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Podcast Conversations Compilation

Interview with Carmen Spagnola on The Numinous Podcast (2023)

I loved this conversation with Carmen, who asked some really insightful questions, including how I grapple holding ancestral healing work as both someone who has chosen not to have kids, and as a white person in a dominant culture that is disrupted from intact village experiences. I enjoyed her opening question on what identities I lead with, and inviting me to share about my childhood essence alongside the complex experience of neglect and how this has shaped my grief and resiliency work.

Interview with Jono Fisher on The Medicine of Grief (2023)

I don't know if I have ever been in my heart this much for a podcast experience - this felt more like a blessing, invocation, and a soulful communion. We speak to the larger currents of resiliency including the wisdom of our bodies, our hearts, our ancestors, the natural world, ritual healing, imagination and other ways of perceiving. Jono has a beautiful way of holding space, and some may recognize his name as the former Executive Director of Sounds True, Founder of the Wake Up Project and other significant roles in mindfulness and leadership. Enjoy!

Interview with The Becoming Podcast (2022)

I appreciated being invited to speak with Jessie Harrold on her podcast. This is the first time I open up publicly about my mom's death within the complicated relationship we had, and the resulting grief and liberation I have experienced. It felt vulnerable and healing to do so, and I dedicate this to anyone who has a complicated relationship with their mom. We also speak about relating to grief as an elder, how cultural influences who 'gets to grieve', and speak to the recent DSM-5 inclusion of "prolonged grief disorder".

Interview with Belonging (2020)

Becca Piastrelli's podcast Belonging has so many amazing conversations - I do recommend checking out many of her guest interviews. Together we talk about questioning our relationship with grief, grief as an offering, the need to be witnessed in grief, disenfranchised grief, and inherited resilience vs. inherited trauma.

Interview with Dreaming Ancestors (2020)

In this episode with Tara Wild, we talk about why grief is sacred and how our ancestors might have related to the birth, death and rebirth cycle. We delve into cultural stigma around grieving and how grief can be a doorway into soul initiations. I share a little about my experience relearning the Old Norse Seiðr tradition, and we talk about the importance of embodiment in navigating grief.

Interview with The Creative Ritual Podcast (2020)

Yarrow Magdalena is a delight and also offers amazing work on anti-capitalist small business coaching,and rituals for grief and liberation. Check them out. I share about rituals of grief and resilience during times of crisis. We share our thoughts on embodiment, and sharing about the grief that arises around this, the body as a metabolizing force for emotions, and how this relates to reckoning with ancestral histories, and committing to Life. And how healing is political - there is possibility and emergence in pandemic and uncertainty.

Interview with Bespoken Bones (2019)

Bespoken Bones is a really great podcast and it was a delight to be a guest. Pavini asks great questions - we spoke about what it means to commit to being fully incarnate (which for me includes a car accident experience), the relationship between grief and erotic wellness, and a snapshot into my ancestral pilgrimage reconciling histories of harm and resilience within and between my lineages related to religious persecution. I also share a song.

Interview with Women Leading Change (2019)

It isn't often that I get to speak more directly about leadership, and my own journey and fears around continuing to step more fully into my leadership capacities. We cover soul alignment, power and privilege, holding tension, what it means to be congruent, following intuition, and relearning grieving... all of this in the soup of dominant cultural values that dismiss and stigmatize some of our fundamental human experiences that lead to transformation and wisdom. A great 40:00 minutes, and Laureen is a wonderful interviewer. What a pleasure!

Interview on The Shift Network - Ancestral Healing Summit (2019)

Join me for a rich conversation and teachings on grieving, ritual and ancestral connection and healing. Lisa Bonnice and I cover a lot of ground, and the content is very relevant to what I offer through Sacred Grief programs. It was an honor to be a part of this Summit with over 42,000 people tuning in from around the world.

Interview on The Obstacle Course Podcast (2019)

Andrew and John of Obstacle Course podcast are a comedic duo who also have a gift of drawing out beautiful and depth conversation. Linda Hunter and I (co-visionaries of Deathly Matters - a community conference) speak to death and life, sharing many wisdom bits and ah-ha moments along the way. From the mouths of the hosts:

"This is one of the most hopeful and inspiring conversations we've ever had and you should listen to this immediately and share it with everyone you know. Linda Hunter and Shauna Janz are seasoned life and death guides and are incredibly articulate on all matters relating to both. In this episode, we discuss matters of life and death and what you'll find is there is a beauty to both. Enjoy this one everyone, it's incredible!!"

Intro starts at 10:00 minutes, and the conversation gets going at the 13:00 minute mark!

Interview with Full Circle - KPFA Radio, Berkeley (2018)

An engaging conversation with folks at Full Circle alongside Pinar Atesh Sinopoulos-Lloyd of Queer Nature, and Bre Williams of PEERS. We speak of healing and resiliency as it intersects with mental health, suicide, oppression, racism, and dominant culture. There are complex multi-layered experiences that impacts us personally and collectively; this conversation focuses more specifically on broader societal perspectives, rather than the realities of biological factors in mental health. I extend care to all those who have had someone in their life die by suicide.

Interview with CFAX - Vancouver Island (2016)

CFAX Real Parenting radio interview about grief, holidays, family, and how to speak with children and youth about loss.