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The Change Show with Simon PhillipsThe ChangeMan Interviews - with Karla CombresIn this engaging conversation, Simon Phillips interviews Karla Combres, a legacy guide and celebrant, who shares her journey from childhood aspirations to her current work in helping individuals navigate life's transitions through meaningful rituals and ceremonies. Karla discusses the importance of normalizing conversations around death, the role of community in ceremonies, and the courage it takes to connect with what truly matters in life. She emphasizes the significance of personal stories and shared humanity in creating impactful experiences, both in personal and professional settings. The conversation culminates in a beautiful musical reflection that encapsulates the essence of love and...
2025-12-1845 min
Here Comes the Celebrant PodcastSpecial Guest: Karla CombresWelcome to this conversation with Karla Combres, a Legacy Guide and Celebrant, who helps people live fully and leave meaningful legacies by honouring life’s milestones, making everyday moments matter, and capturing timeless memories—from birth to earth.Through personalized 1:1 guidance, transformative workshops, and custom ceremonies, she empowers individuals, families, and organizations to align their values with their actions and create lives of purpose and meaning.At the heart of her work is the philosophy of memento mori—a gentle yet profound reminder of our mortality that inspires us to cel...
2025-05-2453 min
Living Your LegacyKarla Combres - How Knowing Your Essential Values and Getting Your Story Straight Will Help YOU Live Into Your Legacy!Episode Highlights:Steps you can take to identify and align with your essential values.Why is it important to get your story straight when building your legacy?The concept of a legacy guide and how it can empower individuals to live a more purposeful life.How does living meaningfully impact one's sense of fulfillment and satisfaction in life?And much more! About Karla:As a Legacy Guide & Celebrant, Karla Combres helps people make the big and small moments in life count, and shape their legacy along the way. Over the past decade, she's h...
2024-05-2057 min
Get your goat: So you want to move to the country and raise goats - A podcast about changeSeason 3 / Episode 47: Karla Combres: Charting a Path from Civil Service to Honoring Life TransitionsHave you ever felt the gentle tug of your heart steering you in an unexpected direction? Karla Combres knows that feeling well, and she's here to share her story of leaping from a traditional career in the Canadian Federal Public Service to the deeply fulfilling calling as a legacy guide and life cycle celebrant. Her journey is a testament to the courage it takes to listen to life's whispers and follow your "heart crumbs," even when the path ahead is uncharted.Karla talks about the subtle yet persistent "niggle," that feeling of discontent that often lurks beneath...
2024-05-1327 min
Comforting Closure - Conversations with a Death DoulaEternal Echoes: The Art of Legacy StorytellingI'd love to hear from you! Send me a text message.In this episode, host Traci Arieli, an end-of-life doula and founder of Comforting Closure, sits down with Karla Combres, a legacy guide and celebrant. Join us as we talk about legacy storytelling and its impact on our lives. Karla shares her journey and insights into how storytelling shapes our identities, preserves our family histories, and connects us across generations. Whether you're interested in capturing your own life story, or simply looking for a deeper connection to your heritage, this episode offers a wealth of knowledge. ...
2024-02-0146 min
Life's UndertakingOrient Your Life - Rest in PeaceSpecial guest Karla Combres joins Brad and Mike as they discuss her work helping people to tap into their stories, values and beliefs as a legacy guide and celebrant. She does this through custom ceremonies, one-on-one guidance, and signature workshops, such as 'Orient Your Life, Rest In Peace' and 'Write Your Living Legacy'. Learn more at www.karlacombres.com.
2024-01-1837 min
The Connector Next Door with Lisa GareauKarla Combres, Life-Cycle Celebrant, Ceremony Guide, and Natural ConnectorSend us a textKarla Combres is a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, ceremony guide, facilitator, and speaker. She helps people to honour and celebrate life’s big moments – the joyful beginnings, difficult endings, and everything in between.She believes in the transformative power of meaningful, authentic, story-based ceremonies to connect and inspire us as we move through life’s transitions. After spending over a decade living, working, and studying in other cities and countries, Karla is grateful to make her home once more in Saskatoon - on Treaty 6 Territory and the homeland of the M...
2023-06-0229 min
The We Do Wedding PodcastKarla Combres: Life-Cycle Celebrant & OfficiantKarla Combres, celebrant and officiant in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, joined the We Do Wedding Podcast to take us on a deep dive into meaning making and how weddings (and all big life transitions) can be transformational moments.This was one of our deeper episodes, with topics ranging from ritual to grief to celebration, letting go to what we're saying goodbye to and opening up to what we're welcoming...it was emotional, ya'll.Karla works with people to make meaningful ceremony for all different kinds of life moments, including weddings but also births, deaths...
2023-03-1554 min
Ritual RecipesLove Knots - A Wedding RitualLong ago, when sailors navigated by the stars, when seabirds carried the spirits of sailors lost at sea, and when everyone knew that the bust of a naked woman on the bow of a ship would calm rough waters, a sailor would carry a cord with three knots. Bound in each was the wind itself. Inspired by the ancient lore of knots, I created the ritual "Love Knots" using the arbor knot, the lovers' knot, and the Celtic marriage knot, with possible additions of the double fisherman's knot, and the sailor's breastplate knot. The ritual can easily b...
2020-05-0214 min