Bryan Martin learned to turn grief into joy. His father passed away in 2017 and 4 months later his partner Clayton was rushed to the hospital with acute liver failure. Bryan took care of him while working full time for 8 months until he passed away in 2018. I was lost and in deep grief. He's been incredibly open about his experience and how he's navigated losing his father and then shortly after becoming widowed. As you'll see on social media he's just a guy who loves to dance and overcome lives...
Jul 29, 2022•36 min
Christina Flach, Celebrity Makeup and Hair Artist, was married to professional tennis player Ken Flach up to his death after a brief bout of sepsis in 2018. Since then, Christina has been dedicated to raising public awareness of the danger of sepsis, and has partnered with Sepsis Alliance to produce awareness campaigns highlighting Ken’s story. Christina has spoken about the topic on notable news sources such as Fox News, KTVU, NBC Bay Area, Tennis Channel, ABC Bay Area, and CBS. She is a fantas...
Jul 22, 2022•42 min
Bruce H. Lipton, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in bridging science and spirit. Stem cell biologist, bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and recipient of the 2009 Goi Peace Award, he has been a guest speaker on hundreds of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national and international conferences. Dr. Lipton’s discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by genes, gave rise to one of today’s most important fields ...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Fanto is a hilarious stand-up comedian, you've seen him at the Hollywood Improv, The Laugh Factory and clubs all over Los Angeles. He's one of the best comics when it comes to crowd work and he's got host of his own YouTube show "Double Or Nothing". Known for saying just about whatever he wants with utter honesty, Fanto joins DEAD Talks to discuss the visions he's had in his life and how his dead relatives have come to his dreams to tell him things. Amongst the hilariously entertaining story-tel...
Jul 08, 2022•56 min
Hospice Nurse Julie has been a sensation on social media sharing her experiences working in Hospice Care. She has over 900,000 followers on Tik Tok with her educational and entertaining videos offering tremendous value on the way we see death (and life). With a perfect mix of realness and fun she offers an outlet for people to hopefully come to a level of acceptance and be a resource for those grieving and even those that aren't. DEAD Talks had the pleasure of speaking with Hospice Nurse Julie w...
Jul 01, 2022•34 min
BJ Miller is an American physician, author and speaker. He has worked in hospice and palliative medicine physician and is known for his 2015 TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life". BJ speaks so calmly, intellectually and deeply about life and his experience on this episode of DEAD Talks. He reflects on his time in the hospital after he nearly died at the age of 19 and the meaning he pulls from it all. His interest in the way that we die and how he established his focus of reform in t...
Jun 24, 2022•31 min
Hospice RN who normalizes death through education & entertainment. Her witty, sarcastic personality has developed an incredible following on social media where she shares her experiences as a Hospice Nurse and educates her audience on death, grief and ultimately life in a fun and entertaining way. She joins me on DEAD Talks to talk in depth about her work, her perspectives on death and grief as well as how she got started. Watch full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/amcPQ7cfbB0 Follow Ho...
Jun 17, 2022•44 min
Amber Jeffrey from the UK is the founder and host of The Grief Gang Podcast where she also has been on the journey of normalizing grief. She shares her story and what she went through after losing her mother in 2016 to a sudden heart attack. I'm an immediate fan of this woman as she is absolutely hilarious and wonderfully honest. In her own words: "Fast forward the 3 most turbulent & traumatic years of my life, I'd had enough of bottling up my emotions and feelings when it came to my grief. ...
Jun 10, 2022•41 min
Scarlett Lewis is the mother of Jesse Lewis who was killed in his first grade classroom during the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 along with 19 classmates and 6 teachers and administrators in one of the worst school shootings in US history. She founded of The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation in honor of Jesse and to spread a message he left on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died, Nurturing Healing Love, the formula for choosing love, and to promote soc...
Jun 03, 2022•35 min
Hip Hop artist Lil Xan or Diego gets honest with his story, about grief and how he lost his friend Citgo to suicide. He speaks on how that affected him, his drug addiction, how he's sober now, mental health, the deaths of popular artist like Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, Juice WRLD and more. He's joined along side designer and creator of LVXWA, an experimental luxury streetwear brand, Durag Dev, who shares his own experience with loss and was spectacular on this episode. This is a side of Xan that mor...
May 27, 2022•34 min
Bobby lost both his parents less than 2 months apart to cancer. Here's his story of spending the last moment's of their life together and how he processed it during and after. Bobby is a luxury realtor in Los Angeles, former model and has a great social media presence where he share's food and drink recipes. He's such a fun guy and a great conversation of life. Support DEAD Talks on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/deadtalks Follow Bobby on TikTok @bobbyboydliving & Instagram @bboydla Watch ...
May 21, 2022•37 min
Julia is a woman who has dealt with a lot of loss in her life in a short period of time seemingly happening one after another. Losing one person you love in a lifetime is hard enough to deal with and she's had to navigate through multiple deaths in just a few years including her father who committed suicide. She's an actor by trade and did a heck of a job keeping such a morbid conversation entertaining through her natural wit and ability to look deeply in life's events. Join us in a talk about l...
May 13, 2022•43 min•Ep. 54
Paige finds better ways of treating mental illness to prevent suicide and the healing of her athlete clients. Paige is a sports and fitness enthusiast. She uses a process called Performance Neuro Training which is a combination of sports psychology, Brainspotting, and hot & cold photobiomodulation laser-light therapy. On this episode of DEAD Talks she speaks on her practice along with her experience of loss having lost several friends who were athletes to suicide which was the catalyst to le...
May 06, 2022•50 min•Ep. 53
Jorge was on Episode #20 talking about the loss of his father. On this episode he shares the recent loss of his beautiful mother to cancer. Jorge is able to find the light in death and meaning to it all. Again, he brings humor and deep insights to her death and the final days when she went peacefully. He made a 15 minute documentary on his mother, Yolanda Zumaeta, which you can find below. @jorgeperez on Instagram Legacy Yoland Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RizBLBVjVrk&feature...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 52
Part 2 and Finale of Penny Wittbrodt's Near Death Experience (NDE), how she met God and she tells us how she finally got out of the void. This compelling story made me question a lot so listen with an open mind. She tells the incredible story of how God showed her a future events, taught her the power of thoughts, and the importance of forgiveness. Penny is an RN, she was invited to write a chapter for Dr. Penny Sartori’s book, “The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences and she is also ...
Apr 23, 2022•49 min•Ep. 51
Part 1 of Penny Wittbrodt's Near Death Experience (NDE), how she met God and how she got out of the void. She tells the incredible story of how God showed her a future events, taught her the power of thoughts, and the importance of forgiveness. Penny is an RN, she was invited to write a chapter for Dr. Penny Sartori’s book, “The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences and she is also featured in the Amazon Prime documentary, "Death and Back 2." Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m4c09O3hm...
Apr 16, 2022•52 min•Ep. 50
Megan Pormer , TV host on Fox & doctor of biomedical engineering, tells the story of how she was born again 10 years after she lost her father. Megan discovered she was suffering from the "Princess Syndrome" and learned to step into her own power. Her family went to one of the richest families in the Middle East to not being able to afford their father's funeral. Her journey of growth and deep insight of how she overcame her own obstacles was a really interesting conversation. You can watch ...
Apr 08, 2022•30 min•Ep. 49
Mark Lemon shares to loss of his father who was murdered when he was just 12 years old. He is a writer, grief speaker and podcaster who openly speaks on his experiences and feelings on his grief process. This conversation was unique relating to Mark in that both myself, David the host, and him lost our father at the same age, both with sisters lead by a strong mother and through an act of murder. It's rare to see two men connect on a level of compassion and emotion. Full Video Episode #48 on You...
Apr 01, 2022•42 min•Ep. 48
Michael Galante is an actor seen on Good Trouble, Tyler Perry's "The Have and the Have Nots', Will & Grace and more. Michael speaks on the death of his Grandmother who was like a best friend to him and how this loss is still a pain he deals with. Living every day full of energy and positively makes the topic a death such a contradiction to his way of life yet at the same time a catalyst for getting through it. His personality is infectious and it's no surprise he's such a success on the big ...
Mar 25, 2022•48 min•Ep. 47
Five months after getting married, Angelo Merendino's wife Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of thirty-six and died in 2011. She endured a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and reconstructive surgery. They both decided to share their experience of her potentially dying for others to gain understanding of what they were going through with a powerful collection of photographs Angelo took her throughout her treatment. These photo's took the world by storm helping others...
Mar 19, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 46
Van Thu Nguyen had a unique experience with grief in that with having learned her father was dying her family had actually abandoned her prior. She goes through the process and feeling of losing a family all the while mourning her fathers death. She also explains the loss of one of her first loves of her life and how much of a different process that is compared to losing your father. Van offers methods she's used to free herself from these experiences and flip it to be stronger and live the life...
Mar 11, 2022•48 min•Ep. 45
Phil Cohen describes his life-shifting experience of losing his only child, his fourteen-year-old son, Perry. Which turned out to be one of the most extensive searches in U.S. Coast Guard history. On this episode, Phil Cohen who has been seen on TEDx, tells how a message from his son caused him to shift his perspective, transforming his relationship with grief and ultimately his life. Cohen is the author of The Grief Continuum, a methodology for transforming loss into empowerment for those exper...
Mar 04, 2022•48 min•Ep. 44
Sarah offers mindset coaching and success strategies with her business Pivot Point and how she's implemented her work through her own life experiences including the loss of her stepfather through suicide, grief, bulimia and the loss of her dream of becoming an Olympic figure skater. She goes into specific detail of practices any one can apply to overcoming adversity and using it to your advantage. Ways to improve your mental health and overall success in life through grief, mental health obstacl...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 43
Noah is a Purple Heart awarded, double amputee who joined the military because of the September 11th terror attacks. After an IED attack during Operation Iraqi Freedom Noah lost his left leg above the knee and his left arm above the elbow. He is a cool ass dude who isn't afraid to get introspective and speak from the heart. Today he continues to inspire which includes his No Excuses Charitable Fund. He speaks o the mentality of facing death during war along with his perspective today, perseveran...
Feb 19, 2022•47 min•Ep. 42
Eric B Zink is a Mental Health and Addiction advocate who has developed nearly 2,000,000 followers on social media on the journey with him. He lost his wife to suicide in 2015 and his father to suicide in 2017. He attempted to take his own life in 2018 and is a recovering cocaine and alcohol addict, diagnosed with ADHD and PTSD with the mission to make a difference to those struggling with addiction, trauma and loss/grief. In this episode he shares his own personal story with Mental Health and h...
Feb 11, 2022•39 min•Ep. 41
Hubert Cunningham is a Certified Funeral Celebrant in Tennessee who comes from 40 years as a United Methodist Minister. In those years he wanted to work with people who were grieving where there seemed to be gap in the religious realm. His interest in death and dying he started to network with people in the field of death and now has a business called "Healing Works Institute" and offers funeral services in a way that is against the grain of a traditional way. His unique take on grieving/grief a...
Feb 02, 2022•37 min•Ep. 40
Acclaimed funeral director Elizabeth Meyer Karansky and a founder of Farewelling has transformed the funeral process and the end-of-life experience into "farewelling," a new way to think about, talk about and plan for one of life's most personal journeys. Elizabeth shares her own experience with losing her father that lead her on the path she's on now truly helping others and approaching the subject of death with genuine care, humanity and humor. Farewelling provides users with everything they n...
Jan 12, 2022•39 min•Ep. 39
His wife was six weeks away from her due date when she was struck by an alleged DUI driver in an SUV while on a walk. Doctors were able to save the couple’s daughter, Adalyn Rose, who was delivered after an emergency C-Section. James relives the viral story and shares in emotional detail the night she passed all the way to today where he is a widowed father and how he has grieved. In a highly emotional episode we see the growth from pain and inspiration. This story went viral and now this story ...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 38
Joined by a Licensed Professional Counsellor focused on eating disorder recovery and trauma healing who speaks on how her patients and death go hand in hand. The importance of finding meaning to heal through a disorder that has a detrimental effect on ones mind as well as on the body. She explains in detail what she's learned from her own experience personally, professionally and how she's been able to grow for herself and for her clients. DEAD Talks with David Ferrugio engages death a little bi...
Dec 15, 2021•38 min•Ep. 37
Marifel is a space holder and a guide for life & death. She offers her service to those at the end of life and has created different outlets to promote the conversation around death. She doesn't consider herself a "Death Doula"; but, may be the closest description. Having been exposed to death often around patients as a respiratory nurse she's developed knowledge and a craving to help those around the topic of death. www.peacingout.com via Marifel DEAD Talks with David Ferrugio engages death...
Dec 06, 2021•41 min•Ep. 36
