Episodes

Do you like to play cards? And sit around the kitchen table talking with family, with friends? But are there those conversations you find it hard to have? How do you want to die? For that matter, how do you want to live? The ...

What if you had changed your life to make it everything you dreamed of and then were diagnosed with breast cancer? And your usual way of coping was to apply a strong wit to every experience? And you’d done stand-up comedy, ho...

From 1985 to 1995, Benjamin Allen lost his wife Lydia and their two children to AIDS, contracted through a blood transfusion during childbirth. Grieving these unimaginable losses, Benjamin felt his way to a deeper life. He sa...

How can music deepen our experience of life,especially when life is difficult? As a result of the challenges

How can we create an open conversation about the damages and continued disconnects which resultfrom racism?

Have you had a conversation with the closest people to you about how they want to die? The Conversation Project believes we all need to have those conversations and offers invaluable insights into how to bring them about. Joi...

Aimee DuFresne lost her father and young husband within a year of each other. Devastated by the loss, she had to choose how to continue living her life. Ultimately, she found the courage not just to live but to create a life ...

How would you find your way through the pain and betrayal you would feel if you lost someone you loved to suicide? Robert Lesoine found his way through the agony of losing his closest friend; first by writing his pain into a ...

Melanie DeMore, an outstanding and internationally recognized vocalartist, embodies her own principle that music can be a force for socialand political change.

Join me when guest Ash Beckham talks about having the hard conversations. How did she learnabout that? By coming out as a lesbian

Frank Ostaseski, a widely respected authority on compassionate end of life care, urgesus to turn toward suffering.

Julie Genovese struggled for the first several decades of her life with deep shame and self criticism as a result of the cruel bullying and medical torture she experienced as a child. Originally believing that her dwarfism an...

Already fascinated by the mysteries of death, sociologist Michelle Peticolas deepened her own understanding of death, and of grief, when she was faced with the deaths of both her parents within the same year. Join us as we ex...

Claire Bidwell Smith found out at 14 that both her parents had cancer. She spent the next ten years interweaving a halting journey to maturity with their declines and deaths (her mother when she was 14 and her father when she...

What does a palliative care chaplain have to tell us about facing death and living life? Denah Joseph has sat with over a thousand dying people and their families. Her own early experiences with death led her to seek answers ...

Join me as we talk about how the worst time in Amikaeyla’s life led to Music As Medicine, programming she developed which successfully helps people in the United States and around the world (including recently in Israel, Jord...

Angelo Merendino is a photographer who started taking pictures of his wife as soon as he fell for her. His photo journaling became a calling when, five months after they were married, Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer...

I wouldn’t ask my guests to do something I wouldn’t do myself, so on this debut show, I’ve invited Marianna Cacciatore to interview me. Marianna is Executive Director of Bread for the Journey and host of Ordinary People Doing...