You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

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Wash It All Away w/Adrienne Shamszad Aug 24, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with singer-songwriter Adrienne Shamszad, crying & laughing their way through a conversation about living a life worth dying for, music as a way forward in the darkness of mental health struggles & existential crises, & honoring our ancestral lineage in song.

adrienne’s
website: https://adrienneshamszad.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/aidishams/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adrienneshamszad
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrienneshamszadmusic/
bandcamp: https://adrienneshamszad.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5aIWNyQhH7GELkGMLDOZ3k
Freight & Salvage Show - August 31st, 2023: https://secure.thefreight.org/12814/adrienne-shamszad

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Untitled Poem” by 14th Century Author Hafez
”Nakhaahad Maand [It Won’t Stay Like This]” composed by Mahsa Vahdat & Adrienne Shamszad, performed by Adrienne Shamszad
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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I’ll Never Be Ready w/Wendy MacNaughton Aug 17, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with New York Times best-selling illustrator & graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton, talking about her book “How to Say Goodbye: The Wisdom of Hospice Caregivers,” combining drawings from her artist’s residency inside The Zen Hospice Project Guest House, with words of hospice caregivers she interviewed, including a list of The Five Things to help us say goodbye.

wendy’s
website: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/
"The Grown-Ups Table"substack: https://substack.com/@drawtogether
book - How to Say Goodbye: https://www.wendymacnaughton.com/illustration/how-to-say-goodbye

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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The Work w/BJ Miller & Ladybird Morgan Aug 10, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with return guests & friends BJ Miller & Ladybird Morgan, talking about their work in the world, together with Mettle Health, & Mettle Health’s Annual Convening happening in Nevada City, CA on August, 17th 2023, an event meant for everyone who will be touched by the subject of aging, illness, death, & grief...

mettle health annual convening’s
website: https://mettlehealth.com/annual-convening-2023

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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Going With Grace w/Alua Arthur Aug 03, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk, in conversation with Alua Arthur - Death Doula, Ordained Minister, Recovering Lawyer, Perpetual Seeker of Nothing to be Found & Founder of Going with Grace - while they talk about death activism, the touchstone of nihilism, & being in the question marks of dying.

This interview originally aired February 4th, 2021.

alua arthur’s
ig: https://www.instagram.com/going_with_grace/
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkeuKPZxEhM
Going with Grace: https://goingwithgrace.com/
Going with Grace End of Life Education and Planning: https://www.goingwithgracecourses.com/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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Time in a Bottle w/Laura Sullivan Cassidy Jul 27, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Laura Sullivan Cassidy, writer/editor, creative consultant/coach, artist/experience maker, & grief/death/funeral care worker, talking about the personal experience of death when your profession is deathwork, using “Griefmapping” for navigating loss, & our necessary responsibility more than ever for community care with grief/death/dying.

laura sullivan cassidy’s
substack: https://grieversball.substack.com/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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Slower w/Mara June Jul 20, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mara June of MOTHERWORT + ROSE, educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, & community herbalist, talking about the value of approaching death before we’re in the midst of it, their work with our herbal allies, especially MOTHERWORT + ROSE, & how important it is to remember death, like birth, is not meant for any of us to do alone.

mara june’s
website: https://www.motherwortandrose.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/motherwortandrose/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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How to Trust Grief w/Francis Weller Jul 13, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller, talking about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these times - the Long Dark - & how we might trust, befriend, & accompany our grief with slow encounters, to return with medicine for our community, as we more wholly & fully renter LIFE.

francis weller’s
website: https://www.francisweller.net/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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Buddhism in Prison w/Ven. Robina Courtin Jul 06, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with the Venerable Robina Courtin, a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition & lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche, talking about one of Buddhism’s first truths, death & impermanence, & the life-deepening lessons from our incarcerated community.

ven. robina courtin’s
website: https://robinacourtin.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/robinacourtin/

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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This Body of Mine Is Here w/Andrea Gibson Jun 29, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with poet & activist Andrea Gibson, in laughter & tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, & panic attacks, & what it means to consider what’s available when faced with the hardest parts of being mortal.

andrea gibson’s
website: https://andreagibson.org/
book - “You Better Be Lightening”: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/you-better-be-lightning/
newsletter - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.bulletin.com/subscribe

Produced by Nick Jaina
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
“Time Piece” by Andrea Gibson/Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”Whale & Mouse” by Liza Maytok: https://soundcloud.com/liza-maytok/whale-mouse
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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Fear of Death Is Our God w/Richie Reseda Jun 22, 2023

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with music, film, & content producer Richie Reseda, freed from prison in 2018, talking about how our culture is built around grief / loss / death / dying / mortality & how it serves capitalism more than it serves us, & how abolition is connected to our relationship with grief & dying.

richie reseda
@ Question Culture: https://www.questionculture.com/
on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richiereseda/
& JJ’88’s single “Atlantic”: https://linktr.ee/jj_eightyeight

Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jasmine Pritchard
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina

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