There are very few people who can sit comfortably in the presence of death without flinching, and fewer still who can make that space feel alive, honest, and strangely liberating.

In this episode of Live Well, Leave Well, I am joined by Cheyenne Harper, known artistically as KING IV, a musician, performance artist, and modern psychopomp working at the intersection of music, ritual, and transformation.

Through her work, including the album Psychopomp, the new track The Other Side, and the immersive live performance FUNERAL, KING IV explores endings, shedding, and rebirth. Not as concepts, but as lived experiences. An embodied bravery that willingly enters the unseen, names what others avoid, and creates beauty and meaning from spaces many people only encounter through loss, illness, or crisis.

In this episode, Cheyenne and I speak about death as a teacher, art as a portal, and the power of meeting mortality with curiosity rather than fear. We explore what it means to consciously prepare for death, not morbidly, but devotionally, and how ritual, music, and presence can transmute grief into connection, agency, and love.

This conversation is an invitation to listen differently, to your body, your fears, your endings, and to consider what becomes possible when we stop turning away.

KING IV’s next performance of FUNERAL takes place at Midsumma Festival on January 29. This episode offers a glimpse into the world behind the work, and the work behind the becoming.

Links and Resources 

Shed your grey being. 

Buy tickets to FUNERAL here: https://linktr.ee/kingivsound

Midsumma Festival 

Howler :: Jan 29

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

Gavin Blue is an award winning photographer, humanitarian, and the President of Heartfelt Australia and New Zealand.

For more than a decade, Gavin and his extraordinary team of over 320 volunteer photographers have quietly and reverently stepped into some of the most intimate and devastating moments a family can experience. Together, they offer free photographic memories when a baby dies before, during, or shortly after birth.

This is work done with deep presence.

With humility.

With radical compassion.

Gavin and the Heartfelt team meet families at the intersection of joy and grief, where love still exists even when hearts are breaking. Their photographs are not just images. They are legacy. Proof of love. A way of saying you were here, you mattered, and you are forever held.

This episode is tender, powerful, and deeply human. Please listen gently and take care of your heart.

Still frames. Eternal echoes.

One moment of presence. A single photograph, yet it echoes forever in the hearts of those left behind.

This conversation includes themes of stillbirth, baby loss, and grief. Please listen in a way that feels supportive for you.

Links & Resources:

💛 Griefline

Free, confidential grief support

📞 1300 845 745 (8 am to 8 pm AEST, 7 days)

🌐 griefline.org.au

💙 Lifeline

24-hour crisis support

📞 13 11 14

🌐 lifeline.org.au

💬 Beyond Blue

Support for anxiety, depression, and grief

📞 1300 22 4636

🌐 beyondblue.org.au

🤍 PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia)

Support for parents experiencing perinatal loss or distress

📞 1300 726 306

🌐 panda.org.au

📸 Heartfelt Australia - Please donate this Christmas!

Photographic memories for families experiencing stillbirth or child loss

🌐 heartfelt.org.au

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

Every second week, I’ll be sharing a short Storytime. Five to ten minutes to pause and reflect on something that’s stayed with me. Sometimes it will be thoughtful, sometimes funny, sometimes tender. Just musings, reflections, insights, and the occasional gentle nudge.

Storytelling is as old as time itself. Long before books or screens, we gathered to share stories, to pass on wisdom, meaning, and memory. Storytime matters because stories keep us connected. They build community. They remind us that we are not alone.

My hope is that in sharing these moments, something lands for you in a way that helps, comforts, or opens a small door you didn’t even know was there.

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

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lwell.ai

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

In this episode, Lucinda and I dive into the beauty of holistic death preparation - the practical, the emotional, the spiritual, and the deeply physical realities of what it means to live well, love well and leave well. Together we uncover, discover, and gently question the parts of end-of-life planning that most people avoid or never even consider. Our hope is to show you that these conversations don’t need to be clinical, dark, or intimidating. They can be curious, heartfelt, honest, sometimes hilarious and deeply connective. 

So many people only ever see Lucinda in her light - happy, brave, emotionally intelligent, luminous but in this conversation, she lets you into where she sits with her mortality, her perfect death scenario and her legacy. And that’s the whole point: death is real. We are all going to die. And facing that truth with openness brings a strange kind of freedom.

We hope this episode encourages you to explore your own relationship with mortality, to listen with an open heart, and maybe even to have a beautiful, honest conversation of your own. If it gives you something, a spark, an idea, a new perspective, or simply permission to begin to lean into death preparation, then we’ve done what we came here to do.

Links & Resources:

** PLEASE Download the Live Well Leave Well Holistic EOLP here: https://www.deadicate.com/eol-plan

Lucinda Light 

For more about the delightful and divine Lucinda please check out her website
https://www.lucindalight.com/

More about Eddie FitzPatrick

Eddie FitzPatrick is an English-Australian songwriter and facilitator based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne. She leads choirs, song circles and journeys in nature woven with song reminding us that singing together is our birthright.

Her songwriting blends poetry, nature and bardic storytelling, described by audiences as “sound healing in its purest form." Her debut album will be released in 2026.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eddiefitzpatrick_music/

Linktree - https://tr.ee/d6hJQz

Meet LWELL!! 

LWELL is a gentle end-of-life ai guide - a collaboration between heart and technology making end-of-life planning more accessible, easily resourced and actionable across the practical, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of dying and grieving.

To meet and “Tell LWELL” exactly what you need visit 

https://www.lwell.ai

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

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lwell.ai

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

As AI rapidly reshapes how we live, work, and relate, it’s also beginning to transform how we die, how we are remembered, and how our legacies, both personal and digital, are preserved.

Matt joins me to explore where machines meet mortality, memory, and meaning. With decades of experience at the forefront of AI, ethics and future technologies, Matt is helping shape how the world thinks about humans and machines evolving together.

But this isn’t just a conversation about death and data or what it means to be human in the age of AI; it’s also personal. Matt and I talk about his own death preparation - his resistance, the shift, and how preparing now softens the grief and administrative tasks our children will face in the aftermath of death. To prepare for and be accountable for your own death is a simple yet powerful final act of love because it is not just about responsible AI, it’s about responsible dying.

Since recording this podcast, Deadicate has been developing an AI companion - LWELL.

LWELL is a gentle end-of-life AI guide - a collaboration between heart and technology, making end-of-life planning more accessible, easily resourced and actionable across the practical, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions of dying and grieving.

We will continue to learn and evolve LWELL. This is where responsible dying meets responsible AI.

Meet LWELL – your gentle AI end-of-life guide here : https://LWELL.ai

 

Links & Resources:

Learn more about and listen to Matt Kuperholz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuperholz/)

 

The evolution of AI—how we can solve for trust | Matt Kuperholz | TEDxSydney (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEpV9lE_EFo)

 

Culture and AI: How ChatGPT works, and changes the Future of Work (https://www.youtube.com/watch?2JvqjPkb7s8)

 

More on the OR initiative here : https://www.morh.org

 

Join the Deadicate community here: https://deadicate.com/

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

Talk to LWELL here:

lwell.ai

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

As life expectancy grows and our relationship with death evolves, conversations around voluntary assisted dying (VAD) and its role in society are becoming more crucial than ever. 

Our guest Jane Morris is a true trailblazer in this space. As president of Dying with Dignity Victoria, she has been a strong advocate for VAD, working tirelessly to ensure compassion, autonomy, and justice are at the heart of end-of-life care. In this episode, we discuss the need for VAD reform in Victoria and our recent visit to Parliament House to campaign for these changes. 

More information on Jane and her organisation can be found here.

Further Information & Support

If this episode raises difficult emotions for you, please know that you are not alone.

Here are some trusted places you can reach out to for information or support:

💜 Voluntary Assisted Dying Information

Comprehensive, state-by-state information and advocacy are available through:

🌿 Dying With Dignity Victoria: https://www.dwdv.org.au/

🌐 Go Gentle Australia: https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/vad_in_your_state

or by contacting your State Health Department:

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/patient-care/voluntary-assisted-dying

💛 Griefline – Free, confidential grief support

📞 1300 845 745  |  8 am–8 pm AEST, 7 days

🌐 griefline.org.au

💚 Grief Australia – National grief education and support

📞 1800 642 745

🌐 grief.org.au

💙 Lifeline – 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention

📞 13 11 14  |  💬 lifeline.org.au (chat online anytime)

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

Talk to LWELL here:

lwell.ai

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Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

Despite being a universal experience, death remains poorly understood, planned for, and supported. As the ageing population grows and hospital systems are stretched thin, it is time to recognise the vital role of end-of-life doulas.

What if having an end-of-life doula was considered as usual and as necessary as having a GP, psychologist, accountant, mobile network or a hairdresser? 

I sit down with the extraordinary Helen Callanan, who’s been instrumental in making that vision a reality. Helen is the founder of Preparing the Way and the visionary behind Australia’s first accredited Certificate IV in End-of-Life Doula Services. She’s trained thousands of EOLDs to bring calm, care, and clarity to life’s final chapter, me included! 

Helen and I discuss why EOLDs are essential - not just at the end, but long before, during and after we take our last breath. We talk about how preparing for death might be the most loving thing we ever do.

To find a doula, visit doulaconnections.com.au or preparingtheway.com.au

Alternatively, you can find an EOLD as a member through held.org.au or NDAN.com.au

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

Talk to LWELL here:

lwell.ai

Join the Deadicate community → deadicate.com/newsletter

Please support the podcast by leaving a rating and review!

Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)