Jill Bershad sits with Oteil Burbridge for a wide-ranging conversation about grief, music, death, family, faith, and the strange ways light keeps finding its way in. What starts with memories of Oteil’s brother Kofi opens into something bigger: how loss changes your priorities, how music carries people through what words cannot, and why staying close to your own mortality can make life feel more honest and more alive.

They talk about what it means to lose someone who shaped you, the healing force inside song and community, raising children without crushing their light, and the difference between identity and essence. Oteil also shares the story behind Kofi Day of Service, the grief woven into his music, and the deeper reason some songs hit so hard when life breaks open.

It is thoughtful, emotional, funny in unexpected places, and deeply human. A conversation about sorrow, magic, service, and what remains when everything extra falls away.

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