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You're Going to Die
A creatively conscious mortality podcast for a 501(3) nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.
You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Conversation w/Báyò Akómoláfé at The Lost Church in San Francisco, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Friday, March 15th, 2024...
Join host Ned Buskirk's LIVE conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé, father to Alethea and Kyah, grateful life-partner to Ije, son & brother, widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author.
báyò’swebsite: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand
twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe
Recorded by Scott Ferreter
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Martín Prechtel, artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, and healer, as Prechtel offers his introduction as generous story-telling of ancestral lineage & answers the question: "Why say ‘yes’ to being on a podcast called 'You're Going to Die'?"
martín prechtel'swebsite: https://floweringmountain.com/
Please, Come Sit By My Fire - Martín Prechtel’s Audial Lecture Series - Talks from the Flowering Mountain: https://floweringmountain.com/pleasecomesitbymyfire/
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder of The Lumineers, American-Italian musician, composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, talking about the loss of his older brother when Jeremiah was just 14 years old.
jeremiah fraites'swebsite: https://lnk.bio/jeremiahfraitesig: https://www.instagram.com/jeremiahfraites/
the lumineers: https://www.thelumineers.com/
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”Spirals” by Jeremiah Fraites
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times best-selling author of seven books, transformational thought leader, world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology.
sonya renee taylor'swebsite: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/
venmo @sonyareneetaylor
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hyunhye "Angela" Seo, artist, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist, best known for her role in American experimental band Xiu Xiu, as they they talk about grief & music, grief & fear, grief & community.
hyunhye seo'swebsite: https://angelaseo.com/ig: https://www.instagram.com/hyunnies/
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A bonus episode this week as accompaniment to Hyunhye "Angela" Seo's episode, continuing the conversation with her friends, Brenda Covarrubius, an occupational therapist who has worked with cancer patients, & Julie Lu, a doctor, talking about grief in community.
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith, a licensed therapist, international speaker, & author, while they talk about her newest book, Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss, out March 12th 2024!
claire bidwell smith'swebsite: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/ig: https://www.instagram.com/clairebidwellsmith/
new book: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/books/#consciousG
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, ethnobotanist, & culinary historian Justin Robinson, while they talk about the genocides of plant lives, cultivating relationship to plant species and plant individuals beginning with communication, and the work of ancestral relations.
justin robinson’sig: https://www.instagram.com/countrygentlemancooks/
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, activist, entrepreneur, & philanthropic innovator, while they talk about the death of her Mother, Sister, & Grandmother, all just in the last year, & the powerfully potent process of grieving with curiosity.
rachel cargle’swebsite: https://rachelcargle.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatunlearn
retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone, NC - April 5-7th, 2024: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/rachel-cargle/a-renaissance-of-our-own/
book - A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635409/a-renaissance-of-our-own-by-rachel-e-cargle/
Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Center - you can support this small Black, queer-owned bookshop here: https://bookshop.org/shop/Elizabeths
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, while they talk about her husband's death in 2016, how her life was flipped upside down, and how therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position and move on to discover Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth, and the tools she needed to create a meaningful life after loss.
krista st-germain’s website: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, bereaved mom, founder of the MISS Foundation, author of "Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, & the Heartbreaking Path of Grief", Arizona State University Professor & director of its Graduate Certificate in Trauma & Bereavement Program, while they talk about the death of her daughter in 1994, how it led to her work in the world, & the story of founding the Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the United States & a haven for animals rescued from abuse, neglect, & torture.
dr. jo’swebsite: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/
selah carefarm: https://www.missfoundation.org/selah-carefarm/
”open letter to grievers”: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/an-open-letter-to-grievers
book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bearing-the-Unbearable/Joanne-Cacciatore/9781614292968
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician and songwriter Dan Mangan, while they talk about how death and endings foster gratitude and give meaning to life, how sorrowful music connects community, and how trauma/grief/loss might be the one thing that unites us more than anything else.
dan mangan’swebsite: https://danmanganmusic.com/newsletter: https://danmangan.substack.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/danmanganmusic/
tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danmanganmusic
twitter: https://twitter.com/danmanganmusic
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ByjU6oarxRC2Y85JpKx1n?si=OUGAzh3yTt6tAF3QyNrj9Q
phone number: 310.347.4597 (USA & Canada)
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"No Tragedy Please" by Dan Mangan
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University & the widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air, while they talk about her ongoing relationship to Paul, his impact/presence in her life still, & parenting their daughter in the wake of his death.
dr. lucy kalanithi’swebsite: https://lucykalanithi.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/rocketgirlmd
podcast GRAVITY: https://lucykalanithi.com/podcast
dr. lucy kalanithi wants you to supportBe A Hero: https://beaherofund.com/
Camp Kesem: https://www.kesem.org/
Caring Across Generations: https://caringacross.org/
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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak find a way into his music.
john craigie’swebsite: https://johncraigiemusic.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/johncraigie/
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"Pagan Church" by John Craigie
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Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk & producer Nick Jaina as they ring in the [Happy?] New Year with some fresh commitments & a new precious perk for our Patreon community.
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Available right now, only on Patreon, join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak finds a way into his music. BECOME A PATRON HERE: https://www.patreon.com/YG2D
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with immersive installation artist, puppet-fabricator, & children’s book author Madison Girifalco, while they talk about grief, community connection, & support in her life & work with Holding Space, an art installation designed to acknowledge grief in community using immersive art & puppetry.
madison girifalco’s
websites:
www.holdingspacela.org
www.puppetsbymadison.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/mindovermadison/
Holding Space ig: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/
“Lunch Breaks w/Holding Space” on IG LIVE @holdingspaceLA, Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 12:30 PST: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Erika Wright, while they talk about the story, the plant medicine, the spiritual path, that led to their self-appointed work as a codependency counselor, our society's relationship to grief & vulnerability, & how we've been programmed to avoid hard feelings & the truth behind them.
erika wright’s
website: https://erikawright.org/
podcast: https://erikawright.org/podcast/
healing codependency support & counseling groups: https://erikawright.org/healing-codependency-support-counseling-group/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/erikawrighthcd/
chocolate company: https://supahstah.com/
transformational women's retreats: https://madeofstars.co/
Co-Dependents Anonymous: https://coda.org/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Adam Jackson, Sacred Sons cofounder, Chief Visionary Officer, & the host of Sacred Sons Podcast, while they talk about how his lineage of loss & suicide led to his work with Sacred Sons, processing grief & anger with men, community building & purpose fueled by our mortality.
TRIGGER WARNING: suicide
adam jackson’s
ig: https://www.instagram.com/adam___jackson/
sacred sons: https://www.sacredsons.com/
sacred sons ig: https://www.instagram.com/sacredsons/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, visual/performance artist, & poet Andy the Doorbum, while they talk about his father's death process that inspired his new album, "OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT," & how the album morphed into a grieving for the world & its current troubles.
andy the doorbum’s
bandcamp: https://andythedoorbum.bandcamp.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/andythedoorbum/
fb: https://www.facebook.com/andythedoorbum/
X: https://twitter.com/AndyTheDoorbum
SUPPORT andy via Venmo, paypal, cashapp: @andythedoorbum
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"HYMN OF DOLOR: singing away the spider bites" by Andy the Doorbum
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Frank Ostaseski - internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, & founder of the Metta Institute - while they talk about remaining vulnerably present in service of patients, how we should let our tears run instead of hiding them, & moving beyond the idea of a good death.
This conversation originally aired July 8th, 2021.
frank ostaseski’s
website: https://frankostaseski.com/
The Five Invitations: https://fiveinvitations.com/FB: https://www.facebook.com/frankostaseski/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author & editor Michelle Tea, while they talk about the story of her writing onto stage, her history running lesbian-feminist spoken-word & performance art collective Sister Spit, & the “mental illness” of writing & why it matters for our lives, our trauma, our healing.
Thanks to Beth Pickens for the “Death & God” chapter in her book Make Your Art No Matter What which offered a fitting launching off point for this conversation.
michelle tea’swebsite: https://www.michelle-tea.com/
books: https://www.michelle-tea.com/books
IG: https://www.instagram.com/michelleteaz/
twitter: https://twitter.com/TeaMichelle
substack: https://michelletea.substack.com/
venmo @Michelle-Tea-1
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, activist, & facilitator adrienne maree brown, while they talk about what's possible in our response to the world's atrocious injustices, how to make our heart soft & expanded & not let it shrink to the size of our oppressors, & in light of the fact that we're all going to die, we can live more fully, freely, & start operating together as the shared living organism we actually are.
adrienne maree brown’swebsite: https://adriennemareebrown.net/
books: https://adriennemareebrown.net/books/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/adriennemareebrown/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adriennemaree
twitter: https://twitter.com/adriennemaree
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Katrina Spade, founder & CEO of Recompose, a Public Benefit Corporation based in Seattle & the world’s first human composting company, while they talk about her work with Recompose, the history that led to it, & the option of returning our bodies to the earth via composting.
katrina spade’sIG: https://www.instagram.com/katrinaspade/
TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/katrina_spade_when_i_die_recompose_me
recompose’s
website: https://recompose.life/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/recomposelife/
FB; https://www.facebook.com/recomposelife/
newsletter: https://recompose.life/#signup
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with best-selling author, psychotherapist, & grief advocate Megan Devine, while they talk about how it’s okay that it’s not okay, the complicated case of Prolonged Grief Disorder, & how the work of other people’s grief might impact us & what’s required to keep doing it.
This episode originally aired April 14th, 2022.
megan devine’s
website: https://www.megandevine.co/
And here: https://refugeingrief.com/
”How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?”: https://youtu.be/l2zLCCRT-nE
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with lifelong queer activist, revolutionary, thought leader, & psychic survivor Joshua Rose O’Hara, while they talk about their vastly varying experience with dying loved ones & ceremonies for those dead, their work protecting & expanding reproductive rights in Alaska, & their near death [or just plain dying] with producer Nick Jaina in collision with a pregnant cow.
joshua rose o’hara wants you to supportprairie creek conservation cemetery: https://www.prairiecreekconservationcemetery.org/
northwest abortion access fund: https://nwaafund.org/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with queer 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.
megan falley’swebsite: https://www.meganfalley.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/meganfalley/
poems that don’t suck online writing course: https://www.meganfalley.com/workshops
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Queer Death Doula, End of Life Educator & Grief Guide Jamie Thrower, while they talk about parent loss, medical aid in dying, Queer death care/planning/grief experiences & why it’s important to have inclusive support for all of the LGBTQ+ community.
jamie thrower’swebsite: https://jamiethrower.com/
support via venmo: @jamie-thrower
queer grief club
ig: https://www.instagram.com/queergriefclub/
zines: https://www.etsy.com/shop/queergriefclub
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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.
staci haines’website: https://www.stacihaines.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/stacikhaines/
books: https://www.stacihaines.com/books
Register for The Politics of Trauma: Embodied Transformation, Social Action and Love online course: https://www.stacihaines.com/enroll
Staci recommends offering money, time or other resources to…
BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity: https://boldorganizing.org/
Black Futures Lab: https://blackfutureslab.org/ Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/
SURJ - Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
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”Wow” by The Feelings Parade
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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.
prentis’website: https://prentishemphill.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill
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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.
aditi’swebsite: https://www.aditisethimd.com/
Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/
Sign up for the CCLD updates & news: https://www.ccld.community/subscribe
The Last Ecstatic Days: https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/
Support the CCLD: https://www.ccld.community/donation
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”Seva” performed by Aditi Sethi & The Appalucians
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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.
adrienne’swebsite: https://adrienneshamszad.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/aidishams/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adrienneshamszad
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrienneshamszadmusic/
bandcamp: https://adrienneshamszad.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5aIWNyQhH7GELkGMLDOZ3k
Freight & Salvage Show - August 31st, 2023: https://secure.thefreight.org/12814/adrienne-shamszad
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”Untitled Poem” by 14th Century Author Hafez
”Nakhaahad Maand [It Won’t Stay Like This]” composed by Mahsa Vahdat & Adrienne Shamszad, performed by Adrienne Shamszad
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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.
wendy’swebsite: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/
"The Grown-Ups Table"substack: https://substack.com/@drawtogether
book - How to Say Goodbye: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/illustration/how-to-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.
mettle health annual convening’swebsite: https://mettlehealth.com/annual-convening-2023
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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.
alua arthur’sig: https://www.instagram.com/going_with_grace/
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkeuKPZxEhM
Going with Grace: https://goingwithgrace.com/
Going with Grace End of Life Education and Planning: https://www.goingwithgracecourses.com/
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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.
laura sullivan cassidy’s
substack: https://grieversball.substack.com/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mara June of MOTHERWORT + ROSE, educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, & community herbalist, talking about the value of approaching death before we’re in the midst of it, her work with our herbal allies, especially MOTHERWORT + ROSE, & how important it is to remember death, like birth, is not meant for any of us to do alone.
mara june’s
website: https://www.motherwortandrose.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/motherwortandrose/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller, talking about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these times - the Long Dark - & how we might trust, befriend, & accompany our grief with slow encounters, to return with medicine for our community, as we more wholly & fully renter LIFE.
francis weller’s
website: https://www.francisweller.net/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with the Venerable Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition & lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche, talking about one of Buddhism’s first truths, death & impermanence, & the life-deepening lessons from our incarcerated community.
ven. robina courtin’s
website: https://robinacourtin.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/robinacourtin/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with poet & activist Andrea Gibson, in laughter & tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, & panic attacks, & what it means to consider what’s available when faced with the hardest parts of being mortal.
andrea gibson’s
website: https://andreagibson.org/
book - “You Better Be Lightening”: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/you-better-be-lightning/
newsletter - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.bulletin.com/subscribe
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“Time Piece” by Andrea Gibson/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with music, film, & content producer Richie Reseda, who was freed from prison in 2018, talking about how our culture is built around grief / loss / death / dying / mortality & how it serves capitalism more than it serves us, & how abolition is connected to our relationship with grief & dying.
richie reseda
@ Question Culture: https://www.questionculture.com/
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richiereseda/
& JJ’88’s single “Atlantic”: https://linktr.ee/jj_eightyeight
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with therapist, grief expert, & author Claire Bidwell Smith, talking about those of us who walk with a different awareness in the wake of loss, practicing expansion while living in the midst of the unknown, & using writing as a form of healing.
claire bidwell smith’s
website: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/clairebidwellsmith/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Abigail Bengson, one half of the composing / performing / grief-working & dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, talking about dissolving ravenously into the awe-filled urgent enoughness of loving & grieving LIFE.
the bengsons’
website: https://www.bengsons.com/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebengsons
ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Alica Forneret, educator, speaker, & consultant dedicated to creating new spaces for people to explore grief & grieving, talking about her mother’s death & how this loss led to her work with PAUSE, an organization focused on supporting Communities of Color through grief & end of life.
alica forneret’s
website: https://alicaforneret.co/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/alica.forneret/
PAUSE: https://www.timetopause.org/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, talking about her father’s death, how we can tend to relationships with our dead, “grief as a window” to what’s possible, & the ways we can heal collective grief with restorative justice.
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ani difranco’s
website: http://anidifranco.com/
memoir: http://anidifranco.com/book
Righteous Babe Records: https://www.righteousbabe.com/
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“Do or Die” by Ani DiFranco
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with neuroscientist poet Brian Isett & storytelling artist Claudia Biçen, as they talk about their new book The Forgotten Teachers, where ideas from the field of evolutionary biology are fused with poetic prose, brought to life by intricate & dreamlike watercolor illustrations, describing the evolution of life on Earth.
the forgotten teachers’kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theforgottenteachers/the-forgotten-teachers
claudia biçen’sig: https://www.instagram.com/claudiabicen/
website: https://claudiabicen.art/
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ig: https://www.instagram.com/brisett_writes/
website: https://brianisett.com/
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”Excerpt from The Forgotten Teachers” by Brian Isett, read by Claudia Biçen, scored by Nick Jaina
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with death doula & therapist caroline lee., as they talk about the potentially complicated emotional experience of pregnancy, the story that led to caroline’s work in the world, & ABANDONMENT ISSUES!
caroline lee’swebsite: https://www.agencyindying.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/howcarolinecarolines/
death work ig: https://www.instagram.com/death.ed_
venmo: @howcarolinecarolines
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with American songwriters Liam Robinson & Jean Rohe, as they talk about the medicine of music, & the story of life, love, & loss that led to their new album “Into the Night,” out May 26th, 2023 on Righteous Babe Records.
Robinson & Rohe’swebsite: https://www.robinsonandrohe.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/robinsonandrohe/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robinsonandrohe
preorder their album INTO THE NIGHT, out on May 26th, 2023 on Righteous Babe Records: https://www.robinsonandrohe.com/store
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”Into the Night” off the album of the same name, by Robinson & Rohe
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer, rapper, & writer Dessa, as they talk about what it means to lead a moral life as an atheist, the kindness-potential of mortality, & how the hardest times of our life may inspire a life of generous heartfelt engagement with others.
Dessa’swebsite: https://www.dessawander.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/dessa/
twitter: https://twitter.com/dessadarling
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dessadarling/
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”I Hope I'm Wrong” of the album CHIME, lyrics & vocals by Dessa
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with creative energy healer Jenna Bowers, aka The Way Witch, as they talk about the life-changing deaths of her nephew & father, the ways death can propel life forward, death & ancestor rituals & practices, & her work crossing over our ghosts who need it.
Jenna Bowers/The Way Witch’swebsite: https://www.thewaywitch.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/thewaywitch
tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewaywitch
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”Dog Beach” from the album Some Good Lives by Shook Twins
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with novelist & television writer Shanthi Sekaran, as they talk about her new book Boomi's Boombox, how she went about tackling the issue of grief for a fictional 12-year old, & her secondhand experience of death/grief, mostly in story form, from her own mother.
Shanthi Sekaran’swebsite: https://www.shanthisekaran.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/shanthi.sekaran/
pre-order/order Boomi's Boombox: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/boomis-boombox-shanthi-sekaran
”Imperfect Eulogy for Elmer Morrissey”: https://www.zyzzyva.org/2012/04/25/imperfect-eulogy-for-elmer-morrissey/ [an excerpt from this piece was included in this episode]
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with artist & musician Karima Walker, as they talk about the hypnotizing death of her mother, the difficulties/complications of being in a potentially necessary changing relationship with our dead, & making art in the wake of loss.
Karima Walker’swebsite: https://www.karimawalker.com/
bandcamp: https://karimawalker.bandcamp.com/music
ig: https://www.instagram.com/karimawalker/
tip karima via venmo: @karima-walker
An organization karima really loves is Borderlands Restoration Network: https://www.borderlandsrestoration.org/donate.html
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”Reconstellated” from the album Waking the Dreaming Body by Karima Walker
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with The Death Empath - Jess Reis Mendivil, an Ancestral Death Doula, Shadow Empath, Grief Guide, & Life Coach, talking about being “in the sad,” the dark, the shadows, efficiently moving through it all by creatively alchemizing Grief, Death, & Loss of Self, & how integrating death & shadow helps garner kinder, softer, humans that are in awe of their own lives.
Jess Reis Mendivil’swebsite: https://thedeathempath.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/deathempath/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the.death.empath
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Amanda Yates Garcia, writer, witch, & the Oracle of Los Angeles, talking about the “underworlds” we must endure, what it means to come back from that dark with a burning torch to share with others who need that light, & the story of her becoming a witch [available in her book INITIATED: MEMOIR OF A WITCH].
Amanda Yates Garcia’website: https://www.oracleoflosangeles.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/oracleofla/
book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amanda-yates-garcia/initiated/9781538763070/
Between the Worlds podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-the-worlds-podcast/id1437333094
substack: https://amandayatesgarcia.substack.com
venmo @Amanda-YatesGarcia
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, cherished oracle & community accountable queer Black feminist author & scholar, talking about the death of her father, how she stays in relationship with him “by every means” possible, & how important it is to give one another permission to be in conversation with our ancestors.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’website: https://www.alexispauline.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/alexispauline/
UNDROWNED, DUB, & all her books: https://www.alexispauline.com/books
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Barbara Becker, ordained interfaith minister & author of "Heartwood: The Art of Living With the End in Mind," talking about how sometimes the dying just need you to watch Jeopardy, applying the fruits of our spiritual endeavors to real life, & the powerful presence of skeletons, not in our closets, but our homes.
Barbara Becker’swebsite: https://barbarabecker.com/
book: https://barbarabecker.com/heartwood/
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with stand-up comedian Sheng Wang, talking about how growing up Taiwanese American may or may not result in a career in stand-up comedy, the grounding value of visiting cemeteries, & why purchasing clothes at the grocery store is a sign of maturing enlightenment.
Sheng Wang’swebsite: https://www.shengwangtime.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shengwangtime/
twitter: https://twitter.com/shengwangtime
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hospice Nurse Penny Smith, a nationally certified hospice & palliative care registered nurse, talking about her recent experience as a bystander to a fatal car accident & what she learns in life&death moments like these to offer others, like the wisdom she offers host Ned about the death of his own mother.
Hospice Nurse Penny’stiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hospicenursepenny
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hospicenursepenny/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@hospicenursepenny
ResourcesAmerican Hospice: https://americanhospice.org/learning-about-hospice/
Five Wishes [the nation’s only national advance care planning program]: https://www.fivewishes.org/
Dementia Directive: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a0128cf8fd4d22ca11a405d/t/60c51d29f5c2833ef87698d1/1623530793274/dementia-directive.pdf
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with award-winning author & illustrator MariNaomi, talking about their new & ninth book, I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME, a collage-comics graphic memoir about a friendship-gone-wrong & the unreliable nature of memory.
MariNaomi’swebsite: https://marinaomi.com/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marinaomi
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”The Flowers Above You Are Blooming This Time of Year” by Lake Mary
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mangda Sengvanhpheng, artist & the founder of BACII - a digital space that focuses on loss & grief while providing services & offerings that renew our engagement to life, meeting one another from the stories of their mothers’ deaths & where those losses place them, with mutual understanding, working in the context of death & dying.
ALL THINGS MANGDA SENGVANHPHENGBacii: https://bacii.co/
Bacii on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_bacii/
Consider enrolling in YU:EXIST at https://bacii.co/yuexist
SUPPORT Mangda’s work & being in the world via
Venmo: https://bacii.co/donate
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dorota Szuta & Stelth Ulvang, the songsmiths of desert grunge trio Heavy Gus, as they talk about the story of the early years of their coming together, peppered with much grief & loss, but also with the life, love, & music that emerged from their deepening relationship.
ALL THINGS DOROTA & STELTH & HEAVY GUS
Heavy Gus: https://www.heavygus.com/
Heavy Gus IG: https://www.instagram.com/heavygus/
Heavy Gus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heavygus4432
Stelth on IG: https://www.instagram.com/stelthulvang/
Dorota on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mydorota/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
”Breathe” from the album Notions by Heavy Gus
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author Lisa Wells, as they talk about the kind of love that sits at a deathbed [for a fellow human or a dying planet], our culture's relationship to life/death/the planet, & her book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World.
ALL THINGS LISA WELLS
Get Lisa’s book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World: https://www.lisawellswriter.com/believers
Get her book of poetry The Fix: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609385477
Read “To Be a Field of Poppies: The Elegant Science of Turning Cadavers Into Compost” in Harper’s Magazine: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/to-be-a-field-of-poppies-natural-organic-reduction-composting-corpse/
On IG: https://www.instagram.com/lisa_wells_writer/
Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM: https://nickjaina.com/spektrum
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Sophie Strand, writer & “neo-troubadour animist w/a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories,” as they talk about her new book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, THE ANIMATE EVERYTHING, & slowing down to “turn to each other, arms open, ears pricked, & ask with complete rapt attention: ‘What troubles you?’”
ALL THINGS SOPHIE STRAND
Get Sophie’s book The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Flowering-Wand/Sophie-Strand/9781644115961
Sophie’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny/
Sophie’s Webby: https://sophiestrand.com/
Sophie’s Substack: https://sophiestrand.substack.com/
& Sophie requests that you check out
Fungi Foundation: https://www.ffungi.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”The Final Benediction” by Sophie Strand, scored by Nick Jaina
”Just to Sing Here” by Chelsea Coleman
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with veteran artist, songwriter, touring musician, & producer Thao Nguyen, as they talk about the death of her grandmother, the influence of familial Buddhism on her relationship to mortality, & creating bridges of vulnerability to transmit love, as an artist & a human being.
All Things Thao…
IG: https://www.instagram.com/thaogetstaydown/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thaogetstaydown
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andnowthao/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thaomusic
Webby: https://thaothaothao.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”How Could I (Strings Version)” by Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Nick Jaina
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Avi Vinocur, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, & producer, as they talk about the death of his father when he was 3 years old, the kinds of grief one lives through after loss like that, & what it means to both be grateful for a life perhaps made in some ways by death AND too simultaneously wish for those we’ve loved & lost to be a part of our lives now.
Follow Avi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avispersonalprofile/
Avi’s Website: https://www.avivinocurmusic.com/
Avi’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/avivinocur
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”I’d Rather Not” performed by Goodnight, Texas, written by Adam Nash, Avi Vinocur, & Patrick Dyer Wolf
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman, & Ned Buskirk
FOLLOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE
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on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yergoingtodie/
on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YerGoing2Die
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Caleb Wilde, author & sixth generation funeral director of 20 years who left his family's business this past August, as they talk about his decision to end his career as a funeral director, how the funeral industry shouldn’t exist, & creating the kind of funeral where our dead can actually be participants.
Get Caleb Wilde’s newest book “All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak”: https://www.book.calebwilde.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman, & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden, BSN, RN, ICU & Hospice/Palliative Nurse, as they talk about her personal journey to work with the dying, knowing our options for the end of life before we need them, & how hospice is more about how we live at the end of life than how we die.
Hospice Nurse Julie
on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hospicenursejulie
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hospicenursejulie/
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hospicenursejulie
on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Hospice-nurse-julie/100077937666311/
Get Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM here: https://nickjaina.com/spektrum
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Grape Reduction” by Oilbhe Pepper, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman, & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rabbi Steve Leder, author & senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, talking about his books - The Beauty of What Remains & For You When I Am Gone, how to show up for the dying, to trust your authentic self in those moments, & what it means to be lead by our heartfelt human being, instead of by our jobs or the systems we operate within.
Connect to Rabbi Steve Leder HERE: https://www.steveleder.com/
And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_leder/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman, & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Susan Marrufo, co-founder of Samarasa Center, yoga teacher, & meditation teacher, as they talk intimately, from personal experience, about ego death, taking responsibility for our minds’ projection of reality, a reality formed by our past, & sometimes our trauma, all as a doorway into Susan’s work with Samarasa Center & Yoga, Sex + Death™️.
Check out the Samarasa Center: https://www.samarasacenter.com/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samarasacenter/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/samarasacenter
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samarasacenter/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”The Ganges” by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with cartoonist & comedian Alec MacDonald, aka Alec With Pen, as they talk about how our guilty entertainment pleasures offer us needed relief from the intensity of EVERYTHING/LIFE, the accessible, effective, creative catharsis of drawing, & the deep significance of our pets’ lives & deaths.
Check out Alec With Pen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alecwithpen/
And You’re Going to Die on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yergoing2die/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Alec at Night” by Alec MacDonald, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with AmarAtma Khalsa, a Grief Coach, w/a Grief Recovery Specialist advanced certification, & a Board Certified Chaplain, w/a dual Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Divinity, meeting at the threshold of vulnerability to talk about how to face/embrace/release our intense & uncomfortable emotions, reclaiming humanness out of our dark nights of the soul, & how to use our body to access parts of ourselves, our lives, our emotional landscape, to find healing & peace.
Check out AmarAtma here: https://amaratmacoaching.com/
AmarAtma on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amaratmacoaching/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Preparation” by AmarAtma Khalsa, scored by Nick Jaina
Get more of Nick Jaina’s music: http://nickjaina.com/music
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Eef Barzelay, singer/songwriter behind the band Clem Snide, as they talk about their moms’ deaths, who our dead are after they’ve died, & what their “great act of death” offers us, the living they leave behind.
Check out Eef Barzelay & Clem Snide: https://www.clemsni.de/
Eef’s Bandcamp: https://eefbarzelay-clemsnide.bandcamp.com/
A Life In Song with Clem Snide podcast: https://linktr.ee/alifeinsong
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Page 150 of Spektrum” scored, written, & read by Nick Jaina
Get a copy of Nick Jaina’s book SPEKTRUM here: http://nickjaina.com/
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be, ordained minister, funeral director, end-of-life/bereavement counselor, & casket maker, as they talk about bringing love to the work of dying, completing a life to leave in peace, & running The Death Store on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Read “Facing Death, A Conversation with Reverend Bodhi Be”: https://www.powells.com/book/facing-death-9781953508256
The Death Store: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/the-death-store.html
Check out Founder Bodhi Be’s Doorway Into Light: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ - join their e-newsletter, donate to their work, or attend our death doula trainings
Check out ‘Īpuka’s Sanctuary Park & Natural Burial Ground, a sacred story of life & death interweaving in healthy community life, protected & cared for by a nonprofit organization in perpetuity: https://www.ipuka.org/
All the prison orgs, programs, retreat centers, etc. mentioned in this episode…
Alive Inside: https://www.alive-inside.com/
Bellwether Farms: https://bellwetherfarms.com/
Death Penalty Action: https://deathpenaltyaction.org/
Horizon Prison Initiative: https://www.horizonprisoninitiative.org/
Think Make Live Youth: https://tmlyouth.org/
Ohio Innocence Project: https://law.uc.edu/real-world-learning/centers/ohio-innocence-project-at-cincinnati-law.html
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Untouched,” “The Evolutionary Pinnacle of Fire,” &
"Moon King" by Nick Jaina - all songs available on a Bandcamp-only release: http://nickjaina.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-two
Sounds from Bellwether Farm provided by Isaac Hollingsworth
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with a couple of his dearest friends & favorite musicians, Morgan Bolender & Scott Ferreter of The Feelings Parade, as they share the story of their debut full-length record “Let It Move You,” from its “places” of inception, to their surviving Morgans’s grand mal seizure, her “cavernous malformation” diagnosis, & ultimately the brain surgery to treat it, to the miraculous release of an album that holds it all.
Check out The Feelings Parade: https://thefeelingsparade.com/
Get tickets to You’re Going to Die Presents… LET IT MOVE YOU - The Feelings Parade Album Release Show at Freight & Salvage on Tuesday, September 13th: https://www.yg2d.com/eventsandworkshops/letitmoveyou
Get The Feelings Parade’s NEW ALBUM “Let It Move You” [& a ton of other wonderful merch!]: https://the-feelings-parade.myshopify.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"The Tides" by The Feelings Parade
”Strongest I Have Ever Felt” & “Let Go Into It” - album interludes by The Feelings Parade
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with artist Cara Levine, talking about This Is Not A Gun [her multidisciplinary project aiming to create awareness & activism around police brutality through collective creative action], DIG: A Hole To Put Your Grief In [her week-long performance project digging a large-scale hole in the ground, around which other artists utilized the site as a container for new works relating to grief & mourning], & the personal health story that brought her to so many edges of her own mortality.
Check out Cara Levine: http://www.caralevine.com/
DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In: http://www.caralevine.com/#/dig/
DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In DOCUMENTARY: https://youtu.be/bbqMBUeIF-E
This Is Not A Gun: https://thisisnotagun.com/
CARA SAYS SUPPORT:
NIAD - https://niadart.org/
Equal Justice Initiative - https://eji.org/
Critical Resistance - https://criticalresistance.org/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"Ultimately" by Nick Jaina, with sounds from DIG, A Hole To Put Your Grief In DOCUMENTARY
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Kevin Sullivan, artist behind the freak folk project Field Medic, talking about making music we really want/need to make [unless Beyoncé asks us to do a song], how the people we want to trade shoes with can save our lives, & the life of a mortal musician during these strange times.
Check out Field Medic: https://www.fieldmedic.net/
Follow Field Medic on IG: https://www.instagram.com/_fieldmedic/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"song I made up to stop myself from having a panic attack just now" by Field Medic, REMIXED by Nick Jaina
”i had a dream that you died” by Field Medic
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Minna Jain, a disabled/non-binary/queer, artist/writer, plant/bee steward, & racial equity educator training as a Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest, as they talk about ghosts & monsters, drinking tea & whiskey in conversation with death, & living after almost dying.
Support these two Minnesotan orgs that Minna recommends, doing work that’s always vital, especially right now…
The SPIRAL Collective is a chronically ill, disabled, queer, trans, BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive + healing justice & care work nonprofit. They are committed to eliminating barriers to abortion access by honoring bodily autonomy & collective liberation: https://www.spiralmn.com/
QUEERSPACE works with LGBTQ+ youth & their families, the broader LGBTQ+ community & local organizations to create a strengthened LGBTQ+ support network & reduce LGBTQ+ youth isolation, suicide & homelessness: https://www.queerspacecollective.org/
FIND OUT MORE OF MINNA:
www.minnajain.com
www.buddhistjustice.com
www.realtransformationtoday.org
www.deeplisteningforsocialchange.org
WHEN YOU MEET THE MONSTER, ANOINT ITS FEET by Bayo Akomolafe
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Excerpt from ”A River is a Long Soul” by Minna Jain, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, movement worker, & educator, Tongo Eisen-Martin, while they talk about the wide-open-eyed work of revolution, the meditative practice of writing, & the murder of his cousin’s son at the hands of a white supremacist.
MORE IMPORTANTLY THAN ANYTHING
support Tongo’s cousin as she seeks justice for her son’s murder at the hands of a white supremacist: https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-a-mother-get-justice-for-her-son
Follow Tongo on IG: https://www.instagram.com/_tongogara_/
Tongo’s We Charge Genocide Again! Curriculum for Operation Ghetto Storm: a 2012 Annual Report on the extrajudicial killing of 313 Black people by police, security guards, & vigilantes: http://www.operationghettostorm.org/curriculum.html
Black Freighter Press [co-founded by Tongo]: https://www.blackfreighterpress.com/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Four Walls” by Tongo Eisen-Martin & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Elton Beardy, an Anishinini cultural educator, storyteller, & writer from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, while they talk about the legacy of the life & death of his mother, the inherited impact of Canada’s Indian Residential School System, & the work of honoring & integrating where we all come from, culturally & ancestrally.
Connie Walker’s CBC Story on the firsthand legacy of residential schools: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1261239363717
Indigenous Relations at St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay, Canada: https://sjcg.net/services/Indigenous-Relations/
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”Petitioning Mirth” written by Francesca Hernandez-Singer & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with podcaster & comedian Tawny Platis, while they talk about her husband’s death, using dark humor to cope with grief, & creating community after loss with real, raw, visible being in the world.
Check out Death is Hilarious - the podcast & 501(c)3 nonprofit: https://deathishilarious.com/
Follow Tawny on IG HERE: https://www.instagram.com/tawnyplatis/
And HERE: https://www.instagram.com/thatdeathpod/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”HUSTLE” written & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Wesley Schultz, the guitarist & lead vocalist for the American folk rock band The Lumineers, while they talk about the impact of his father’s death on his work & music & being in the world, why we should sometimes keep doing the thing everyone else thinks we should quit, & creating music to help ourselves, & others, feel wholly & fully seen.
Check out The Lumineers HERE: https://www.thelumineers.com/
Follow Wesley on IG HERE: https://www.instagram.com/wesleyschultz/
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”A Letter by Ted Hughes” written by Ted Hughes, read by Wesley Schultz, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with documentary filmmaker Taylor Rees, while they talk about the stories beneath the surface, being a woman documentary filmmaking at the edge [literally & metaphorically], & the intentional act of storytelling as a way to presence humans - ecological beings - to what’s at stake, AND what’s still possible, for our home - planet Earth.
Connect to Taylor’s work & being in the world HERE: https://www.taylorfreesolorees.com/
Taylor on IG: https://instagram.com/taylorfreesolo?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
TAYLOR’S PROJECTS:
Ashes to Ashes - https://youtu.be/-2Q97pXZE2g
From Kurils With Love - https://youtu.be/kHGarqZFY1k
The Last Tepui - https://youtu.be/vmPredMTXpg
Behind the Scenes [The Last Tepui] - https://youtu.be/RlBlylIrPqg
Moonwalk - https://youtu.be/2xKSOrHm8Zs
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Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Two Northern White Rhinos Taking Mud Baths” Field Recordings by Taylor Rees & Scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with best-selling author, psychotherapist, & grief advocate Megan Devine, while they talk about how it’s okay that it’s not okay, the complicated case of Prolonged Grief Disorder, & how the work of other people’s grief might impact us & what’s required to keep doing it.
Connect to Megan’s work & being in the world HERE: https://refugeingrief.com/
And HERE: https://www.megandevine.co/
”How Do You Help a Grieving Friend?”: https://youtu.be/l2zLCCRT-nE
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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In our newest episode, You’re Going to Die: The Podcast & Life is A Festival partner up, with respective hosts Ned Buskirk & Eamon Armstrong in conversation about the story of You’re Going to Die, how the process of losing Ned’s mother & mother-in-law led to the creation of his unique open-mic, including a whole lot of public grieving, crying, & celebrating life with community.
Check out Eamon Armstrong & his podcast Life is A Festival HERE: https://www.eamonarmstrong.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Olivia Pepper
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with psychologist, author, and the founder of Shanti Project Dr. Charles Garfield, while they talk about his 50 years working with people at the end of life, his personal origin story which led to the meaningful offerings of his work & being in the world, and how our own mortality, the advisor of our own finitude, can be our strongest mentor.
Connect to Dr. Garfield’s work & being in the world HERE: http://www.charlesgarfield.com/
Check out Shanti Project: https://www.shanti.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Olivia Pepper
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“I Make A Prayer ” by Stephen Jenkinson, read & scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with broadcaster, writer, & performer Salena Godden, while they talk about the value of writing non-fiction AND fiction to work out our grief, the community of connectedness created when we vulnerably share our work in the world, & how her debut novel Mrs. Death Missed Death is a container made to hold & offer healing for all the grief - not just for the author, but for all of us, too.
To get special content from Salena Godden reading her own words, scored by producer Nick Jaina, become one of our precious podcast patron’s today: https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
You can listen to You’re Going to Die: The PodcastON ANY OF YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST APPS!
HERE: https://pod.link/yergoing2die
Connect to Salena Godden work & being in the world HERE: https://linktr.ee/salenagodden
Follow Salena on Isntagram here: https://www.instagram.com/salena.godden/
Get your copy of Mrs. Death Misses Death HERE: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/mrs-death-misses-death_salena-godden/29041513/#isbn=1838851194
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Olivia Pepper
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Mrs. Death” by Salena Godden, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, while they talk about her father’s death, how we can tend to relationships with our dead, “grief as a window” to what’s possible, & the ways we can heal collective grief with restorative justice.
To listen to an UNEDITED version of this conversation with Ani DiFranco, become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
Get at everything Ani DiFranco HERE: http://anidifranco.com/
Check out Righteous Babe Records: https://www.righteousbabe.com/
Read Ani’s Memoir: http://anidifranco.com/book
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Do or Die” by Ani DiFranco
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with actress & improvisor Jean Villepique, whose credits include The Office, 30 Rock, & most recently a series regular on NBC/Peacock's A.P. Bio, while they talk about coping with grief when auditioning & performing, navigating the death of a parent with whom you have a difficult relationship, miscarriages, failed IVF, & the eventual adoption of her little boy Bruce.
Connect to Jean…
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/villepique/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/villepique
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Bruce” recorded by Jean Villepique, scored by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with dear friend & PhD-in-Death candidate Laura Powers, while they talk about the excel spreadsheet-worthy list of losses she’s incurred in a lifetime, the ways the death of our loved ones leaves us less than whole, & how such loss can inform our aliveness.
In 2021, Laura lost several loved ones, including a beloved college friend from colon cancer and her best friend's dad to a rare neurological disease.
Donations to their families' nonprofits of choice would be deeply appreciated...
For Anita: https://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/
For George: https://www.psp.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Windchimes” recorded by Laura Powers
”Chapter 52 - Hitomi” by Nick Jaina
To get a copy of Hitomi visit http://nickjaina.com/
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with poet & activist Andrea Gibson, in laughter & tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, & panic attacks, & what it means to consider what’s available when faced with the hardest parts of being mortal.
All things Andrea Gibson: https://andreagibson.org/
Buy their book “You Better Be Lightening”: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/you-better-be-lightning/
Subscribe to their newsletter “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.bulletin.com/subscribe
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Time Piece” by Andrea Gibson/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Whale & Mouse” by Liza Maytok: https://soundcloud.com/liza-maytok/whale-mouse
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Silvi Alcivar - poet, performer, artist, & type-writer - as they talk about making a life made up of the things that matter on our deathbed, the power of poetry as a place to say what you didn't know you needed to, & learning to hold hands with life & death.
All things Silvi Alcivar: https://www.thepoetrystore.net/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepoetrystore/
Support Silvi…
https://www.thepoetrystore.net/support
On Venmo: @silvialcivar
On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/silvialcivar
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“What the World Is Always Telling Us [3 Poems]” by Silvi Alcivar/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Johanna Warren - singer/songwriter, actor, & Level III Reiki Master-Teacher - as they talk about the fatal accident that returned her to her magical child self, drawing pentagrams in the sandbox to invoke our unicorn lover, & how to remember that life loves & needs us.
All things Johanna Warren: https://www.johannawarren.com/
Support Johanna…
On Bandcamp: https://johannawarren.bandcamp.com/
On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johannawarren
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Broken Machine” with Words by JP/Read by Johanna Warren/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Angela Hennessy - Oakland-based artist, teacher, & griever - while they talk about finding the ways we need to grieve on the spectrum, feeding our ancestors, & surviving a gunshot wound she incurred while interrupting a violent assault on the street in front of her house.
Connect to Angela Hennessy: http://www.angelahennessy.com/
Support Angela Hennessy…
via Venmo/cashapp: @thehouseofhennessy
via PayPal: chocolatecosmo@yahoo.com
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“We Keep Breathing” by Angela Hennessy/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Amelia Meath - Sylvan Esso’s musician, songwriter, producer, & dancer - while they talk about how rude death is, dancing with our own ghosts, & the strange experience of waiting to become a member of the shittiest club ever.
Check out Sylvan Esso: https://www.sylvanesso.com/
Check out Mountain Man: https://www.wearemountainman.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Ashes” Recordings by Ned Buskirk/Baby Noises by Shay/Music by Mountain Man/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jonah Welch - transgender mystic & devotional artist who studies the ways that gender non-conformity intersects with the occult - while they talk about transness’ inherent proximity to death, gender dysphoria as a "change or die” messenger, & how trans beings bear death on their bodies, the inherent risk involved in pursuing their freedom.
More from Jonah Welch: https://www.jonahwelch.com/
Support Jonah’s work via Venmo @jonahwelch
Find Jonah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonahwelch/
Jonah suggests supporting GWORLS - a Black, trans-led collective that curates parties to fundraise money to help Black transgender people pay for their rent, gender-affirming surgeries, smaller co-pays for medicines/doctor’s visits, & travel assistance: https://www.forthegworls.party/home
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Jonah Landscape” Recordings by Jonah Welch/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Allison Davis - television writer for American Horror Story [F/X, Netflix], The Underground Railroad [Amazon Prime] & David Makes Man [The Oprah Winfrey Network, HBO Max] - while they talk about writing the TRUTH from our living experience, what it’s like to write television during a pandemic, & how fun it is to finally write for a horror show.
More from Allison Davis: http://www.itsallisondavis.com/
Equal Justice Initiative’s Lynching in America - Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror: https://eji.org/reports/lynching-in-america/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“The Dark” by Karis Taylor
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Lata Mani - cultural critic, contemplative writer & filmmaker - while they talk about her life-changing car accident with a Pepsi-Cola truck, the gifts of life’s ruptures, & The Poetics of Fragility, a “videocontemplation” she conceived & scripted, interweaving stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence, not something to be bemoaned or overcome.
More from Dr. Lata Mani: https://www.latamani.com/
The Poetics of Fragility: https://www.thepoeticsoffragility.com/
Support The Poetics of Fragility exhibition w/a tax deductible contribution to Two Raven's Trust at The Intersections for the Arts: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MjU3NTQ=
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Birdsong Temple Trees” recordings by Lata Mani & soundscape by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rachael Cusick - producer at the public radio program & podcast Radiolab - while they talk about grief & cookies, the Burrito of Okayness, & her recent Rabiolab episode The Queen of Dying, an audio biography on the surprising life of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the woman who gave us The Five Stages of Grieving.
Listen to Radiolab’s The Queen of Dying: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/queen-dying
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“If I Were an Urn Garden, Where Would I Be?” recordings by Rachael Cusick & soundscape by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Smiley Poswolsky - millennial workplace expert, motivational speaker, & author - while they talk about our disconnected lives, what to do about it & his book Friendship in the Age of Loneliness… & how a dear friend’s death connects it all.
Get Smiley’s book “Friendship in the Age of Loneliness”: https://bit.ly/2Uvxj4e
Get more of Smiley: https://smileyposwolsky.com/
Check out more music from Joey Pecoraro: https://www.joeypecoraro.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Crosswalks” w/Levi Felix by Smiley & Nick Jaina
"An Exchange of Gifts” by Alden Nowlan
Music from Joey Pecoraro
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Join host Ned Buskirk as he passes the baton to Nick Jaina for a special "Producer's Episode" where Nick talks with his wife Chelsea about how they met at a YG2D open mic & how the openness & honesty of that space provided the perfect beginning to their relationship.
Find Chelsea Coleman's music at https://www.chelseacolemanmusic.com/
Find Nick Jaina's novel "Hitomi" at www.nickjaina.com or on audiobook
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
"You Can Never Hold Back Spring" Written by Tom Waits/Performed by Chelsea Coleman
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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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 Declaration for the end of life, & how these personal experiences of loss connect to social justice.
Get Staci Haines’ book “The Politics of Trauma: Somatic, Healing & Social Change”: https://thepoliticsoftrauma.com/
Check out Generative Somatics: https://generativesomatics.org/
Staci recommends offering money, time or other resources to…
BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity: https://boldorganizing.org/
Black Futures Lab: https://blackfutureslab.org/ Indigenous Environmental Network: https://www.ienearth.org/
SURJ - Showing Up for Racial Justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Rain, Rain, After Many Days without Rain” by Staci Haines & Nick Jaina
"Lingering in Happiness" by Mary Oliver
”Wow” by The Feelings Parade
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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To find out more about Frank Ostaseski & to contribute to the Metta Institute visit: https://www.mettainstitute.org/
Check out Frank’s book The Five Invitations: https://fiveinvitations.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Chelsea in Triplicate” by Chelsea Coleman & Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get more Anis Mojgani via: https://www.thepianofarm.com/
And orgs Anis thinks are worth connecting to & supporting…
To Write Love On Her Arms: https://twloha.com/
Literary Arts in Portland: https://literary-arts.org/
Don't Shoot Portland: https://www.dontshootpdx.org/
The National Bailout: https://www.nationalbailout.org/
Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Anis’ Backyard” Captured by Anis Mojgani
”Contextual Encyclopedia of Gales” by Anis Mojgani
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get at more CAConrad via: http://bit.ly/88SomaticPoetryRituals
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Extinct Animals” by Nick Jaina
”The Slowest Animal Alive” by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get at more Alex Ebert via: https://www.5amedude.com/ & https://www.instagram.com/alex_ebert/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“New Orleans” Field Recording by Alex Ebert
“Miracle” by Alex Ebert
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Check out what Ladybird Morgan’s up to via: https://www.mettlehealth.com/ & https://humaneprisonhospiceproject.org/ & https://www.commonweal.org/staff/ladybird-morgan/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
“Mesa” Field Recording by Ladybird Morgan
“Jesus, Etc.” by Aviva le Fey
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get more Jennifer Patterson via: https://corpusritual.com/
Read: https://www.vidaweb.org/living-in-liminality-working-with-the-wounds-of-trauma-through-altered-states-poison-medicine/
On Breathwork & Grief Work: https://breathworkforrecovery.com/diving-into-the-darkness/
And if you want to support more of Jennifer’s work in the world…
Venmo @Bones-Patterson
or check out…
Rootwork Herbals People's Medicine Project: https://www.rootworkherbals.com/contribute
CeCe McDonald's Thrive Campaign: https://fundly.com/cece-mcdonald-thrives-campaign
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Find out more from BJ Miller via https://www.mettlehealth.com/
BJ’s TED Talk - “What Really Matters at the End of Life”: https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life
BJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bjmillermd
Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Utah Brook & Wind” Captured by BJ Miller
”Now We Know the Dark” by Chelsea Coleman
[Check out TELEPHONE: https://phonebook.gallery/]
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get more of Stephen Jenkinson: https://orphanwisdom.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina & Scott Ferreter
Soundscaping by Scott Ferreter
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” Produced by Scott Ferreter & eO w/vocals by Jordan Edelheit, Morgan Bolender, Chelsea Coleman & Ned Buskirk
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Get more of Josiah Johnson: https://josiahsjohnsons.com/
Get his new solo album & share it with others: https://kingsroadmerch.com/anti-records/artist/832
Contribute to the SF AIDS Foundation: https://www.sfaf.org/
Produced by Nick Jaina
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”Field Recordings w/Words” by Rachel Garcia
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Special thanks to Sophia Aguiñaga for saying yes & continually so. much. more.
Sound Engineering by Scott Ferreter
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Special thanks to Chelsea Coleman, Morgan Bolender & Scott Ferreter for being alive & in my life.
Sound Engineering by Scott Ferreter
”Free to Roam” by Morgan Bolender
”What Peace” by Scott Ferreter
Listen to the entire SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT album on Spotify
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Special thanks to John Elliott & deepest of gratitude to Scott Ferreter for all the ways this episode is what it is.
Sound Engineering by Scott Ferreter
”Dad’s Chest Part I” & “Dad’s Chest Part II“ by Scott Ferreter
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”I Hate Tools That Help Us Stay Connected” Written by John Elliott
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Thanks to Scott Ferreter, The Feelings Parade, David Ruiz & Leon Sandoval.
Sound Engineering by Scott Ferreter
”The Worst” Produced by David Ruiz for Death Knell
”Tiny Things” by The Feelings Parade
”Death & Grooming” Written & Produced by Leon Sandoval
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Join host Ned Buskirk with the launch of You’re Going to Die’s podcast offering a new online access point to the 501(c)3 nonprofit’s creatively conscious mortality movement.
Thanks to Scott Ferreter, eO, Chelsea Coleman, Jake Young, Rob Voigt, Rachel Hamburg, Andrew Blair, Jonah Matranga, Morgan Bolender, & Jordan Edelheit...
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