Death is Weird

In this episode, Linda sits down with Andrea Branson, a nurse practitioner specializing in palliative and hospice care, to talk about what it really means to live well at the end of life. Andrea shares her path to becoming a CNA started at 16 in emergency, through internal medicine and cardiology/electrophysiology, to finding her calling in palliative and hospice care. The conversation covers goal...

What does it look like to sit with someone at the end of their life — and why don't we talk about it more? In this episode, Linda sits down with Nathan Deming, the Wisconsin-born filmmaker behind Winter Hymns , a stunning new drama set entirely inside a single hospital room over the course of one winter day. Nathan's father was a palliative care physician in Eau Claire. That's where this film was...

In this episode, I step back and simply listen. Beth, a local business owner, shares the story of her father's death at home — a story told with bravery, tenderness, and love. There's no interview format here, no back-and-forth. Just Beth, her experience, and the kind of honest storytelling that reminds us death doesn't have to be something we fear or hide from. This is exactly the kind of convers...

Death is weird. And so is everything we don't know about it — including hospice care. In this episode, host Linda Vale sits down with Jacqui Marcou, a hospice nurse at Agrace Hospice Care , a non-profit serving the La Crosse, Wisconsin area, for an eye-opening conversation about what hospice actually is, what it isn't, and why it matters more than most of us realize. Jacqui brings years of frontli...

Let's Start with Grief w/ Guest Ellen Lilla For the first episode, host Linda Vale sits down with her cousin Ellen Lilla — a licensed clinical social worker and grief counselor — to talk about what loss actually does to your brain. Guest: Ellen Lilla, MSW, LICSW Look Up Counseling lookupcounselingmn.com 507-722-2303 (call or text) ellen@lookupcounselingmn.com