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ahlay blakely - You're Not Crazy

May 7, 20261h 17m

Mark Nepo - Sincerity

Apr 23, 20261h 21m

Ep 163Dr. Kaye Cleave - It's a Lonely Thing, Grief

"It was so monumentous. How do you live? I didn't know who I was. And this clear thought came to me: You have two choices here. You can curl up and become a bitter old woman, because it's not fair what happened to you. OR you can surrender - it's happened. And go forward, however you do, and walk that open-hearted path towards healing." - Dr. Kaye Cleave in the wake of her daughter's death In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with Dr. Kaye Cleave. Her children's picture book—A Kangaroo Tale—helped raise funds to build a school in a remote Nepalese village in memory of her daughter. Her award-winning documentary, Catherine’s Kindergarten, about the death of her daughter and the life Kaye has lived to grieve, honor and celebrate her, has screened at film festivals world-wide. Kaye is currently on the Advisory Board for Impact Schools in Nepal and co-leads Grief & Healing Retreats at Laguna Writers in San Francisco. kaye cleave's website: https://www.kaye-cleave.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/ageingdisgracefully_/ watch Catherine’s Kindergarten documentary: https://catherines-kindergarten.com/ Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Apr 9, 20261h 1m

Ep 162Lisa Olivera - Medicine

In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with author and licensed psychotherapist Lisa Olivera. Highlighted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, and The Guardian, the writer, adoptee, mother, and creator of the Human Stuff newsletter has worked in schools, community-based mental health, and private practice. Her latest book, When the Ache Remains, will be out this April. She lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter and two cats. lisa olivera's website: https://lisaolivera.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/_lisaolivera/ when the ache remains: https://lisaolivera.com/when-the-ache-remains Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Mar 26, 20261h 9m

Ep 161Joy Harjo - Last Words

In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, internationally renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Harjo is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, American Sunrise, which won a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award, and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. In addition to poetry, she has published several award-winning children’s books, prose collections, plays, and two memoirs, including Crazy Brave, which was awarded the PEN USA Literary Award and the American Book Award. Harjo has edited several anthologies, including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through—A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and has produced seven award-winning music albums, including Winding Through the Milky Way, for which she was awarded a NAMMY for Best Female Artist of the year. Her many honors include Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2022 National Humanities Medal, and the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, among others. Currently the Ruth Yellowhawk Fellow at the Kettering Foundation, Harjo has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center. She lives on the Muscogee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma with her husband, Owen Sapulpa. joy harjo’s website: https://www.joyharjo.com/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/JoyHarjo/ girl warrior: https://www.joyharjo.com/book/girl-warrior Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate Andd get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Mar 11, 20261h 4m

Ep 160Stephen Jenkinson - The Whole Damn Thing

The man, the myth, the medicinally confronting conversationalist is BACK on You're Going to Die: The Podcast for his third guest spot! This time Ned Buskirk speaks with culture activist, worker, and author Stephen Jenkinson at the intersection of matrimony & mortality. As he’s done with money (Money and the Soul’s Desires), dying (Die Wise), elderhood (Come of Age) and pandemics (A Generation’s Worth), in Matrimony Jenkinson finds a living heart in the debris field of contemporary culture, and now makes the case that radical hospitality, strangerhood and the old sacraments of trade together make the trail we could follow back into real person making and ritual literacy. stephen jenkinson’s website: https://orphanwisdom.com Matrimony: Ritual, Culture, and the Heart’s Work: https://orphanwisdom.com/book/matrimony/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Feb 26, 20261h 20m

Ep 159Dale Borglum - Invoke That Which You Trust

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Dale Borglum, founder and director of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He is the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project, the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook [with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner], and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. dale borglum’s website: https://livingdying.org events: https://livingdying.org/the-journey-of-awakening-conscious-living-conscious-dying/ IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Feb 13, 20261h 24m

Ep 158Daren Thomas Magee [of Real Fun, Wow!] - Spheres

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with the founder of Real Fun, Wow!, Daren Thomas Magee. An artist and writer best known for blending blunt honesty with compassion, his work centers on responsibility, creativity, and the quiet urgency of being alive, exploring how we navigate fear, meaning, and modern life without numbing out or looking away. daren thomas magee’s website: https://realfunwow.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realfunwow/ real talk 1:1 sessions: https://realfunwow.com/products/real-talk-session Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Jan 30, 20261h 22m

Ep 157Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - The One Life We Can Save

Host Ned Buskirk speaks with poet, teacher, speaker, and writing facilitator Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, Washington Post’s Book Club, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her newest book: The Unfolding. Newest album: Risking Love. One-word mantra: Adjust. rosemerry wahtola trommer’s website: https://www.wordwoman.com/ blog: https://ahundredfallingveils.com/ daily poetry on Ritual: https://www.ritual.io/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Jan 16, 20261h 38m

Ep 156Dan Deacon - If You’re Not Born You’re Dead

In this week's episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, host Ned Buskirk "cry battles" and speaks with critically-acclaimed experimental underground electronic musician turned in-demand film and television composer Dan Deacon. Get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. dan deacon’s website: https://dandeacon.com/ "When I Was Done Dying" | Off The Air | Adult Swim: https://youtu.be/TuJqUvBj4rE?si=JZ_p5-AyBmKMmsNY Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "When I Was Done Dying" by Dan Deacon SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT'S 2026 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER TODAY: https://gofund.me/cec96a108 IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Dec 18, 20251h 29m

Ep 155Pádraig Ó Tuama - How to Be Alone

In this week's episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of 'Poetry Unbound' from On Being studios and the Poet in Residence with the Conflict and Cooperation Centre at Columbia University in New York City. In the last few years he's moved to New York, but tries to return to Belfast where he worked in Conflict Resolution for twenty years. 2025 saw the release of two books: 'Kitchen Hymns' - a collection of his own poetry; and a second Poetry Unbound anthology. Get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. pádraig ó tuama’s website: https://www.padraigotuama.com/ Kitchen Hymns: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/kitchen-hymns-by-padraig-o-tuama/ other books: https://buythebook.online/padraig-o-tuama "Poetry Unbound" podcast: https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/ Pádraig recommends supporting In-Na-Po - Indigenous Nations Poets: https://www.indigenousnationspoets.org/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT'S 2026 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER TODAY: https://gofund.me/cec96a108 IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Dec 4, 20251h 14m

Ep 154Megan Falley - Earthside Responsibility

In the wake of Andrea Gibson's death on July 14th, 2025, Ned Buskirk speaks with their partner Megan Falley, about grieving their death, still finding moments to walk with lightness, the final moments of Andrea's life, and how Andrea, wherever they are, is supporting Megan even still... ‎Watch Come See Me in the Good Light on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/come-see-me-in-the-good-light/umc.cmc.27uh51l7oh3ghql2gxb6xvb1s megan falley’s website: https://www.meganfalley.com newsletter, continued for Andrea Gibson - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.substack.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit “Love Letter from the After Life” by Andrea Gibson "Hold Down the Fort" by Chris Pureka/Andrea Gibson ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT'S 2026 COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER TODAY: https://gofund.me/cec96a108 IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT [email protected] The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Nov 20, 20251h 17m

Ep 153Andrea Gibson on You're Going to Die: The Podcast [rerelease from January 2022]

In honor of Andrea Gibson, for their life and death on July 14th, 2025, we're resharing host Ned Buskirk's conversation them from January of 2022, including a new intro with host Ned Buskirk, producer Nick Jaina, and associate producer Jordan Edelheit, scored with more music from Nick Jaina, holding their laughter and tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, and panic attacks, and 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, now continued by their wife, Megan Falley - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.substack.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit “Time Piece” by Andrea Gibson/Scoreda by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://gofund.me/cec96a108 And get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Nov 13, 20251h 13m

Ep 152Honoring Joanna Macy w/Lydia Violet Harutoonian

In the wake of Joanna Macy's death and with You're Going to Die's upcoming San Francisco event - A Wild Love for the World: An Evening Honoring Joanna Macy - host Ned Buskirk speaks with Lydia Violet Harutoonian, a scholar in Joanna Macy's work and a collaborator of Macy's for over 16 years. An Iranian-Armenian-American facilitator, public speaker, and musician, Lydia is devoted to inner and outer ecological renewal and cultural healing, facilitating group work across many communities, weaving together systems of thinking, deep ecology, and emotional resilience in the face of global crisis. She is the founder of the School for The Great Turning, a learning community where activism and spiritual practice meet. With training in community organizing and trauma-informed facilitation, she offers grounded emotional support to individuals and communities navigating burnout, grief, and the psychological weight of living in socio-ecological crises. GET TICKETS NOW for You're Going to Die Presents... A Wild Love for the World: An Evening Honoring Joanna Macy at Swedish American Hall on November 16th in San Francisco: https://www.yg2d.com/all-events/yg2d-joanna-macy-11/16/25 Lydia Violet Harutoonian’s website: https://lydiafiddle.com/ School for The Great Turning: https://schoolforthegreatturning.com/ 8-Week Study of The Essential Joanna Macy: https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/the-essential-joanna-macy-course Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Thanks to Lydia Violet Harutoonian for Joanna Macy's "Trust Yourself" & "It's the Sweetest Thing" recordings. EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED or SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://gofund.me/cec96a108 And get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Nov 6, 20251h 9m

Ep 151Because We Have Mortality w/Stephen G. Post

In our newest episode, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Stephen G. Post, one of the world’s leading scholars on altruism, love, compassion, and the science of giving. He is a best-selling author, professor of preventive medicine, and founding President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. His work bridges science, spirituality, and ethics with a mission to understand how unselfish love heals, uplifts, and transforms both individuals and cultures. Stephen G. Post’s website: https://www.stephengpost.com/ The Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love: https://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/ newest book - Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace: https://www.churchpublishing.org/pureunlimitedlove Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE TO OUR YEARLY COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER TODAY: https://gofund.me/da76d373a And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Oct 23, 20251h 17m

Ep 150To See With the Eyes of the Dead w/Perdita Finn

In the first episode of this season of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, Francis Weller reminds us to invoke the medicine of our ancestral lineage; consider this episode a deepening into that work. In our newest episode, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Perdita Finn, a descendant of gardeners and dirt-lovers and women who knew how to speak to the dead in the dark. She is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World and the forthcoming Mothers of Magic: Recovering the Love at the Heart of the World. She teaches popular workshops on collaborating with the unseen world. Perdita Finn’s website: https://takebackthemagic.com/ workshops: https://takebackthemagic.com/my-classes/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://gofund.me/da76d373a And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Oct 9, 20251h 28m

Ep 149Cultivating Wonder w/Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs

Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Merrill Garbus of tUnE‑yArDs. Consider this a raw & honest invitation to step into the complexity of aliveness, even when it's hopeless, & burst into your own unique song. MUSIC AS MEDICINE: it doesn’t distract, but activate, so that we can feel all the things, hold them wholly, even when they're in conflict, & maybe breathe a little more freely on the other side of the catharsis of a siren scream. tune-yards’ NEW EP, Tell The Future With Your Body: https://tuneyards.ffm.to/ttfwyb music & merch: https://kf-merch.com/collections/tuneyards website: https://tune-yards.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/tuneyards/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/tuneyards/ x: https://x.com/tuneyards Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Check out Nick's new album "Monster Mash" out now: https://nickjaina.com/ "Better Dreaming" by tUnE‑yArDs - the title track from their newest album - check it out here: https://tuneyards.ffm.to/betterdreaming EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Sep 25, 20251h 27m

Ep 148The Long Dark w/Francis Weller

Psychotherapist, writer, & soul activist Francis Weller is back on You're Going to Die: The Podcast, talking with host Ned Buskirk about the saturation of sorrow we’re faced with in these new times on our planet - a time he calls, the The Long Dark - & discusses the medicine we'll need to live through it. francis weller’s website: https://www.francisweller.net/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina “The Covenant” & “Pier 70” by Nick Jaina Check out these tracks & Nick's new album "Monster Mash" now: https://nickjaina.com/ EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Sep 11, 20251h 32m

Ep 147Pockets of Grief w/Yrsa Daley-Ward

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poet, performer, and the author of bone, The Terrible, and The Catch (available June 2025). She’s also the founder of the utter, a poetic neuroscience movement that fuses story, science, and sonic design to repair attention and support emotional health. Her mission is to help people live beyond their survival patterns and feel more—on purpose. Yrsa’s work lives at the intersection of art, brain science, and healing. yrsa daley-ward's website: https://yrsadaleyward.squarespace.com/ substack: https://yrsadaleyward.substack.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yrsadaleyward Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

May 23, 20251h 5m

Ep 146The Pandemic of Later w/Thomas Hübl

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator Thomas Hübl, PhD, who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change, integrating the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since the early 2000s, he has led large-scale events and courses on the healing of collective trauma. He is the author of Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World and Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. He has served as an advisor and guest faculty for universities and organizations, as a coach for CEOs and organizational leaders, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. thomas hübl's website: https://thomashuebl.com podcast: https://pointofrelationpodcast.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomashuebl Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

May 8, 20251h 0m

Ep 145Shape Shifting w/Johanna Hedva

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Korean American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches. Hedva’s practice cooks magic, necromancy, and divination together with mystical states of fury and ecstasy, and political states of solidarity and disintegration. They are devoted to deviant forms of knowledge and to doom as a liberatory condition. There is always the body — its radical permeability, dependency, and consociation — but the task is how to eclipse it, how to nebulize it, and how to cope when this inevitably fails. Whether the form is novels, essays, theory, poetry, music, performance, AI, videogames, installation, sculpture, drawings, or trickery, ultimately Hedva’s work is different kinds of writing because it is different kinds of language embodied: it is words on a page, screaming in a room, dragging a hand through water. Hedva is the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell, as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their artwork has been shown internationally, and their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their essay collection, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom, was published in September 2024. johanna hedva's website: https://johannahedva.com/ book - How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom: https://johannahedva.com/how-to-tell-when-we-will-die.php instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bighedva bandcamp: https://bighedva.bandcamp.com/ linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/bighedva last album: https://johannahedva.com/black-moon-lilith-in-pisces-in-the-4th-house.php my 2023 solo exhibition: https://joanlosangeles.org/johanna-hedva-if-youre-reading-this-im-already-dead/ piece: https://www.amant.org/publications/10-scream-demo this body of work: https://johannahedva.com/the-clock-is-always-wrong.php video game: https://glut.website/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Apr 24, 20251h 20m

Ep 144Adaptation w/Mary-Frances O'Connor

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. Her book The Grieving Brain was included on Oprah’s list of Best Books to Comfort a Grieving Friend. O’Connor holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her newest book, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, a follow-up to The Grieving Brain, this time focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body. mary-frances o'connor's website: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/ book - the grieving body: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/books/the-grieving-body Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Mar 28, 20251h 17m

Ep 143Unmasking w/Shaun Bengson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with a song writer, theater maker and multi instrumentalist Shaun Bengson, one half of The Bengsons. Alongside his wife and collaborator Abigail Bengson, he has written a whole big gob of shows and performed them all over the place as well as composing music for dance, film and TV. Shaun and Abigail are raising two kids in their home bases of NYC and VT. the begsions' website: https://www.bengsons.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons - LIVE at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/sonya-renee-taylor-and-the-bengsons-live/ In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/abigail-bengson-rerelease/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Mar 13, 20251h 10m

Ep 142Perish to This Moment w/Prentis Hemphill

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist, Prentis Hemphill. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and host of the podcast “Becoming the People.” For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. Their debut book “What it Takes to Heal” published June 2024 through Penguin Random House. Prentis Hemphill's website: https://prentishemphill.com/ book: https://prentishemphill.com/book ig: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Feb 27, 202558 min

Ep 141Grief Rearranges Your Life w/Clover Stroud

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Clover Stroud, a Sunday Times bestselling writer, journalist and host of her own podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story and third book The Red of My Blood were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated ‘best books of the year.' Her fourth memoir, The Giant on The Skyline, was published in May 2024. Originally from Oxfordshire, she is currently living in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children. Clover Stroud's website: https://www.cloverstroud.com/ substack: https://cloverstroud.substack.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/clover.stroud books: https://www.cloverstroud.com/books podcast: https://www.cloverstroud.com/podcast Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. And get episodes a week before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Feb 13, 20251h 8m

Ep 140Disco-Ordination w/Stephen Jenkinson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson teaches internationally, is the author of seven books, and was the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He has Masters' degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for "helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling." To inquire about Stephen Jenkinson’s work, speaking engagements, live streams, counsel calls, interviews and The Scriptorium, please reach out HERE: https://orphanwisdom.com/contact/ The Scriptorium: Echos of an Orphan Wisdom - two in-person sessions April 23rd through 27th and April 30th through May 4th: https://orphanwisdom.com/scriptorium/ Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On - a livestream encounter March 15th and 16th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/die-wise-sanity-and-soul-ten-years-on/ Only the Living Die - a live in-person event in Joshua Tree w/Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson on March 7th and 8th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/a-year-of-reckoning/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. If you'd like to support YG2D, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, just email [email protected] or visit https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Jan 30, 20251h 6m

Ep 139Letters From a Friend w/Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends and writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik as they talk about the promise they made, and kept, with their friend Ann Alejandro, to pull together, from thousands of her pages of writing left in their care, the new book I know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas, an extraordinary collection of writing put together by longtime literary friends in tribute to a third, who died in 2019 at the age of 64. I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas - edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432408/i-know-about-a-thousand-things/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "What A Wonderful World" words by Ann Alejandro, music by Nick Jaina Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Jan 16, 20251h 2m

Ep 138Trying w/Scott Elliott Ferreter

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with beloved friend, singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Elliott Ferreter as they talk about his new album Trying Time, an album he didn't expect to be "about" death, but which actually has 9 out of 11 songs about either impermanence, death, his dead dad, his dead, or crying... They also talk about how Scott forgot Ned's birthday and how Scott thinks about Ned's death all the time. scott's website: https://www.scottelliottferreter.com/| ig: https://www.instagram.com/scottelliottferreter/ TRYING TIME Fundraiser: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trying-time-scott-elliott-ferreter-s-solo-album#/ You're Going to Die's ALIVE INSIDE Prison Program: https://www.alive-inside.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "Risk to Love" by Scott Elliott Ferreter THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

Nov 21, 20241h 19m

Ep 137The Race Track w/Aerin Dunford

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Aerin Dunford, Lead Weaver of The Emergence Network (ten), a planetary network of care and inquiry gesturing towards new assemblages of response-ability during moments when the ways that we think about and address the troubling crises of our times are increasingly a part of those crises. This episode is released in anticipation of, and as invitation to, ten's Becoming Monster Festival, happening October 30th though November 3rd, 2024, a virtual, hybrid and in-person components hosted with a strange ecology of friends and partners (non-human and human alike) from around the planet. This event is a space held for grieving the losses that come with living into the end-times AND playing with ideas of fabulation, imagination and questioning: what else might the human be in our crumbling, entangled, pulsating, animist world(s). REGISTER TODAY FOR ten's BECOMING MONSTER FESTIVAL: bit.ly/becoming-monster-registration CONTRIBUTE TO ten HERE: https://opencollective.com/the-emergence-network#category-CONTRIBUTE aerin's blog: https://rafasname.net/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D. TRIGGER WARNING: stillbirth

Oct 24, 20241h 14m

Ep 136The Value of Death w/Aditi Sethi

This conversation originally aired August 31st, 2023. Join us ONLINE Monday, October 28th from 4-5:45pm Pacific, for a virtual screening of “The Last Ecstatic Days,” followed by ​Q&A with Scott Kirschenbaum, Director of ​"The Last Ecstatic Days​," and Aditi Sethi, Executive Director, Center for Conscious Living and Dying and one of the film’s subjects​. Facilitated by Ned Buskirk, Executive Director ​at You're Going to Die & Andrew Ingall, Senior Programmer, ​Reimagine... RSVP ​H​ERE: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/the-last-ecstatic-days-a-virtual-screening-and-qa aditi’s website: https://www.aditisethimd.com/ Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/ Sign up for the CCLD updates & news: https://www.ccld.community/subscribe Support the CCLD: https://www.ccld.community/donation Or Venmo @ConsciousLivingDying The Last Ecstatic Days website: https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/ The Last Ecstatic Days on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheLastEcstaticDays The Last Ecstatic Days on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelastecstaticdays/ The Last Ecstatic Days on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thelastecstaticdaysmovie/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”Seva” performed by Aditi Sethi & The Appalucians ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. EMAIL US AT [email protected] IF YOU'D LIKE SUPPORT OUR 501(C)3 NONPROFIT or CONTRIBUTE HERE TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Oct 19, 20241h 13m

Ep 135Death Watch w/D.S. Moss

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Humanist Chaplain D.S. Moss, as they talk about the journey through life & loss that led to his mortality-influenced work in the world, including his experience of providing months of spiritual care to death row inmate, Phillip Hancock, holding space for him at the time of his execution by lethal injection. D.S. Moss' New York Times' "An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/us/an-atheist-chaplain-and-a-death-row-inmates-final-hours.html End Well talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRbe6-ljmk The Adventures of Memento Mori Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3KqE5E57MR8HeRedVqk95b?si=4c6927dc56ad481c ig: https://www.instagram.com/ds_moss/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D. TRIGGER WARNING: details of a death penalty execution

Sep 19, 20241h 17m

Ep 134The Monster of Me w/Heidi Kraay

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with playwright and writer-across-disciplines Heidi Kraay, as they talk about her book 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle, and the grief, loss, & life that led to its being in the world. heidi's website: https://www.heidikraay.com/ book - 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle: https://modernmythographerpress.com/home-1 Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Sep 12, 20241h 18m

Ep 133Suppression w/Tim Kinsella

Join host Ned Buskirk in a creatively conscious mortality conversation with Chicagoan musician, author, and actor Tim Kinsella, whose previous bands include Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Owls, and now makes albums w/his wife Jenny Pulse for the Kill Rock Stars label. tim kinsella's ig: https://www.instagram.com/gootiming/ tim kinsella & jenny pulse's website: https://bio.site/kinsella_pulse Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "WTF is Death?" by Good F#@k THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Sep 5, 20241h 5m

Ep 132Old Soul w/Caitlin Jemma

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with indie musician and singer-songwriter Caitlin Jemma. Her newest album A Wider View is inspired by themes such as death, generational heartbreak, forgiveness, transformation, compassion, and true love, exploring the larger perspective we gain when someone we love passes and how embracing your mortality can inspire a life full of purpose. caitlin jemma’s website: https://www.caitlinjemma.com/ Recorded at 3rd Street Studio - Rita House in Los Angeles: www.ritahouse.com/studio Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 29, 20241h 1m

Ep 131Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons - LIVE at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley

You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Concert & Conversation w/Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Saturday, August 17th, 2024... Join us for an enlivening episode of holding the light & dark in community, with a live recorded conversation and Q&A with New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist/thought leader, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology Sonya Renee Taylor & the composing/performing/grief-working, dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, featuring music from The Bengsons, hosted by You're Going to Die's Ned Buskirk. sonya renee taylor's website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/ the bengsons’ website: https://www.bengsons.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/ Recorded by Nick Jaina Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Sound Engineered by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Additional Songs by The Bengsons Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 22, 20241h 47m

Ep 130If I Had One Year Left w/Laurel Braitman

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with bestselling author, speaker, educator, and a trailblazer in the field of medical storytelling, Laurel Braitman. Laurel inspires healing and mental wellness through storytelling in her books and her work as the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts program. As a thought leader in mental health, Laurel writes and teaches about healing, grief, and emotional wellbeing for all of us—humans and other animals—as reflected in her new memoir What Looks Like Bravery, about resilience born from loss. laurel braitman’s website: https://www.laurelbraitman.com/ substack: https://laurelbraitman.substack.com TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wk53Pt_0E End Well Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcUIK51Fio Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 16, 20241h 5m

Ep 129In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Abigail Bengson, one half of the composing / performing / grief-working & dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, talking about dissolving ravenously into the awe-filled urgent enoughness of loving & grieving LIFE. This conversation originally aired June 8th, 2023. the bengsons’ website: https://www.bengsons.com/ patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebengsons ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 13, 20241h 30m

Ep 128METAL w/Carla Harvey

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author, musician, artist, grief coach and thanatologist Carla Harvey, who has spent over 15 years navigating the death industry and is passionate about bringing awareness to the death positive movement, writing about aging, grief, death and dying in a way that will appeal to a new generation of people with non-traditional lives. carla's website: https://www.goodgriefla.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/carlaharvey/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Aug 1, 20241h 3m

Ep 127Keep Going w/Amanda Nagai & Chelsea Coleman

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends Amanda Nagai and Chelsea Coleman, as they talk about suicide, the impact of a personal loss like this, and their creative expression navigating this kind of death in community. Amanda is a storyteller, ritualist, artist, and designer focused on the transformative power of grief and the need for embodied collective ways to walk paths of mourning and healing together. Chelsea is a singer songwriter, the Creative Director of You’re Going to Die and head of its publishing program. amanda's book: https://www.yg2d.com/publishing website: https://www.croneintraining.life/ chelsea's album: https://chelseacoleman.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-days Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 25, 20241h 8m

Ep 126Grief Camp w/Jesse Moss

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jesse Moss, Director of Marketing at Experience Camps, in charge of developing strategies and content to create a more grief-sensitive culture and advocate for grieving children. Experience Camps is an award-winning national nonprofit that transforms the lives of grieving children through summer camp programs and innovative, year-round initiatives. Through compassion, connection, and play, they allow grieving children to embody a life full of hope and possibility. Experience Camps' website: https://experiencecamps.org/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/experiencecamps/ DONATE: https://give.experiencecamps.org/give/407095/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=D23ZWZZZZZ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 18, 20241h 3m

Ep 125Puzzles w/Amen Dunes

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Damon McMahon, an American indie rock musician and the primary member of the musical project Amen Dunes. amen dunes' website: https://bedroomdrum.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina "Round the World" performed by Amen Dunes, written by Bill Monroe & Damon McMahon, produced by Damon McMahon SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 11, 20241h 14m

Ep 124The Next Right Thing w/Oliver Burkeman

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done [a collection of his columns for the Guardian newspaper], as they talk about his newest book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity [and 'productivity techniques' that mainly just make everyone feel busier]. oliver burkeman's website: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 4, 20241h 7m

Ep 123Happy With Nothing w/GaTa

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with GaTa, American rapper, actor, & hypeman, best known for his role as a fictionalized version of himself, Davionate "Dave" Ganter / GaTa, in the FXX TV series Dave. GaTa's ig: https://www.instagram.com/gedgata/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jun 28, 20241h 4m

Ep 122Why Wait? w/Ira Byock

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Ira Byock, leading physician, author, and public advocate for improving care for people living with serious medical conditions. He is an emeritus professor of medicine and community & family medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. His books include Dying Well, The Four Things That Matter Most, and The Best Care Possible. ira's website: https://irabyock.org/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jun 25, 20241h 16m

S1 Ep 121Báyò Akómoláfé - LIVE at The Lost Church in San Francisco

You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Conversation w/Báyò Akómoláfé at The Lost Church in San Francisco, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Friday, March 15th, 2024... Join host Ned Buskirk's LIVE conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé, father to Alethea and Kyah, grateful life-partner to Ije, son & brother, widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author. báyò’s website: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe Recorded by Scott Ferreter Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ANNUAL COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER: https://givebutter.com/c/4YG2D THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Apr 18, 202459 min

S1 Ep 120Sit w/Martín Prechtel

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Martín Prechtel, artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, and healer, as Prechtel offers his introduction as generous story-telling of ancestral lineage & answers the question: "Why say ‘yes’ to being on a podcast called 'You're Going to Die'?" martín prechtel's website: https://floweringmountain.com/ Please, Come Sit By My Fire - Martín Prechtel’s Audial Lecture Series - Talks from the Flowering Mountain: https://floweringmountain.com/pleasecomesitbymyfire/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ANNUAL COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER: https://givebutter.com/c/4YG2D THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Apr 11, 20241h 3m

S1 Ep 119Little by Little w/Jeremiah Fraites

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder of The Lumineers, American-Italian musician, composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, talking about the loss of his older brother when Jeremiah was just 14 years old. jeremiah fraites's website: https://lnk.bio/jeremiahfraites ig: https://www.instagram.com/jeremiahfraites/ the lumineers: https://www.thelumineers.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina ”Spirals” by Jeremiah Fraites SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ANNUAL COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER: https://givebutter.com/c/4YG2D THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Apr 4, 20241h 27m

S1 Ep 118It All Matters w/Sonya Renee Taylor

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times best-selling author of seven books, transformational thought leader, world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology. sonya renee taylor's website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/ venmo @sonyareneetaylor Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR ANNUAL COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER: https://givebutter.com/c/4YG2D THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Mar 28, 202456 min

S1 Ep 117To Coexist With Grief w/Hyunhye Seo

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 Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Mar 21, 202441 min

Bonus Episode w/Hyunhye Seo, Brenda Covarrubius, & Julie Lu

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 PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Become a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

Mar 21, 202454 min