

You’re Going to Die: The Podcast
You’re Going to Die
A creatively conscious mortality podcast for a 501(3) nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death and dying, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality. For more info on You’re Going to Die check out www.yg2d.com.
Episodes
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Sep 5, 2024 • 1h 6min
Suppression w/Tim Kinsella
Join host Ned Buskirk in a creatively conscious mortality conversation with Chicagoan musician, author, and actor Tim Kinsella, whose previous bands include Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Owls, and now makes albums w/his wife Jenny Pulse for the Kill Rock Stars label.
tim kinsella's
ig: https://www.instagram.com/gootiming/
tim kinsella & jenny pulse's
website: https://bio.site/kinsella_pulse
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
"WTF is Death?" by Good F#@k
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Aug 29, 2024 • 1h 2min
Old Soul w/Caitlin Jemma
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with indie musician and singer-songwriter Caitlin Jemma. Her newest album A Wider View is inspired by themes such as death, generational heartbreak, forgiveness, transformation, compassion, and true love, exploring the larger perspective we gain when someone we love passes and how embracing your mortality can inspire a life full of purpose.
caitlin jemma’s
website: https://www.caitlinjemma.com/
Recorded at 3rd Street Studio - Rita House in Los Angeles: www.ritahouse.com/studio
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 22, 2024 • 1h 48min
Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons - LIVE at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley
You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Concert & Conversation w/Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Saturday, August 17th, 2024...
Join us for an enlivening episode of holding the light & dark in community, with a live recorded conversation and Q&A with New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist/thought leader, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology Sonya Renee Taylor & the composing/performing/grief-working, dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, featuring music from The Bengsons, hosted by You're Going to Die's Ned Buskirk.
sonya renee taylor's
website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/
the bengsons’
website: https://www.bengsons.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/
Recorded by Nick Jaina
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Sound Engineered by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Additional Songs by The Bengsons
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
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Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 5min
If I Had One Year Left w/Laurel Braitman
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with bestselling author, speaker, educator, and a trailblazer in the field of medical storytelling, Laurel Braitman. Laurel inspires healing and mental wellness through storytelling in her books and her work as the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts program. As a thought leader in mental health, Laurel writes and teaches about healing, grief, and emotional wellbeing for all of us—humans and other animals—as reflected in her new memoir What Looks Like Bravery, about resilience born from loss.
laurel braitman’s
website: https://www.laurelbraitman.com/
substack: https://laurelbraitman.substack.com
TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wk53Pt_0E
End Well Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcUIK51Fio
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 30min
In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Abigail Bengson, one half of the composing / performing / grief-working & dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, talking about dissolving ravenously into the awe-filled urgent enoughness of loving & grieving LIFE.
This conversation originally aired June 8th, 2023.
the bengsons’
website: https://www.bengsons.com/
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebengsons
ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU.
Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Aug 1, 2024 • 1h 3min
METAL w/Carla Harvey
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author, musician, artist, grief coach and thanatologist Carla Harvey, who has spent over 15 years navigating the death industry and is passionate about bringing awareness to the death positive movement, writing about aging, grief, death and dying in a way that will appeal to a new generation of people with non-traditional lives.
carla's
website: https://www.goodgriefla.com/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/carlaharvey/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 8min
Keep Going w/Amanda Nagai & Chelsea Coleman
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends Amanda Nagai and Chelsea Coleman, as they talk about suicide, the impact of a personal loss like this, and their creative expression navigating this kind of death in community. Amanda is a storyteller, ritualist, artist, and designer focused on the transformative power of grief and the need for embodied collective ways to walk paths of mourning and healing together. Chelsea is a singer songwriter, the Creative Director of You’re Going to Die and head of its publishing program.
amanda's
book: https://www.yg2d.com/publishing
website: https://www.croneintraining.life/
chelsea's
album: https://chelseacoleman.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-days
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 18, 2024 • 1h 3min
Grief Camp w/Jesse Moss
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jesse Moss, Director of Marketing at Experience Camps, in charge of developing strategies and content to create a more grief-sensitive culture and advocate for grieving children. Experience Camps is an award-winning national nonprofit that transforms the lives of grieving children through summer camp programs and innovative, year-round initiatives. Through compassion, connection, and play, they allow grieving children to embody a life full of hope and possibility.
Experience Camps'
website: https://experiencecamps.org/
ig: https://www.instagram.com/experiencecamps/
DONATE: https://give.experiencecamps.org/give/407095/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=D23ZWZZZZZ
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 14min
Puzzles w/Amen Dunes
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Damon McMahon, an American indie rock musician and the primary member of the musical project Amen Dunes.
amen dunes'
website: https://bedroomdrum.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
"Round the World" performed by Amen Dunes, written by Bill Monroe & Damon McMahon, produced by Damon McMahon
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Jul 4, 2024 • 1h 7min
The Next Right Thing w/Oliver Burkeman
Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done [a collection of his columns for the Guardian newspaper], as they talk about his newest book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity [and 'productivity techniques' that mainly just make everyone feel busier].
oliver burkeman's
website: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/
Produced by Nick Jaina
Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit
Soundscaping by Nick Jaina
”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina
Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina
SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate


