March 20, 2025
New Book Shot At Love! Kerry Brett on Turning Dating Missteps into a Movement
Tune into the first interview Kerry Brett gives on Cosmic Scene with Jill Jardine to discuss the launch of her new book Shot At Love, A Celebrity Photographer's Lens on Dating and Finding Love. The latest best-selling release is a raw, hilarious, and deeply insightful story of the host of Shot At Love; Kerry Brett's journey from heartbreak to happiness will have you laughing, nodding in recognition, and rethinking your approach to finding love.
When Kerry Brett found herself at what she calls "the basement of rock bottom" after a painful breakup, she turned to an unexpected source of hope: Tinder. But unlike many who approach dating apps with dread, this award-winning Boston photographer embraced the platform as a creative opportunity. With the same keen eye she used to capture celebrities like David Ortiz and Amy Poehler, Kerry developed a method for identifying potential matches, creating authentic connections, and ultimately finding love.
Kerry's story is compelling because of her unique blend of self-deprecating humor, spirituality, and practical wisdom. Each chapter of her newly released book "Shot At Love" begins with a Sanskrit mantra, connecting ancient wisdom to modern dating challenges. From the "German Leo" to the "Irish Leprechaun" and finally to her successful Tinder match, Kerry's dating adventures read like a Boston version of Sex and the City – minus the sex, as she quips, because "she's Irish Catholic, 51, and her parents listen to her show."
The most powerful takeaway from our conversation is Kerry's insight that the stories we tell ourselves often become our biggest obstacles. Whether it's believing you're "damaged goods" because of past relationships or thinking no one wants to date a single parent, these internal narratives limit possibilities. As Kerry emphasizes, "Beauty is an inside job" – how you feel about yourself ultimately determines how others perceive and treat you.
Kerry's journey offers hope and a roadmap for anyone navigating the complex world of modern dating. Her transformation from celebrated photographer to award-winning podcast host and author demonstrates how following your authentic path can lead to unexpected opportunities and, yes, even love.
Take your best shot at love by checking out Kerry's new book "Shot At Love" on Amazon or at shotatloveook.com, and tune into her podcast for daily doses of dating wisdom and inspiration. Or join the single movement at www.shotatlovebook.com
00:00 - Meet Carrie Brett: Photographer, Podcaster, Author
08:38 - The Spiritual Journey Begins
16:03 - From Photography to Podcasting
26:54 - Inside "Shot at Love" Book
38:48 - Dating Adventures and Tinder Stories
45:02 - Finding Love and Life Lessons
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Welcome to Cosmic Scene with Jill Jardine.
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I'm your host, jill Jardine, in today's episode.
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I can't wait to introduce you to Carrie Brett, boston celebrity photographer, podcaster, dating expert, tinder success story and author.
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You may know her as the host of Shot at Love.
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I've been a guest on it several times but we're going to talk about Carrie's book, shot at Love, today.
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You're going to want to stay tuned to find out more.
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Welcome to the fifth anniversary episode of Cosmic Scene with Jill Jardine.
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I'm your host, jill Jardine, longtime astrologer, psychic healer and yogi.
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In today's episode, my guest is the person who got me into podcasting Carrie Brett, host of Shot at Love.
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Carrie Brett is a Boston-based celebrity photographer and the host of Shot at Love, the first motivational podcast dedicated to helping others find love.
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A nine-time award-winning show, shot at Love ranks in the top 1% of podcasts globally and broadcasts five days a week on iHeartRadio Live, power Me Up, talk Radio 24-7, and all major platforms.
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Keri's Shot at Love podcast blends her experiences with laughter-filled life lessons, uplifting listeners and offering practical advice.
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In February 2025, carrie released Shot at Love a memoir A celebrity photographer's lens on finding love, a heartfelt and hilarious exploration of her journey through the dating world, offering lessons and insights for those seeking love.
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Carrie's journey into the world of dating expertise stems from her profound empathy for singles navigating online dating.
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Understanding that your profile is your personal brand.
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She launched the Swiping Soiree in 2019, a seminar empowering women to transform their lives through dating.
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Her podcast features an impressive guest lineup, including Oscar-winning actor Chris Cooper, kayak Company founder Paul English, relationship expert John Gray, men are from Mars, women from Venus, best-selling author Elin Heldebrand, podcaster Jordan Harbinger and yours truly, jill Jardine.
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I've been a guest on her podcast several times as the featured astrologer.
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Shot at Love has earned numerous accolades, including multiple communication awards for best hosts and outstanding episodes and nominations for the People Choice Podcast Awards from 2021 to 2023.
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It has consistently ranked number eight on Feedspot's Top 25 Dating Podcasts for four consecutive years.
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Carrie Brett is also a professional photographer of America Master Photographers, with 28 years of experience running her successful studio in Hingham, massachusetts.
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Her distinctive, award-winning portraits have graced the covers of the Boston Globe Magazine, boston Common Magazine, n Magazine and the Improper Bostonian, where she served as staff photographer for 28 years.
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Carriey captured iconic portraits of renowned personalities such as David Ortiz, amy Poehler, rashida Jones and Steve Carell.
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Her viral cover series of Bill Belichick and Linda Holiday for N Magazine garnered millions of viewers online.
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In addition to her photography, carey co-authored Boston Inspirational Women with her father, bill Brett, celebrating remarkable women with ties to Boston.
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She is also a certified professional photographer and nationally affiliated judge.
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She has lectured for Professional Photographers of America and taught at the Hallmark School of Photography photography.
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Carrie's lifelong passion for storytelling and art has made her a trusted voice and visual creator, seamlessly blending her skills behind the lens with her mission to inspire through Shot at Love.
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Carrie is also the author of the recently published book Shot at Love, a celebrity photographer's unfiltered lens on dating and finding love, and we're going to talk about her book Shot at Love Lens on Love from dating rock bottom to a Tinder success story.
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Carrie's journey in the book is from what she calls the basement of rock bottom to becoming a source of inspiration, and it's filled with laugh out loud moments of self-discovery.
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Think Bridget Jones swipes right on Tinder and meets a Boston version of Sex and the City, minus the sex, because she's Irish Catholic.
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51 and her parents listen to her show.
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Carrie takes on the unpredictability of life with a smile.
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She's always camera ready and knows that you miss all the shots you don't take.
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It's my honor and pleasure to welcome my guest today.
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Author of Shot at Love, book recently released, host of podcast Shot at Love.
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My guest, my friend, my cohort and colleague, keri Brett, welcome.
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Keri Hi Jill, Thanks so much for having me on the show today.
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I'm so psyched to have you on the show this is actually the fifth year anniversary special of Cosmic Scene and how perfect to have you as the guest, as you're the one who got me into podcasting, that's right, and in the depth of COVID, you and I and our engineer, tom, were in our podcasting pod at your photography studio, newly Christian podcast studio, recording Shot at Love and launching Cosmic Scene, so it's so great to have you here to talk about your new book and your podcast and whatever else you want to talk about.
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Okay.
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You know, I really owe so much to you.
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You gave me my power back when I was getting divorced and you gave me my very first reading, which I talk about actually in the book.
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Woo-hoo, my first, my very first reading, which I talk about actually in the book, Chapter one.
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I talk about how you spoke into a tape recorder.
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That's how long ago this was yeah.
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Predicting that I would find love again.
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You also predicted that I would write a book.
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And I remember when you said that to me, I was just trying to fix my life and find a guy.
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To date, that's why I was paying for a reading.
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We didn't even know each other.
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That's right.
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The first time you came and I I had plans to do, I figured at some point in my life I would do a photography book.
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Yes, because my dad had was on that path and never in my life did I think I would become a writer.
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And when, when you said to me you're going to publish a book, and I said sure, be a coffee table photography book, that made sense to me and you said no, it's going to be something else.
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You're going to write it.
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I think I told you it was going to be a self-help book and at that point you were firmly ensconced in your photography career as the celebrity photographer of Boston and let people know who your dad is and why.
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This is like a lineage thing for you with the photography.
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It certainly is so.
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My dad is Bill Brett.
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He's a award-winning, longtime photojournalist for the Boston Globe.
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He worked there for 55 years and I grew up really in a dark room alongside of him and was a photographer as a child, started getting published when I was 17 and started shooting covers at 20.
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And I never imagined finding something that I loved as much as photography.
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I figured I would do all sorts of photography throughout my life, which I have done but my path and my purpose changed when I found myself heartbroken and really in the depths of despair.
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The dark night of the soul and I actually met you before that because, flashback to however many years ago you showed up at my office and you had me run charts of two potential dates.
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One was bachelor number one and this second one was bachelor number two.
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This is pre Tinder, this is pre online dating.
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So I remember running the charts of these two men and the first one, I was like, oh, this one is famous, he's going to be, you know, really good to be with.
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You won't have to worry about money, there'll be security.
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Have to worry about money, there'll be security.
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But, boy, this second one, he's a charmer, he's a lover, he's going to sweep you off your feet, right.
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And what happened?
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Well, we had this.
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We were both the 11th.
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And so you went for the second one, right.
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I went for there was two choices One that was good on paper and the other one was just really good looking, and that's how I usually get myself into trouble by looking at the exterior.
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So that journey was supposed to happen, because I learned an awful lot and I pushed my creativity as well as his, and I pushed my creativity as well as his, and I also learned that I don't really think I need to be with another creative, that I needed to be with someone who was the opposite of me.
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So this is the male in your book, Giovanni the musician.
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Yes, that's who that character is based on.
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Yes, right.
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So the names have been changed and the identities and everything has been changed about the people that needed to be for the purpose of protecting their lives.
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And the other characters in the book are friends of mine or guides who showed me the way and helped me get my power back and put me on the path forward, and all of those people have agreed to use their real names, which makes it really exciting and special.
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It also happens with the backdrop of the Improper Bostonian magazine, where I photographed covers for 28 years and my publisher, wendy Simonian, is in it.
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My gay work husband, jonathan Soroff, celebrity writer, is in it.
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Famous writer John D Spooner is in it as well.
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My long-serving art director served as an editor and did the layout and design and was just really helpful.
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So it was a way that we all got to work together again at the magazine, and all these incredible writers were so supportive of me trying a new form of storytelling, which is what podcasting is, and writing and shooting.
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So once I could figure out that oh, I just have to swap my camera out for a microphone or a microphone out for words it came to me pretty easily.
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Yes, and I've been with you through this journey that you've been on, and I remember when you started to write it, I'm like this is going to be a Netflix series.
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It is hysterical and you know my predictions have kind of played out for you, haven't they?
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But I just want to read something about your book because this is kind of to give people an idea of how entertaining it actually is.
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I mean, it's getting to a deep issue of finding love amidst the phoenix rising from the ashes of disappointment and love.
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Here's something about the book for the listeners.
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I love this.
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Carrie shares her journey of rebuilding her life through dating, delivering a story that's equal parts modern day Daisy Jones in the Six Bridget Jones's diary and a Boston sex in the city, without the sex, because, well, she's Irish Catholic, growing up in a working class family on the South Shore, just outside of Boston.
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Carrie found solace and hope in pop culture, sitcoms, artists like Adele and Amy Winehouse.
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When Heartbreak hit.
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With her flair for humor and a knack for seeing the absurdity in life's toughest moments, she recalls channeling her inner Marsha Brady, only to end up ghosted by a fictional George Glass and wondering if Sam the Butcher was still single, in a truly meta moment, she even used a picture of herself alongside the real Peter Brady, christopher Knight on her Tinder profile, a move that's as bold, as hilarious.
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Flash forward you actually met him right.
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I met him in 2009.
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And now they're my friends.
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His wife, kara Knight, is my friend and Chris is always asking are you texting Carrie right now?
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So it's funny, chris Knight is Peter Brady the real Peter Brady and I used my imagination.
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I didn't have much.
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I grew up in a cape just outside of Boston and there were four of us so we didn't Four kids and my first guru was Mr Rogers, and even as a child I felt that he was my friend and when I was in the hospital getting my tonsils out, I demanded that Rogers come to my parents, like right before they knocked me out.
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I'm like call Rogers, he'll be on his way and I was so little.
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But to me I'm not surprised that I'm friends with a Brady like a real life Brady Right, because I was that connected.
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And I'm not surprised that the different movies.
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So Chris Cooper is a friend of mine and his wife.
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I met Chris Cooper because I was obsessed with the movie American Beauty and I went to the premiere and I said I have to photograph you.
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I didn't even have permission and he's in chapter five and he gave me my power back when I was in a very bad place and I just had such a big imagination that I pulled these real-time actors and musicians, artists, creatives into my world because I was connected through the television or through the movies and that was the early part of manifestation.
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Was that visualization that I had so clearly?
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And it's really interesting to look back because I didn't know what was in store for my future.
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But I remember when I was reading and I told my friend Maureen Hancock, who's a famous median who's in the book as well, median who's in the book as well I speak about Tina Turner quite a bit throughout the book and during chapter 11, she died, she left this world and I was reading the audible for my audio component and I broke down crying and I said to my friend Maureen and I broke down crying and I said to my friend Maureen this is ridiculous that I'm crying in this passage, because to me that's how much Tina Turner meant to me, that I never met her, but she was a single mom like me, and her words were a pain that she lived through.
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Right and, like you, she found chanting with the Buddhist chant Nam-myoho-ren-gi-ko, and Sanskrit mantras have helped you, which we'll talk about shortly.
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But it's amazing how everything that you experienced led you to the podcast when you thought you were going to be a lifelong celebrity photographer, and then from the you to the podcast, when you thought you were going to be a lifelong celebrity photographer, and then from the podcast to the book.
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So life is a journey and as a creative, I know you well and I've seen how, when you are in alignment, you bring in synchronicity, you bring in the helpful people, you bring in the famous people, you bring in the spiritual people and life becomes a journey.
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And I think that's also an underlying message of this book.
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I mean, this book is multifaceted how to Find Love but also, when you tap in and you have your goal, you can achieve it.
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And I think it's kind of cool too that along the journey, who becomes a good friend of yours?
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But Michael Lozier, the author of the Law of Attraction.
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He even wrote one of the accolades on the back cover of the book.
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So you want to say a little bit about your experience with the Law of Attraction and Michael Lozier?
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Sure.
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So I was a self-help guru junkie.
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Early high school days I bought my first Tony Robbins tape cassette off of an infomercial and I would drive around my parents' shaggy wagon with listening to it in the car and my friends producer Tom Corey is one of them would be laughing at me because they get in the car and then it would be, you know, tony Robbins working his magic and I would be saying the words that he would be saying and then the next day I'd end up on the front page of the Globe or whatever and I'd be like how do you like me now?
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So I was doing this stuff as a teenager and I always wanted to be a motivational speaker.
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I didn't know how that would happen, and so I was definitely one of the first people to purchase Law of Attraction and he denied being on the Secret.
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He said no to Rhonda Byrne, he did not want to be a part of the Secret.
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But they said the Law of Attraction so much throughout the Secret, the secret.
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But they said the law of attraction so much throughout the secret, the movie.
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He was there that he beat JK Rowling to number one on the New York Times bestseller list and he didn't have a business card.
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He sold four million books.
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He had the belief that he doesn't even read.
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I'm like, michael, can I send you a book?
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He's like you know I don't read.
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He's like don't save your money with the postage.
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So I was fascinated with him.
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He willed himself on Oprah I think it was four times in the end because every day he repeated Oprah's going to love me.
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Well, lady O did love him.
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She gave him a radio show on Oprah and Friends so he had the visualization piece and he could connect with that source energy.
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And when I found him on the social audio app Clubhouse and I decided to send him a DM on Instagram, and before I started writing I said I'm going to use the law of attraction to have him say yes.
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Sure enough, two seconds later Michael responds to vibration and our vibration are aligned so much so we became friends on the audio app and I moderate his rooms and one of his moderators.
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So it's been crazy that this mad manifestation guru also became one of my friends.
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But the alignment matched.
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The vibration was the same.
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Isn't that amazing?
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There is something to that.
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Like throughout my life there's been like three spiritual teachers that I wanted to meet since the eighties, and one of them was Barbara Han Clow, who's a famous author and she's just really released the alchemy of nine dimensions.
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But I met her in the late eighties.
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I had only been reading her books for a few years and then I was able to be at her workshops and being a healer in the back room.
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The second was Dick Sutphin, who was a big hypnosis guy in the 1980s.
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Met him in Sedona back in early 2000.
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And then somebody you know and I know, Namadeva Acharya, who was Thomas Ashley Ferran, the Sanskrit mantra Western guru.
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I read his first book and I was like I'm going to meet him, and then he became my teacher.
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So it's interesting when you put your energy and your vibe together, you bring these people into your life, no matter how famous they may be in whatever they were, all in the, obviously in the esoteric movement, but you've worked this energy forever in all kinds of celebrity arenas.
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Right.
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I think Namadeva used mantras to pull in and manifest what he needed and he knew how powerful they were and he also knew that I was brought into his field for a reason at that time and he zoned in on me pretty quickly as one of his students star students.
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I mean, you were the power Shakti and I was just someone trying to find my way, but very quickly he inducted me into the Gayatri and he told me and I just told you the story that he told me back in 2008 or 2009,.
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He passed away in 2010, that I needed to master the Gayatri because the Gayatri was the source of creativity for me, and then I had the power to bring mantras Sanskrit mantras to Hollywood, and someday I would and.
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I think I will.
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Well, for readers you know, for soon-to-be readers A Shot at Love.
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Each chapter begins with a Sanskrit mantra, right?
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You explain the meaning and then somehow the chapter begins with a Sanskrit mantra, right?
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You explain the meaning and then the somehow the chapter is connected to the mantra.
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and you did use Tina Turner and you have used the guy tree and Eric Clapton yes, which Om Namo Shivaya, was Eric Clapton's favorite chant and it it weaves perfectly into the story because the opening music for the movie that I'm photographing Chris Cooper for August Osage County the opening song is Lay Down Sally, with Eric Clapton, and it's just amazing how Shiva never disappoints and why he had a lot of pain and suffering in his life and the mantras were a way for him to hold on Right.
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And so I speak about Courtney Love, the Beatles.
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There's lots of people who do mantras, yeah there's that famous story about George Harrison being on a plane.
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The plane's going to do like a La Bamba, you know, ricky Valens crash into the, into the mountain, and he starts chanting Hare Krishna, hare Krishna, krishna Krishna, hare Hare, hare Ram, hare Ram Ram Ram, hare Hare called the you know the Moola mantra.
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And he starts doing that and all of a sudden the plane just miraculously starts finally going higher and higher and they got out of danger.
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And that's like a famous story of him chanting the Hare Krishna mantra Right.
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So there's a lot of stories like that.
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Totally so.
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There's a Kubera chant that I found from Namadeva that I wrote on the back of a checkbook and I started doing it because I found the checkbook while I was cleaning my car, I doubled down on the Kibera chant and I get a call from a Hollywood producer out of the blue who says to me let's get together.
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We haven't seen each other in a while.
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And I said I think I've really got something with this love and this online dating and I want you to take me to Netflix.
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And he said you're not ready yet.
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You'll have one chance and I think you should start a podcast and I'll help you.
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So he helped me five plus years ago.
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Five plus years ago, and after he was so kind to help me, I said Jill, I'm taking you with.
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That's right.
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And here we are, five years later Still talking about Chance.
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And still live on Cosmic Scene.
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Right and look what we've done in the past five years and we've brought our trusted.
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Well, I've brought Tom on the journey, your high school buddy Right as our producer.
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He's been my producer for many years as well and produced my masterclass, and we've done a lot of creative things together.
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Yeah, so before we go on break, carrie, maybe you can let our listeners know how they can get the book.
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Great, you can go to shot at lovebookcom.
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I am selling the book right now through my studio and different singles events and book signings coming up.
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You can get it on Amazon.
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You can get it the next day on Amazon.
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I will soon be releasing the Audible piece and then I'll be heading into Barnes, noble's bookstores and libraries very soon after the audible comes out thank you, carrie brett.
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Author shot at love.
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Host of shot at love podcast.
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When we come back we'll take a deep dive into the book, maybe read some of the content and hear some of your wild stories great looking for love, but tired of the games, shot at Love is your ultimate playbook for finding the real thing.
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Whether you're starting over or leveling up, shot at Love gives you the confidence to take your best shot Available now, because love is worth the risk.
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Welcome back.
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My guest is Keri Brett, author of Shot at Love.
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We're looking at this newly released book, talking about some of the backstory, about some of these chapters, and we were talking about our mantra guru, thomas Ashley Ferrand, and you wrote a chapter about when you went to one of his spiritual ceremonies that we call pujas and you had some interesting things happen to you.
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Do you want to read a little excerpt?
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And this is where you learned mantras and every chapter starts with a mantra, so that feels like an appropriate place to start.
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Okay, that sounds good.
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The Nomad Meets Namadeva.
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On my way to this Cant-Brijian chant circle, I walk down a crowded hallway where everyone is in white, I hold tight to my mala beads and I'm dressed head to toe in black.
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I'm shocked when I see this man in a robe appear.
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Upon seeing me, he stops, claps his prayer hands together and, with a big smile, looks down and bows.
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The first words he said to me were oh, a power Shakti.
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Dumbfounded, I laughed and said I'm not a power Shakti.
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Whatever that was thinking to myself.
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He said indeed, you are.
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I smiled, trying not to laugh, then answered no, I'm not, you are, because I can tell.
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How can you tell?
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I ask Because you have a Vishnava line on your forehead.
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If a person has a Vishnava line, it means you're a spiritual teacher and a healer.
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This was already too much, wondering just how I would Botox away this straight line in the middle of my forehead and why I hadn't realized it was so prominent.
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I really had no clue what was in store for me at that puja in Cambridge, nor did I understand how notable Nama Deva's teachings would be in my life.
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I knew one thing for sure that I had fallen in love with this guru and that I needed to see him.
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Whenever he came back in town, namadeva took a liking to me.
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I became one of his star students, like I did with my mentor, jeff Lubin.
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Namadeva even inducted me into the Gayatri, which was an insane honor.
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I sat nervously when he bestowed upon me this blessing, sane honor.
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I sat nervously when he bestowed upon me this blessing.
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He told me Carrie, use the Gayatri around your creative gifts, because the Gayatri enhances creativity.
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I was inducted with the long form version of the Gayatri, which takes me around 15 minutes to chant 108 times Faithfully.
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Before every podcast episode I record for Shot at Love, I do the Gayatri right before I go live on the airwaves.
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Namadeva gave me lots of special mantras that changed my life.
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One of his favorite mantras was you could say this one better than I could Jill Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.
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He used to actually sing that one.
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Yep.
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Every time he chanted it, he broke out in song and rose to his feet, dancing, while the whole group of chanters would rise to dance around him too.
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He was the total embodiment of love.
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Years back, I was struggling with having Giovanni at the time move in.
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Now Medeva dug deep into his magic bag of mantras and said I haven't given this mantra out in 30 years.
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