Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with femme writer, spoken word poet, author, & teaching artist Megan Falley, while they talk about how two decades of hating her body shifted with her partner’s cancer diagnosis, how confronting mortality altered her idea of what beauty is, & how being a steward over her partner’s health lead to a decision to vow some of that same love & devotion to herself.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Death Doula, End of Life Educator & Grief Guide Jamie Thrower, while they talk about parent loss, medical aid in dying, death care/planning/grief experiences & why it’s important to have inclusive support for all of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Staci K. Haines, a national leader in Somatics & the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatic, Healing and Social Change, while they talk about the shock & ceremony of her mom's diagnosis & dying, their co-creating a Vision for the end of life, & how these personal experiences of loss connect to social justice.

This interview originally aired July 22nd, 2021.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Prentis Hemphill, writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, & therapist, talking about how a simple gaze offered the opportunity for a new legacy of love, getting to the work of grieving the past, & how their being in the world can be traced back to an 11-year-old Prentis who found God in a hiding place.

TW: The general act of “suicide” is mentioned, but nothing in detail.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Aditi Sethi, hospice & palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, & musician, talking about her work as Founder & Executive Director of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, the dying of Ethan Sisser captured in the documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, & how Aditi’s life journey has led to her work & being in the world.

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Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/

The Last Ecstatic Days website: https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad, crying & laughing their way through a conversation about living a life worth dying for, music as a way forward in the darkness of mental health struggles & existential crises, & honoring our ancestral lineage in song.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with New York Times best-selling illustrator & graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton, talking about her book “How to Say Goodbye: The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers,” combining drawings from her artist’s residency inside The Zen Hospice Project Guest House, with words of hospice caregivers she interviewed, including a list of The Five Things to help us say goodbye.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with return guests & friends BJ Miller & Ladybird Morgan, talking about their work in the world, together with Mettle Health, & Mettle Health’s Annual Convening happening in Nevada City, CA on August, 17th 2023, an event meant for everyone who will be touched by the subject of aging, illness, death, & grief...

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Join host Ned Buskirk, in conversation with Alua Arthur - Death Doula, Ordained Minister, Recovering Lawyer, Perpetual Seeker of Nothing to be Found & Founder of Going with Grace - while they talk about death activism, the touchstone of nihilism, & being in the question marks of dying.

This interview originally aired February 4th, 2021.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Laura Sullivan Cassidy, writer/editor, creative consultant/coach, artist/experience maker, & grief/death/funeral care worker, talking about the personal experience of death when your profession is deathwork, using “Griefmapping” for navigating loss, & our necessary responsibility more than ever for community care with grief/death/dying.

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