Embracing Your Mortality: Recent Episodes
Sue Brayne
Since surviving a light aircraft crash, Author Sue Brayne, has been wearing her mortality with pride. Embracing Your Mortality is all about learning to live more consciously for a better world. Join author Sue Brayne, as she explores life, death, and consciousness with a host of fascinating guests, which she hopes will soothe and inspire you along your way.
My guest today is Kate Bidstrup who travels through the Australian outback with her husband Tim Gentle, on a brightly coloured coach called Rocky, using story-telling and the latest technology to educate children and adults about where their food and fibre comes from, and to inspire them to enter into the Australian food industry. Personally, I think we need to fly her and Rocky the coach over to the UK to do the same over here.
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Welcome to my conversation with Vidya Frazier, who is one of the world's leading speakers on how humanity is currently experiencing a chaotic process of transformation.
She believes people across the globe are waking up to a profound understanding that old structures need to crumble before new ways of being can emerge. And, it is time to answer the call to assist, in anyway way we can, the ushering in of a new age of human evolution on the planet.
If you would like to contact Vidya, please go her website: https://vidyafrazier.com/
A huge thank you to my producer, Martin Redfern.
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Welcome to Embracing Your Mortality Podcast. Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewell Coffins, where you can learn to weave your own coffin. She believes that facing death is a gift which brings meaning and purpose into focus.
What’s more, 5% of the proceeds from of your willow coffin making goes to the The Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity. Sophia believes this gifting towards a life-sustaining organisation is symbolic of the life-death-life cycle, an essential pillar of our philosophy in crafting coffins.
You can find out more about Sophia and her wonderful woven coffins by going to her website: https://www.wovenfarewell.co.uk
Big thanks to my producer, Martin Redfern
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Today my guests are Lin Carruthers and Kate Clark, authors of a wonderfully helpful and practical book called Slow Down When Someone Dies.
Lin is a trustee of Pushing up the Daisies, a charity formed in 2016 by Kate Clark. Their work is aimed at anyone who wants and needs practical options and to know their legal rights immediately after someone dies, especially for those wanting to keep the body at home after death.
For more information about Lin and Kate, and Pushing Up the Daisies charity, please go to https://pushingupthedaisies.org.uk/about/
Huge thank you to my producer, Martin Redfern.
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Today, my guest is Micheál Connors, director of The Natural Academy, a not for profit Eco Social Enterprise, which offers accredited training courses for organisations wanting to work with nature and for people seeking a career in health, and wellbeing, ecotherapy and eco-depth psychology.
Lots of people are talking about the importance of connecting with Nature to find a sense of inner safety and healing, and the Natural Academy is taking this deeper by addressing the deep longing and yearning to be fully human.
https://www.naturalacademy.org/
Our conversation ends with the most beautiful song written by Micheál to honour our death and dying process.
A huge thank you to my producer, Martin Redfern.
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My guest is Terry Le Page, author of Eye of the Storm: facing climate and social chaos with calm and Courage.
Terry is an American transitional minister and hospice chaplain. She facilitates non-violent communications groups, grief circles, and social justice groups locally and for the international Deep Adaptation Forum.
Due to increasing global volatility I believe Terry's book will be one of the most important to come out this year. I recommend it to everyone and I hope you will be inspired and uplifted by our conversation.
Special thanks to my producer, Martin Redfern
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Happy New Year to you all! What a year's it's been, and I think 2024 will continue to be just as intense.
This is why I am delighted that Neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick is my first guest of the year, talking about consciousness and his own dying process. Peter has reached the grand age of 89, and is engaging robustly with his end of life preparations.
For me, he certainly puts life back into perspective, and makes me question my own life path and the importance of preparing for death with a fearless open heart. I hope you will enjoy our conversation and become inspired by Peter's beautiful engagement with his mortality.
Huge thank you to my producer, Martin Redfern
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Today my guest is bee expert Paula Carnell who is an international speaker on bees, head beekeeper at the wonderful Newt in Somerset, and the author of ‘A’s to Bees', and 'Bees in Bhutan.' Such is her passion for bees that she runs Bee Safaris to educate people about the importance of these amazing life-giving and life-enhancing buzzy creature. She is also the Winner of ‘Environmental Consultant of the Year 2023’
You can find out all the information about her work with bees, where she is speaking next, and also listen to her podcast, Creating a Buzz about Health through her website, https://paulacarnell.com
Episode sponsored by The Wisdom Space
Special thanks to my producer, Martin Redfern
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I am so delighted that my guest this month is Liz Rothschild, performer, celebrant and founder of the award winning Westmill Burial Ground, located on the Oxford/Wiltshire border. Liz is also the mastermind of the wonderful Kicking the Bucket Festival, which is taking place in Oxford over the weekend - the 1st weekend of November 23. This of course, synchronises with the famous Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.
Liz believes - and I agree with her - that living and dying cannot be separated and part of our problems with death is that we are trying to do just that. Her festival, now in its 4th year, proves how people are so grateful for the opportunity to talk openly about death and dying in the company of others also wanting to do the same.
Liz is the author of Outside the Box, which explores people's experiences of death and dying, and her new book Weathering The Storm: Stories Of Love, Life, Loss And Discovery In The Time Of Covid is now available through PCCS:
https://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/weathering-the-stor
For more information about the KtheB festival, please go to https://www.kickingthebucketfestival.co.uk/
Huge thanks to Martin Redfern, my producer.
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Today, my guest is freelance garden writer, historian and photographer Liz Ware, whose passion is introducing Silent Spaces into public parks, gardens, and green spaces where anyone can go to reflect silently in nature.
Liz started Silent Space in 2016, initially as a not-for-profit project, which has now evolved into full charitable status, supported by major gardening societies and leading garden experts.
Liz’s articles and photographs have appeared in leading horticultural magazines and she is a member of The Garden Media Guild and Professional Garden Photographers’ Association - and she says her work with plants has taken her to every corner of the globe.
I love Liz's vision of inviting visitors to switch off from their daily lives, and quietly attune to the healing sounds of the natural world.
I hope you do too.
You can find out more about Liz's work through her beautiful website: Silence Spaces
https://silentspace.org.uk/
Andrew Harvey speaking about the Alchemy of Awe: https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/15645
Special thanks to my producer, Martin Redfern.
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My September guest is Madison, better known as Maddie, King, an internationally recognised practitioner, teacher, writer and educator in the field of natural healthcare. Maddie built an immensely successful career in the advertising world, but began to realised she was yearning for something more to life than worrying about the colour of bottle tops.
Maddie followed the call of her heart, chucked in her career, and began to explore a path in the healing arts. Life completely changed for her when she met and started training with Donna Eden and the Eden Method of healing. Maddie became a founding faculty member of Eden Energy Medicine USA (or EEM) where she now oversees and teaches the Advanced Year 4 training, sits on the EEM Council responsible for maintaining the integrity and evolution of the work, and has recently retired as training director of Eden Energy Method, Europe.
Maddie offers powerful yet simple healing techniques to help us all to connect more deeply to our own inner resources, and how to use our healing energy to help our animal friends as well.
Big thank you to my producer, Martin Redfern.
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Today my guest is Robert Pardi, author, life coach, and mentor, whose passion and commitment is to help people understand that personal growth and transformation are part of the human experience. He writes, ‘The arc of all our journeys involve confronting challenges, learning lessons, winning victories, and returning transformed as a symbol of what is possible.’
Robert’s own journey started when growing up with an alcoholic father and all that entails. But he says, his awakening happened when his 31 year old wife, who was a palliative care doctor, was diagnosed with breast cancer which metastasised. Robert became her full-time carer until her death. This inspired him to work with others going through difficult times and to help them make sense of what is happening.
Special thanks to my producer Martin Redfern.
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This month I am joined by Alex Hunter who I met at the Quirky Campers festival in May. Alex and her boyfriend, Doug, recently set off on an epic adventure in their micro camper car to explore the far reaches of Eastern Europe to raise money for two favourite charities. They encountered all sorts of issues from closed borders due to Covid, to the impact the Ukraine War is having on neighbouring countries. Alex, who confesses to be 'an anxious-type' and works in palliative care, talks about how her work and her love of travelling inspired her to set forth into the unknown and to trust that all would be well.
I hope her courage and boldness will encourage you to embrace an adventure that might feel scary, but you know is calling to you.
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I am so delighted to be joined by my birthday sister Alexandra Pope (she's two days older than me). Alex and I both hit seventy this year, and we relished our gritty conversation about becoming older women who have been round the block more times than we care to remember, and what it means to have death appearing on the horizon.
Alex is the co-founder of the Red School with Sanje Hugo Wurlitzer, which they set up to educate women (and men) to take responsibility and control of their natural body rhythms so they can positively attune to their ageing process. Alex and Sanje are also the authors of the best selling Wild Power about the spirituality of menstruation cycles, and Wise Power which talks about the importance of conscious menopause.
I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as we did!
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This month I am joined by Patrick Leo Holland, actor, TEDx speaker, and author of The Ultimate Power of You. Patrick believes there is a secret to life, and we all hold the answer to this secret within us. I love his mission statement which is about helping people to develop honesty, integrity, boldness, and compassion - essential qualities for living your truth and connecting to your innate wisdom. Patrick's acoustics aren't great, but what he has to say is profoundly moving and inspiring. I do hope you enjoy our conversation.
I also want to say a big thank you to my podcast producer, Martin Redfern, who worked his magic on balancing the sound as best he could.
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Felicity Warner is the founder of the international Soul Midwifery Movement and the Soul Midwives School. Felicity's life changed in her early teens after she witnessed her beloved, eccentric grandmother dying in a sterile environment. She knew she wanted to revolutionise how we care for the dying. Felicity went on to develop award winning courses which have trained thousands of people to help to soothe the dying and bring a new dimension to how we care for everyone at the end of life. In 2017, Felicity was named End of Life Care Champion by the National Council for Palliative Care at the House of Lords. She was also named End of Life Doula of the Year in 2017 by the Good Funeral awards and was named one of the year’s Most Inspirational Women of the Year by the Daily Mail. I am so fortunate to have known Felicity for the past twenty years, and hope you find our discussion about the dying process as inspiring and uplifting as she and I did.
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I am joined today by Gabby whose life drastically changed after a suitcase fell on her head when she was twenty-three. Since then she has had to come to terms with living with constant neurological pain and grapple with massive questions about the meaning of life due to her physical condition. Before the suitcase 'event' she describes her life as' fast-paced, jammed packed, with no room for error.' Now she has no idea how she is going to be feeling from one day to the next. Nevertheless, Gabby has learnt to be incredibly resilient and her ability to cope with what's happened to her is truly touching. She hopes her story will help others in a similar situation.
Gabby does not have a website. If you want to contact her please send an email to me sue.brayne@gmail.com and I will forward it onto her.
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This month I am joined by William Peters, Founder of the Shared Crossing Project and Author of At Heaven's Door. William talks about his extensive research into what happens during the dying process, and how many people report extraordinary experiences called Shared Crossings which are profoundly healing both for the dying and their family and carers. His mission is to positively transform our relationships to death and dying through education and raising awareness about shared crossings and their healing benefits.
For more information about William's work and training programmes, please go to: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/sdeWP/a21949/. The link to the Shared Crossings Project is: www.sharedcrossing.com.
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Happy New Year's Day! To usher in 2023, my first guest is Roz Savage, MBE, Environmentalist, Ocean Rower, and author of An Ocean in a Drop: from Crisis to Consciousness. Her highly acclaimed new book is a bold and thought-provoking examination of how we can create a new story about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. Roz is an exceptionally inspiring speaker who challenges you to think differently. I dare you to defy her! https://www.rozsavage.com
Roz's interview kicks off a new structure for Embracing Your Mortality podcast. Throughout 2023, on the first day of the month, I will be posting an interview with a global influencer who is at the forefront of helping all of us to embrace our mortality so we can live more consciously for a better world. So don't forget to sign up, and please do spread the word about Embracing Your Mortality podcast. Together we can build a world which celebrates integrity, gratitude, and respect.
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How good are you at listening to others? In this final episode of Series Four, Sue Brayne speaks with Ruth McCarthy, who is on a mission to help us to develop good listening skills to transform our thinking, encourage engagement, and transform how we relate to each other.
What can we learn from crop circles? Author Sue Brayne is joined by Karen Alexander, a renowned crop circle researcher, lecturer, and artist. Among her work, she produces paintings of crop circles to help understand the connection between crop circles and human consciousness through their geometry and symbolism. She also shares her thoughts on orbs, and their apparent attraction to crop circles.
Could UFOs help explain whether there is life after death? This week Sue Brayne speaks with Frederik Uldall, who is fascinated by the possible existence of UFOs and what their advanced technology could teach us. He is also an avid academic researcher into Near Death Experiences, and offers insights into what he has discovered about them.
Claire and Chris Sandys began The Silent Why podcastin response to the loss they experienced as a result of childlessness. They share their story with Sue, and explain how it became a catalyst for them to find 101 different experiences of loss and grief - as well as discovering the hope in each of the stories they've heard.
This week Sue Brayne is joined by Maggie La Tourelle author of The Gift of Alzheimers, an extraordinarily moving account of how she cared for her mother and recorded her journey through Alzheimers, which Maggie says was a transcendent experience for them both. Maggie’s book has now been adapted into an audio play starring Juliet Stevenson and Jane Lapotaire.
Author Sue Brayne meets The Business Gardener, Mark Rendell, to delve into our profound connection with the land. Mark promotes the importance of soil health, the impact of nature on our mental health, and the incredible mathematical links our DNA has with the building blocks of the Universe.
This week Author Sue Brayne meets Meghan Kelly, an experienced family constellation facilitator, who is passionate about helping people to heal ancestral wounds to they can heal themselves. Meghan explains how family constellations by-pass the rational brain, enabling people to access deep knowing and profound connection to their lineage.
Sue Brayne speaks to Chloe Goodchild, inspirational international singer, composer, innovatory educator, author, and founder of The Naked Voice, which she has taught to thousands of people around the world. http://www.chloegoodchild.com
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
John Lennon's messages of peace left a lasting imprint on the world, and to launch series four of Embracing Your Mortality, Author Sue Brayne is back with an inspiring story of finding beauty within the broken. The musician's Sgt Pepper's Circus Waggon, which was lost for decades, is being lovingly restored by the partner of Samantha Koshare Edouardes, frompeacingtogether.org. She shares the vision she and her partner have for the wagonthat will soon deliver stories and messages of love and peace around the world, with children at the heart of their vision.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Author Sue Brayne is back with Series Four of Embracing Your Mortality. Her quest to encourage us all to live more consciously for a better world sees her meeting the person restoring John Lennon's Gypsy Caravan as a space for children, a gardener fascinated by earth energies and a fellow podcast host exploring experiences of loss and grief.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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You're in for an early Christmas treat by joining Sue as she talks with world renowned neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick. Sue was Peter's honorary researcher for one of the first research studies into end-of-life experiences. They share insights about their study and Peter talks about his understanding of consciousness and the dying process.
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Author Sue Brayne is joined by the founders of Essence Medicine, Rosie Ellis and Lauren McDonald. Psychiatrist Lauren and palliative care nurse Rosie discuss their vision to improve end of life care by helping people to ease their fear around death. They also share fascinating and initiative research concerning the use of psychedelics at the end of life following Lauren's own personal journey with stage four cancer.
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Sue is joined by Michael, an Earth Medicine man, who talks about holding Sacred Fire ceremonies and using plant medicines to help access deeper awareness and connection with universal consciousness. The use of plant medicines is only legal in certain countries. Michael explains why he would like to see this change and how he became inspired to work with them.
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Hospice director Michelle Smith joins Sue to talk about how to manage sensitive conversations around death and dying. Michelle reflects on what it was like to lead a team of hospice nurses through the Covid-19 pandemic, and the impact it's had on her. She now works with businesses and organisations, and shares thoughts on how managers can support employees facing serious illness, death and loss.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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A feisty conversation with funeral director Angela Ward about how Covid has impacted the way funerals are held and how it has changed the way we say our farewells.
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Sue is joined by spiritual midwife, Mandy Preece, who initiated a volunteer bedside companion scheme at an NHS palliative care unit in 2013. She now helps hospices set up similar schemes to offer support for people during their final moments. Mandy was awarded the Princess Royal Training Award for her work and also won the NHS Unsung Hero Volunteer of the Year in 2019. She is the author of Being Rock, on how to listen and be present at the bedside of the dying.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Ken Ross, acclaimed nature photographer and son of the famous Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler Ross, joins author Sue Brayne to discuss the development of the EKR foundation, how he is carrying on his mother’s work of living with love, not fear, and what it was like to grow up as the son of the famous ‘Death Doctor.’
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Sue is joined by Sisse Budolfsen, founder of the Himalayan Hermitage. She talks about the role that Buddhism has played in her understanding of life and death, the importance of mindfulness and mindstreams, and how sacred pilgrimages are journeys for the heart and spirit. For more information about Sisse's pilgrimages please go to: himalayanhermitage.com
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Author Sue Brayne is back with her third series of Embracing Your Mortality. Her first guest is Terry Le Page, an American pastor, talking about consciousness, the major changes we are all facing and how to engage with deep adaptation to support ourselves.
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Author Sue Brayne returns with another series of inspiring and thought-provoking guests as she discusses death, dying and consciousness in her quest to encourage us to live more consciously for a better world. She talks with leading thinkers, sages and scientists about their thoughts on mortality and how this influences their relationship with life and death.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
The Womanlogist Dion Johnston talks with Sue about how her facial disfigurement has inspired her to empower women to take their place in the world and to speak up with dignity and courage for what they want and who they are.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
As a child Jacqui Gray was told she would never amount to much. She talks with Sue about the devastating impact this had on her as she grew up and how it motivated her to become an author and workshop leader helping children to understand and manage their feelings.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
Misha Norland has been practicing homeopathy for the past forty years. He speaks with Sue about how homeopathy changed his life, the subtilty of homeopathy and the profound affect it can have our health and welfare. Misha is the founder of the School of Homeopathy.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Colin Gilbert speaks to Sue about living with stage 4 cancer, and how this had led him on an increasingly profound inner journey which has helped him to overcome his fear of death and deepen his understanding of the transition that awaits us all. Colin died on Monday 7th September 2020 shortly following this interview.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Johanna Lunn is a Canadian award-winning documentary film maker. She speaks to Sue about her new film, which explores our relationship with death and dying, and how addressing our relationship with mortality helps us to reduce our fear of death. www.whenyoudie.org
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This week, Sue Brayne speaks to Duncan Still, a holistic GP, who is passionate about nutrition and the role of the natural world in helping us all to maintain optimum health. He talks with Sue about his integrative work with Penny Brohn cancer charity and teaching holistic medicine to medical students. www.ncim.org.uk
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Sue is joined by Pete Lawrence who talks about how we can all contribute to making this world a better place by bringing together music, nature and people in creative communities which focus on giving back to each other, to society, and to the Earth.
This interview happened just before the 2020 online Campfire Summer Solstice. Pete has now launched his new Campfire Convention website.
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Sue Brayne's guest is Justine Corrie, who works as a Core Process psychotherapist, group facilitator and Positive Deep Adaptation facilitator. She speaks with Sue about her profound personal experiences of death and dying and how this has affected her life and vocation.
Sue's interview with Justine took place during the first Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.
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Author Sue Brayne returns with her second series of Embracing Your Mortality.
This week, Sue speaks with Toby Nowlan award-winning journalist, explorer and biologist. She speaks with him about his work as a wildlife film producer, and he how sees the role of nature is here to teach us about wonderment, consciousness and community.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Victor Olliver is an award winning journalist who started his working career training as a lawyer. But all this changed when around the age of 40, as he says, ‘my astrological chart started calling to me.’ He is now one of the UK’s leader astrologers, astrological columnist for The Lady magazine and editor of the highly acclaimed Astrological Journal.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Sue Brayne speaks with Clara Apollo, who describes herself as a life-long curious scholar, who has been searching for answers about life and mortality since experiencing a profound awakening as a child. During her search for her own truth, she has been a ballet dancer, nurse, nanny, singer and performer and costume designer for stage and screen. She is now a Qigong teacher and host of Chi Time TV, where she interviews many prominent spiritual thinkers and teachers.
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Sue Brayne is joined by Jamie Catto, the founder member of Faithless, the highly successful world music band. Jamie is also a life-challenging personal coach and business coach who believes everyone one of us is ‘a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.’ His workshops are designed to shake up our life and confront the perceptions of who we think we are. One participant describes him as a ‘foul-mouthed, passionate, present, witty, musical wizard!’
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Ten years ago, Jazmine Wolf’s husband died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart condition. He was only in his mid-forties. Jazmine talks candidly about coming to terms with the shock and grief of losing her soul mate, how his death opened her up to look at life very differently and how her grieving process has made her value the simplicity, fragility and vulnerability of life.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
Join Sue in conversation with journalist and author Alan Pearce, who has covered some of the world’s most harrowing conflicts as a BBC war correspondent. He says he often witnessed ‘the worst and the best of humanity all in the same day.’ Due to being constantly exposed to violence and death, he developed post-traumatic stress disorder which has impacted the way he perceives his own mortality. Currently he is researching his next book that explores extraordinary accounts from coma patients.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Author Sue Brayne is joined by Jane Morell and Simon Smith. They set up Green Fuse Funerals in Totnes twenty years ago after Jane had a vision of opening a flowers shop with coffins in it. As Simon says, ‘we couldn’t understand why funerals had to be so boring and drab.’ Green Fuse took off immediately and now they have trained over 500 people in different aspects of working with funeral directing.
They are also co-authors of We Need to Talk About the Funeral.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
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Clare Dubois is the courageous, passionate and dedicated founder of TreeSisters. Her journey to set up TreeSisters is both remarkable and quite terrifying, yet also magical and mystical. TreeSisters is now rated in the top 20% of most relevant and inspiring organisations on the planet and so far with the help of sponsors, has funded the planting of over 15 million trees right across the globe, including being chosen to create a legacy forest for the late Captain Sir Tom Moore.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
Dr Alan Hugenot experienced an NDE following a serious motorbike accident. When he told doctors about it, they dismissed him out of hand. However, his NDE convinced him that consciousness survives after death. He talks with Sue Brayne about his NDE and how it has impacted his life and work as a spiritualist and medium, and about extraordinary research that is taking place in some of the world’s leading paranormal research institutes.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.
Writer and performer Liz Rothschild joins Sue Brayne to talk about her new book, Outside the Box, which has been inspired by her work as a life and death funeral celebrant. She also started Westmill Woodland Burial Ground and is the founder of the Kicking the Bucket Festival held in Oxford. She talks about how she became a celebrant and how her book can help people from all walks of life to feel more at ease with death, dying and bereavement.
Researched and recorded by Sue Brayne.
Produced and edited by The Podcast Den.