome insights?
Lynn Thompson and twenty guests in the audience participate with
Richard in one of his regular dream workshops. Richard Hastings
began doing dream work in 1989, including authoring the book,
Dreams for Peace. He has traveled to the U.S., Canada, South
America, and Southeast Asia doing dream meetings and personal
change work. His approach is solution-oriented, so the participant
is provided with an analysis of the dream’s meaning. He has listened
to more than 20,000 dreams so far. Richard is currently living in
Vancouver, Canada. Thanks for listening to Living on Purpose
(aka The On Purpose Podcast) with music weave thanks to
Black Fedora and Sneaky Jazz.
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Discussion with our guest, host Lynn Thompson, and members of the audience, about the importance of spiritual, physical, and financial reserves, and being part of community going forward in these current times of history repeating itself. A few musical breaks for this hour-long episode of Living on Purpose thanks to Black Fedora with Sneaky Jazz.
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
Saturday Apr 09, 2022
Lynn Thompson with news about recent guests on the podcast and your opportunity for audience participation with the recording for the podcast with upcoming guests on Living on Purpose (aka The On Purpose Podcast) >> plus creative writing in process with lots of appreciation for Ann Randolph's writing sessions, Your Story Matters: Unmute Yourself.
For Lynn's reading to wrap (and rap) this 11 minutes she References Rudolf Steiner's philosophy of the seven cycles of life:
Cycles of Seven: Rudolf Steiner philosophy of the 7-year cycles of life: Ages 0 to 7: From Oneness with Mother to Growing AutonomyAges 7 to 14: A Fight for and Commitment to LifeAges 14 to 21: Wild Emotions, Raging Hormones, SexualityAges 21 to 28: Play That Turns Toward ResponsibilityAges 28 to 35: The Body in Full Bloom Ages 35 to 42: Crisis and Questioning Ages 42 to 49: Soul Searching and WonderAges 49 to 56: An Ever-Growing Vision and Understanding of LifeAges 56 to 63: The Crossroads: Mastery or Re-evaluationAges 63 to 70: A Time of Harvesting and Spreading the Wealth
Music with thanks to Black Fedora with Sneaky Jazz.
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
Saturday Apr 02, 2022
The third section of Derian's book is all about The Pitfalls: Fear, Excuses, Procrastination, Relationships, and Money. This episode is 40 minutes long. In February 2021, Lynn Thompson and Derian Tuitt met up on Zoom for the third of four conversations based on concepts in the book he wrote and they collaboratively edited in 2018, Life Success Hacks: How to Use Simple Action to Achieve Anything You Imagine.
Section One talk is episode 18 on Podbean.Highlights of #1
Section Two talk on Podbean.
Derian B. Tuitt is a staunch proponent of taking action to achieve whatever you desire. His mantra is: “Your actions tell the real story. If you play it safe, you won’t have much of a life.” Derian advocates using natural laws to work for you, as well as using adversity as a catalyst that launches opportunity. Derian was inspired to write his book for his daughter, Debrina, and he is determined to make this world a better place for his granddaughter, Nadia.
Music for The On Purpose Podcast (Living on Purpose) is thanks to Black Fedora, Sneaky Jazz.
Lynn Thompson, Editor of Words and Audio
Living on Purpose Communications in Canada includes a podcast, audio editing, and collaborative editing of manuscripts for authors who appear as podcast guests! Podcast host and producer Lynn Thompson facilitates discussion forums, one-on-one conversations, monologues, and guest features. Lynn collaborates with numerous authors and their books of fantasy, historical fiction, future fiction, personal growth, how-to, and whimsy, from creative consultation in the developmental stage to final proofreading for publication. A guide with enthusiasm for drawing forth stories and polishing words to shine the author’s voice, Lynn enjoys the creative writing journey. For more information about being a podcast guest or developmental and collaborative editing, writing, and publishing, please email livingonpurposecommunications (at) gmail.com to hear from Lynn.
“As a first-time author, editing my novel was intimidating. Thanks to Lynn Thompson, it was a joyful and rewarding experience. Lynn is conscientious, organized, flexible, thorough, and professional. I feel very fortunate to have found someone who was also a kind, respectful, and supportive partner in preparing my book for publication. My novel is better because of Lynn’s contributions.”
—Kathryn Goodwin Tone, The King’s Broad Arrow (Germany/USA), Illustrator, Crystal Cregge. Winner, Juvenile Fiction, 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards
Finalist, 2020 Eric Hoffer Excellence in Independent Publishing Awards
Finalist, 2022 Young Adult Virginia Author Award
“Lynn transforms your literary work from good to great. She is organized, professional, and insightful.”
—Derian Tuitt, Life Success Hacks: How to Use Simple Action to Achieve Anything You Imagine (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
“I have really come to appreciate and honor the way you poke, prod, encourage, and yes, sometimes drag me kicking and screaming to my greater potential.” —Bobbie Casalino Lewis, Expression Expert and author, So That’s What 70 Looks Like! The Essence of Aging Gracefully (CA USA 2023)
Reviews for Dinner at God’s House
April 24, 2024 with Wellness Writers Press
Literary Titan Gold Book Award: Fiction
“This book is a must-read for those of us who feel and think and grind through the days knowing that with courage there can be peace. Even just for a minute. Dinner at God’s House is not just Lieman’s story. It belongs to all of us. A beautiful and raw story about healing and the choice to live in courage or fear.” —Lara Love Hardin, author of The Many Lives of Mama Love and four-time New York Times bestselling author
“Deeply moving and emotionally profound, Dinner at God’s House brings us face-to-face with the big questions of life and also helps us find the answers. This story will break you in two and break your heart, and then finally lead you to a better version of yourself.” —Lauren Sapala, author, speaker & creative guide
About the Author
For anyone wondering what it’s like to collaborate with Lynn Thompson as an editor and writer, here are unsolicited, spontaneous testimonials from three of the numerous people on my team involved with preparing my book for publication with Spotlight Publishing House. —Sandy Levey-Lunden
From such modest beginnings when Angela and I began working on I Just Want Peace with Sandy, its completion and publication is breathtaking. Your painstaking editing has led to an incredible body of work and a wonderful read. —Gillian Hibbs
Lynn, you were an absolute JOY to work with! You show infinite patience and presence making me feel seen, heard, and valued! You have cultivated so much focus, but are always game to have fun! You are a super talented writer and diligent and detailed editor. Your awareness is unrivaled, yet you are unruffled. The way you honoured Sandy’s legacy and embraced every new person added to the team was phenomenal! Collaborating with you was a dream, we were so attuned, even over Zoom, it was like our minds merged in purpose and play-fullness! Knowing you is a true and beautiful Blessing! It’s so incredible what can be accomplished when a set of stellar communicators are led by a star like YOU, Lynn Thompson! —Kristi Birnie
A great tribute to you, Lynn. I concur with Kristi on how much infinite patience, presence, and passion you had for this book project throughout and how I felt seen and heard, grateful to learn some of the ins and outs of editing. I feel like a beginner’s mind in so many ways. Such attention to detail and making everything appear to be seamless, more fun, and just more than the sum of its parts that you tracked so well. It was a meaningful creative process that I secretly never wanted to end. But then we’d be denying the world of a great legacy book and to give Peace a better chance. Congratulations, Sandy and Team Peace! —Christina Ireland
I concur with everything Kristi said. You have shown infinite patience, Lynn, with all of us throwing in different edits, you have welcomed each and every one of us and responded with kindness. You are an awesome editor and have been a profound help to Sandy and her legacy book. Well done and thank you! —Sue Reynard
feather aka denise bertrand
Lynn Thompson is a most attentive, thorough, and enthusiastic editor.
Anyone writing their first or tenth book would be lucky to have Lynn on their team.
Her attention to detail is outstanding.
Her gentle and clever suggestions created an inspiring working atmosphere for me
as I completed my first novel.
Once Upon A Solar Time.
I highly recommend Lynn as your editor.
The Woo Woo Way
"Cindy Childress, PhD, The Expert’s Ghostwriter, book-writing coach, and mentor, reawakened my love of storytelling and helped develop my writing style. Once we completed the developmental editing, I needed to find a copy editor. Who knew there was more than one kind of editing? My publisher, Becky Norwood of Spotlight Publishing House, introduced me to several copy editors to interview. I chose Lynn Thompson of Living on Purpose Communications.
"I thank Lynn for creating a collaborative approach in editing my book, chapter by chapter, line by line. With some of my lessons, she helped assemble bridges to connect ideas. Editing takes focused time,
so it’s great that we often laughed with abandon and talked aloud to Grammarly. There’s nothing better than a good belly laugh for healing. How perfect, since healing is the theme of my book."
—Sandy Evenson, Bestselling Author of The Woo Woo Way, in Spring 2023
Listen to Sandy on the Living on Purpose podcast
A Dry Hate - Second Edition
Published by Nugget Press with support from Spotlight Publishing House.
Nancy Marshall hopes that A Dry Hate will have a broad readership with adult discussion groups as well as in high school and college classrooms. She has a deep and abiding belief that by continuing to educate ourselves, to think and talk about ideas and events, we will become a more robust democratic society.
By opening ourselves to the interchange of ideas and knowledge, we will be more able to combat propaganda, lies, abuse of power, and threats of violence.
Listen to Nancy on the Living on Purpose podcast
Nancy says of editor Lynn Thompson:
“Lynn has been a fabulous, terrific, wonderful, irritating, fun-loving, imperfect, best-ever editor.
I am so grateful for all the work she’s done, and we’ve done together.”
June 2023
May 2024: A DRY HATE won first place as Best Novel with the Arizona Professional Writers!
November 2024: A DRY HATE won the first place award for BEST FICTION in 2024 from the Arizona Authors Association!
Publishing with Ignite Press in 2024
“When we began working together, I had a collection of blog entries, and I didn’t even know how to begin turning them into a book. You helped me to rearrange, rewrite, and polish these entries into a book I am proud of. Lynn, I really felt you were invested in my success and I enjoyed getting to know you. I will definitely work with you again!”
—Danell TeNyenhuis Black, SUDDENLY, A Widow’s Story of Unexpected Loss and Healing
Listen to Danell on the Living on Purpose podcast
Leading us through details of her unexpected loss, the author expands the shock rippling through their large families into a depth of insight, memories, hope, and supportive guidance. I recommend this book for comfort and company through the loss of a spouse and holding steady as life continues in ways unimaginable before that moment. Big thanks for the author's courage in sharing her story!
Lynn Thompson
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2023 with SPOTLIGHT PUBLISHING HOUSE
In memory of Mom and Dad who were always there for me. My bond with Mom reached new depths throughout the years I cared for her and as she expressed her incredible love for me.
Thanks to Denise M. Brown for your caregiver consultant training program and the many opportunities you provided, including giving me the foundation and tools to begin helping family caregivers. Thanks to my partner, Dennis, for your love, patience, support, and understanding while I wrote this book. Thanks to Junie Swadron, Theresa Wilbanks, and Lynn Thompson for your editorial guidance and encouragement and for making writing this book a fantastically fun journey. Like caregiving, writing a book is not a solo activity, and you each brought this message to life and gave it wings. It takes a community to write a good book. Steve Harrison, his coaching staff, and his group of authors provided education, guidance, and inspiration to keep me engaged and clear that my message is important and needs a voice. I greatly appreciate my first readers, Dennis Dulniak, Helen Carter, and Karen Briskey. A huge thank you to Maggie Morgan and Theresa Wilbanks for your marketing and social media expertise, and Becky Norwood, for all you and your staff accomplished to get my book published on time and with love and enthusiasm for this project.
Gratitude to all the caregivers I have met and coached. You validated over and over that this book and the information in it change lives. While the worries, mistakes, and concerns are real, you have created meaningful journeys through effective communication, asking for help, making memories, and celebrating with the loved ones in your care.