Join guest Melissa Sweeney as she reflects on her first year at college: the fears, excitement, new friends, and all the other things that come with stepping out of a comfort zone to learn more about life, herself + ultimately how similar we all are.

Gloria Allhiser is the author of the Everyday Truthtelling letters where she shares, amongst other things, what it looks like to rebuild her life as a recovering codependent and support her husband in his recovery from alcoholism.

Regardless of sexual orientation, family situation, or age, we all want to care for the people we love. Chris MacLellan shares his caregiving journey, its highs and lows, as well as how he is living today due to his life-changing experience of caring.

When a loved one dies, we experience loss and often end up gaining lots of their stuff we need to sell, donate, and save. Terry Prince shares practical and creative ideas for how to go about what can seem like a daunting task.

After caring for her husband who had Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Beth Scibienski reflects on life with, and now without, Pete. As a pastor and contemplative thinker, Beth shares what it looks like to rebuild a life within faith and family.

Author Charles Levin discusses both the satisfaction + craft of writing as it pertains to exploring consciousness, the what-if's of technology, + how we define happiness. He goes from Aristotle to The Gilmore Girls + many other people + places in between.

Beth Marshall, speaker, author, and founder of Grief Survivor helps Colleen navigate her first mother's day without a mother to celebrate and shares why it's absolutely okay to cry and it's also okay to smile, laugh and embrace life again after loss.

Hear the harrowing story how one woman survived and escaped from over six years of domestic violence within her marriage and then homelessness to reemerge and go from earning $6 an hour to a 6-figure salary and making a difference in the lives of others.

Perfectionism can be a giant negative but it can also be a positive. Anna Locke is on a mission to have women kick their inner critic to the curb and reclaim their true selves and begin to have their hormones work for (not against) them via cycle syncing.

Paulie Gee shares how he left 30 years in IT to open his eponymous pizzeria in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and in turn gives a blueprint on how living a life beyond our wildest dreams is possible by speaking that dream into existence and adding what you love.

Hospice 101 with End-of-Life Doula, Beth Suereth. Understand what hospice is and isn't and the considerations before + during hospice to ensure you make an informed decision during a difficult time. Also, ways to use the time left with a loved one.

Unapologetically un-storying herself to live in life's fullness, Victoria Buda shares with us why being is better than doing, what happens when we lose our labels, the power in eliminating the word "just", and the importance of our intuition.

Hospitals and hospice demystified courtesy of Certified Caregiving Consultant + End-of-Life Doula, Beth Suereth. Learn everything you need to know to ensure the best care for the patient and how to watch for common mistakes and prevent readmissions.

Shannon Elhart shares how forgiveness brings freedom. After the devastating loss of her infant son, she made the conscious choice to heal by diving deeper into her pain and consequently set herself free from the trauma of a rape and alcoholism.

While traveling to all 50 states in America, Rachel Marie rediscovered herself and redefined her meaning of home after the duel losses of her marriage + father. Hear her soul-filled retelling of the highs and lows and how the entire experience shaped her.

Learn how sharing our personal stories from a place of vulnerability and truthfulness enables us to support one another and allows self-acceptance to flourish and why Charlotte Haimes has founded Women Making Waves.

Hear valuable tips from attorney, humorist, and prolific family caregiver, Cathy Sikorski, about the how's and why's of the legal forms you'll want to get in place that will save time, money, and sanity.

Learn how leadership techniques, organization, and gratitude can help you during your role as "the" lead caregiver in your family and understand the deeper considerations around the decision of a parent moving to an assisted living community.

The power of playfulness + laughter and other tools to connect with others, especially persons living with dementia. Tips for at-home family caregivers and a new way of thinking in what Mindy Bolton considers the Age of Enlightenment. Thumb wars included.

Hear what happens when we ignore our body's messages and how Leslie Cottrell Simonds re-aligned with her innate inner wisdom via the clarity of creativity to survive three simultaneous illnesses and find the joy of living within your highest excitement.

Colleen Kavanaugh meditates on the hole of grief that awaits her at each birthday, the shifts that occur after the loss of parents, how to look at the people who shape our lives, the places life + loss bring us within ourselves, and growth within fear.

Troy Anderson is the founder and international director of SPEAK UP FOR THE POOR, an organization that is breaking the cycle of poverty and child marriage and transforming the lives of girls in Bangladesh through education, a safe home, and practical legal casework.

Energy Healer + Yogi, Gael Chiarella Alba introduces us to the energy anatomy of grief and shows us ways to move through emotions to create states of light, love, and presence, the power of changing our language, and how to create ease during difficulty.

Justin Bills, a pastor from Calgary, Canada discusses where faith can bring us as we walk alongside suffering and how we can be present to the dying - lessons he learned as he cared for his good friend after her cancer returned.

On this episode of The After Life, Clare Egan discusses how living in the present helped her care for her husband while he had Alzheimer's and things to consider to maintain the dignity of someone who is ill.