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Guest interviews
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7 episodes
since Sept. 4, 2026
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In this episode, I talk with Loren, a grief worker and facilitator at St Christopher's Hospice in London and in community settings, about the history behind our silence around death and loss, her "grief tending" practice and the simple rituals at its center, how hospice and palliativ…

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In this episode, I talk with Jenny Hobson about her experience with supporting a close family member through a severe mental health crisis, someone who, for years, didn't believe they needed help at all. We talk about watching psychosis slowly appear, navigating the Dutch legal system's m…
In this episode, I sit down with my teacher, Jaime Erickson. We talk about the quiet moment in a hospital room with her Grandpa that first taught her to question authority, why she came to distrust systems — from hospitals to organized religion — that fail to see the person behind the process, and …
In this episode, I read Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air — an autobiography written by a neurosurgeon in the final months of his life — and talk through why it hit me the way it did. I walk through the scenes that stayed with me, what the book taught me about medicine, patient experien…
In this episode, I retell a story a senior shared with me after two years volunteering at a hospice institute in Shanghai. Through her experience, I walk through what daily life looks like for patients nearing the end of life — the isolation, the small rituals of comfort, and a strange, telling fea…
In this episode, I speak with Jesper, a PhD researcher in palliative care in Maastricht, the Netherlands, about what it means to care for someone approaching the end of life. We discuss palliative care and dementia, patient autonomy, cultural attitudes towards death, and the difficult balance betwe…
In this first episode, I talk through "Living" 01: Symbiosis, the solo exhibition I did last summer. I built it out of confocal microscope images from my own cancer biology research, tumor tissue layered over classical Western art, and a series of personal drawings. I trace how my passion…
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