This week we return to our conversation with Morgan Yarborough, Services Manager at Recompose, to talk about company culture in deathcare businesses and startups. We talk about the importance of clearly stating your company values, working to cultivate diversity and equity, and allowing employee voices to be heard. Our conversation explores finding concrete ways to grow your company which actively align with your values, and how to support the mental and emotional wellbeing of employees who are new to deathcare.

Produced and Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Barbara Kemmis, Executive Director of the Cremation Association of North America (CANA), about her 10 year anniversary in that role. The deathcare space has evolved over the past 10 years and Barbara talks with us what deathcare has learned specifically about cremation services in the last decade. In part 1 of our discussion, we talk about Barbara’s path to CANA, cremation as a consumer driven disposition method, the importance of staying curious in deathcare, and how re-centering cremation services to focus experience creation and serving families is the key to making cremation lucrative.

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Kicking off the 2021 holiday season with this special episode of Deathcare Decoded, Alexandra explores the concept of gratitude, which is one of Parting Stone's four core company values. She explains how Parting Stone incorporates gratitude into day-to-day work culture through corresponding with families that choose solidification, and at the end of the episode she takes you inside the Parting Stone labs for a special surprise. 

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Morgan Yarborough, Services Manager at Recompose, on Natural Organic Reduction and community focused deathcare. We talk about how Recompose’s method of natural organic reduction was built around serving the needs of the company's specific local community. We also cover de-centering sales and re-centering experiences as a successful deathcare business model, how funeral services are opportunities for building relationships with the families we serve, and how continuing to strengthen connections with local communities can help funeral businesses grow for years to come.

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This week, Alexandra is interviewed by Justin about research she has been doing for the past few months for a Connecting Directors article and a presentation for the New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association Conference, about excess deaths in the US due to Covid-19 and what they mean for the future of deathcare. Alexandra jumps headfirst into the numbers, makes some predictions based on the current excess death counts from the CDC, and uses the 1918 flu pandemic as a model that we can learn from. This research also reveals some surprising facts about life expectancy and total death rates in the US pre-covid. 

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Darin Corbett, Owner of Corbett Funeral and Cremation and Oklahoma City Cremation discusses his intentionally designed and revolutionary cremation container engineered to meet families where they are and solve the inherent problems presented with traditional black boxes. Darin explains how listening to families and meeting their needs with intention helped drive this revolutionary container, and how this project has been a huge boon to his business.

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Maggie McMillan, Vice President of The Wiefels Group of Companies and All Caring, discusses gender equity in the deathcare profession. With rising rates of women and non-binary individuals graduating from mortuary school, it’s time for our profession to understand how to support the success of these demographics and create equitable work environments for all genders. We cover why it’s important for funeral businesses to truly offer equity and support for every employee in order to succeed in the future.

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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 Sam Funk, Order Manager at Parting Stone, discusses his project using “black box” temporary urns for hydroponic gardening. Black box temporary urns are made of thick, non-recyclable plastics, making them a problem throughout the deathcare space. Sam’s creative method of growing food and flowers using just water, plant nutrient solution, and black boxes is a solution with endless benefits. We cover why hydroponics is a great option, what makes black boxes the perfect hydroponic container, and how to learn more about starting your own black box garden.

Produced and Co-Hosted by and Alexandra Jo, Content Manager at Parting Stone, and Co-Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone.

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Maggie McMillan, Vice President of The Wiefels Group of Companies and All Caring, talks about current trends in deathcare and moving the professional space forward. We talk about capacity limitations that have been highlighted during the Covid-19 pandemic, transforming the aesthetic appeal of funeral homes to help make millennial death planners more comfortable, and new ways to support the mental health of both deathcare professionals and grieving families.

Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone, and Alexandra Jo, Culture and Content Manager at Parting Stone.

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Joél Simone Anthony, sacred grief practitioner, licensed funeral director, and deathcare educator (also known as The Grave Woman), on grief as a sacred space. We discuss the necessity of serving grieving families from a place of deep authenticity and care, the importance of building rituals around grief as a way to move towards healing, and how to navigate compensation, personal boundaries, and self-care as a deathcare worker.

Joél's e-course on Self Care professionals is available here.

Hosted by Justin Crowe, Founder & CEO of Parting Stone, and Alexandra Jo, Culture and Content Manager at Parting Stone.

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