J.S Park is an ex-atheist Korean American who has counseled thousands of dying patients as a hospital chaplain, offering grief support to families. He attends every death at a 1,000+ bed level 1 trauma center and offers guidance for the patients and families. It was such a fascinating conversation learning from a man who has witnessed a lot of grief over the years, which has taught him how to grieve and help others with their grief and, ultimately, more about living life. He’s been featured on C...
Oct 12, 2023•41 min•Ep. 125
The New Normal Charity connects people through grief and is changing how we discuss our grief, mental health, and well-being in open and honest spaces. Founder Benjamin May, joins DEAD Talks to share his journey around grief and his mental health as a man coping with trauma, which led him to start a charity offering a free alternative to professional therapy. It is all about community and a free option to talk with others who may be in a similar situation as you. We unravel the psychology behind...
Oct 04, 2023•49 min•Ep. 124
Born in 1923, Uncle Jack's remarkable 100-year journey has seen him evolve from a boy with a "backyard zoo" through his heroism as a World War II Army Veteran and into the limelight as a Mega Influencer. With over 2 Million followers and growing, Uncle Jack has captured hearts worldwide with his infectious joy, insightful wisdom, and zest for life. Joined by Uncle Jack's nephew, we learn his secrets to longevity, his experience with death, and his perspectives on dying, and we get to learn from ...
Sep 27, 2023•31 min•Ep. 123
This episode of the DEAD Talks podcast delves into the societal discomfort and avoidance surrounding death and grief. Sah D'Simone talks about how our society does not know how to talk about or address these topics, which creates difficulties for individuals when they experience loss. This episode highlight the logistical challenges that accompany grieving, such as handling the deceased's affairs and the financial burden of funeral expenses. Sah D'Simone calls for a more open and normalized conv...
Sep 20, 2023•59 min•Ep. 122
Gabby Reece is a former professional beach volleyball player and inspirational health and fitness leader, podcast host, corporate speaker, New York Times bestselling author, wife, and mother. She joins the podcast to share the heartbreaking and inspiring story of how she lost her father when she was 5-years old in a fafa plane crash. Gabby discusses how she didn't grow up with her father, her methods of healing, perspectives of Grief and how it's all driven her life and success. I had a blast ch...
Sep 13, 2023•47 min•Ep. 121
Hospice Nurses Julie and Penny, teach about Death, Dying, and Hospice. This episode aims to discuss death in a way that reduces the fear of death and dying. Hospice Nurse Julie and Hospice Nurse Penny educate and entertain with a heavy emphasis on "entertain". They make this conversation fun and interesting and offer insights into what it's like being a Hospice Nurse, the misconceptions, and powerful stories around those at the end of their life. For more on Hospice Nurse Julie visit www.hospice...
Sep 06, 2023•54 min•Ep. 120
Bryan Callen is an American actor, comedian, and podcaster. In addition to co-hosting The Fighter & The Kid, Callen is known for being a regular guest on other popular podcasts like the Joe Rogan Experience and Fight Companion. In this episode of DEAD Talks Podcast Bryan Callen talks about how he thinks a lot about spirituality and what it takes to get through this thing called life including grief and loss. This was a hilarious episode with one of the best stand-up comics in the game. Get r...
Aug 30, 2023•42 min•Ep. 119
In 2018, Blake experienced the heartbreaking loss of his mother due to a short yet intense battle with lung cancer. This event motivated him to embark on a personal journey of reflection, creating a profound nine-part podcast series titled "Good Grief." Blake eloquently captures this series's intricate emotional landscape of dealing with loss. Remarkably, even four years after the final episode's release, the podcast continues to garner hundreds of monthly listeners, serving as a testament to it...
Aug 23, 2023•30 min•Ep. 118
Grief comes in waves, and Yasmine Aker knows how to bring a sense of composure to death. Her story starts with a spiritual near-death-like experience that shaped her concept of spirituality, heaven, hell, and whatever happens after we die. Even more bizarre was what happened after she lost her father, which came with unusual hallucinations and a unique grieving process. Yasmine Aker is an actor on Good Trouble and has been seen on the TV series FBI and many more. For more on our guest Yasmine Ak...
Aug 16, 2023•53 min•Ep. 117
Her father abandoned her at a young age and she later saw him on his deathbed. Stand-up comic Jessica Singleton shares her complicated grief journey convoluted with abandonment by her father and a unique family dynamic, from being left at a Waffle House by her father, forgiving him on his deathbed, grief, acceptance work, and working through all her trauma. Check out Jessica Singleton across social media for her comedy dates and more: https://linktr.ee/jmscomedy DEAD Talks with David Ferrugio en...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 116
Hilarious stand-up comedian, Nick Simmons, steps up to DEAD Talks to share his experience losing his mother to cancer when he was 17. The balance of comedy and real talk was masterful. His incredible mother got cancer when he was 11 and fought for years despite being told she had 6 months to live. Nick shares raw comedic honesty making this a fun and entertaining conversation with real grief expression including how this experience fueled his Comedy career. You've seen Nick Simmons on CBS and op...
Aug 02, 2023•58 min•Ep. 115
Natalie Weaver is the founder of Sophia's Voice, an organization that supports people with disabilities, caregivers, and the work of disability rights activists. She lost her daughter, Sophia, who passed away in May 2019. In this episode we discussed her grief journey, the grief of a mother to child loss and all that comes with it. Natalie raises awareness about the importance of healthcare for medically complex children, fights to hold social media giants accountable for protecting the disabili...
Jul 26, 2023•42 min
Laura Shepard was at the lowest point of her whole life when she got the call her father died due to a blood clot. She shares her story of Grief and Loss of losing a parent which includes all the things you don’t normally think about with Grief. We also discussed how she’s been able to heal and how loss has restarted her path as a comedian. This is a light hearted episode with incredibly hilarious stories about her grief journey and the realistic aspects of mourning. For more on Laura Shepard ch...
Jul 19, 2023•50 min
Marci Burton survived a terrifying plane crash in the Mountains of Kodiak, Alaska with 4 others including her son while she was pregnant with her daughter. She explained they were the only Bush Plane to survived a plane crash in Alaskan history. Marci explains some other spiritual intervention prior to the flight regarding her mother that she lost and has had to Grieve. This was an engaging conversation of survival, grief and loss of a mother and some paranormal/spiritual experiences that she's ...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 1 min
I spoke with my sisters on the loss of our father on September 11th. We sat down as brother and sisters to talk about their Grief as young women and the family dynamic with our loss. Both my sisters handled the loss of our father in two completely different ways. I got a chance to hear their perspective on how I was as a kid including memories I don't recall. This was a beautiful sibling conversation about grief and loss and how it brought us so much closer as a family. A very important episode ...
Jun 30, 2023•51 min
Grieving with my mother. My mom joins DEAD Talks for the first time to share her grief and loss of her husband (and my father) on September 11th. This is a very important episode for me as it encompasses the purpose of this podcast and the woman who got me through it all. My mom remembers that day on 9/11, how she grieved, how she dealt with grieving children and being a widow. The strength and love that lead my mother to today is incredible and I am unbelievably proud of her. DEAD Talks with Da...
Jun 23, 2023•52 min
Hospice Nurse Hadley tells the end-of-life stories of her Hospice patients that include seeing their deceased loved ones. Hadley also speaks on how a significant death she had to grieve in her life inspired the rest of her life and how this event completely shifted her religious beliefs. She just released her first book "The In-Between" which shows that end-of-life care can teach us as much about how to life as it does about how we die. Purchase "The In-Between" here Follow Nurse Hadley on YouTu...
Jun 16, 2023•37 min
Kidnapping, Cults, dying, grieving and all things Mental Health. This incredibly entertaining episode filled with ways to laugh your way through life with Craig Shoemaker. Craig is a stand-up comic, speaker and a coach where he’s applied humor as a way of healing. Known for his decades in show business having been named Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic at the American Comedy Awards along with two Emmy Awards. His coaching program includes methods that he demonstrates in this incredibly fun and insig...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Grief Therapist and Co-Founder of ‘What’s Your Grief?’ which serves 5 million + people promoting grief education and grief resources joins DEAD Talks Podcast. Litsa Williams shares practical ways of living with grief whether it’s your grief or someone else’s in your life. This episode covers variations of the grief process including anxiety, guilt, how you can approach someone grieving and trauma's that include unexpected death. Visit www.whatsyourgrief.com or whatsyourgrief.campsite.bio for m...
May 26, 2023•49 min
The near-death experience of Dr. Eben Alexander who spent over 25 years as an academic neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis of unknown cause that put him into a 7-day coma. Memories of his life had been completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more re...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Creators of a Grief Podcast called the Good Mourning Podcast , Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn, both lost their moms only months apart. Im lost her mother to suicide and Sally’s mother died from a seizure in her sleep. This episode is filled with amazing lessons on how to grieve, their personal grief journey and plenty of laughs to cope. Along with loss and grief they shared their feelings of guilt, anxiety, an incredible story about seeing a psychic medium and practical ways that help your grievi...
May 12, 2023•44 min
Conscious Lee joins DEAD Talks to discuss Social Death vs Biological Death as it pertains to being Black in America. We discussed how death shaped his life and took a different angle around living with no value vs. biological death. With over 2 million followers on social media, as well as being named in YouTube Black Voice Creator Class of 2022 “TheConsciousLee” has a virtual presence that impacts many. This intellectual debating, hip hop dancing, thought-provoking, and workshop facilitating ke...
May 05, 2023•46 min
If you're looking for a deep introspective look on how to live with intention, how we speak to ourselves, and to do the inner work on how to begin to heal, then this is the episode for you. RN, Plant-Med Educator and host of This Might Be Helpful Podcast, Cameron Rosin joins DEAD Talks offering ways we can unlearn and establish healthy relationships with living. Cameron is promotes incredible support and motivation across social media that often includes INNER work. He offers philosophical persp...
Apr 28, 2023•44 min
American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson was only four blocks away from the World Trade Center on September 11th. He joins DEAD Talks Podcast to share how that day shaped his life forever as well as his perspectives on life and death. Neil explains how death is motivating factor in his life, how death sits from a cosmic perspective and looking at it all from the perspective of an astrophysicist. To check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's books please visit his websit...
Apr 21, 2023•57 min
His life was shattered as his family was involved in a fatal car accident that took the lives of his brother Race Sawyer, his nephew Rider Sawyer, his wife Kortni, his son Riggins, and his daughter Franki. The accident occurred on July 25, 2021. Mason has now become solely focused on raising his son, Blue, who survived the car accident. His incredibly traumatic story comes with his grief journey of healing and continuing his life forward. Mason Sawyer is the host of The10Ninety Podcast . He's ...
Apr 14, 2023•53 min
Max lost his father when he was 19 and had to watch his father wither away to cancer. At a a young age learning to grieve while also learning to figure out who he was as a man made for a complex range of emotions. DEAD Talks Podcast 100th episode is a story of honest self reflection tagged with the raw emotions that come with Grief and Loss. Recorded in Manhattan between two old friends who acknowledge the common bond of both being in "The Club" of having lost a father. For more on DEAD Talks Po...
Apr 07, 2023•30 min
For anyone that has lost a loved one when they were young or has a child dealing with Grief at a young age. Alysen James lost her father when was 10 years old. On this episode of DEAD Talks she brings us back to the memory of finding out her father died and how she has forgotten a lot due to the trauma while being so young. She reflects as an adult the Grief Process and contemplating how it's affected her today. Why she feels like she feels and what how her grief has evolved. Follow Alysen @aly...
Mar 31, 2023•42 min
Actress and TV Host, Caitlin O’Connor, jumps on DEAD Talks to discuss the various types of grief and loss. For the first time on the podcast we discuss both the grief of human loss as well as the emotions attached to pet loss. She shares her grief process after losing her Grandparents that she grew up and lived with as well the death of her dog that she had to grieve. Whether pet loss or losing a loved one; Caitlin speaks elegantly with deep introspection on her emotions and philosophy of living...
Mar 24, 2023•50 min
Hip Hop Artist, Rowlan, lost his best friend suddenly in late 2022 and he was the one that found him dead. Burdened with the responsibility to make calls to his family he shares his recent grief process of coping with the trauma of seeing his best friend die and all the feelings of grief and loss that come with it. He used his creativity with music to cope and has been able to go completely introspective with his grief process and what he got out of surviving grief. For more on Rowlan follow him...
Mar 17, 2023•38 min
Everything changed when Christal Luster lost her sister tragically. She shares the story of losing the person who gave her meaning and her grief journey on how she coped. Christal also lost a lot of other people in her life. Her honesty around her stages of grief, her emotions and how she felt is well balanced with practical ways on how you can grieve and heal. Christal Luster is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter, actress, published author, speaker and entrepreneur. For more on Christal visit he...
Mar 10, 2023•46 min
