Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, a formerly incarcerated activist, owner of Re:Frame LLC, and the award-winning author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future. California’s Governor Brown commuted his life sentence after twenty-one years for his community work. He lives in Oakland, California where he coaches writers engaged with the challenge of translating complex ideas into accessible narratives.

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver's website: https://www.reframeconsults.com/ substack: https://emiledeweaver.substack.com/ Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: https://thenewpress.org/books/ghost-in-the-criminal-justice-machine/ resource guide for Men's Work, available on Payhip: https://payhip.com/reframeshop "Grief and the 2024 Presidential Election": https://emiledeweaver.substack.com/p/grief-and-the-2024-presidential-election

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Host Ned Buskirk speaks with ahlay blakely, a Seattle-based singer-songwriter and community grief practitioner whose work explores more-than-human kinship, ancestral memory, and collective lament through participatory song and ritual. Rooted in Ashkenazi, Scandinavian, and British folk lineages, her practice brings together decolonial inquiry, depth psychology, and ecological devotion to address the entanglements of trauma, extraction, and ecological rupture, expressed through community singing projects including WAILS: Songs for Grief and Anthems for an Apocalypse.

ahlay blakely's anthems for an apocalypse: https://www.healingattheroots.com/anthemsforanapocalypse wails album: http://www.healingattheroots.com/wailshome Monthly Newsletter: https://www.healingattheroots.com/ Reciprocity: https://www.healingattheroots.com/reciprocity Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alexandrablakely Bandcamp: https://ahlayblakely.bandcamp.com/album/spells-from-the-unknown Website: https://www.healingattheroots.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexandra_blakely/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexandrablakely3152/videos

Learn more about Singing Resistance - a movement of singers across the US singing in grief, power, and solidarity that Jordan and Ned reference at the end of the episode - here: https://www.instagram.com/singingresistance/

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Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Kazu Haga, trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. His work weaves together spiritual practice, trauma healing and nonviolent action to advance social change and move towards collective liberation.

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Host Ned Buskirk speaks with poet and philosopher Mark Nepo, a teacher in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over 50 years. With over a million copies sold, Mark has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. A beloved poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time,” “a consummate storyteller,” and “an eloquent spiritual teacher.” A cancer survivor, Mark writes and teaches from the heart, exploring what it means to have the life we want by being present to the life we have. His new book, coming out May 26th, 2026, is The Language of the Soul: How the Words You Choose Shape the Life You Live.

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In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with author and licensed psychotherapist Lisa Olivera. Highlighted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Good Morning America, and The Guardian, the writer, adoptee, mother, and creator of the Human Stuff newsletter has worked in schools, community-based mental health, and private practice. Her latest book, When the Ache Remains, will be out this April. She lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter and two cats.

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"It was so monumentous. How do you live? I didn't know who I was. And this clear thought came to me: You have two choices here. You can curl up and become a bitter old woman, because it's not fair what happened to you. OR you can surrender - it's happened. And go forward, however you do, and walk that open-hearted path towards healing."

- Dr. Kaye Cleave in the wake of her daughter's death In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with Dr. Kaye Cleave. Her children's picture book—A Kangaroo Tale—helped raise funds to build a school in a remote Nepalese village in memory of her daughter. Her award-winning documentary, Catherine’s Kindergarten, about the death of her daughter and the life Kaye has lived to grieve, honor and celebrate her, has screened at film festivals world-wide. Kaye is currently on the Advisory Board for Impact Schools in Nepal and co-leads Grief & Healing Retreats at Laguna Writers in San Francisco.

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In this episode of You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo, internationally renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Harjo is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light, American Sunrise, which won a 2020 Oklahoma Book Award, and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. In addition to poetry, she has published several award-winning children’s books, prose collections, plays, and two memoirs, including Crazy Brave, which was awarded the PEN USA Literary Award and the American Book Award. Harjo has edited several anthologies, including When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through—A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, and has produced seven award-winning music albums, including Winding Through the Milky Way, for which she was awarded a NAMMY for Best Female Artist of the year. Her many honors include Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, a 2022 National Humanities Medal, and the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, among others. Currently the Ruth Yellowhawk Fellow at the Kettering Foundation, Harjo has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center. She lives on the Muscogee Nation Reservation in Oklahoma with her husband, Owen Sapulpa.

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Host Ned Buskirk speaks with Dale Borglum, founder and director of the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He is the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project, the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook [with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner], and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice.

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