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KKIT Creations33| Lauren Kennedy
Season 5, Episode 8: Lauren Kennedy on Pets, Death, and Dignity
I found Lauren Kennedy on TikTok doing breathtaking end-of-life photography sessions for beloved family pets, often taken just hours before a schedule vet appointment. It turns out she also founded The Tilly Project, a national resource for creating end-of-life memories for families and their pets. Our conversation went deep on how we love and care for each other as well as our pets.
Guest Website: The Tilly Project
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NERDS Audio DramasThis Bird is Broken: The Intricacies of Romance and RavensBetween his deadbeat dad, trying to rule the province of Mifference, and dealing with a zombie dog virus, Lord Elfton Johnes has enough on his plate. When a messenger raven goes haywire suddenly there’s even more for him to deal with. But maybe he won’t have to do it alone.STARRING:LORD ELFTON JOHNES: Natalie DixonMADGE THE MAGE/DUKE SCHNITZEL- Alec BayonetoPAIRY THE FAIRY/REED- Erin RuarkKKIT THE KITSUNE/UMICHEDU- Janice HuangWritten, directed, and edited by Bailey Redler, Cory Plotzke, and Lili...2022-04-1525 minKKIT CreationsSocial Stomach
Season 5, Episode 7: WeCroak Has A Baby: The Social Stomach App
Hansa and Ian, the guys who brought the world WeCroak, announce their second app called Social Stomach. It’s an app for waking up to the power of social eating, one of the simplest lifestyle changes you can make, besides contemplating death often, to feel more satisfied with life. We go into the research and how it works. If you like the WeCroak style of apps, you might want to give this podcast a listen.
New App! Social Stomach
Download the WeCroak app, as...2022-03-0720 minKKIT Creations36| Katie Engelhart
Season 5, Episode 6: Katie Engelhart’s Dispatches on the Right to Die
I’ve never been so uncomfortable reading a book about death or having a discussion. Katie Englehart’s book The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die is a master work of journalism about people who say they are not suicidal and believe they have a right to die because of age or sickness. The issues raised in this book get to the heart of big questions like what real empathy looks like and how we think about the sanctity of life, capitalism and a host of oth...2021-10-251h 03KKIT Creations35| Massimo Pigliucci
Season 5, Episode 5: Massimo Pigliucci on Choosing a Good Life
Massimo Pigliucci was the first guest we ever had on the WeCroak Podcast. In that episode we talked about his adult decision to commit to Stoicism as a life philosophy. Today, we talk about his new book, “How to Live a Good Life,” about all the best practical philosophies for living that he could find and what a life living along those principles might be like with guest essays from thinkers who have lived it. It’s like a menu of life philosophies for people who want to choose...2021-09-251h 10KKIT Creations34| Clay Risen
Season 5, Episode 4: Clay Risen from the NYT Obit Pages
This is a conversation about death, who gets remembered and how we write stories about the departed. We are joined by Clay Risen who writes for The New York Times Obituaries page so expect a lot of your host nerding out about obits and the big issues they brings up during a pandemic and in everyday life. Who gets remembered by the first draft of history? Why? Find out from one of the writers making these choices.
Guest Website: ClayRisen.com
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Season 5, Episode 3: Emily Nagoski PHD on Burnout
This is a conversation about how everything is connected. We speak with Emily Nagoski about burnout, that feeling of overwork and overwhelm and how it connects to things far outside of stressful jobs and schedules. It comes down to, she argues, how we buy into major wrong assumptions about our world. Nagoski wrote this book with women in mind but we think the book and this conversation is for everyone.
Guest Website: EmilyNagoski.com
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Season 5, Episode 2: Dr. René Najera on the History of Vaccines
When we forget our history, we lose our context for the present and the future. The past year has been a return to humankind’s historic relationship with mass death caused by disease. Early vaccines were a breakthrough that picked winners in fights for global power and helped a lot of people reach adulthood and live healthier happier lives. I thought I knew a lot of history but this conversation blew my mind.
Guest Website: History Of Vaccines
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KKIT Creations31| Dr. Nikki Mirghafori
Season 5, Episode 1: Dr. Nikki Mirghafori on Death & Mindfulness Retreats
Today we talk about Buddhism, Technology and why you might want to go to a seven day death and mindfulness retreat with meditation teacher Dr. Nikki Mirghafori.
Guest Website: NikkiMirghafori.com
Guest Website: One Day Retreat: Jan 30, 2021
Guest Website: Five Day Retreat: Feb 11 – Feb 15, 2021
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New: Ask Death Advice Column
Sounds by James Mercer
2021-01-261h 07KKIT Creations30| Casper ter Kuile
Season 4, Episode 5: Casper ter Kuile on The Power of Ritual
Six years ago, Casper Ter Kuile started reading the Harry Potter series as a sacred text on his hit podcast downloaded over 22 million times. Now he has a whole lot more rituals inspired by practice that can be adapted to our more secular lives in his new book. We talk about the benefits and the downsides of DIY ritual and why the phenomenon is here to stay.
Guest Website: Caspertk.com
Guest Website, Pre-order: Ritual Life Planner
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Season 4, Episode 4: Heather Christle on Crying
In this conversation we look at crying and tears in countless ways good and bad with poet Heather Christle. It’s about why we do it, what it feels like, and how tears bring out both the best and the worst in us.
Further Reading: The Crying Book
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New: Ask Death Advice Column
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2020-11-201h 03KKIT Creations28| Massimo Riva
Season 4, Episode 3: Massimo Riva on The Decameron
In 1348 the Black Death Plague took as a third of the population. In Florence Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron in response to the plague, a classic that has lasted down the ages. We have on Professor Massimo Riva to talk about this book which has so much wisdom for the present day.
Further Reading: Decameron Web
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New: Ask Death Advice Column2020-11-1259 minKKIT Creations27| Long Litt WoonSeason 4, Episode 2: Long Litt Woon on Mushrooming and Mourning This is a conversation about grief and how Long Litt Woon found her way back to feeling alive by following forest paths looking for mushrooms. It’s about how only knowledge can protect you from a poisonous mushroom and how one needs all the senses […]2020-10-2143 minKKIT Creations26| Donald RobertsonSeason 4, Episode 1: Donald Robertson on How to Think Like a Roman Emperor You know who else thought about death often? Ancient Roman Stoics including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In this episode we chat about what practical philosophy meant to these powerful practitioners and why it feels so modern. A not to be missed […]2020-10-071h 29KKIT Creations25| Dr. Sunita PuriSeason 3, Episode 8: Dr. Sunita Puri Talks That Good Night Dr. Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California. We talk on this episode about her new book, “That Good Night: Life and Medicine in […]2020-06-031h 03KKIT Creations24| Alex EbertSeason 3, Episode 7: Alex Ebert Contemplating Zero Alex Ebert is the lead singer of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and an American singer songwriter and composer. The first rock star on the WeCroak Podcast, Alex Ebert talks about how important contemplating death has been to his creative process. Download our app, […]2020-05-2254 minKKIT Creations23| Shoshana UngerleiderSeason 3, Episode 6: Shoshana Ungerleider – The People Trying to Change How We Die Doctor Shoshana Ungerleider is the founder of the End Well Project, working to change how the medical profession treats the dying. We talk about her involvement in award winning Netflix documentaries and the End Well conference working to change the […]2020-04-0945 minKKIT Creations22| Rebecca GoldsteinSeason 3, Episode 5: Rebecca Goldstein – Why Mattering Matters Rebecca Goldstein is an award-wining philosopher and novelist, an unexpected combination from an original thinker. We talk about her latest work on why mattering matters to us and how the search for a more meaningful life is essential to our mental health and well-being. We […]2020-04-0251 min