James Brown and holistic funeral director Lauren Carroll discuss the human tendency to avoid talking about death, grief, why we should plan our funeral, different types of burials, her approach versus conventional funeral homes and introduced me to the idea of a death doula.

Check out episode one here. Lauren participated in our Members only show which you can hear here.

Carroll is a co-founder of Deathwives: a female-founded collective working to widen the narrative around death and dying. You can learn more about it here: https://deathwives.org.

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