Death & Disco

Celia Peachey learned her mother had been murdered while standing alone in a field. She had just finished a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat, the week before Christmas in 2008. In this episode, Emily sits down with Celia, a Transformation Coach and the founder of Ultimate Alchemist. Celia is also a vibe artist and an international speaker, and she trained as an actor and fine artist before building...

Ginna Roe lost her wife Candy to colon cancer after a six-year illness. The two had been together for 23 years and raised six children. Eight months later, Ginna's youngest son Jeremy died by suicide. In this episode, Emily sits down with Ginna, a former client who she helped move through years of pain and trauma. Today Ginna is the Founder of Sunflower Print Works KC, a veterans-for-peace advocat...

This week Emily sits down with Jeppe Ogard, a mindset mentor, coach, and author based in the Danish countryside who has spent 13 years helping people dissolve suffering and cultivate confidence, inner peace, and fulfillment. His work is rooted in neuroscience, human psychology, and philosophies including Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, delivered through global stages, workshops, and books. Emily fou...

Emily sits down with Lisa Pahl, CEO and Co-creator and owner of the Death Deck, for a conversation about what happens when we finally say the thing out loud. Lisa has spent nearly 20 years in hospice and about eight in the ER, and what she witnessed over and over was the same quiet catastrophe: families forced to make impossible decisions on behalf of someone they love, with no idea what that pers...

Money might be the only subject more taboo than death, and Emily Bingham brings both to the same table this week with Jess McKinley Uyeno, a mentor to women who went from being a broke single mom to buying mansions and working 10-hour work weeks. Jess teaches women how to master their money in a playful yet financially literate way through what she calls the six money games. She and Emily met on a...

Emily Bingham sits down with Lauren Carroll, a death educator, former funeral director, and co-founder of La Mort and the Death Wives, whose work weaves community and family back into the death space. What begins as one woman's terror of cemeteries becomes a lifelong devotion after a single, shattering assignment: at 21, working a typewriter in the back corner of a funeral home, Lauren was sent to...

This week Emily welcomes her OG client and widow sister, Amy Gabrielle, an author, writer, and digital creator who has spent the last four years turning the wreckage of loss into a body of work that refuses to be sanitized. The two met shortly after Amy's husband, Steven, died in 2021, when Amy joined Emily's very first widow's retreat. Now, at the release of her memoir Widow in the City: A Memoir...

This week on Death and Disco, Emily sits down with Dr. Eric Russell, a psychologist, plant medicine educator, and integration coach who helps purpose-driven leaders and seekers reconnect to themselves through intentional work with psilocybin and microdosing. The two met on a winter solstice pilgrimage through Egypt, and that shared soul-land becomes the throughline of a conversation about the deat...

In this crossover episode, Emily Bingham sits down with Mary, a yoga teacher, retreat host, and recovery advocate based in Denver who leads retreats around the world. The two met at a Denver dinner party for soul-led entrepreneurs and felt an immediate kinship, both shaped by loss, both fiercely devoted to two tools the healing world tends to overlook: the power of retreats and the power of AWE. T...

Some accounts you scroll past. Others stop you mid-doom-scroll and remind you that you are spinning on a space rock, getting to hear thunder and high-five someone for no reason! Jasmine Wilder, the writer behind the Tiny Joy Project, makes the second kind. In this episode, Emily sits down with the woman whose short reflections have reached millions of people across Threads and Instagram, and trace...

Emily sits down with Sheldon Solomon, the legendary social psychologist and co-developer of Terror Management Theory, for a conversation that detonates the polite fictions most of us live by. Sheldon spent more than 40 years building the empirical case for what Ernest Becker proposed in The Denial of Death: that the uniquely human awareness of our own mortality is the hidden engine behind almost e...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Death and Disco, the rebrand of Emily Bingham's podcast formerly known as It's Just Me, Emily. Emily, a spiritual life coach, widow, healer, mystic, and mom, opens with the conviction that our cultural denial of death is quietly destroying us, and that turning toward mortality is the actual key to soul alignment, inner abundance, and radical aliveness. Death has...

This week, Emily sits down with Penny Smith, a hospice nurse and social media influencer who’s changing the way we think and talk about death. Together, Emily and Penny explore why normalizing conversations about dying can lead to deeper understanding, acceptance, and peace for both patients and loved ones. Penny opens up about her own transformative journey, from a difficult past to finding purpo...

In this episode, Emily sits down with her mentor, Sarah Jenks, whose near-death experience became a profound initiation into her path as a modern priestess. Through her journey to the edge of life and back, Sarah discovered that death is not an ending, but a sacred teacher, a guide into truth, purpose, and the mystery of the soul. Together, Emily and Sarah explore the archetypal energy and medicin...

Facing our mortality can help us focus on what truly matters, live fully in the present, and release the fears that hold us back. This week, Emily explores how confronting death can be a powerful gateway to truly embracing life. She shares a personal, transformative realization from her own journey of self-discovery that has reshaped how she approaches existence and fulfillment. By recognizing the...

In this episode, Emily shares the story of her recent business pivot and career transition, and how it became a powerful threshold moment that reshaped both her work and her spiritual path. She reflects on her recent trip to Bali, where synchronicities and intuitive whispers became guiding lights on her path of deeper self-discovery. She shares practical ways to navigate transition, whether in car...

In this episode, Emily sits down with street artist Amber Ella, best known for her striking heart-themed mosaics and paste-ups that can be found tucked into city corners and alleyways. But behind the art is a story of deep personal loss—and a journey toward healing. Amber shares how her creative work began as a way to process grief and ended up becoming something much bigger: a way to connect with...

What does it really mean to show up when someone’s world falls apart? In this episode, Emily sits down with Jordan Arogeti, Co-Founder of SupportNow, to talk about rethinking how we care for people in their hardest moments. Born from witnessing others' losses and feeling powerless and confused about how to show up, Jordan’s mission is to move us beyond "thoughts and prayers" to real, practical hel...

This week, join Emily and Jacki Carr—an inspiring coach, writer, artist, mom and guide— as they explore how grief can unexpectedly become a doorway to uncovering our truest selves. Emily shares her intimate story alongside Jacki, who helped Emily find her purpose and launch her business move THRU after husband’s passing. Together, they reflect not only on the grief that comes with literal loss, bu...

Today’s episode features the inspiring journey of Chloé Besson, a self-taught fine line tattoo artist and founder of Made Tattoo in Denver, Colorado. Chloé shares how she transitioned from traditional art to tattooing—and eventually into teaching—guided by a deepening spiritual practice. Emily and Chloé explore how her connection to the divine has shaped not only her artistry but her sense of purp...

In this episode, we venture into the tender terrain of who we are beneath the layers, with curiosity, reverence, and a desire to reconnect with what is true. Emily is joined by Elli Richter, a radiant force in the world of healing and transformation. As the founder of Subconscious and Somatic Integrative Coaching, Elli brings years of wisdom in helping people move beyond the stories they’ve inheri...

In this episode, I’m joined by second-time guest Mel Fioravanti , a gifted practitioner, healer, teacher and spiritual guide. Mel has experienced and extensively studied the power of altered state therapy and shares deeply moving conversations about what it truly means to heal. Together, they explore how stepping into expanded states of awareness can help us shed the protective layers we’ve learne...

This week, Emily sits down with the incredible DJ Leah Luna to talk about music, transformation, and what it really means to express yourself through sound. We dive into how music can be a love language—how it moves, heals, and helps us say the things words sometimes can't. Leah opens up about her journey, from battling self-doubt to fully stepping into her power as a DJ and mentor. Listen as Emil...

Grief changes us in ways we never expected. This week, Emily sits down with grief coach and writer Mira Simone to explore the raw, transformative power of loss. In an extraordinary connection, Emily and Mira are widow twins—their husbands passed away on the same day from different types of melanoma. After the passing of her partner, Brian, Mira was thrust into a world of unimaginable pain—but also...

This week, Emily sits down for a special conversation with Barbara Bingham, a seasoned actress whose career has spanned film, television, and corporate acting. But beyond her impressive résumé, Barbara’s journey is one of deep connection and resilience. Barbara is the aunt of Emily’s late husband Ian Bingham, and after his passing, she felt his guiding presence pushing her toward the next phase of...