Begin From the End

This week Megan connects with Nikki Boyer, creator of the podcast and now Peabody award winning TV series Dying For Sex.  Nikki shares her profound journey alongside her best friend Molly's cancer and end of life and how co-creating media around death helped them both process their grief. Megan and Nikki compare notes on the transformative power of confronting mortality and the importance of open conversations about death.

What happens when we stop trying to fix things and simply stay present? Megan reunites with her first yoga teacher, Elena Brower, whose support helped her through the grief of losing her father. Drawing on their hospice work and Elena’s book *Hold Nothing*, they explore the urge to help, fix, and people-please—and how cultivating inner stillness can change the way we care for others, in death and in life.

Twenty-five years after losing her father, Frank, to cancer, journalist and death doula Megan Donis reflects on the experience that was both the hardest and most beautiful of her life—and inspired Begin From the End

In this opening episode, Megan joins her teacher, Olivia Bareum, founder of the Sacred Crossings Institute for Conscious Dying, to explore the pain and beauty of death—and how making room for both might help us live, and die, more meaningfully.