Báyò 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.

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báyò’s
website: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/ 
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand 
twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe 

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Sit 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'?"

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Please, Come Sit By My Fire - Martín Prechtel’s Audial Lecture Series - Talks from the Flowering Mountain: https://floweringmountain.com/pleasecomesitbymyfire/

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Little 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.

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It 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.

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To 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.

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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.

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Conscious Grieving w/Claire Bidwell Smith

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith, a licensed therapist, international speaker, & author, while they talk about her newest book, Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss, out March 12th 2024!

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Singing to the Plants w/Justin Robinson

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, ethnobotanist, and culinary historian Justin Robinson, while they talk about the genocides of plant lives, cultivating relationship to plant species and plant individuals beginning with communication, and the work of ancestral relations.

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No Chance to Grieve w/Rachel Cargle

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, activist, entrepreneur, & philanthropic innovator, while they talk about the death of her Mother, Sister, & Grandmother, all just in the last year, & the powerfully potent process of grieving with curiosity.

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ig: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle
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retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone, NC - April 5-7th, 2024: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/rachel-cargle/a-renaissance-of-our-own/
book - A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635409/a-renaissance-of-our-own-by-rachel-e-cargle/
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The How w/Krista St-Germain

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, while they talk about her husband's death in 2016, how her life was flipped upside down, and how therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position and move on to discover Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth, and the tools she needed to create a meaningful life after loss.

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We Blossom w/Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, bereaved mom, founder of the MISS Foundation, author of "Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, & the Heartbreaking Path of Grief", Arizona State University Professor & director of its Graduate Certificate in Trauma & Bereavement Program, while they talk about the death of her daughter in 1994, how it led to her work in the world, & the story of founding the Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the United States & a haven for animals rescued from abuse, neglect, & torture.

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dr. jo’s
website: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/
selah carefarm: https://www.missfoundation.org/selah-carefarm/
”open letter to grievers”: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/an-open-letter-to-grievers
book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bearing-the-Unbearable/Joanne-Cacciatore/9781614292968

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No Tragedy Please w/Dan Mangan

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician and songwriter Dan Mangan, while they talk about how death and endings foster gratitude and give meaning to life, how sorrowful music connects community, and how trauma/grief/loss might be the one thing that  unites us more than anything else.

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phone number: 310.347.4597 (USA & Canada)

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The Sum of a Life w/Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University & the widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air, while they talk about her ongoing relationship to Paul, his impact/presence in her life still, & parenting their daughter in the wake of his death.

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twitter: https://twitter.com/rocketgirlmd
podcast GRAVITY: https://lucykalanithi.com/podcast

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Caring Across Generations: https://caringacross.org/

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Is It Ever Enough? w/John Craigie

Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak find a way into his music.

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State of the Pod w/Ned Buskirk & Nick Jaina

Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk & producer Nick Jaina as they ring in the [Happy?] New Year with some fresh commitments & a new precious perk for our Patreon community.

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Grief Dust w/Madison Girifalco

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with immersive installation artist, puppet-fabricator, & children’s book author Madison Girifalco, while they talk about grief, community connection, & support in her life & work with Holding Space, an art installation designed to acknowledge grief in community using immersive art & puppetry.

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www.puppetsbymadison.com
ig: https://www.instagram.com/mindovermadison/
Holding Space ig: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/

“Lunch Breaks w/Holding Space” on IG LIVE @holdingspaceLA, Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 12:30 PST: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/

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Everything About You w/Erika Wright

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Erika Wright, while they talk about the story, the plant medicine, the spiritual path, that led to their self-appointed work as a codependency counselor, our society's relationship to grief & vulnerability, & how we've been programmed to avoid hard feelings & the truth behind them.

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healing codependency support & counseling groups: https://erikawright.org/healing-codependency-support-counseling-group/
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chocolate company: https://supahstah.com/
transformational women's retreats: https://madeofstars.co/

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Brotherhood w/Adam Jackson

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Adam Jackson, Sacred Sons cofounder, Chief Visionary Officer, & the host of Sacred Sons Podcast, while they talk about how his lineage of loss & suicide led to his work with Sacred Sons, processing grief & anger with men, community building & purpose fueled by our mortality.
TRIGGER WARNING: suicide

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All Of It w/Andy the Doorbum

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, visual/performance artist, & poet Andy the Doorbum, while they talk about his father's death process that inspired his new album, "OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT,” & how the album morphed into a grieving for the world & its current troubles.

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Our Tears Water a Heart That's Been Too Dry w/Frank Ostaseski

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Frank Ostaseski, internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, & founder of the Metta Institute - while they talk about remaining vulnerably present in service of patients, how we should let our tears run instead of hiding them, & moving beyond the idea of a good death.

This conversation originally aired July 8th, 2021.

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