Emma is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, MIT graduate, and award-winning change-agent, who started building online communities before Netscape was born. Her 25 year career leading online and mobile projects has included building tools to reg

Sarah Sidelmann, MD

Jun 1st, 2021 43m 15s

Sarah Bamford Seidelmann was a fourth-generation physician living a nature-starved, hectic lifestyle until a walrus entered her life and changed everything. She is a shamanic healer and has trained at Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic St

Rachel Kodanaz

May 21st, 2021 25m 46s

“Nobody likes to sit down and listen to a talk about life’s challenges. But somehow, Rachel makes it all Okay. Her warmth and sensitivity, and especially her story, enables us to hear brutal honesty and embrace it, rather than fear it. Bravo, R

Alison Jean Lester, Author

Apr 22nd, 2021 43m 46s

Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary DyingAfter a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying the final act of her life. She died nine

Vicky Roncero, Reiki Master Practitioner

Apr 15th, 2021 42m 43s

Vicky Roncero is a certified Usui Reiki Master Practitioner/ Instructor with a private practice, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. She is grateful to be working with Reiki and empowering clients to use this beautiful energy in whatever way is hel

Phyllis Shacter

Apr 12th, 2021 25m 17s

Phyllis Shacter courageously shares the first personal story ever written about Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED). This memoir and guidebook follows the journey she took with her husband, Alan. Alan decided to VSED – so he didn’t

Suzanne O'Brien, RN

Apr 8th, 2021 38m 8s

An End of Life Doula is a non-medical person trained to care for someone holistically (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) at the end of life. End of Life Doulas are also known around the world as: end of life coaches, soul midwives, tran

Claire Willis, MSW

Apr 1st, 2021 20m 22s

Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker who has worked in the fields of oncology and bereavement for more than 20 years. A cofounder of the Boston nonprofit Facing Cancer Together, Willis has led bereavement, end-of-life, support, and ther

Connie Ducaine - Vital Decisions

Mar 18th, 2021 35m 37s

Connie Ducaine, PhD, LPC, LCADC, Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Vital DecisionsDr. Connie Ducaine is the Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions at Vital Decisions and started her career with the organization 9 years ago wor

Neil Beresin, Chaplain & Poet

Mar 11th, 2021 47m 42s

Neil Beresin has worked with individuals and families in hospitals, hospice, schools, and private practice. Multiple lenses frame Neil's practice, including the work of theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel, Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön, psychologists

Jane Duncan Rogers

Mar 4th, 2021 28m 41s

Jane Duncan Rogers is an award-winning life and death coach who helps people prepare well for a good end of life. Having been in the field of psychotherapy and personal growth for 25 years, she is founder of Before I Go Solutions, dedicated to

Kathleen Vallee Stein

Feb 25th, 2021 39m 21s

Kathleen Vallee Stein worked as an advocate for Medicare beneficiaries for many years. She became familiar with the Medicare Hospice benefit and the reluctance on the part of families to consider it. When her father was terminally ill, she expe

Allison Gilbert

Feb 21st, 2021 36m 59s

Allison Gilbert is an Emmy award-winning journalist and one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on grief and resilience. The author of numerous books including the groundbreaking, Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved

Allison Gilbert

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Liz Eddy, Co-Founder & CEO of Lantern

Feb 11th, 2021 33m 44s

“I think we need to do something about death.”Liz lost her dad as a young kid, when her grandmother (dad’s mom) died in the winter of 2018, she was tasked with all of the planning that ensued. She walked into the nursing home where her grandmot

Laura Sterner

Feb 4th, 2021 27m 22s

In addition to being a wife and mother, Laura Sterner found her calling is wellness. Finding her place in life has been an evolution. For Laura, it started with poor nutrition, lack of sleep, and excessive stress as a norm. This lifestyle, and

Erica Buist, Writer

Jan 29th, 2021 45m 58s

Erica Buist is a journalist and writer from London, England, and the author of the forthcoming book This Party's Dead. After finding her father-in-law dead after eight days, she embarked on a journey around the world to seven festivals for the

Lesleigh Tolin, Grief Specialist

Jan 28th, 2021 41m 44s

As a senior adult, Lesleigh Tolin lost both of her parents. She grew up in a home where alcohol and emotional and physical abuse created ongoing chaos. She knows what it’s like to camouflage emotional pain. As a young girl and a young woman, Le

Jay Niver, Journalist and Public Relations

Dec 17th, 2020 50m 19s

We are North Carolina’s only citizen advocacy Not for Profit specifically seeking enactment of Medical Aid in Dying legislation in N.C. and respect for every individual’s End of Life Decision.Jay Niver is a retired journalist and public relatio

Garrick Colwell

Dec 10th, 2020 47m 11s

It was April of 2017 when Garrick and the late Kinsloe Kelley Colwell, LMFT, invited over 20 Austin area healthcare professionals to meet and discuss ways in which they could assist the Central Texas community in becoming aware of the importanc

Hope Edelman, Author

Dec 3rd, 2020 40m 30s

HOPE EDELMAN has been writing, speaking, and leading workshops and retreats in the bereavement field for more than 25 years. She was 17 when she lost her mother to breast cancer and 40 when her father died, events that inspired her to offer gri

Elizabeth Coplan

Nov 25th, 2020 17m 20s

Untold: Creating Space for Loss After StillbirthTuesday, December 1, 5 p.m. Pacific Time Join us for a live performance of Elizabeth Coplan's play Untold, and join Dr. Jillian Tullis, University of San Diego, to discuss communication challenges

Eileen Robertson Hamra

Nov 24th, 2020 51m 58s

Eileen Robertson Hamra is the woman you meet—at the gym, in the coffee shop, or dropping off the kids at school—with a story that draws you in the minute she begins to tell it. At age forty-one, after losing her husband in a plane crash, she be

The Connecticut Association for Home Health at Home

Nov 12th, 2020 41m 16s

The Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home is the largest member group of home health & hospice leaders championing home-based solutions as vital to better health in CT. Through networking, education and advocacy leadership, the Associa

Olga Nikolajev

Oct 22nd, 2020 55m 2s

Olga is a death educator, certified in Thanatology, the study of death, dying, loss and bereavement. She is the founder and director of DyingMatters.ca and provides educational presentations and workshops on death, dying, loss and bereavement.