You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hyunhye "Angela" Seo, artist, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist, best known for her role in American experimental band Xiu Xiu, as they they talk about grief & music, grief & fear, grief & community. hyunhye seo's website: https://angelaseo.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/hyunnies/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit...

A bonus episode this week as accompaniment to Hyunhye "Angela" Seo's episode, continuing the conversation with her friends, Brenda Covarrubius, an occupational therapist who has worked with cancer patients, & Julie Lu, a doctor, talking about grief in community. Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith, a licensed therapist, international speaker, & author, while they talk about her newest book, Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss, out March 12th 2024! claire bidwell smith's website: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/clairebidwellsmit...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, ethnobotanist, & culinary historian Justin Robinson, while they talk about the genocides of plant lives, cultivating relationship to plant species and plant individuals beginning with communication, and the work of ancestral relations. justin robinson’s ig: https://www.instagram.com/countrygentlemancooks/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, activist, entrepreneur, & philanthropic innovator, while they talk about the death of her Mother, Sister, & Grandmother, all just in the last year, & the powerfully potent process of grieving with curiosity. rachel cargle’s website: https://rachelcargle.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle patreon: https://www.p...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, while they talk about her husband's death in 2016, how her life was flipped upside down, and how therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position and move on to discover Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth, and the tools she nee...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, bereaved mom, founder of the MISS Foundation, author of "Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, & the Heartbreaking Path of Grief", Arizona State University Professor & director of its Graduate Certificate in Trauma & Bereavement Program, while they talk about the death of her daughter in 1994, how it led to her work in the worl...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician and songwriter Dan Mangan, while they talk about how death and endings foster gratitude and give meaning to life, how sorrowful music connects community, and how trauma/grief/loss might be the one thing that unites us more than anything else. dan mangan’s website: https://danmanganmusic.com/ newsletter: https://danmangan.substack.com/ ig: https://www....

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University & the widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air, while they talk about her ongoing relationship to Paul, his impact/presence in her life still, & parenting their daughter in the wake of his death. dr. lucy ka...

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak find a way into his music. john craigie’s website: https://johncraigiemusic.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/johncraigie/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jain...

Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk & producer Nick Jaina as they ring in the [Happy?] New Year with some fresh commitments & a new precious perk for our Patreon community. BECOME A PATREON MEMBER NOW, FOR AS LITTLE AS $2 A MONTH AND START GETTING EARLY RELEASE EPISODES A WEEK BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE… Available right now, only on Patreon, join Ned Buskirk in conversation wi...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with immersive installation artist, puppet-fabricator, & children’s book author Madison Girifalco, while they talk about grief, community connection, & support in her life & work with Holding Space, an art installation designed to acknowledge grief in community using immersive art & puppetry. madison girifalco’s websites: www.holdingspacela.org...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Erika Wright, while they talk about the story, the plant medicine, the spiritual path, that led to their self-appointed work as a codependency counselor, our society's relationship to grief & vulnerability, & how we've been programmed to avoid hard feelings & the truth behind them. erika wright’s website: https://erikawright.org/ podcast: http...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Adam Jackson, Sacred Sons cofounder, Chief Visionary Officer, & the host of Sacred Sons Podcast, while they talk about how his lineage of loss & suicide led to his work with Sacred Sons, processing grief & anger with men, community building & purpose fueled by our mortality. TRIGGER WARNING: suicide adam jackson’s ig: https://www.instagram...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, visual/performance artist, & poet Andy the Doorbum, while they talk about his father's death process that inspired his new album, "OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT," & how the album morphed into a grieving for the world & its current troubles. andy the doorbum’s bandcamp: https://andythedoorbum.bandcamp.com ig:...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Frank Ostaseski - internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, & founder of the Metta Institute - while they talk about remaining vulnerably present in service of patients, how we should let our tears run instead of hiding them, & moving beyond the idea of a good death. This conversation originally ai...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author & editor Michelle Tea, while they talk about the story of her writing onto stage, her history running -feminist spoken-word & performance art collective Sister Spit, & the “mental illness” of writing & why it matters for our lives, our trauma, our healing. Thanks to Beth Pickens for the “Death & God” chapter in her book Make You...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, activist, & facilitator adrienne maree brown, while they talk about what's possible in our response to the world's atrocious injustices, how to make our heart soft & expanded & not let it shrink to the size of our oppressors, & in light of the fact that we're all going to die, we can live more fully, freely, & start operating t...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Katrina Spade, founder & CEO of Recompose, a Public Benefit Corporation based in Seattle & the world’s first human composting company, while they talk about her work with Recompose, the history that led to it, & the option of returning our bodies to the earth via composting. katrina spade’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/katrinaspade/ TED talk:...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with best-selling author, psychotherapist, & grief advocate Megan Devine, while they talk about how it’s okay that it’s not okay, the complicated case of Prolonged Grief Disorder, & how the work of other people’s grief might impact us & what’s required to keep doing it. This episode originally aired April 14th, 2022. megan devine’s website: https:/...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with lifelong activist, revolutionary, thought leader, & psychic survivor Joshua Rose O’Hara, while they talk about their vastly varying experience with dying loved ones & ceremonies for those dead, their work protecting & expanding reproductive rights in Alaska, & their near death [or just plain dying] with producer Nick Jaina in collision wit...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with femme writer, spoken word poet, author, & teaching artist Megan Falley, while they talk about how two decades of hating her body shifted with her partner’s cancer diagnosis, how confronting mortality altered her idea of what beauty is, & how being a steward over her partner’s health lead to a decision to vow some of that same love & devotion t...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Death Doula, End of Life Educator & Grief Guide Jamie Thrower, while they talk about parent loss, medical aid in dying, death care/planning/grief experiences & why it’s important to have inclusive support for all of the LGBTQ+ community. jamie thrower’s website: https://jamiethrower.com/ support via venmo: @jamie-thrower grief club ig: https://www...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Staci K. Haines, a national leader in Somatics & the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatic, Healing and Social Change, while they talk about the shock & ceremony of her mom's diagnosis & dying, their co-creating a Vision for the end of life, & how these personal experiences of loss connect to social justice. This interview originally a...

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Prentis Hemphill, writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer, & therapist, talking about how a simple gaze offered the opportunity for a new legacy of love, getting to the work of grieving the past, & how their being in the world can be traced back to an 11-year-old Prentis who found God in a hiding place. TW: The general act of “suicide”...