Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
My guest Alua Arthur is the founder of Going With Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. She is a frequent guest on television and radio and has been featured on CBS's The Doctors and in Disney's Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth. Alua is the author of the recently published NY Times bestseller Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. She shares her story of how she was inspired to learn more about death and teach others how to live fully in the face of our mortality. Learn more at Alua's website:
goingwithgrace.com
This episode includes:
🍃 The value of authenticity in memoir-writing
🍂 How life prepares us for the work we are meant to do
🍃 How a single conversation shifted the path of Alua's life
🍂 What inspired Alua to get training as a death doula
🍃 Creating better boundaries as we do this work with people at the end of life
🍂 Compassion allows us to honor another person's journey without trying to control it
🍃 How death doula work can be financially viable
🍂 Why education of the public is an essential foundation for the work we are doing
🍃 How the "death-space" is welcoming to diverse people with a wide variety of skills
Links mentioned in this episode:
🍂 Previous interview with Olivia Bareham: eolupodcast.com/2022/03/08/ep-341-burial-at-sea-and-other-sacred-end-of-life-rituals-with-olivia-bareham
🍃 Limitless with Chris Hemsworth on Disney + ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/limitless-with-chris-hemsworth
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7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : indiebound.org/book/9781786783110
The Journey from Ego to Soul: indiebound.org/book/9780982685563
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🍂 Intro Music Credit:
"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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My guest Alua Arthur is the founder of Going With Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. She is a frequent guest on television and radio and has been featured on CBS's The Doctors and in Disney's Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth. Alua is the author of the recently published NY Times bestseller Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. She shares her story of how she was inspired to learn more about death and teach others how to live fully in the face of our mortality. Learn more at Alua's website:
goingwithgrace.com
This episode includes:
🍃 The value of authenticity in memoir-writing
🍂 How life prepares us for the work we are meant to do
🍃 How a single conversation shifted the path of Alua's life
🍂 What inspired Alua to get training as a death doula
🍃 Creating better boundaries as we do this work with people at the end of life
🍂 Compassion allows us to honor another person's journey without trying to control it
🍃 How death doula work can be financially viable
🍂 Why education of the public is an essential foundation for the work we are doing
🍃 How the "death-space" is welcoming to diverse people with a wide variety of skills
Links mentioned in this episode:
🍂 Previous interview with Olivia Bareham: eolupodcast.com/2022/03/08/ep-341-burial-at-sea-and-other-sacred-end-of-life-rituals-with-olivia-bareham
🍃 Limitless with Chris Hemsworth on Disney + ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/limitless-with-chris-hemsworth
_______________________________________________________________________
🍃 Subscribe to my email list: eepurl.com/ExfLL
🍂 Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/books-by-karen-wyatt-md and Indiebound:
7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : indiebound.org/book/9781786783110
The Journey from Ego to Soul: indiebound.org/book/9780982685563
🍃 Subscribe to this podcast on
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/end-of-life-university/id1033282990
Google: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXNzb25zZnJvbWR5aW5nLndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vZmVlZC8
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bdr4odBlaaDy8NoJhcFsL
iHeart Radio: iheart.com/podcast/256-end-of-life-university-31099550
Stitcher Radio: stitcher.com/show/endoflife-university
🍂 Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past: eolupodcast.com/series
🍃 Join the team at my Patreon page patreon.com/eolu and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
🍂 Intro Music Credit:
"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
