Seeing Death Clearly

Send us Fan Mail My guest on the show today is Stephen Jenkinson, and he challenged me to think a little differently about what I believed to be true about death, dying, grief, and living life. I hope this interview does the same for you. Stephen is the author of 6 books, a storyteller, musician, culture activist, a ceremonialist, and a grief literacy advocate with many years of experience. In thi...

Send us Fan Mail My guest this week is Zil Eiler. Life & Business Coach Zil Eiler is originally from São Paulo Brazil and she comes from a family of entrepreneurs where she learned foundational business concepts at a very young age.  Today she lives in So Cal with her 3 kids and hubby, and has focused her efforts on Coaching coaches and entrepreneurs to gain the confidence, mindset shifts, and...

Send us Fan Mail This week is part two of my conversation with Jay Deutsch about the healing journey he went on after the death of his wife by suicide. We will pick back up at the story of Jay being in the cemetery, the moment he forgave Larissa, and what life was like afterward. After finding forgiveness, Jay gets thrown back into a dark night of the soul, triggered by a relationship with his twi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Seeing Death Clearly. I'm your host, Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach.  The conversations I have with my guests may challenge you to think outside the box of what you believe to be true about death, dying grief, and learning to live life to the fullest. This week's episode is a little different.  I have a conversation with Jay Deutsche...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, my guest is Dr. Jessica Metcalfe, she is a general dentist by trade but ended up specializing in working with cancer patients. Jessica kept wishing away the next 25 to 30 years, thinking she has to get through the dental profession and make it to retirement but working at the cancer center showed her that not everyone makes it to retirement and we need to live lif...

Send us Fan Mail Laura West is a Registered Nurse, energy healer, psychic medium, author, and podcast host dedicated to both the sciences and spirituality.  She hosts her own podcast called A Guided Life and authored her book titled Guided.  She is dedicated to spreading the word of love and teaching others how to communicate with their spirit guides through intuition. Growing up Laura did not exp...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, my guest is Patrick Linfante. Patrick Linfante has experienced more valleys and mountaintops than most people – transforming from a broken man to an Ironman.  He uses his experience to give listeners a vision for creating their own path to their dreams, their own vision, and to recapturing the dream of their life. Patrick should have died in a car accident 12 year...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Seeing Death Clearly. I'm your host, Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach. In this episode, I talk with Danikah Rose  Danikah is a poet, a singer-songwriter, a mother, and a lover. She does business consulting and strategy and uses her intuition to help guide her clients. Danikah is also a psychic medium of 13 years and has a strong connection w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Seeing Death Clearly. I'm your host, Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach. In this episode, I talk with my friend Beth McMillian. Beth McMillan is the forever winner of “2 Truths and A Lie”. She loves her boring job at the coolest place on earth and belongs to one cat. She has 2 kids, a mortgage, and is a Real AdultⓇ  about 42% of the time.  See...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, I'm talking with Erin Hodgson.  I love talking with Erin, I was a guest on the podcast she cohosts and our conversation always flows so naturally. You can find a link to that episode here .  Erin and I talk about having tough conversations with children as well as how to work with our grief in a way that we can access it without it overwhelming us. Er...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 9 of Seeing Death Clearly, my guest is Mary McMonagle.   Mary is your healing hype girl guiding you to live a purposeful life through her spiritual lifestyle brand True Vibe.  She is a reiki master teaching students to heal, transform and understand their life's purpose from a vibrational level. Also, she is a certified quantum life and energy coach. Her brand True...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 8 of Seeing Death Clearly, my guest today is Kelly Hayler. Kelly is a trained End of Life Doula based in New York City with a deep understanding and respect that everyone brings their own fears, beliefs, and experiences to the topic of death and dying.  Her background is in project management which means she knows how to get organized and address your needs as quickly a...

Send us Fan Mail In episode 7 of Seeing Death Clearly, my guest today is Fiona Pimentel. Fiona grew up in the UK but lives in the Cayman Islands and has for the last 21 years.   Fiona and I talk about her experiences with death and dying, focusing on the death of her sister and her mother within a few weeks of each other.   It is an interesting story, she shares how things lined up in a way that a...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I talk with my friend Brion about his experiences growing up as a Black man in America.   The experiences he shares do not represent how all Black men grow up in the United States, but it is his experience growing up in Trenton NJ. It started with the death of his grandfather when he was 8 years old, and not understanding what he was feeling and how to process...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am talking with Bex Feltmann.  Bex of Helper B LLC Holistic Healing Support is a former western medicine nurse of over 15 years with experience as an ER nurse and OR First Assistant who has adopted a more holistic approach as a provider.  She is a practicing holistic health and well-being astrologer and a Certified Provider of Compassionate Bereavement Care®...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, Jill McClennen talks with Lauren Fonseca about the death of her sister at a young age, as well as Jill and Lauren’s love for the state of NJ. Lauren talks about the experience of having a sister live with and die from Cystic fibrosis.  Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disorder that causes problems with breathing and digestion. CF affects about 35,000 peop...

Send us Fan Mail I n today's episode, Jill McClennen talks with Bonnie Silva about her background and how it has affected her beliefs about death, dying, and grief.  Bonnie Silva has worn many hats throughout her working career and in the most recent years being a Postpartum+EOL doula and UX/UI Designer.  As a doula, Bonnie has transitioned from Birth Doula and stepped into the EOL Doula path...

Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Johnson gives widows permission to widow their own way.  She is the host of the podcast; Love is not dead…Just my husband, which is a podcast for widows and anyone that is grieving. As a widow that has survived multiple losses, and is living with a rare cancer, she is dedicated to encouraging widows moving forward in their grief. After realizing she was falling down a rabb...

Send us Fan Mail Seeing Death Clearly is my new podcast and on the first episode, I have my husband Stephen Wilson. I decided to have Stephen on as my first guest because we have been together for about 23 years and we have talked about death and dying early on in our relationship but there is still more to talk about and learn about each other’s wishes. Stephen grew up in FL and I was raised in N...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Seeing Death Clearly, I am your host Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach. Seeing Death Clearly is a show that challenges you to think about your beliefs about death, dying, grief, and living life.  I found through first-hand experience that the more I came to terms with my thoughts and feelings about death and dying, the more present I became in my every...