The Good-Bye

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Joe DiMeo was eighteen, driving home from an overnight shift, when he fell asleep at the wheel. The crash left him with third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body. His hands and his face were gone. What followed was months in a coma, a burn unit, and a recovery that asked him to relearn how to walk, eat, and exist in a body that no longer resembled the one he'd had. Two years later, Joe became...

Most guests this season arrived at grief through loss. Devin "D.S." Moss arrived through curiosity, a hunch that facing death head-on might be the most life-giving thing a person could do. Devin is a humanist chaplain, a former Marine, a filmmaker, and the host of the death-curious podcast The Adventures of Memento Mori . What began as a personal project on mortality eventually led him somewhere h...

Valen Keefer was ten years old when a diagnosis quietly rewired the rest of her life. What followed was decades of hospital rooms, surgeries, and a body that kept asking more of her than most people are ever asked to give. Valen was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease (PKD) in childhood, spent eight months hospitalized at eighteen, lost both kidneys, and lived on dialysis until a living donor...

Content warning: discussion of addiction. Jabe Largen grew up on a hillside in Appalachian Virginia surrounded by family, beauty, and loss. By his early teens, drugs had become the only thing that made him feel like himself. By his twenties, he had nothing left. And then, four months clean, standing in a small wooden church by a creek, something shifted. He is now a United Methodist minister, a hu...

Vincent Cutino was twenty-three years old, smart, funny, fiercely loyal, just finding his footing, when he collapsed at the gym and never came home. What followed for his father, Chris, was the kind of grief that turns the world upside down and makes everything that came before feel like a different life entirely. Chris Cutino is a husband, a father, and the author of Vincent's Bookends , a memoir...

Audrey Bellezza had just turned fifty when an ordinary check-in with her hip doctor led to an MRI, a biopsy, and three words that split her life in two: stage four cancer. A two-time Emmy Award–nominated television producer and novelist, Audrey had spent decades believing in narrative order: that if you did the right things, the story would make sense. ALK-positive lung cancer didn't care about th...

Content warning: discussion of miscarriage and assault. Some losses come with a funeral, a death certificate, a community that gathers. And some losses happen in silence — without a name, without a ritual, without anyone to say: I see what you've lost. Cole Imperi has spent nearly two decades building language for that second kind. Cole is a thanatologist, researcher, and the originator of Shadow...

Season 2 of The Good-Bye returns with six new conversations about loss, in all the forms it actually takes: a diagnosis, an addiction, a transplant, a trauma that changes who you thought you were. Each episode, host Anna Marie Precythe sits down with someone who has lived through it and rebuilt a life on the other side, often turning what broke them into the very thing they now use to help someone...

Welcome to The Good-Bye, a new podcast from Anna Marie Precythe and Moon Pie Media. In this series, we explore the transformative power of grief and loss—how it breaks us, reshapes us, and what it eventually makes of us. Full episodes available now.

In the final episode of season one, host Anna Marie sits down with her sister Natalie to reflect on the recent loss of their father, almost ten years after losing their brother, Michael. What began as a show about grief becomes a lived experience all over again. Together, they talk about anticipatory loss, sudden death, and the complicated ways grief shapes families over time. A raw and intimate c...

Content warning: this episode contains themes of suicide, drug use, and addiction. After surviving a traumatic childhood and years of addiction, Betty Guadagno died from an overdose—and came back transformed. In this extraordinary conversation, Betty shares her near-death experience, what she saw on the other side, and how it led her to healing, recovery, and a new sense of purpose. A story of spi...

Content warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide. After losing her husband in a tragic helicopter crash, Laurel Lewis’s life was shattered. But in the years that followed, grief became her greatest teacher. Through hospice work, spiritual study, and radical self-love, Laurel transformed pain into purpose. A story about healing, identity, and learning to live—truly live—after loss. For...

When James Hardin was diagnosed with a rare heart condition at 32, it forced him to confront his mortality—and everything he believed about self-worth, love, and resilience. Two open-heart surgeries later, he’s still here, still healing, and finally learning to live with an open heart. A story about survival, transformation, and the courage to begin again. For more information on James and his jou...

When life coach Megan Young lost her sister Courtney in a tragic accident, everything unraveled. Megan, who had been helping plan Courtney's wedding, now suddenly found herself planning a funeral instead. In this episode, Megan reflects on grief, healing, and the unexpected wisdom she found on a pilgrimage to Ghana—where death is honored with presence, ritual, and celebration. For more information...

In the first episode of season one, host Anna Marie reflects on the month her younger brother Michael Jr. was given thirty days to live. For the first time since, she sits down with Michael's best friend, Zach Bonar, to revisit that month-long goodbye—part wake, part celebration—and explore how loss can break us open, shape us, and teach us to live with intention. For more information about Michae...