In this episode, Susan shares her story of dying now that she has entered hospice for comfort care related to a progressive disease with no cure. She hopes to die peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones while sharing tall tales and laughter.

Susan McCue is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in the field of death, dying, and bereavement since 2005. Her career began first as a hospice social worker, then as a hospice bereavement counselor. After obtaining her LCSW, Susan opened a private therapy practice specializing in grief and loss, mainly focusing on bereavement needs following the immediate death of a loved one.

During this time, Susan also provided grief and loss presentations at the community, state, national, and international levels on topics including the difference between the natural process of grief and more complicated grief responses.

Susan’s personal background includes multiple deaths in her immediate family, which led to Susan’s interest and passion for the field of death, dying, and bereavement. She is one of nine children born in an Irish-American family. Her father died at age 64, her mother at age 69, and six of their nine children (Susan’s siblings) died in their 50s and 60s.

Susan finds her personal and professional life coming full circle now that she has entered hospice for comfort care related to her diagnosis of Pulmonary Fibrosis, a progressive disease with no cure. Susan’s brother and sister also died of this disease. Susan volunteers as a Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Ambassador to participate in PF research and to share her story with other PF patients, families, and loved ones affected by the disease. She hopes to die peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones while sharing tall tales and laughter.

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In this episode, Raymond shares how his interest in the afterlife began. The afterlife was very counterintuitive to his way of thinking. Yet today, he can't think his way out of it.

Raymond Moody is an MD with a Ph.D. in philosophy focused on unintelligibility.

Raymond, founder of the Life After Life Institute in 1975, coined the term near-death experience. Today, he is a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher, widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death and shared-death experiences. Dr. Moody's work profoundly illuminates our understanding of death, dying, and grief.

Raymond is the bestselling author of many books, including Life After Life, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, and Coming Back, and is co-author of Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife.

A counselor in private practice, Raymond received his medical degree from the College of Georgia and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has appeared on many programs, including Today and Turning Point.

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In this episode, Paul is asked, when, during your research in the afterlife, did you become a believer? Paul recalls a particular woman whose experience led him to believe her consciousness truly did leave her body.

Paul Perry is an author and documentary filmmaker intending to make media that matters. He has co-written several New York Times bestsellers, including The Light Beyond and Evidence of the Afterlife. He was knighted in Portugal for his film and book about Salvador Dalí, and the secret painting that changed his Life.

His latest books, Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from This Life to the Next, Paranormal: My Life In Pursuit of the Afterlife, and Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife are the most recent books he has co-written with Dr. Raymond Moody, the founder of near-death studies.

Paul is a graduate of Arizona State University and Antioch University.

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In this episode, Francesca shares how love, compassion, and intuition drew her to lean into a loved one's end of life as they transition to death and how that was the seed to becoming a death doula.

Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula and death literacy advocate. She is a researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and was the original course developer of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs.

Francesca authored Cultivating the Doula Heart, Map of Memory Lane, and The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared.

A trusted thought leader, Francesca has been featured in articles by The New York Times, Fast Company, Newsweek, The Verge, and AARP. She regularly presents on life-and-death topics, hoping to encourage people to support one another through times of intensity.

You can find her contemplating birth, death, and life with the doula heart at FrancescaLynnArnoldy.com.

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In this episode, Oshri shares how his grief connected him to a lifelong friend he never met and how they coauthored When Their Bodies Leave Them.

Oshri Hakak is an author, artist, and musician based in Los Angeles, CA, who creates to uplift. He especially loves creating illustrated books about unconventional topics for children and grown-ups to help people live more adaptive and happy lives.

Recently, Oshri coauthored an illustrated book about grief called When Their Bodies Leave Them.

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In this episode, Marie Antoinette shares about her childhood experiences with spirituality. Today, she believes death is not the end. Rather, it's a transition to the spiritual realm. It's a continuum of spirit.

Marie Antoinette Kelley is an award-winning artist who has done hundreds of commissioned portraits and art for the Angel Quest Oracle. She has appeared on dozens of TV, radio, and podcast shows and has been published in such magazines as Edge and Authority. In 2019, her bison portrait in the form of woven blankets began selling throughout Yellowstone National Park's general stores.

Today, Marie Antoinette comes to us as the author of Danny's Day in Heaven. Inspired by Dannion Brinkley's Saved by the Light and backed by research, Marie Antoinette dispels children's fears about the seeming finality of death by providing comfort and reassurance that life goes on through her transcendent illustrations and storytelling in this new book.

This illustrated children's book, Danny's Day in Heaven, introduces the near-death experience to help kids better understand what happens when we die.

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In this episode, Scott recalls the words of a hospice nurse caring for his father. During his end of life, she said, "Your father is on a wonderful adventure." That moment was so profound, it changed the trajectory of his life.

After nearly forty years as a high-profile trial attorney, Scott Grossberg shifted his focus to helping people create fearless and sacred lifestyles. His mission is to guide individuals in reconnecting with their boundless confidence, creativity, love, and excitement.

Drawing inspiration from various spiritual and shamanic traditions, Scott's work as a coach, trainer, and instructor is grounded in practicality, straightforwardness, and time-tested principles.

In addition to his coaching and consulting work, Scott is an author and content creator, focusing on topics such as life enrichment, mysticism, and divination. Scott's new book, "the unfinished book: a journal for the end of the journey" (and perhaps for those whose road still seems endless), is available now on Amazon.

Scott has a bachelor's degree in philosophy, a minor in Theatre Arts, and a juris doctorate in Law. He holds certifications in life coaching, consulting hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and Ho'oponopono.

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In this episode, Michele shares how difficult it was to find others who understand her grief as a newly bereaved widow, how she lost her sense of self, and the challenges she faced finding her new self.

Michele is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Soaring Spirits International, a non-profit organization providing peer support programming for widowed people worldwide, and is the author of Different After You: Rediscovering Yourself and Healing after Grief or Trauma published by New World Library in February of 2022. Her passion for supporting widowed people and the power of integration fuels her presentations and community activism.

Michele has received local, state, and national recognition for her work in founding Soaring Spirits, including a letter of recognition from then Vice President Joe Biden. In addition, Michele was named a 2021 Top Ten CNN Hero and was honored to share the stage with Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter.

Michele’s work is featured in an upcoming AppleTV docuseries and will be the focus of a PBS documentary available for streaming in 2023.

Michele resides in Simi Valley, California, and shares her life with her three amazing kids, their awesome partners, her grand-cats, and one very Australian husband.

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