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Madness Cafe219. Absent Fathers with guest Dr. Susan SchwartzJoin the conversation by letting us know what you think about the episode!What effect does an absent father (whether physically or emotionally) have on children, specifically daughters? We explore this topic with this week's guest Dr. Susan Schwartz. Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D. trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst and appears on podcasts and presentations at Jungian conferences and teaching programs in the USA and worldwide. Her books are: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds; Imposter Syndrome and the ‘As-If’ Personality: The Fragility of Self (September, 2023); A Jungian Exploration of the...
2025-09-111h 04
Everyday Epigenetics: Raw. Real. Relatable.72. Healing Trauma Through the Vagus Nerve: A Polyvagal Approach with Dr. Arielle SchwartzIn this powerful continuation of our Vagus Nerve series, hosts Susan Robbins (certified epigenetic human performance coach) and Kate King (licensed psychotherapist and award-winning author) welcome one of the most respected voices in trauma recovery: Dr. Arielle Schwartz.A clinical psychologist, author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma, and founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, Dr. Schwartz brings both deep science and profound compassion to the conversation on nervous system healing.What is Polyvagal Theory, And Why Does It Matter?Unlike traditional models of the...
2025-08-2552 minEveryday Epigenetics: Raw. Real. Relatable.70. Understanding IFS (Internal Family Systems): What Your ‘Parts’ Are Trying to Tell You with Susan Robbins & Kate KingEver feel like one part of you wants to say yes... while another part screams no?You're not crazy, you’re human. And today’s episode of Everyday Epigenetics: Raw. Real. Relatable. dives into why that happens, and how to work with it, with Kate King leading the conversation on Parts Work and Internal Family Systems (IFS).IFS is a powerful, non-pathologizing therapeutic model that helps you understand the different "parts" of your personality, like your inner perfectionist, your people-pleaser, or your avoidant protector. These parts aren’t problems. They’re protectors trying their best to keep...
2025-08-1150 min
Proven PodcastGenerated $2 Billion Leveraging AI - Susan SlyIn this powerful episode, Charles sits down with Susan Sly—tech entrepreneur, AI innovator, and health warrior—to unpack how she rebuilt her life from rock bottom to billion-dollar impact. Susan shares her gripping story of being diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis, losing her marriage, her business, and becoming homeless—all in 16 weeks. But instead of surrendering, she turned to biohacking, belief, and relentless self-reinvention. Together, they explore the healing protocols Susan used to defy her terminal diagnosis, her rise to co-founding an AI company that led the largest deployment of computer vision at scale in U.S...
2025-07-241h 01
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU344 DR SUSAN SCHWARTZ ON A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE OF THE PUELLA ARCHETYPEWelcome to Rendering Unconscious – the Gradiva award-winning podcast about psychoanalysis & culture, with me, Dr Vanessa Sinclair. https://renderingunconscious.substack.com
Rendering Unconscious episode 344.
Rendering Unconscious welcomes Susan E. Schwartz back to the podcast! She’s here to talk about her new book A Jungian Exploration of the Puella Archetype (Routledge, 2024): https://amzn.to/438dhMI
RU344: SUSAN SCHWARTZ ON A JUNGIAN EXPLORATION OF THE PUELLA ARCHETYPE: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru344-susan-schwartz-on-a-jungian
Susan Schwartz discusses the Puella archetype, emphasizing its energy, creativity, and youthfulness often denigrated in society. She explains the archetype's association with the new moon and the concept of u...
2025-05-0809 min
Dad Space Podcast - for Dads by DadsAuthor Susan Schwartz - The Absent Father Effect on DaughtersEpisode 123 - Author Susan Schwartz - The Absent Father Effect on DaughtersAbout the authorSusan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist is a member the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She has taught in numerous Jungian programs and presented workshops and lectures in the USA and many other countries. Susan has articles in several journals and chapters in books on Jungian analytical psychology. She has a book published by Routledge in 2020 entitled, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds. Her analytical private practice is in Paradise...
2024-10-0746 min
The Profit Minds Podcast w/ Steven KirchHarnessing Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Success with Susan SchwartzThe Profit Minds Podcast with Dr. Steven Kirch, Episode 80
In this episode of The Profit Minds Podcast, Dr. Steven Kirch speaks with Susan Schwartz, a leadership and management coach who equips expert professionals to become excellent leaders. She views Emotional Intelligence through a practical lens that aspiring leaders can use to build cohesive, collaborative, and happy teams.
Susan is the author of “Creating a Greater Whole: A Project Manager’s Guide to Becoming a Leader,” which offers emerging leaders a framework of well-defined competencies to succeed. She also is a guest lecturer at Georgetown University and Be...
2024-06-2029 min
Individuation Archives - C. G. Jung Institute of ChicagoJung in the World | The Inner Realm of Imposter Syndrome: A Jungian Perspective with Susan Schwartz
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Imposter Syndrome seems ubiquitous in the collective. This episode explores the psychological underpinnings of the “as-if” personality through a Jungian lens. Host Patricia Martin talks with author and Jungian analyst Susan Schwartz about the inner world of Imposter Syndrome and why the same forces that can disturb personal development, can also provide the impetus to embrace a more complete self. Schwartz draws from her recent book...
2024-05-2143 min
Teaching Learning Leading K-12David & Susan Schwartz - The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z - 641
David & Susan Schwartz - The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z. This is episode 641 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
David Schwartz is the author of several books, most recently “The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age,” (Basic Books, 2017). He holds a BA from Stanford and a PhD from MIT. He has had a varied career, as a foreign policy specialist, an investment banker, and HR specialist, and an executive search recruitment professional. David spent much of h...
2024-01-2950 min
The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. MarshallDr Susan Schwartz: Imposter SyndromeThe idea of “imposter syndrome” has found its cultural moment - we hear it talked about constantly, and many of us resonate with the idea of feeling like a fraud in our work or relationships.
In this episode, Susan Schwartz PhD returns to the podcast to help explore the concept of imposter syndrome in more depth. Susan and Andrew discuss
The ways imposter syndrome is rooted in childhood.
Painful experiences of imposter syndrome in our romantic relationships
The difference between presenting different aspects of who we are VS suffering from imposter syndrome.
The related concept of the “a...
2023-12-1156 min
The Dream JournalAuthenticity and the Imposter Syndrome with Susan Schwartz, PhDIs there any hope for authenticity? Today we speak with Jungian analyst Susan Schwartz who describes her work on the imposter syndrome and the fragility of the self. Dr. Schwartz starts out by describing how much energy our inauthenticity takes and yet we often are taught early to conform and deny ourselves. To learn to be more in tune with your inner impulses, Susan recommends starting to pay attention to Aha moments in waking life. While talking about the symbology of up vs down, Susan touches on what she calls the value of depression as well as the differences...
2023-11-0600 min
Ira's Everything BagelNoshing With David & Susan Schwartz – September 21, 2023Authors, The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z
In this value-packed episode of Ira’s Everything Bagel Podcast, host Ira Sternberg sits down with David and Susan Schwartz, the dynamic duo behind the delightful and insightful book The Joy of Costco: A Treasure Hunt from A to Z. In this discussion, they dive into why they chose to write the book together, what makes Costco’s business model so unique, and how shoppers can strategically buy holiday merchandise and food at unbeatable prices. They also touch on the significance of Costco’s company culture...
2023-09-2128 min
Leadership Launchpad: The Legacy EditionAre You Brave Enough to Face the Reckoning? with Tony SchwartzThis week, Tony Schwartz, CEO & Founder of The Energy Project, joins Susan Hobson & Rob Kalwarowsky from Elite High Performance. We talk about why leaders need to recover to be peak performers, why you need to be brave and Internal Family Systems.
In this episode, you will learn:
⊛ The Importance of Recovery
⊛ Why You Need to Be Courageous
⊛ Internal Family Systems
We at Elite High Performance specialize in building high impact leaders that turn their teams into happy high-performers who crush their goals.
A prime example is our client, MiQ...
2023-06-1259 min
The Packaging TherapistCompostable Packaging: Building a Sustainable Future with Susan ThomanWelcome to The Packaging Scholars Podcast! I'm your host, Jessica Schwartz. Joining us is a very special guest, Susan Thoman, the Managing Director at CMA (Compost Manufacturing Alliance). In this episode, we dive deep into the world of compostable packaging and explore the hope it brings for a sustainable future. Susan shares her expertise on the benefits, misconceptions, and innovations in compostable packaging, as well as the importance of composting in waste management. Tune in as we unravel the possibilities and potential of composting, and discover how this eco-friendly approach to packaging can contribute to a greener, more sustainable...
2023-06-0828 min
Imperfect Heroes: Insights Into ParentingEpisode 80: How Important is a Dad, Really? with Dr. Susan SchwartzSend us a textIn this episode, DJ and special guest Susan Schwartz, PhD, sat down to discuss the power of fathers, the impact they have when present and the effect it can have on their children’s lives when they are absent. Listen in as they talk about empowering fathers to understand how inherently important they truly are and the psychological effects, discomfort and problems that can arise when they aren’t there for their kids. Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D. trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst is also a clinical psychologist and...
2023-01-0246 min
Your Intended MessageFrom Technical Expert to Leadership: Susan SchwartzBe emotionally intelligent to lead motivated teams
When you lead, you can't be the smartest person in the room
Episode 126 (Susan is based in San Francisco)
In this conversation with Susan Schwartz, we explore:
Making the transition from star performer to team leader
Developing an insider code when working with different personality types
The difference between emotional intelligence and emotionally intelligent
When technical expertise encounters the challenge of leadership
Building the team by delegating responsibilities and developing skills
The leaders' dirty little secret about leading
About Susan Schwartz:
Susan is author of, Creating...
2022-12-2233 min
The Conversation with Susan and WhittneyMental Health Strategies in the Classroom and Beyond with Joanna SchwartzSend us a textSusan and Whittney talk to Joanna Schwartz about mental health strategies, both for teachers, and for everyone else, after a challenging year. In this episode:Myers-Briggs Personality TestThe Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom by Joanna SchwartzJoanna Schwartz, MSNBC contest winnerToolbox for TeachersMaslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsBloom’s TaxonomyReframingRaising Your Spirited Child by M...
2022-09-1339 minThe Meaningful Life with Andrew G. MarshallDr Susan Schwartz: Daughters and Fathers: the Impact of the First Man in Your LifeWomen often spend many hours considering their relationship with their mothers; but far less attention goes to the impact of fathers.
For some, the reason for this is that their mothers were there, making wrong and right decisions (which they remember in the starkest possible light) whilst their fathers were absent.
Jungian psychotherapist Dr Susan Schwartz has spent many hours guiding her women clients in thinking about how they were shaped by physically or emotionally absent fathers.
These daughters relate feeling an insecurity of self, a splintering and disintegration of their personality and a...
2022-07-0451 min
Lush LifeSpring Catch Up with Your Drinking Companion, Susan Schwartz!The daffodils are out and as some of you may know from previous episodes that when the daffodils come out, I get behind the mic for a short chat.I need to thank all of you for being so patient with me. It’s been kind of a crazy year. In between traveling and covid and other life stuff, I know Lush Life has been a bit sporadic! I also want to thank all of you who have helped me by filling out the Lush Life 2022 survey. If you had no idea I even had a s...
2022-04-0504 min
Lush LifeSeason 6 is on its way back, plus Lush Life Book Club news!Welcome back! I missed you. How did the summer fly away so quickly? Here we are in the middle of September already, but there is so much fun on the horizon.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, where every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.The most exciting news of the year so far is that I will be live at Oriole, one of the best bars in the world, to launch Lush Life Book Club. Every week during London Cocktail Week, whi...
2021-09-2105 min
Marketer of the Day with Robert Plank: Get Daily Insights from the Top Internet Marketers & Entrepreneurs Around the World807- Communicate Effectively Using Leadership and Emotional Intelligence with Susan SchwartzWhat is leadership and how do you drive organizational change? Susan Schwartz talks with us on how we can develop the necessary skills to build better relationships and communicate effectively. She is a leadership coach whose expertise ranges from organizational coaching, to management coaching. She discusses all about Emotional Intelligence and how we can build better relationships with our team. Listen to this episode to find out how you can develop the skills to build an effective team.
Resources
The River Birch Group (Official Website)
Susan Schwartz, MA PMP on LinkedIn
Creating a Greater Whole: A Project Manager’s Guide to...
2021-08-2730 minMarketer of the Day with Robert Plank807: Communicate Effectively Using Leadership and Emotional Intelligence with Susan SchwartzWhat is leadership and how do you drive organizational change? Susan Schwartz is a leadership and management coach, speaker, and author of “Creating a Greater Whole.” She equips professionals who are moving into manager and partner tracks to develop the necessary skills to build better relationships and communicate effectively. Today, Susan talks about emotional intelligence, […]
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2021-08-2730 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink El Sueño Tequila with Paul HayesHave you all become 100% agave snobs? Will the likes of a mixto tequila never touch your lips again? Well, get over it, there’s a new tequila in town, and it’s guaranteed to blow your mind.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Paul Hayes, co-founder of El Sueño mixto tequila, is no stranger to 100% agave tequila. He makes one already. El Sueño came about when he was looking to create an affordable, great-qua...
2021-04-2041 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink Amaro Montenegro with Matteo Bonoli & Rudi CarraroDescribed as the “liqueur of the virtues” by one of the most famous 19th C. Italian authors Gabriele D’Annunzio, it’s no wonder that Amaro Montenegro is Italy's #1 Premio Amaro.It’s full of secrets too, which also might be why it’s so successful. Can one spirit be virtuous and secretive at the same time? We’ll have to ask its Master Herbalist and Global Brand Ambassador?I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Velvety, sm...
2021-04-1342 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink Italicus with Giuseppe GalloIs it possible to fulfill this brief: to create a brand that every single Italian, who lives in Italy and abroad, when they see the bottle and read the name, is going to make them proud? Our guest not only fulfilled his own brief but also has the whole world wanting it.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Giuseppe Gallo is a drinks industry legend, from overseeing the place to be, the Sanderson Hotel Long Ba...
2021-03-3040 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink Avallen with Stephanie Jordan & Tim Etherington-JudgeWhat is the word for when you discover that one thing and then everything else makes sense and the doors to everything open up, inviting you to walk in? For some, it’s kismet. For my guests, it’s Avallen.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Stephanie Jordan and Tim Etherington-Judge had no idea that it would be Calvados that they would be producing when they had the idea to make the first planet positive spirit...
2021-03-2354 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink Liqueurs with Jamie Campbell, Bols Brand Experience ManagerWould you be surprised to learn that the liqueurs you love might be over 400 years old? I mean the recipe. Bols Distillery in Amsterdam has been producing liqueurs since the 16th C, so how perfect to have the Bols Brand Experience Manager teach us how to drink liqueurs!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.My friend Jamie Campbell was a guest on Lush Life previously, but that was before he donned the title of Bols Br...
2021-03-1635 min
Lush LifeHow to Flavor with Pritesh Mody, World of ZingWelcome to Lush Life Season 6. Today we’re starting our How to Drink season by talking about the most subjective of topics: flavor. What you might like, I might hate, and vice versa. So, how do you even begin talking about flavor? By inviting the King of Zing on the program! I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.As the founder of World of Zing, Pritesh Mody is renowned as one of the UK’s leadin...
2021-03-0934 minLush LifeServing up Season 6 of Lush LifeDaffodils are my favorite flower, and it seemed that last year’s lockdown began, just as the daffodil season ended. What does that mean? I don’t know, but this year, as the daffodils begin their new season, well, so am I!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Next Tuesday, I bring you Season 6 of Lush Life. Out of necessity, lockdown made me a home bartender. As I sat there sipping my handmade G&T, I knew...
2021-03-0203 min
Lush LifeHow to Turn a Renaissance into a Revolution with Erik KozlikAre we living through a cocktail renaissance or a cocktail revolution? Our guest is here to discuss the movement, whatever you want to call it!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.After realizing a life behind a desk in academia might not be for him, plus having a roommate who decided to make bitters in their apartment kitchen, Eric Kozlik found himself happily thrown into the drinks industry. As host of the podcast Mod...
2021-02-0946 min
Lush LifeHow to Change the Way The World DrinksIf someone sends you an email inviting you to change the way the world drinks, I bet there is no way you wouldn’t take up that challenge. Our guest did receive that exact email, and three years down the line, she has!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Claire Warner, co-founder of Æcorn, the non-alcoholic range of aperitifs, was working hard at Belvedere Vodka when she answered that cri de guerre because its sender was Ben...
2021-02-0253 min
Lush LifeHow to Follow Signs in Atlantic CanadaIt is hard to believe it happened to both our guests - but it did. They saw a sign posted on a wall, stopped, wrote down the number for more inquiries, and actually rang that number. Now, thanks to great signage in Atlantic Canada, on the show today, we have a Head Distiller for an award-winning distillery in Nova Scotia and the owner of one of the most successful cocktail bars on Prince Edward Island.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life...
2021-01-261h 08
Lush LifeHow to Use Atlantic Canada’s Best IngredientsWelcome back to Lush Life. It’s a new year, and Lush Life is back to take on 2021.The next two episodes are sponsored by Atlantic Canada, which is the eastern part of Canada that borders on the Atlantic Ocean and includes the four provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Not only is it absolutely gorgeous, but for our purposes today, the folks there are serving up some great cocktails using some of Atlantic Canada’s best ingredients.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is...
2021-01-191h 11
Lush LifeHow to Introduce Yourself in 177 Episodes with Susan SchwartzMay I introduce you to my next guest - she has been the host of Lush Life podcast since its launch and is a voice you have grown used to after 176 episodes. She also seems to be speaking about herself in the third person. I think you may have guessed by now... I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Today, I thought I would turn the microphone around and answer all of those questions that I am...
2020-12-2215 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Heady Cocktail of Drink, Travel, and AdventureThere was a time, and I am so glad that it’s over when all you heard was “Print is dead, it’s all about online now”. As much as I love my blog, there is nothing like holding a book or magazine in your hands and cuddling into the sofa to read it. Thank goodness, my guests felt the same way!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Three weeks ago, Benita Finanzio and Rob Ellison la...
2020-12-1549 min
Lush LifeHow to Open a Bar During A Global PandemicThere is something about the lyrics to the theme tune of the TV program Cheers that seems particularly applicable to my guest today. For those who might not know them, they goes something like this, and I am not singing: “Sometimes you wanna goWhere everybody knows your nameAnd they're always glad you cameYou wanna be where you can see Our troubles are all the sameYou wanna be where everybody knows your name” I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush...
2020-12-0848 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Your Spirits BrightUsually, at this time of year, I’ve gathered together a list of my favorite Christmas cocktails served in bars throughout London. Hopping from bar to bar to try their cinnamony, gingery, gingerbready concoctions is always my late November treat. Alas, as we are all very well aware, this year is unlike any other, but that hasn’t stopped me.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Hotels, restaurants, and bars have been shut for four weeks...
2020-12-0133 min
Lush LifeHow to Become The Dean of Cocktails with David WondrichIf you don’t know our next guest by now, you haven’t really been listening. I quote him all the time, incessantly, because he is the one, the only, James Beard award-winning, for the first-ever cocktail book no less, cocktail historian extraordinaire, the Dean of Cocktails.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.If you want to know the history of the cocktail you are sipping right now, David Wondrich is the one to ask. Author...
2020-11-1744 min
Lush LifeHow to Make History with Pippa Guy, Tanqueray GinBeing the first female senior bartender at the Savoy’s American Bar in over 100 years and now Brand Ambassador for one of the oldest gins in the world - you know that making history comes easily to our guest. Finding good wifi in Cornwall, well, that’s hard!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, where every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Did I also mention that Pippa Guy is the author of Let’s Get Fizzical, a beginner’s guide to bubbles an...
2020-11-0327 min
Lush LifeHow To Avoid Clichés with Jack Wareing, Porter's GinOne ingredient does not a cocktail make, but it’s a great place to begin. Our guest is breaking it all down for us in his new Youtube channel, and that’s not the only thing on his plate. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time. By the way, did you know I have a weekly newsletter? It is delivered to your inbox every Tuesday with info on what’s I’m drinking, links to new cocktail reci...
2020-10-271h 01
Lush LifeHow to Be Incessantly Curious with Charles Gibb, Fever-TreeIt’s not every day that I can say my guest has gone from tanks to tonic. His French 75s now come in a glass, and he’s never looked back.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is the Lush Life Podcast, where every week, we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Incessantly curious and globally mobile, Charles Gibb, CEO of Fever-Tree North America, is always ready for a challenge. If you’re planning a start-up in a foreign country, then he’s the one to call. He’s with us tod...
2020-10-201h 08
Lush LifeHow to Taste Whisky with Eddie Ludlow, The Whisky LoungeHello everyone, and welcome back for Season 5 of Lush Life.We begin this season with an author, a speaker, a liveryman at the Worshipful Company of Distillers, Keeper of the Quaich, and, most of all, a champion of whisky.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week; we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.Eddie Ludlow is all of those things I described and more. He founded The Whisky Lounge, which has been introducing whisky to the world for over 10 years, and has...
2020-10-0654 minLush LifeServing up Season 5 of Lush LifeWhat a year...I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time.I keep thinking of something that my past guest Johnny Livanos told me - his grandfather picked the restaurant business because he knew that everyone would always need somewhere to eat. Unfortunately, he had no idea that we would have a pandemic to contend with, with most of us in some kind of lockdown, making it impossible to visit our favorite bars and restaurants.
2020-09-2903 min
Lush LifeHow to Help the Home Bartender Featuring this Season's Top Guests!What a few months we have had. I can’t ignore that most of the world has been stuck inside while bars and restaurants have had to close because of the coronavirus. Since all bars and restaurants were closed, I know I’ve had to make myself a cocktail or two or many. Thank goodness I had advice from the world’s best - the Lush Life family.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this ind...
2020-07-2819 min
Lush LifeHow To Evolve Like a Butterfly with Daniyel Jones, House of AngosturaWhen everyone you serve wants a Pina Colada, how do you keep up with global cocktail trends? Our guest’s story proves where there’s a will, there’s a way!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Daniyel Jones, Global Brand Ambassador for the House of Angostura, criss-crosses the world teaching all and sundry about Angostura Bitters, the most globally distributed cocktail ingredient in the world and historically one of only thre...
2020-07-211h 11
Lush LifeHow To Be Prepared For Anything with Vasilis Kyritsis, The Clumsies Bar, AthensPeople may think that nursing and bartending are two worlds apart, but they’re not. They both take care of people, always have a smile, and make you feel better. Our guest was about to follow that path, if he hadn’t found himself behind the bar. Now he has risen to the top and treating people to his cocktail creations.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Vasilis Kyritsis is known w...
2020-07-1448 min
Lush LifeHow to Define True Greek Spirit with Johnny Livanos, Stray Dog Wild GinUsually at this time of year, I am with my Greek-speaking boyfriend drinking greek spirits on our yearly pilgrimage to a greek island. Yet, it took a chat with my guest today to understand that Greek spirit is not only about what’s in your glass, it’s so much more.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Johnny Livanos, founder of Stray Dog Wild Gin, was born into the restaurant industr...
2020-07-0741 min
Lush LifeHow to Keep the Chefs Happy with Jack Sotti, Tanqueray GinIt’s rare that one would move to another country purely because of how it looked in a film...but our guest did just that and it only took the perfect job opportunity to tempt to return to the UK.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Jack Sotti, Senior Tanqueray Gin & World Class Ambassador at Diageo fell in love with New Zealand after seeing the Lord of the Rings movies. He bo...
2020-06-301h 03
Lush LifeHow To Set The Bar Very High with Rebekkah Dooley, Callooh Callay, Discard the ZineCould you imagine getting a job in one of the most iconic bars in the world off of an advert on Gumtree, the global classifieds ads website. Our guest did and it kick-started a career in the industry that would take her all over the world.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Rebekkah Dooley took that first job and never looked back - creating award-winning cocktail menus for London bar Cal...
2020-06-1648 min
Lush LifeHow to Bring Together Quintessential Ingredients That Define a Cocktail with Lauren Mote, Bittered Sling, Part 2We left our guest just as she was finishing up her Diageo Global World Class Competition experience. For those of you who missed part 1, go back to the previous episode and start there!Now is the time to delve into Part 2 of our interview with Lauren Mote and discover where she landed when she brought food, wine and work together.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Now that you...
2020-06-0949 min
Lush LifeHow To Cherish the Individual Things That We Have with Lauren Mote, Bittered SlingIf you add together the story of winning the Diageo World Class Competition in Canada, then of launching one successful company, and finally, of becoming the first Diageo World Class Global Cocktailian, you’ve just combined a few of the many ingredients that make up our guest today.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. Before Lauren Mote had become the Diageo Reserve & World Class Global Cocktailian and co-founder of Bittered Sling...
2020-06-0247 min
Lush LifeHow A One-Way Ticket Can Change Your Life with Tomáš Čistý, 12 Hay Hill Club, Wrecking Coast DistilleryWhether someone gives it to you or you buy it for yourself, a one-way ticket out of town can, in some cases, mean the end of one life and the beginning of a new one. In our guest’s case, this was the start of something great. Landing in London, the light turned green and he was off.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. I met Tomáš Čistý when I was invit...
2020-05-261h 08
Lush LifeHow To Follow the Advice of a Modern Philosopher with John Wayte, Monkey Shoulder WhiskyNot everyone has the foresight at a young age to know who British Philosopher Alan Watts is and also to heed his advice when planning their future. Well, our guest did and maybe that’s why he is the brand ambassador of one of the most profitable whiskies in the world.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. My guest, John Wayte, UK Brand Ambassador of Monkey Shoulder Premium Blended Whisky, may ha...
2020-05-1944 min
Lush LifeHow To Make Sure Everyone Has A Good Time with Robbie Bargh, The Gorgeous GroupWhen you walk into a bar and think this is fabulous. I assure you a whole lot of thought has gone into you having that good time before you’ve stepped through that threshold.For our guest today, it’s been his life’s work to make sure everyone has a good time and his mission is making you leave feeling the same way you came in.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this...
2020-05-1251 min
Lush LifeHow to Polish a Plate with Giorgio Bargiani, The Connaught Hotel, LondonI got chatting to the guy sitting next to me at my Level 2 Wine and Spirit Education Trust class - the place you go when you want to learn about the ins and outs of distillation and the history of some of your favorite spirits. As you do, I sparked up a conversation with the Italian by asking him what he did and then he said I am a bartender at the Connaught Hotel and at that moment I knew we would be friends.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, ev...
2020-05-051h 00
Lush LifeHow to Make Your Coffee Spiritual with Martin Hudák of Maybe Sammy and Mr BlackI met today’s guest under pretty cool circumstances. Picture the sit-down dinner of the UK finals for the Diageo World Class competition - one of the hardest cocktail making competitions in the country. There were eleven finalists and each table of ten was served by one of the competitors for the night. At my table was one of the senior bartenders of the American Bar of the Savoy Hotel - it’s tough to get better than that.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to liv...
2020-04-2844 min
Lush LifeHow To Tell The Stories with Mark Gillespie, WhiskyCast PodcastI don’t know who said you should never meet your idols, but they got it wrong this time. My guest today is drinks’ podcasting royalty, and from the first moment I contacted this king of the airwaves, he was raring to join the Lush Life family I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is, Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by everyone in this industry. As the Fates would have it, Mark Gillespie, the Host and Executive Producer of WhiskyCast, the podcast that wro...
2020-04-2137 min
Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business PodcastWonder Woman in Business, Susan SchwartzSusan Schwartz has led a variety of corporate and government teams through organizational change and technology transformation. Her change toolbox combines Emotional Intelligence, Lego Serious Play, and knowledge sharing methods.
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2020-04-1632 min
Lush LifeHow to Use Your Downtime with Maxim Schulte & Jo Last, The Savoy HotelI always say how much I love the spirit world and now during this crisis they have come together to support each other in ways that would have seemed incomprehensible just a few months ago. From making hand sanitizer, to delivering cocktails at home, to supporting the medical workers worldwide, the hospitality industry has stepped up to the plate and knocked it out of the park. Today we meet two who’ve hit a home run. Sorry for the baseball references, but it’s spring after all and I love baseball!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking compani...
2020-04-1417 min
Lush LifeHow Never to Take Anything Personally with Pierre-Marie Bisson, Milk & Honey, London20 years ago, a bar was born in New York City that changed the way we drink today. Two years after that, it arrived in London. Fast forward those 20 years and Milk & Honey in London is still open and just as cutting edge as it was all those moons ago. Our guest today not only manages that legacy but is creating his own.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.Pierre-Marie Bis...
2020-03-1057 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink French with David Lebovitz, La République, FranceThe idea of sitting in a trendy Parisian bar in the 11th arrondissement, waiting for the author of many of the world’s best selling food books and the first-ever food blogger, could make anyone’s knees slightly tremblant. Then our guest today walked in with a big smile on his face said Bonjour.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is the Lush Life Podcast. Every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.David Lebovitz is known to every chef, home cook...
2020-03-0352 min
Lush LifeHow To Keep Winning Awards with Erik Lorincz, Kwant Bar, London, Part 2Wait right there..this is the second episode of two where we meet a bartender at the top of everyone’s game, so if you want to hear the first part of his journey. Stop and go back to the previous episode. Oh, did I mention Erik Lorincz is that bartender?!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.So we left Erik at the doors of the Connaught Hotel - wonde...
2020-02-251h 17
Lush LifeHow One School Video Can Change Your Life with Erik Lorincz, Kwant Bar, LondonSuperlatives were invented to describe our next guest - world’s best, greatest, one and only...there is no list that he isn’t on or has been number one! Today we are in the presence of bartending royalty! I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.I truly believe even if Erik Lorincz hadn’t seen that film on bartending when he was at school, he would have still risen to the top...
2020-02-1858 min
Lush LifeHow To Find Your Ancestral Spirits with Johnny Neill, Berkshire BotanicalNot everyone was born to be in the drinks industry, our guest was, but he just didn’t know how much, until he just happened to sign up with ancestry.com.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.Johnny Neill knew all about his father’s connection to the gin world from as far back as the 18th C, but it took a membership to ancestry.com to find out that th...
2020-02-1143 min
Lush LifeTwo Chicago Bars That Are Knocking It Out of the Park: The Violet Hour and Z BarHave you been to Chicago lately? I think it might be one of the most exciting cocktail towns in the world and I am thrilled that we’re going back to it this week to meet two more of its mixology maestros! I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Last week, we heard from Shelby Allison of Lost Lake, a tiny slice of Tiki Heaven, in Logan Square. This week we’ll...
2020-02-0422 min
Lush LifeHow To Make Award-Winning Tiki Cocktails in Chicago with Shelby Allison, Lost Lake BarWhen you’ve won Imbibe Cocktail Bar of the year, the Spirited Award for Best American Cocktail Bar at Tales of the Cocktail and been short-listed for the James Beard Foundation Award for best bar program, you might rest on your laurels. Well, not our guest today, she’s working as hard as ever.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. With a father in the military, Shelby Allison traveled the wor...
2020-01-2838 min
Lush LifeHow to Celebrate Burns Night in Style with Sam Simmons, Atom Brands WhiskyOn the 25th of January every year, Scots and Scotland lovers toast poet extraordinaire Robert Burns “Of Mice and Men” and “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” fame. I usually skip the haggis and neaps and tatties and go straight to that golden liquid that Robbie called O thou, my Muse! guid auld Scotch drink! and who better to celebrate with than the man formally known as Dr. Whisky. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by th...
2020-01-211h 00
Lush LifeHow to Make Gin in the Yarra Valley with Joe Worthington, Four Pillars Gin, AustraliaIt’s no surprise that our guest today still dreams of being the host of the Radio 1 breakfast show one day. He definitely has the gift of the gab.Right now he is using that gift to introduce Four Pillars Gin to everyone he can!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. As European Trade Relations Manager for Australia's Four Pillars Gin, Joe Worthington would never think of going to any me...
2020-01-1453 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Single Malt Whiskey Out WestWelcome back to Lush Life! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We swing back into action with a guest who was always the guy at the office who doing whisky Tastings. I had no idea that position even existed. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Whiskey was Thomas Mooney, the co-founder of Westward Whiskey’s, drink of choice. So much so that he really was the guy...
2020-01-0750 min
Lush LifeHow Irish Whiskey is Made in Hell with Geoff Speiran, The Dublin Liberties DistilleryIf you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, then press stop and go back to that one now! You’ll meet Geoff Speiran, the Global Whiskey Ambassador for The Dublin Liberties Distillery. Once you know all about Geoff, then you are ready to take on our tour.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Welcome to Hell! Not your usual greeting except when you are in the Liberties section of D...
2019-12-171h 05
Lush LifeHow to Make Great Irish Coffee in Hell with Geoff Speiran, The Dublin Liberties DistilleryBuenos dias! That’s what our guest today would have greeted me with if he had ended up a Spanish teacher. Instead, he greeted me with a dram of Irish Whiskey and I am not complaining.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Today Geoff Speiran, Global Whiskey Ambassador at The Dublin Liberties Distillery joins me in an area of Dublin, previously known as Hell, which feels right with Friday the 13...
2019-12-1054 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Whisky Sour the Bruichladdich Way with Adam Hannett, Head DistillerBorn and bred on the Scottish Island of Islay, one would assume that whisky was in our guest’s blood, but it took a venture off island to bring him straight back.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Adam Hannett thought he was destined for a life of marine biology, but that was not to be. Lucky for the whisky lover in all of us, he found his calling as th...
2019-12-0340 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Funky Rum in Jamaica with Christelle Harris, Hampden Estate DistilleryJamaican rum is known for its high esters - those are the compounds that give it the heady aromas it has and makes it taste all banana-y, pineapple-y and fruity. Some also call it funk, but our guest calls it magic.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Christelle Harris is well versed in esters, muck and funk as she is the granddaughter of the owner of Hampden Estate - one...
2019-11-2636 min
Lush LifeHow Bourbon is Made By Ghosts with Michael Thornton, Boone County Distilling CompanyIf you find yourself shuttling from Cincinnati Airport to Lexington Kentucky down Interstate 75, you’ll see the signs directing you to stop at Boone County Distilling Company. Only 6 minutes off the interstate and you can take a tour of the only distillery that says its bourbon is “made by ghosts.” Too far to go, well then, you can sit back and listen to today’s episode and I’ll bring the tour to you.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail...
2019-11-1942 min
Lush LifeHow to Drink Sake with Seafood with Satomi Dosseur, Sake SommelierConvincing people to enjoy a glass of sake while tucking into a pepperoni pizza is going to be a tough job. Our guest today is ready to take on that challenge.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. I lured Sake Sommelier Satomi Dosseur away from an event we were both attending to give me the lowdown on the liquid that was front and center that evening. The event was bei...
2019-11-1223 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Rum Sour in the Mountains with Karen Hoskin, Montanya DistillersWay up in the mountains, you’d expect to be served a hot chocolate or a hot toddy, but a rum sour? You would think that’s more of a beach cocktail. Thanks to our guest today, you would be wrong. It’s home right here in Crested Butte, Colorado.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. I’m not sure why anyone would doubt that Karen Hoskin could create a rum disti...
2019-11-051h 14
Lush LifeHow to Make Small Beer, the Modern Way with Felix James, Small Beer Brew CompanyOur guest today is rewriting the English dictionary. No longer will “it’s just small beer” mean something unimportant. From now on, small beer means just that small beer!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Felix James, cofounder of Small Beer Brew company here in London gave me a history lesson on Small Beer - A lower ABV version of beer that was drunk by most men women and children...
2019-10-291h 06
Lush LifeHow to Make the Aperol Spritz, Venetian-Style with Russell Norman, PolpoLike many others who came before him, our guest today fell in love with Venice at first site. Unlike many others, he brought Venice home with him..in a big way. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. We’re not talking a t-shirt or gondola-shaped ashtray, Russell Norman brought us Polpo - the restaurant that introduced Cicchetti and, for our purposes here, the Aperol Spritz to London and the UK.
2019-10-2242 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Rob Roy the Scottish Way with Alex Walker of Glenfiddich WhiskyRobert Roy MacGregor, the infamous 17th-century outlaw was Scottish through and through. Most likely, he would have been a little bothered that the classic cocktail named after him was invented in the USA. Well, it doesn't matter really where it was invented. We are still drinking it thanks to our guest today, the National Brand Ambassador of Glenfiddich. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Alex Walker may not be from...
2019-10-151h 08
Lush LifeHow to Make a Daiquiri in West London with Sly Augustin, Trailer Happiness, LondonJennings Cox is one of the biggest names in cocktails. History has remembered him as the “inventor” of the daiquiri. But as David Wonrich the famous drinks historian says "The daiquiri represents such an obvious marriage between local, as in Cuban, ingredients—rum, sugar, limes—and American technology—cocktail shaker, ice—that it would take the chowder -headedest duffer who ever buttoned a trouser not to invent it." Whether Cox did or didn’t, it’s a great drink and has remained one of the one of the classics since the late 1800s.Our guest today might not have invented...
2019-10-0845 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Negroni with Australian Gin - With Eddie Brook, Cape Byron DistilleryA Negroni is one of the great cocktail classics. In fact, it’s celebrating its 100th birthday this year, when, as legend would have it, Count Camillo Negroni asked his bartender to add a drop of gin to his Americano. Folks are changing up ingredients all the time and the negroni has been tinkered with by creative bartenders trying their hand at redefining the basic recipe of vermouth, campari, and gin.Our guest today knew the native flavors he had in his backyard were crying out for attention and he was going to be the one...
2019-10-0147 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Classic Martini with Alessandro Palazzi, Dukes Bar, LondonHello everyone and welcome back for Season 4 of Lush Life - The classic Collection. We’ll be exploring classic cocktails - who drank them, who makes them and a few modern twist on the genre. Things would get so boring if we didn’t change it up a little, so saying that I wanted to let you know the format has been “jujjed” slightly. Don’t be scared - none of the good stuff is gone. You’re still going to hear from the greats of the cocktail world and still going to get your cocktail of the...
2019-09-2424 minLush LifeServing up Season 4 of Lush LifeSeptember has come ‘round and I am bursting with enthusiasm. So in that state of mind, Season 4 of Lush Life - The Classic Collection will commence next Tuesday . I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. The Classic Collection...hmm what’s that I hear you asking yourself? Well, Season 4 is bringing it all down to basics. Why you may ask? I’ve been busy all summer rereading the classics - as...
2019-09-1003 min
Lush LifeHow to make the best drinks in TrentinoTrentino, nestled in the Alps, welcomes each and every guest with a glass of Bollincine Da Montagna translated as Mountain Bubbles but officially known as Trentodoc - their splendid sparkling wine. But what else is there to drink in this gorgeous northern region of Italy.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Today we get to meet a few people who are making the drinks that Trentino is f...
2019-07-2332 min
Lush LifeHow to Make a Great Rum Cocktail with Alex Jollivet and Tom Wiggett, The Duppy ShareMeeting in primary school doesn’t always predict a future business career together, but in the case of our guests today, it most certainly did. They also went to the same prep school, university and lived together in London...oh and did I mention they both love rum!I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.Alex Jollivet and Tom Wiggett also drank together and while Tom was enjoying a thousand vari...
2019-07-1641 min
Lush LifeHow to Design Cocktails That Are Irresistible with Fabio Pezzini, the Polo Bar, LondonA hotel was destined to be our guest’s second home from the time he first stepped into one when he was a little boy. Now Fabio Pezzini is all grown up and behind the bar at one of London’s premier hotels right in the center of it all.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. The Polo Bar at the Westbury Hotel has seen and heard it all. From bow...
2019-07-0955 min
Lush LifeWhere to Drink in Charleston, South Carolina, USACan you imagine a state where in every bar all that was served were airplane mini-bottles of spirits? So you order an old-fashioned and they take the tiny bottle of JD off the shelf, unscrew it, add sugar and bitters and that’s it. Only order, unscrew, serve for every cocktail! Crazy talk...yet that was South Carolina until 2006 - yes 2006. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. My first trip to...
2019-07-0241 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Apple Cider at Home with Xavier D’Audiffret, Maison SassyDon’t ever call someone’s idea crazy - you’ll probably end up eating your words or in this case drinking them. Our guest today knew that cider was not just for crepes and galettes any more and when he heard the French government was paying farmers to chop down apple trees in his home region of Normandy, he knew the time was now.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Xavi...
2019-06-2531 min
Lush LifeHow to Answer When the Connaught Comes Calling with Ago Perrone, the Connaught Bar, Part 2Before we head into The Connaught Bar, I want to make sure you know this is a two parter. Did you listen to part 1 of Ago Perrone’s story? Then you already know that he is Director of Mixology for The Connaught Bar. If you are flummoxed and have no idea what I’m talking about then head back to last week’s episode where you can hear the beginning of Ago’s journey. If you’re set, then let’s head to Mayfair - Carlos Place, to be exact and one of my favorite hotels in the world.I’m Sus...
2019-06-1833 min
Lush LifeHow to Convey Your Personal Experience in a Cocktail with Ago Perrone, The Connaught BarI felt right at home with my next guest, even though we had never met. The Connaught Hotel is a place I have been returning to since I was a child. As my parent’s port of call when visiting London, The Connaught has seen me roam its halls, sleep in its beds and also try smoked salmon for the first time in the now legendary dining room. We only stopped staying there because now I live in London. Meeting Ago Perrone, Director of Mixology for the Connaught Bar, was like being reintroduced to an old friend after so ma...
2019-06-1136 min
Lush LifeHow to Know Which Rum to Drink in Antigua with Lisa Farara, Antigua DistilleryMy friend and fellow podcaster Palle Bo, the Radio Vagabond, tells me that I don’t reveal enough about myself on Lush Life. I am slightly reticent to do that as I want it to be all about my guests. Still I will keep trying little by littleI’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion who lives in London by the way, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. I wouldn’t have not met my next guest i...
2019-06-0433 min
Lush LifeHow to Create Two Successful Brands in a Row with Alex Carlton, Stryyk Not RumCreating one successful brand is hard enough, but two - well as our guest today, Alex Carlton discovered, it’s just as exciting the second time round.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. I met with Alex on his birthday a few weeks ago, having just received the best gift an entrepreneur could. A fantastic review of his Stryyk Not Rum.STRYYK, the distilled zero-proof spirit, was born...
2019-05-2835 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Bourbon Out of 100% Corn Scott Blackwell of High Wire Distilling CompanyWhen someone says their bourbon is made with 100% corn - you can’t really believe them can you? You can if it’s our guest today. Scott Blackwell of High Wire Distilling Company wanted to create a spirit that was different, but how do you even start?I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Winner of the Best of the South award from Garden and Gun Magazine this year was just on...
2019-05-2146 min
Lush LifeHow to reestablish an over 280-year-old Gin Brand with Milo Walker, Nicholson GinSo you know that your family once owned a gin company and some pubs, but how surreal would it be to find it was not just any gin company but one of the most important brands in the UK ever. Even arguably the oldest.I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry. Milo Walker, Brand Ambassador and heir to Nicholson Gin, discovered that his family produced not only politicians and cricketers, but...
2019-05-1424 min
Lush LifeHow to find the original Old-FashionedThe Old-Fashioned is one of the most iconic cocktails on the planet. Adored by Bourbon-lovers world-wide. Three simple ingredients - bourbon, sugar, and bitters, and a bit of fruit have wowed them since the 19th century. A billion variations have popped up especially in these cocktail-crazed times, but the true recipe is just perfection and hard to top. Today’s episode we see how the Old-Fashioned came to be, and that could only begin in one town - Louisville, Kentucky. I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is the Lush Life Podcast, every week we are...
2019-03-2625 min
Lush LifeHow Hard Work Can Lead to the Perfect Irish Coffee with James Goggin, Maverick DrinksIt really was just a coincidence that an Irishman is on our show the week of St. Patrick’s Day. I promise it wasn’t planned! And what a pleasant coincidence it is to have James Goggin of Maverick Drinks on the show today.Slainte, I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.I actually met James at the Embassy of Ireland almost one year ago and I knew he would make a...
2019-03-121h 18
Lush LifeHow to Win a Cocktail Competition the First Time with Ninon Fauvarque, la Queue du Coq Bar in AnnecyIt takes a lot of guts to enter a cocktail competition when you are new to the business. But thanks to a gently prodding and supportive mentor, our guest today Ninon Fauvarque from Annecy France entered the Havana Club Grand Prix. What’s the worst that could happen?Bonjour, I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.Ninon never found out the worst because she ended up sweeping the awards and not...
2019-03-0533 min
Lush LifeHow to Make Your Own Gin with Ian Hart and Hilary Whitney, Sacred SpiritsIt sounds so easy. Master vacuum distillation and then create the gin that Alessandro Palazzi has selected for the most famous martinis in the world at Dukes Bar in London. But as our guests today, Ian Hart and Hilary Whitney of Sacred Spirits know, it’s not as easy as as all that.What is easy is checking out our Lush Life Merchandise at www.alushlifemanual.com/merch I’m trying to convince Alessandro to serve his martinis in the lush life mug. We can always hope and dream. You can serve yours in one and at the s...
2019-02-2642 min
Lush LifeLush Guide to Morzine Ski Resort, French AlpsI am so excited Lush Life is getting out of the studio and onto the slopes with our first Lush Guide. I‘m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion and this is Lush Life Podcast - every week I’m inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.Maybe it was speaking to Mia Johansson from Sweden for the past two weeks, but I couldn't help wanting to jump into the snow. So I headed to Morzine France - a skiers paradise - quaint, pretty, with great slopes.Honestly, I pre...
2019-02-1224 min
Lush LifeHow to Start All over Again with a Vengeance with Mia Johansson, Bar Swift, London, Part 2You know sometimes there is just too much pressure, not that starting a third season of Lush Life is so difficult but i had decided to start the season with a spoken intro, like I’m doing now and then it all changed and I went back to the way I was doing it before with the little canned intro I had slightly updated. why didn’t I do it the new way?This week the subject of our episode is how to start all over again with a vengeance. I‘m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion and th...
2019-02-0540 min