Welcome to Life, Love and Good Stuff; Father and Daughter chats with David and Sophie McCallum. In these heartfelt conversations, they share about living life through the lens of self-love, how familial relationships and life experiences hinder or fuel an authentic and rewarding life filled with conscious and compassionate self love.
About the Hosts
Actor David McCallum has appeared in theater, film and television and is a critically acclaimed author. David’s most enduring roles include the Russian agent Illya Kuryakin in The Man From Uncle and Dr. Donald "Ducky” Mallard on the CBS hit NCIS. David’s most prized roles are a loving husband and father, hearing him dialog with his daughter; Sophie, is heartwarming.
Sophie McCallum, born and raised New Yorker, calls NYC home as it fuels her passion. She is known as the Self-Love Peddler who strives to start each day with love in her heart for herself, her family and the world around her.
Sophie is a Certified Life Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner. With her guidance, she paves the way to self love for women and shows others how to connect to your highest self.
Episode 1:
Love is not about saying it, it is about doing it
Sophie and David chat about the golden rule in life; which is to take care of yourself. Your first obligation is to self, so you may take care of and love others.
Following the rules of caring for yourself is a necessity. Your body is a miracle and built like a machine, when you honor it and take good care of yourself physically and mentally, you run at your optimum. In order to avoid stress and anxiety, you need to realize that problems do not exist, it is about finding solutions.
Teaching this to your children at a young age, along with gratitude and sense of security is what breeds awareness and appreciation.
Episode 2: Are you living with the brakes on?
If you had to live your life over again, what would you do? David shares about a profound moment he had in his life when his son asked why he lives life with the brakes on, and how this lead him to take more risks. Whereas Sophie, shares living life without brakes and how it became reckless. Together, this father and daughter chat is enlightening as they open up about their true passions in life.
Episode 3: Acquiring Confidence
I love talking about confidence as it assists the practice of learning to love yourself. Self confidence allows you to believe in yourself, your worth and the power of your own self love. If you trust and believe in yourself, your feelings about yourself struggle to gain merit. In this episode, I dive into confidence with Dad and ask the questions; while having to put yourself “out there” in order to find the success you have, where did your confidence come from. Tune into this episode to find out what my Dad shares about confidence and how it affects your self esteem and how it relates to how you self love. I’ll leave you with this thought as you tune into this episode; “Motivational speaker, David Schwartz, once wrote, “All confidence is acquired, developed. No one is born with confidence. Those people you know who radiate confidence, who have conquered worry, have acquired their confidence, every bit of it.”
Episode 4: Awareness of Individuality
We discuss how most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality. When you have a keen awareness that you have found what makes you want to get up every morning and fills you with worth and knowing you are pursuing the desires of your heart, this is when you know you have found your individuality and your passion in life. You are no longer concerned with how it will be received, instead, you are focused on sharing your message, gift and talents with the world.
Episode 5: Pursuing Monumental Goals
I explore the importance of awareness and having a conscious mindset to receive what it is you’re manifesting in your life. Your mental muscles and awareness are often stronger in one area of your life than others; knowing your strengths and having patience is a key factor in seeing your goals come to fruition. I also share about all types of goals, they should be a mix of small to monumental goals. How we achieve them is by starting with a 30-day plan, then grow from there. The most important part of goal setting is knowing your WHY. You can accomplish all of your goals and live a life beyond your wildest dreams, when you focus on the present and believe you have the guts, compassion and confidence to succeed.
Episode 6:
Doing The Self Love Work & Learning Just To Be!
I share about how Self Love and just learning to BE are integrated. The more you practice self love the more peace you will come to find in BEing; which requires patience, perseverance and love. Loving yourself opens the gate to knowing yourself. When you know yourself then you can live in a state of BEing. I share being aware of outside influences and not allowing your mind to spiral into negative thought patterns.
Episode 7: Mob of Women & Preparedness
In this episode Dad (David McCallum) shares about being under siege by a mob of women while doing publicity in the 1960’s, followed by the great escape down the elevator shaft into an empty Herald Square in New York City, while his get away vehicle stalls. The key takeaway from today’s conversation with Dad is preparedness is the key to managing fear and will lead to an inner calmness. Did you know that when you relax the tips of your finders, your entire body relaxes? Tune into this entertaining episode reminiscing with David McCallum.
Episode 8:
Feeling Funky & How Self Love Can Pull You
It’s inevitable that on some days we will need to use the tools we have to pull us out of a funk. In this episode, I share the steps I use to pull me out of a funky vibe; while remembering that my mental state has an impact on my physical state.
I am grateful for my Dad, who happens to be working on his second book, and lovingly reminds me how life is meant to be enjoyed. He shares his wisdom on creating a beautiful life, while finding your inner sense of calm and security. We discuss how knowing what you want out of life will ground you and make you self aware so that you may pursue your passion and share your message. For me, this happened through life experiences. Life was rarely a straight and easy path. It was in the intense curves that I found tremendous opportunities and learned to hold space for myself to better understand what I was feeling, and it was through this process that led me to ultimate self love.
Episode 9:
David Reflects on Being Raised During WWII
David shares stories of his early roots; while reminiscing about family and what creates the strongest bond, reflecting on life after moving from Scotland to the USA and having to leave people behind. David shares fleeing during WWII via train with his mother and he how felt during these moments. He recounts his teen years and fencing with his partner, Joan Colins. Sophie dives in with how to help people feel safe in times of uncertainty.
Episode 10:
The Greatest Pleasure, Cooking & Eating
We invite you to join us on our culinary adventure. Our family loves spending time around the table, sharing stories and meals made with love. David shares how learning to cook during the war gave him an appreciation for today’s abundance and a wanting for the delicacies of the past. As you age, you must learn to change your eating habits; while eating more vegetables and juicing is the secret to feeling young. The entire McCallum family agrees that cooking is the greatest family activity.
Episode 11:
David Reflects on Significant Lessons Learned in the Army
David reflects on how important it is to do service for something or someone. He shares about his time in the army while being stationed in Africa. He has many funny stories of his time spent serving. The wisdom he imparts on us in this episode is to try all the things; which he did in the Army. He learned where he thrived and what he enjoyed the most.
Episode 12:
Turning Your Creativeness Into A Lifelong Career
This episode is filmed in the garage, where David loves to build things using his tools and his two hand, which he has been passionate about ever since he was a young boy. Woodworking, drawing, painting and fixing things are in his blood, a true creator at heart. He shares how your energy has an effect on what and how we create. David has used his skills and creativity in working and wiring as a stagehand when he first worked in the theater, always making things with his hands has given him great pleasure.
Episode 13:
Change Is Inevitable, Thank Goodness!!!
Change is inevitable, I encourage you to count on it on a regular basis. Some change is something we can control, some we have no control over. The key here is; as we grow as women, that when we feel unsettled we recognize that emotion and identify what it is and step into our power of fulfilling the life we know we are meant to be living.
Episode 14:
Having FAITH. What Does It Mean To You?
Today we dive into the topic of FAITH, while discussing energy, frequency and vibration and if it truly has anything to do with faith? When you have faith is it true that failure is not an option? Why is it as human’s we struggle with the belief in faith and how it assists with our struggles; or gives us a sense of hope, what side of the fence are you on? Today’s conversation on faith is a deep conversation with my Dad and myself; we couldn’t cover everything we wanted to discuss in one episode, so we invite you back next week as we continue diving deep on all that revolves around “having faith”. Please make sure to tune in next week for part 2.
Episode 15: How Your Faith Evolves
Thank you for coming back for part 2 of our conversation about FAITH! In today’s episode, we are discussing how our faith evolves as we age and as the world changes. We also touch on the evolution of living in NYC, from the changing music scene to the skyline, when you have faith, it helps you with the inevitable changes happening all around us. For my Dad and I, we both agree that faith allows us to use change as a source of growth and our desire to leave the world better than we found it.
Episode 16: Testing Your Faith As You Age!
Today, my dad, David, shares about aging and how important it is to keep your faith in tact as your energy diminishes. We reflect on my grandparents, both my maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother. My dad opens up about his recent brain embolism and his healing process. For our family, having faith means having complete trust in someone or something, which is what helped us during difficult times with dad’s health.
Episode 17: Beauty, Smarts and Love
Sophie and her mother, Katherine discuss her decision to bypass college for a year, which then led to her modeling career in the 1960’s. Katherine recalls meeting David, since she did not own a television, she had no idea who the two actors were that were appearing in her photoshoot with Glamour Magazine, as she was always fond of blondes, she found an interest in David McCallum, as he did in her. The conversation concluded with discussing the value of beauty, combined with having smarts.
Episode 18:
Using Your Instincts As A Mother, Chats
This episode is all about being and becoming a mother! Katherine and Sophie chat about mothering using one’s instincts. The importance of play, reading and emphasizing the positive in parenting and in life. In reflection, Sophie inquires about how her mum would have done things differently.
Episode 19:
Fortune Cookies
David and Katherine talk about how they met and the early days of their relationship. Katherine recalls how she gave David a fortune cookie with his lucky numbers, which happened to be her phone number and the trip to New York City, was David’s first time visiting the energetic city, as if the stars had aligned for the chance meeting, 57-years ago.
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