Jamie Sarche’s calling is helping people be less afraid of death. By arranging for families to provide their loved ones with a planned and funded funeral or memorial service, she creates a path for bereavement, long before it's needed. And by facing their mortality, her clients can live better, more meaningful lives.

As a seasoned speaker, Jamie brings deep experience in death care to a broad range of audiences around the country, sharing insights and approaches on how to have those difficult conversations and how to address sensitive issues. Extending well beyond death and dying, Jamie’s message resonates across industries and individuals, bridging my passion to demystify death while enlightening communicators on overcoming challenging conversations.

Most of us don’t want to talk about death. We stuff our grief down, we skip the rituals, and we pretend “time heals all wounds.” My guest, Jamie Sarche, believes the opposite: that facing death and grief is what actually helps us live more fully.

In this conversation, Jamie and I dive into how to grieve in real life (not the tidy version we see in movies), the role of funeral planning as a gift to your family, and why traditions like sitting Shiva, green burial, or even just sitting with someone in pain matter so deeply. We also talk about death anxiety, what happens when we avoid grief, and how avoiding those conversations keeps us disconnected from our intuition and each other.

This episode is raw, authentic, and—strangely—life-affirming. If you’ve ever wondered what to say to someone who’s grieving, how to talk about death with your kids, or how to honor loss without numbing, this one’s for you.

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