Play This At My Funeral

Episode 7: Katie Cline

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💐 Episode Summary

Two comms queens wax nostalgic about their dance team roots and mutual TypeA tendencies. Our seventh guest Katie Cline (award-winning publicist, podcast host, and short-term rental expert) brings realness, and reveals why we have to bring humor and levity into even the darkest moments. Will you get plenty of music recommendations and hear songs you haven’t thought about in maybe twenty years? Absolutely. But you’ll also walk away with a new respect for facing the sad, scary moments with honesty.

💿 Songs Mentioned

  1. “Cherry On Top” by Jake Owen

  2.  “You Are The Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne 

  3. “Unsteady – Justin Caruso Remix” by X Ambassadors, Justin Caruso

  4. “Dancing On Glass” by St. Lucia

  5. “Hands Down” by Dashboard Confessional

  6. “Helena” by My Chemical Romance

  7. “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” by OutKast

  8. “The Real” by Busty and the Bass

  9. “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel

You can listen to Katie’s playlist on Spotify.

🎙 About the Guest

Katie Cline is an award-winning publicist, hospitality veteran and short-term rental expert. She’s the host of two podcasts—Second Home First and Suite Success: Masters of Hospitality—and the creator of the free weekly newsletter at BuyYourSecondHomeFirst.com, where she helps readers turn their dream of owning a vacation home into a practical wealth-building strategy. Katie led global communications for iconic hotel brands including The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, & W Hotels in both New York and London. Today, she brings those five-star insights to her own short-term rentals in upstate NY: Trout Landing (near Lake George), Gallant Fox (in Saratoga Springs), & The Lazy Oar (on Seneca Lake). An obsessive traveler and dual citizen of the U.S. and Ireland, Katie can typically be found trying a new restaurant in Astoria (NYC) with her husband; schooling her British-born toddler on the magnificence of NY bagels; or researching her next investment property while snuggling her newborn son.

🌹 About Play This At My Funeral

Play This At My Funeral is a deeply fun, slightly macabre, always heartwarming show about the songs that shape our lives — and the ones we’d play at our funerals. Each episode invites a guest to curate the playlist for their own (hypothetical) send-off and share the stories that made those songs matter. 

In each episode, host Dinah invites a guest on to talk through the soundtrack of their life: the songs that have held them in moments of anguish, haunted them on the regular, and maybe just maybe even saved them. It’s a cozy, 45-minute-ish journey through meaningful lyrics, vivid memories, and the emotional mixtapes that mark our most human moments.

Think Desert Island Discs meets Films To Be Buried With — but with more vibes and fewer survival scenarios.

The show is created and hosted by Dinah Susan Alobeid and is edited and co-produced by Alice Marcondes. 

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🎙 About the Host

Dinah Susan Alobeid is a writer, dancer, and VP of Communications & Content by day (not always in that order). She’s the creator and host of the newly launched “Play This At My Funeral” podcast. Her fiction has appeared in Porter House Review, Five on the Fifth, and Reverie Literary Magazine and her nonfiction and poetry can be found in Spectrum Magazine, MediaPost, and more. She lives in New Jersey (even though she’s a born and bred New Yorker) with her partner and their rambunctious toddler. 

I hearby declare that I do not own the rights to any music or lyrics played during the recording of this podcast. All rights to the music and audio belong to their respective owner(s).