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Podcast Episodes


Navigating ALS with Rachael King
ALS is a heartbreaking disease. Just ask my guest Rachael King. Her husband, health care activist Ady Barkan, recently died from...
May 6, 2024


Talking to Kids About Death with Elena Lister and Michael Schwartzman
This episode is all about how to talk to kids about death. Experts Elena Lister and Michael Schwartzman both have decades of experience...
Apr 22, 2024


Grief Is Funny with Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter tells it like it is. Her husband, Scott, suddenly died one night when he was just 44 years old. Leslie chronicles...
Apr 8, 2024


Medicine in the Eleventh Hour with Sunita Puri
Sunita Puri is a palliative care doctor who chronicles her journey through medical school, fellowship and finding her specialty in her...
Mar 25, 2024


Grieving and Google Docs with Valarie Kaur (re-release)
This week, we’re re-releasing one of our earliest episodes, and still one of my favorite conversations. Author and activist Valarie Kaur...
Mar 11, 2024


Grieving in Verse: 3 Ways Poetry Guides Peaceful Exits
The latest episode of the Peaceful Exit podcast features my fascinating conversation with editor-in-chief of the Copper Canyon Press,...
Mar 7, 2024


Poetry Unplugged with Michael Wiegers
Michael Wiegers is the Editor-in-Chief at Copper Canyon Press, an independent nonprofit press that publishes award-winning poetry. Under...
Feb 26, 2024


Navigating the Depths of Loss: Lessons of resilience from author Mira Ptacin
In the labyrinth of life, Mira Ptacin has journeyed through the harrowing terrain of loss, facing unfathomable grief from learning her...
Feb 18, 2024


Gut Wrenching Grief with Mira Ptacin
In her memoir, Poor Your Soul, Mira Ptacin explores the grief associated with losing a baby which is often hidden behind closed doors....
Feb 12, 2024


Navigating Grief as a Parent: Insights from the Experts
Losing a parent and life partner to cancer can shake the family foundation. Leaving the remaining widowed co-parent to navigate their own...
Feb 4, 2024


Widowed Fathers Reimagining Life
Don Rosenstein and Justin Yopp are both psychiatrists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They started a support group...
Jan 29, 2024


Katy Butler on preparing for death with candor, rituals, and community
I recently had an illuminating conversation with journalist and end-of-life planning advocate Katy Butler on the Peaceful Exit podcast....
Jan 21, 2024


The Art of Dying Well with Katy Butler
Katy Butler is a journalist and author of two books, who spent years listening to hundreds of people’s stories of good and difficult...
Jan 15, 2024


Lynne Twist's 4 soulful shifts to make peace with money
Bestselling author and fundraising trailblazer Lynne Twist proposes reimagining our relationships with money in her recent Peaceful Exit...
Jan 7, 2024


The 4 vital end-of-life lessons from 40 years in Palliative Care
After decades working with dying patients, Dr. Edward Creagan has cumulated many tidbits of hard-won wisdom, which he shares in his new...
Jan 2, 2024


Death and Money with Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is a globally recognized philanthropist and author of two books, including “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship...
Jan 1, 2024


Palliative Care with Dr. Edward Creagan
Dr. Edward Creagan spent four decades at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, working as a cancer specialist and then helping to develop the...
Dec 18, 2023


Finding meaning this season in stories of grief and gratitude
The holiday season stirs up a swirling vortex of emotions - nostalgia, joy, grief, frustration can all intermingle, leaving many feeling...
Dec 10, 2023


Choose Your Own Adventure Holiday Episode
In our holiday episode, we’re highlighting some of my favorite conversations from this year, in hopes that you hear what you need. The...
Dec 5, 2023


Practice Makes Peaceful: Accepting death to ease anxiety, experience grief, and make the most of our
The inevitability of death stirs up fear and anxiety in many. But avoiding talk about our mortality only increases unease around the end...
Dec 3, 2023
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