My guest today is Joél Simone, also known as The Grave Woman. Joél is the founder of the Multicultural Death and Grief Care Academy, an organization that empowers professionals with the tools to create authentic, culturally inclusive experiences that honor diversity and inclusion at the end of life, after death and through grief support. Joél is a celebrity within the death and funeral space and tours the country, regularly speaking at all the major death and funeral-related industry events.

We talk about her time as an embalmer and the reverence and care she brought to that role. We also get into some of the courses that her academy provides, such as Locs and Twist- a class for death care professionals that offers essential techniques for properly cleansing and caring for the locs and twisted hairstyles of Black descendants.

Learn more:

www.thegravewoman.com

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