You’re Going to Die: The Podcast

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.

You’re Going to Die: The Podcast is a health podcast hosted by You’re Going to Die, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

You’re Going to Die hosts You’re Going to Die: The Podcast, a health show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #168

  Ada Limón - The Vulture and the Body

  Sep 9, 20261h 37m

  Host Ned Buskirk speaks with the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, Ada Limón, the author of seven books of poetry, including Startlement: New & Selected Poems; The Hurting Kind, which was a finalist for the Griffin Prize; The Carrying, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Limón is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a 2024 Time Magazine Woman of the Year. Ada Limón's website: https://adalimon.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Poetry by Ada Limón Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D . Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

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  Episode #167

  Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Con of Patriarchy

  Jun 3, 20261h 23m

  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 Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D . Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

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  Episode #166

  Kazu Haga - Making Space for the New Systems

  May 20, 20261h 10m

  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. kazu gaga's website: https://www.kazuhaga.com/ substack: https://kazuhaga.substack.com/ support: https://www.kazuhaga.com/support Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D . Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

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  Episode #165

  ahlay blakely - You're Not Crazy

  May 6, 20261h 17m

  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/ Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "Initiations" song & lyrics by ahlay blakely Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D . Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

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  Episode #164

  Mark Nepo - Sincerity

  Apr 22, 20261h 22m

  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. mark nepo's websites: https://marknepo.com/ & https://live.marknepo.com/ substack: https://marknepo.substack.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/mark_nepo/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/MarkNepo newsletter: https://marknepo.com/cc_email_signup_master.php Live event Saturday, September 12th at the Sebastopol Senior Center: https://www.sebastopolseniorcenter.org/the-fifth-season-mark-nepo Produced by Nick Jaina Soundscaping by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Get episodes before everyone else by becoming a patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D . Support our 501(c)3 nonprofit with tax-deductible donations here: https://www.yg2d.com/donate IF YOU'D LIKE TO GET INVOLVED EMAIL US AT connect@yg2d.com The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D.

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