Embracing The Journey

Host Lori Burkart Frank interviews Sands Hall, playwright, singer/songwriter, musician and author of "Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology." Sands discusses the connection between Death and Cults. What may draw...

Host Lori Burkart Frank interviews Carrie McDowall and Pastor Christian Schweter of Peace Lutheran Church in Grass Valley, California, about the decisions involved in dying. Peace Lutheran provides a forum for the...

Host Lori Burkart Frank invites Victor Estrada-Hildebrand and Michael Hildebrand-Estrada to play the Deck Deck game. It is a 112 card deck of interesting questions, some funny and some deep. The deck is designed to be...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Viv Tipton, Founder of this show, Embracing the Journey, former Executive Director of Foothills Compassionate Care and an alchemist for turning her personal grief into love, hope, optimism...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Courtney Ferguson, local author, and Valerie Logsdon, Elder Law Attorney about planning for our passing, transition, death, or whatever word you are comfortable with. Courtney, just planned...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Mary Petersen, grief counselor with Hospice of the Foothills, under the Foothills Compassionate Care umbrella. Throughout the grieving process there are intervals of grief. It can be...

Lori Burkart Frank welcomes Peter Coates back to discuss his experience facing a terminal diagnosis. Peter's wife, Cathryn joins in the discussion. Their courage and love are inspiring and powerful.

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Dr. Scott Neeley, President and CEO of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital about improving our healthspan.

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Peter Coates, facing a terminal cancer. Peter shares the songs he has written and recorded which reflect the variety of emotions he faces with is diagnosis. Peter encourages other people...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Mary Ann Davis, Marketing and Events Manager and David Franco, Board Chair from Foothills Compassionate Care, recently known as Hospice of the Foothills. Why the name change? Mary Anne and...

Lori Burkart Frank talks with The Deck Deck co-creator and Licensed Clinical Social Worker for Hospice, Lisa Pahl. Lisa is passionate about having conversations about death and dying so we can live our lives more fully...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews past guest, Anne King, about the dos and don'ts in picking an executor for our estate. She shares two distinctly different experiences, including finding out she was an executor for a...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Estate Attorney, Dylan Hendricks about the differences in a Will, Trust or Probate. What happens to our estate once we pass? What are the benefits to our loved ones when we plan ahead?

Host Lori Burkart Frank plays the Death Deck game with guests, Gregory Ingram, Chaplain for Hospice of the Foothills and Katie Haskett, Social worker for Hospice of the Foothills. The death deck is a game that provides...

Lori Burkart Frank interviews Dr. Anya Stanger, Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies of Sierra College and Dr. Kathleen Taylor, Chair of Sierra College Gender Studies. They discuss caregiving in relationship to gender...