There are very few people who can sit comfortably in the presence of death without flinching, and fewer still who can make that space feel alive, honest, and strangely liberating.

In this episode of Live Well, Leave Well, I am joined by Cheyenne Harper, known artistically as KING IV, a musician, performance artist, and modern psychopomp working at the intersection of music, ritual, and transformation.

Through her work, including the album Psychopomp, the new track The Other Side, and the immersive live performance FUNERAL, KING IV explores endings, shedding, and rebirth. Not as concepts, but as lived experiences. An embodied bravery that willingly enters the unseen, names what others avoid, and creates beauty and meaning from spaces many people only encounter through loss, illness, or crisis.

In this episode, Cheyenne and I speak about death as a teacher, art as a portal, and the power of meeting mortality with curiosity rather than fear. We explore what it means to consciously prepare for death, not morbidly, but devotionally, and how ritual, music, and presence can transmute grief into connection, agency, and love.

This conversation is an invitation to listen differently, to your body, your fears, your endings, and to consider what becomes possible when we stop turning away.

KING IV’s next performance of FUNERAL takes place at Midsumma Festival on January 29. This episode offers a glimpse into the world behind the work, and the work behind the becoming.

Links and Resources

Shed your grey being.

Buy tickets to FUNERAL here: https://linktr.ee/kingivsound

Midsumma Festival

Howler :: Jan 29

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

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Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

Gavin Blue is an award winning photographer, humanitarian, and the President of Heartfelt Australia and New Zealand.

For more than a decade, Gavin and his extraordinary team of over 320 volunteer photographers have quietly and reverently stepped into some of the most intimate and devastating moments a family can experience. Together, they offer free photographic memories when a baby dies before, during, or shortly after birth.

This is work done with deep presence.

With humility.

With radical compassion.

Gavin and the Heartfelt team meet families at the intersection of joy and grief, where love still exists even when hearts are breaking. Their photographs are not just images. They are legacy. Proof of love. A way of saying you were here, you mattered, and you are forever held.

This episode is tender, powerful, and deeply human. Please listen gently and take care of your heart.

Still frames. Eternal echoes.

One moment of presence. A single photograph, yet it echoes forever in the hearts of those left behind.

This conversation includes themes of stillbirth, baby loss, and grief. Please listen in a way that feels supportive for you.

Links & Resources:

💛 Griefline

Free, confidential grief support

📞 1300 845 745 (8 am to 8 pm AEST, 7 days)

🌐 griefline.org.au

💙 Lifeline

24-hour crisis support

📞 13 11 14

🌐 lifeline.org.au

💬 Beyond Blue

Support for anxiety, depression, and grief

📞 1300 22 4636

🌐 beyondblue.org.au

🤍 PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia)

Support for parents experiencing perinatal loss or distress

📞 1300 726 306

🌐 panda.org.au

📸 Heartfelt Australia - Please donate this Christmas!

Photographic memories for families experiencing stillbirth or child loss

🌐 heartfelt.org.au

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

Talk to LWELL here:

lwell.ai

Join the Deadicate community → deadicate.com/newsletter

Please support the podcast by leaving a rating and review!

Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)

Every second week, I’ll be sharing a short Storytime. Five to ten minutes to pause and reflect on something that’s stayed with me. Sometimes it will be thoughtful, sometimes funny, sometimes tender. Just musings, reflections, insights, and the occasional gentle nudge.

Storytelling is as old as time itself. Long before books or screens, we gathered to share stories, to pass on wisdom, meaning, and memory. Storytime matters because stories keep us connected. They build community. They remind us that we are not alone.

My hope is that in sharing these moments, something lands for you in a way that helps, comforts, or opens a small door you didn’t even know was there.

This podcast is hosted by Baci Hillyer.

For more about Baci & Dedicate, visit my website:

https://www.deadicate.com/

Talk to LWELL here:

lwell.ai

Join the Deadicate community → deadicate.com/newsletter

Please support the podcast by leaving a rating and review!

Recorded and Produced by Michael Burrows

(https://www.michaelburrowsmusic.com/)

Edited by Granger Lock @ Brand Music (https://brandmusic.com.au/)