Nicole Taylor, the CEO and President of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the country’s largest community foundation, talks to me about what community foundations are and how they make it easy for all of us to get off of the sidelines and make meaningful contributions in our communities.

When Adam Tendler, a classical pianist, received a surprise inheritance from his father, he commissioned 16 original compositions about inheritance and loss. Listen to Adam discuss how the Inheritances project helped him, the composers, and his audience process the complexity of love and loss.

Tracey Walker, the founder of Let It Be End of Life Planning and the Program Director for End of Life Doula Training at Going with Grace, talks with me about what Death Doulas do and why they can be so incredibly helpful in offering non-medical support for the dying and their families.

ELizabeth Fournier, The Green Reaper, talks about what green burial means, why cremation isn’t environmentally friendly and how to work with funeral directors to get the burial you, or your loved ones, want.

Dr. Sunita Puri understands what it means to treat patients at the end of life and writes beautifully about the tension between medicine’s impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life’s temporality. Join us for a conversation about what a good death, and a good life, could mean.