Latest Ageinplace Podcast Episodes
How Amazon's Echo Empowers Family Caregivers
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - November 04, 2017 01:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsJoin me as OnGuardian founder and I talk about Brazil, his years in Angola, and how an unexpected crisis with his father back home led to the creation of OnGuardian, an advanced solution that empowers family caregivers by streamlining support, collaboration and access to information while provid...
Riding the Magic Milk Truck with Raja and Mark
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - July 31, 2017 02:56 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhat’s the best predictor of your child’s emotional well-being? It’s not great schools, hugs, or Pixar movies. Researchers at Emory University found that whether a kid knew their family history was the number one indicator. Raja Badr-el-Din and Mark Valentine of Ramblin’ Stories, both 23 years o...
"The heart of end-of-life care," with spiritual hospice Stephen Jenkins
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - June 18, 2017 16:54 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsStephen Jenkins is my good friend ~ we have known each other for over a decade. He stood by my side as I journeyed through some of the most harrowing and scary stretches of my life, always with encouragement, love, compassion, and when needed, a dose of good humor. It is no small surprise that h...
Where, How and Why to Choose Green Burial, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - March 29, 2017 18:08 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn part one of my interview with Ann Hoffner, author of The Natural Burial Cemetery Guide: A State-by-State Guide, we talked about where, how and why to choose a green burial. Ann chose a green burial for her own father, and after learning about how much better natural burial is for the environm...
Where, How and Why to Choose Green Burial, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - March 29, 2017 17:28 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsGreen cemeteries have been popping up like daisies, so Ann Hoffner wrote the definitive guide on where to find them, what they offer, how much they charge, and the story behind them. A green burial is one where the body is buried in a shroud or casket made of natural, biodegradable materials, wi...
"Home Sweet Death at Home" with Death Midwife Reverend Olivia Bareham
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - June 12, 2016 15:10 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis episode was recorded at the 6th Annual Afterlife and Awareness Conference in St. Louis, MO, where I had the pleasure of meeting Rev. Olivia Bareham of Sacred Crossings. You can hear the birds and breezes in the background as we sat under the sun in the hotel courtyard on a beautiful Missour...
"The Whole Cup of Life" with Sara Feldmann Sheehan and Bobby Sheehan, filmmakers
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - May 29, 2016 11:47 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings"There is hope in death if you drink from the whole cup of life. It makes the whole thing all right.” Wisdom not from beyond the grave, but close to it, and spoken by one of the the many people featured in the new film Mortal by filmmakers Sara Feldmann Sheehan and Bobby Sheehan. Featured are ...
"Good Vibrations" with Sound Therapist Pati Pellerito
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - May 20, 2016 20:31 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsI am back from the 6th Annual Afterlife and Awareness Conference where I had the honor of being the Master of Ceremonies. I met so many amazing people and learned new things about death and near death experiences (NDE) that really blew my mind. My creative juices were flowing, and one of my fell...
"Come Back as a Tree" with Bios Urn co-inventor Roger Moline Navarro
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - April 03, 2016 16:03 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBios Incube is the world´s first system designed to help grow the remains of your loved ones into trees.
"Three Near Death Experiences; One Abundant Life" with Robert Kopecky
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - March 06, 2016 14:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsRobert Kopecky is the author of the book "How to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond,” in which he writes about his three Near Death Experiences (NDE), and more importantly, what they taught him about how to live. Robert is an Emmy nominated art director. He ...
Something New
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - March 03, 2016 17:15 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe show has a slightly different sound and feel, thanks to a little persuasion from someone influential. We'll still be talking about death, dying and the afterlife, but with something new.
"New Rules for End of Life Care" with RN Barbara Karnes, veteran hospice nurse, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - January 21, 2016 12:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn part one of this interview we met Barbara Karnes who spent decades working as a Registered Nurse and was present for the deaths of hundreds of people. The observations she made during those sacred moments, and the lessons she learned, led Barbara to craft a new way to think about dying, one t...
"New Rules for End of Life Care" with RN Barbara Karnes, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - January 17, 2016 16:18 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhile at the bedside of hundreds of people during the dying process, my guest Barbara Karnes, a Registered Nurse, noticed that each death was following a near identical script. Each person was going through the stages of death in almost the same manner. And most families had the same questions. ...
"What the hell is hell?" with Gary Amirault, rogue Bible scholar and myth buster
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - December 20, 2015 19:35 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsI’ve been promising for some time now to take the show straight to hell and that time is now! I’m so excited to have my friend Gary Amirault on the show, but before I introduce him I want to explain some of the noises you might hear in the background. I’m celebrating the holidays with my wife’s ...
"They Serve Bagels in Heaven" with author Irene Weinberg, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - December 07, 2015 11:03 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThis is part two of a two part interview with Irene Weinberg, author of They Serve Bagels in Heaven. In part one, we learned about how Irene’s husband Saul was tragically killed in a car accident that also left Irene severely injured. As Irene began to heal and put the pieces of her life back to...
"They Serve Bagels in Heaven" with author Irene Weinberg, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - November 19, 2015 00:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn 1997, Irene Weinberg and her beloved husband Saul were driving home when their SUV went into a skid, flipped multiple times, and careened off the road. Irene, severely injured, turned to her husband but knew instantly that he was dead. That day, as tragic as it was, began a new chapter in Sau...
"And in the End" with David Dedrick of Compleatly Beatles, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - November 01, 2015 16:06 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYou may recall from a few months ago my interview with David Dedrick from the Compleatly Beatles podcast, when we talked about how death affected the lives and music of the Beatles. That was Part One. Well it’s been a long and winding road since then and now, but Part Two is here and it is a per...
"A fun, flexible, hassle-free way to crowdsource a memorial" with Dana Ostomel of Deposit A Gift
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - September 19, 2015 23:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHere’s a little story about the famous Swiss psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung. It’s been said that whenever a friend reported enthusiastically, "I was promoted at work!" Jung would say, "I'm very sorry to hear that; but if we all stick together, I think we will get through it.” And if a friend ...
"I do not smoke my work!" with cremains artist Daniel Ortega of Earthwerks
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - August 28, 2015 18:47 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHe was in the nude, doing the tree pose on a bluff in Oaxaca, Mexico, when a shaman told Daniel Ortega he would be a healer. And so he has, mixing the cremated remains of humans and animals with hemp, ash, stone and other organic materials to create stunningly beautiful paintings and backlit kee...
"Witch Way to Go," with Kat the Wiccan Mortician, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - July 09, 2015 12:29 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHey there tigers and tigresses! So good to have you all back. In my last show, I had a wonderful time talking with Kat the Wiccan Mortician, who dropped out of mortuary school to pursue her advocacy for a more sensitive way to care for the dead and dying. We pick it back up with Kat now in Part...
"Witch Way to Go," with Kat the Wiccan Mortician, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - July 03, 2015 12:49 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAhoy me lads and lassies! Did ye think I was lost at sea? Well I was, kind of. My youngest daughter got married last Saturday, and for those of you who’ve been involved with a wedding, you know how that can keep a person busy. But I’m back with a bunch of new shows that I think you are going to...
"Art + Urn = Artisurn. How to keep beautifully," with Irina Jordan of artisurn.com
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - April 26, 2015 14:10 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFrom the musical "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd-Webber Memory Turn your face to the moonlight Let your memory lead you Open up, enter in If you find there The meaning of what happiness is Then a new life will begin What a lovely notion, and one I believe in. We live, we die, we ar...
"Lose Your Fear and Cut a New and Better Life Groove" with Jon Underwood of The Death Cafe
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - March 14, 2015 16:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYour brain is plastic. No, I didn’t say your brain is made out of plastic, I said your brain is plastic, as in easily shaped or molded. Neuroscientists tells us that by dwelling on a thought, good or bad, we cut a new groove in our gray matter, which then influences our behavior. Even of you’re ...
"From Earth to Earth ~ Respectfully Composting Human Remains" with Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, Founder of Promessa, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - February 06, 2015 00:57 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWelcome back to my interview with Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, founder of the Promessa system, which uses advanced technology to mimic nature’s process of rapidly breaking down dead things and returning them to earth. We’re talking human compost here folks. I personally would like to have my remains spr...
"From earth to earth ~ Respectfully Composting Human Remains" with Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, Founder of Promessa, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - January 28, 2015 01:38 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSoil. Humus. Earth. Loam. Compost. For me, these words all conjure up good feelings of green, growing things, of vitality, and of vibrant life on our glorious blue planet. And so it was for Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, a gardener and University trained biologist who wondered, “Why can’t human remains be...
"American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning" with author Kate Sweeney
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - December 13, 2014 20:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSex. Death. Art. Monkey brain transplants. You'll hear about all that and more in my interview with Kate Sweeney, Public Radio journalist and author of the book "American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning." From the crooked tombstones of an almost forgotten Victorian cemetery, to ...
"Green Burial. As Below, So Above" with Joe Sehee, Founder of the Green Burial Council, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - November 02, 2014 14:11 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHonor the dead. Heal the living. Invite in the divine. What a beautiful mission statement, and one adopted by the Green Burial Council, which was founded by my guest Joe Sehee. Only a former Jesuit lay minister and street entertainer would come up with something that heartfelt, which is why Joe ...
"Green Burial. As Below, So Above" with Joe Sehee, Founder of the Green Burial Council, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - October 26, 2014 12:57 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYou pick up a bottle of laundry detergent at the grocery store, and it's labeled “green” and is twice the price of regular detergent. But is it really safer for the environment? Often we just don’t know. Well it turns out green standards for the funeral industry are just as murky and unregulated...
"A Skull a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" with Noah Scalin, Part 2 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - September 29, 2014 01:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn episode nine I introduced you my friend, skull artist and fellow Virginian Noah Scalin, whose book of Skulls caught my eye while I was perusing the back of a shop in Charleston, South Carolina a few years ago. Every skull Noah creates is made from a different materials, from turnips to ...
"And in the End, the Love You Make" with David Dedrick, Part 1 of 2
Dance Past Sunset Podcast - September 05, 2014 01:22 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsI think it’s safe to say that the Beatle’s were one of the most influential and innovative rock bands in the history of the genre. The power and impact of their music is hard to overstate. Ever since I first heard them on the Ed Sullivan show in the early 60’s, I knew the Beatle’s were special, ...
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