Doing Death (Amanda Blainey)
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| Pub. Date | Title | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02 May 2019 | Frank Ostaseski - What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully | ||
We caught up with Frank Ostaseski - author of “The 5 Invitations” about what he has learned from working with the dying and what that can teach us about living. | |||
| 02 Jun 2019 | Sam Rudd - Dealing with the Loss of a Parent as a Child | ||
A difficult topic to discuss. Doing Death talked to our friend - creative producer Sam Rudd about the death of a parent as experienced as both a young child and a parent. | |||
| 02 Jul 2019 | David Hieatt - Talking death and legacy with co-founder of Hiut Denim and The Do Lectures | ||
Amanda Blainey caught up with David Hieatt co-founder of The Do Lectures and Hiut Denim.
After 4 amazing hot days at the Do Lectures in Wales in June we spoke to David about his experiences of death and what he has learnt from it.
He talked about his father’s values, his death and how this has influenced his life and work. | |||
| 02 Aug 2019 | Kathryn Mannix - How Can We Die Better? | ||
Amanda Blainey met with Kathryn Mannix - best selling author of “With the End In Mind: How to Live and Die Well”. They talk about resolving personal issues whilst we are still alive, choosing the place to die, and how we can access better care when dying. And is how we live a reflection on how we die? | |||
| 02 Sep 2019 | Marie Mitchell - How Death Led to a Brand Celebrating Community | ||
In this episode we meet Marie Mitchell Co-founder of the ‘Island Social Club’ which provides a a space to celebrate caribbean culture through food, drink and social events. Marie’s older brother Richard died 10 years ago and we talk about her journey from when he died to how she found love again for herself, her family and finding purpose, setting up a business based around her love of food and community. | |||
| 02 Oct 2019 | Manifesting The Life You Want - Michele Knight | ||
Michele is a Psychic, astrologer, broadcaster and a Sunday Times best selling author. Previously she was the resident astrologer for the UK’s ‘This Morning’ primetime morning TV and ‘The X factor Xtra' and has had a constant presence in the media over the last 20 years. She is a hugely successful business woman who has built an incredible presence in the wellbeing industry, empowering people to be their authentic self and transform their lives. Encountering sexual abuse and neglect at a young age, she used her own self belief, ancient learning and spiritual path to heal herself and create the life that she wanted, with gratitude and love.
In this episode we talk about:
- Finding our soul purpose
- The mystery of death
- Harnessing our own power and changing our self beliefs
- Manifesting what we want by looking at our thoughts and energy
- How we are all connected
- The law of attraction
- Grabbing ideas when they come
- Astrology as a soul map
- Tuning into our intuition
Episode References
Elizabeth Gilbert’s book ‘Big Magic'
Nick Cave ‘ Red hand files’ No.55 | |||
| 02 Nov 2019 | Connecting to Our Inherent Wisdom - Anna Hunt | ||
In this episode Amanda chats to Anna Hunt, international best selling author, health and wellbeing expert and shaman. A Cambridge graduate and former senior editor at The Mail on Sunday, Anna started to study mental & emotional health and their impact on the body upon developing stress-related health challenges, in her late twenties. This led her to a Jungle in Peru and for almost 20 years since, she has travelled back annually to study one-on-one with her mentor, a shaman based in the Andes. Her work has been featured widely in the international press, including the BBC, The Sunday Times, Harpers Bazaar and other numerous monthly glossies. For the last 16 years she has worked with a global client base of leaders, private clients and corporations. The techniques Anna uses include a combination of Peruvian shamanism, meditation and principles of quantum physics to shift how we think, to become healthier, calmer and more grounded.
In this episode we cover
- Is there a space for Shamanism in life and death?
- Techniques to empower us to deal with life better
- Grieving and how we cope with bereavement
- Letting go of Mental baggage
- Re-connecting to our inner wisdom
- Deep Visualisation tools
- Shamanism V traditional therapy
- Trusting our instincts
- Cycles of nature and the order of things
- Working with plants and crystals
- Death as a natural process
- Repetition of negative patterns
- Finding the right shaman
- Shifting our energy
Episode references
www.Annahunt.com
Books
“The Shaman in Stilettos’ by Anna Hunt
‘Do Death: For a Life Better Lived' by Amanda Blainey | |||
| 26 Nov 2019 | Art, Death and Mr Bingo | ||
In this special christmas episode, the last in this series until next year,
Amanda Blainey talks to Mr Bingo. He is called Mr Bingo because when he was
19 he won £141 at the Gala Bingo. In 2011 he began the project ‘Hate Mail’
on Twitter, where strangers paid him to send a hand-drawn offensive
postcard to a name and address of their choice. It sold out within days;
since then he has opened it 12 times and it has sold out every time within
minutes. Like much of his work, the project started as ‘a drunk idea’, but
ended up being exhibited in galleries and gaining notoriety among the
global press.
In summer 2015, he ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund a high-end art book
of his 'Hate Mail' illustrations. The campaign, was successfully funded
within 9 hours, making it the most successful Kickstarter for a book in the
UK ever.
in 2015 after a 15 year career as an illustrator, Mr Bingo made a decision
to stop working for clients and go it alone as an artist. For the last four
years he has created in his own words a ‘nudey scratchy festive fun'
christmas advent calendar in which each day in December is represented by a
different person whose clothing is printed in removable gold ink , when you
scratch off the ink you reveal them in all their naked glory.
This episode was recorded in London in a coffee lounge, we talk about
- Art
- Not being too busy and doing nothing
- Challenging the norm of what ‘working' is.
- Mr Bingo’s gravestone art project
- Freelancing
- Having fun
- How walking is good for you
- Can work be a hobby?
- What if we live forever?
- And of course we cover those small subjects of death and life!
This episode contains some swearing.
Episode references
https://shop.mr.bingo/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mrbingo/hate-mail-the-definitive-collection | |||
| 02 Apr 2020 | Confronting Death and the Iconic image with Photographer Rankin | ||
Rankin is one of the world's most iconic photographers, along with being a
director, and cultural provocateur. He is best known for his celebrity
portraits including Bowie, Madonna, Kate Moss, The Rolling Stones, and her
majesty the Queen.
He co-founded the seminal magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in
1992 and has published over 40 books of his work. In 2013 Rankin created a
thought-provoking exhibition called 'Alive in the Face of Death' creating
portraits of people facing a terminal illness which became part of a BBC
documentary. We discussed how working on this project confronted Rankin's
fear of death, whilst still dealing with his grief after the death of both
his parents a few years before. We talked about having those important
conversations with those we love and his process for capturing people's
authenticity on camera and creating iconic images that will be remembered
long after his death.
In this episode we discuss:
- Creating an Iconic image
- How Rankin captures the truth in a person
- Death as a way to celebrate someone’s life
- Ageism and how we live in a youth-orientated society
- The cost of dying
- Not taking life for granted
- Rankins parent's death and how he dealt with these events
- How Rankin confronted death through ‘The Alive in the Face of Death’
Exhibition
- Having those important conversations about advance care planning,
funerals and what we want in the end
- Success and what that means
- Learning from our mistakes
Please note that this episode may contain some swearing.
Episode references
Author Diana Athill
Books:
Black Box Thinking, The Surprising Truth About Success by Matthew Syed
Do Death: For a Life Better Lived by Amanda Blainey. There’s a 10% discount
if you order on the Do Book website using the code DEATH10
https://thedobook.co/products/do-death-for-a-life-better-lived
Advance life Planning - https://compassionindying.org.uk/ | |||
| 01 May 2020 | Change and Creating a Business From Something You Love - Seedlip Founder Ben Branson | ||
"That's probably been one of the biggest things about all of this, change
and the unknown. I think for everybody these are things that need to be
embraced, and you've got to suddenly become best friends with the unknown
and with change because that's what's happening" Amanda Blainey talks to
Ben Branson founder of the world's first distilled non-alcoholic spirits,
revolutionising how we drink when we are not drinking and drawing knowledge
and wisdom from his 300-year-old family farming legacy. We discuss how Ben
has rediscovered the simple things in life from his time so far in
Lockdown. We look at how Seedlip evolved from Ben's love of plants, herbs,
and nature. Talking about death is talking about how we want to live, what
inspires us, doing things we love, playing, and building dreams from small
steps. We talk about how Ben would like to be remembered, what his biggest
legacy is, and why its important not to have regrets. Ben's story is a
truly inspiring one.
In this episode, we talk about
Becoming friends with the unknown and change
The importance of human connection, interaction, relationships and how
important it is not to feel left out
How life has changed in Lockdown
Going back to nature as the best medicine
Taking risks Being passionate about what you are doing,
Creating something that people need
Doing what you are good at and not what you aren't starting a business from
something you love
Having regrets are a waste of energy
Death as a statistic
The surrealness of the situation we find ourselves in Staring in an episode
of Black Mirror
Learning through Doing
Conscious shopping and eating
Life becoming more simple
Grieving our lives Watching contagion on Netflix
The ripple effect of what we do when we change something
Can we ever go back to normality?
How Ben would like to be remembered after his death
Podcast references
Netflix Series - Black Mirror, Contagion
Book ‘The art of distillation’ John French
http://www.naturaldeath.org.uk/
www.Seedlipdrinks.com | |||
| 02 Jun 2020 | Race, the Uncomfortable Truth and Legacy - Author Nikesh Shukla | ||
"I have a platform, I can share that platform with other people, that's
what my mum would have expected at this stage of my career. That's why
things like The Good Immigrant' came about because a win for me is a win
for the community" Nikesh Shukla.
Amanda Blainey talks to Nikesh Shukla who is a novelist and screenwriter.
His 7th novel Brown Baby will be published in February 2021. Brown Baby is
a memoir of race, family, and home that is essentially a love letter
written to his children and his mum after her death. It's about loss and
rebirth.
In this episode, we talk about
White privilege
Writers of colour
How The Good Immigrant came about
The predominant white voice in literature
Racism and its prevalence in publishing and the arts
Normalising our reality
Anxiety about being outspoken and burning bridges
The problem with diversity panels
Interrogating representation and identity
How his mum's death permitted him to speak his truth
Cooking his way through grief
Food as a way to connect to his mum
How heritage lives on in us
A win for him is a win for the community
Roots for change
Processing grief through his new book Brown Baby
Grieving in a new way since coronavirus
Nikesh is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First
Novel Award), Meatspace, and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote
Destiny. He is a contributing editor to the Observer Magazine and was
previously their columnist. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay
collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books
Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene
Suleyman. He is the author of two YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a
National Book Award) and The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegia Medal).
Nikesh was one of Time Magazine's cultural leaders, Foreign Policy
magazine's 100 Global Thinkers, and The Bookseller's 100 most influential
people in publishing in 2016 and 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary
journal, The Good Journal, and The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh is a fellow
of the Royal Society Of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy.
Podcast references
https://www.reachoutproject.co.uk/
http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/ | |||
| 14 Jun 2020 | Being Bold and Gentle Hearted in Grieving - The Fandangoe Kid | 00:00:46 | |
"You can be Bold and gentle-hearted, you can be soft and a warrior. Power
in vulnerability”
The Fandangoe Kid
Host Amanda Blainey talks to The Fandangoe Kid a print artist who makes
large-scale narrative pieces for the public realm to create a platform
around complex subjects such as grief, trauma release, mental health, and
gender constructs. Much of her work is driven by navigating her own story
following the death of most of her family in New York in 2011. In this
episode we discuss:
Sitting with grief
The physical & emotional manifestation of grief
Post-traumatic growth
Dancing through grief
Processing grief through meditation and exercise
Embodying and making friends with grief
Grief as an individual & and non-linear experience
The uncertainty of change
Legacy and moving on from your ancestors
Finding ways to connect more than ever
Being a vulnerable warrior
Unlearning as we get older
The Fandangoe Kid has created work for a wide range of purposes, most
recently installing artwork on 14-metre pillar for University of the Arts
London's 120th year anniversary and a large-scale permanent piece of public
art at the Southbank Centre for the charity CALM. For World Mental Health
Day 2019, she installed an 80-metre floor narrative at City Hall for the
Mayor of London's charity Thrive, addressing the connection between
movement and mental health. Additionally, she screened her film Into Your
Light, directed with Tara Darby, at Tate Modern and on the Manhattan
Bridge, looking at dancing as a tool for survival following a great
personal loss.
Podcast references
www.fandangoekid.com
https://www.cruse.org.uk/
http://taradarby.com/film/into-your-light/
https://www.shedoesfilmz.com/
The Ted interview Elizabeth Gilbert
Books
Grief Works - Julia Samuel
The Body Keeps Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk | |||
| 17 Jul 2020 | Dying to Live - Kris Hallenga | 00:00:48 | |
Amanda Blainey talks to the extraordinary and courageous Kris Hallenga who after an incurable cancer diagnosis at the age of 23, eleven years ago, kick-started a unique breast cancer awareness charity called CoppaFeel. That was 11 years ago, Kris thankfully is still here and has been spending her time in lockdown writing her forthcoming book “How to Glitter a Turd”. | |||
| 14 Aug 2020 | Maggi Hambling on Life, Love and Death | 00:00:37 | |
Amanda Blainey talks to Maggi Hambling who has established a reputation over the last four decades as one of Britain's most significant and controversial artists, a singular contemporary force whose work continues to move, seduce and challenge. | |||
| 02 Sep 2020 | Modern Masculinity and Suicide - Jack Norman | 00:00:56 | |
Suicide is one of the biggest killers in men under 45, this can be caused by many factors including mental health issues, cultural expectations of masculinity, and childhood experiences like grief or abuse. Amanda Blainey talks to Jack Norman who has been working in change management for 5 years and who in 2015 co-founded Milk for Tea a social enterprise that has developed mental health and masculinity programmes with many clients such as We Work, Rolls Royce, and Bacardi. | |||
| 10 Nov 2020 | Death Cafe - A Global Phenomenon | 00:00:34 | |
Death Cafe was founded in 2011 by death activist Jon Underwood. In this episode host, Amanda Blainey is joined by Jon’s sister Jools Barsky and his mum Susan Barsky Reid. Talking about Death Cafe’s grassroots, their surprise at how it became a global movement, and the unexpected death of Jon in 2017 at the age of 44. | |||
| 03 Dec 2020 | Rev Richard Coles - Pop Star, Vicar, Widower | 00:00:58 | |
Reverend Richard Coles has led a colourful and vibrant life, forming the band 'The communards’ with singer Jimmy Somerville in the mid-'80s. He’s the only reverend in the UK and probably the world to have a number 1 hit. After some drug-fuelled years and witnessing the death of many of his friends from AIDS Richard had an awakening which led him to become a reverend for a parish in rural Northamptonshire. Richard’s civil partner David died in December 2019 at the age of 42. A year on Richard talks candidly about his extraordinary life, the madness of grief, and how he is doing now. | |||
| 12 Feb 2021 | Creating a Good Life - Entrepreneur Charlie Gladstone | 00:00:54 | |
Entrepreneur Charlie Gladstone has the most infectious positivity and zest for life. Being the great-great-grandson of the UK's Prime Minister Sir William Ewart Gladstone, Charlie comes from an incredible family legacy. He is a business owner, farmer, father and is one of the co-founders of The Good Life Experience, founder of Glen Dye Cabins and Cottages, Pedlars shops, and the ‘Some Good Ideas’ online community dedicated to encouraging British craft and manufacture. He also hosts the ‘Mavericks’ Podcast’ and is the author of several books, his latest 'Do Team' will be published in 2021. We meet to talk about legacy, death, and his interest in making a good life and embedding some of that huge spirit within his family and generations to come. | |||
| 02 Jun 2021 | Grief = Love - Greg Wise | 00:00:57 | |
The actor Greg Wise's sister Clare died in September 2016 from cancer, she started a blog post to update family and friends, which Greg took over writing when Clare became too ill. Two years after she died the blog was turned into their book titled 'Not That Kind of Love’. We met before lockdown to talk about Clare’s death, their relationship, navigating cancer, and post-traumatic growth. This is a useful conversation for anyone caring for someone dying and gives insight into grief and love through Greg's own personal and moving experience. | |||
| 26 Nov 2021 | Finding Humanity - BJ Miller | ||
Host Amanda Blainey talks to thought leader BJ Miller, who is a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator who is dedicated to moving healthcare towards a more human-centered approach. His 2015 Ted talk 'What Really Matters at the End of Life' has been watched over 14 million times. BJ has given numerous interviews including Oprah Winfrey, The New York Times, and GOOP. He co-founded Mettle Health which aims to provide holistic consultations to patients or caregivers navigating the practical emotional and existential issues that can come with serious illness and disability. | |||
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