The Leftscape is a podcast dedicated to exploring the prominent and hidden conversations among progressives in the U.S. Co-hosted by artists and entrepreneurs Robin Renée and Wendy Sheridan, the show features discussions on the most pressing current events, engaging personal dialogue, and guests from the worlds of activism, music, theater, publishing, STEM, spirituality, and more. The tagline of the podcast – the shape of progressive conversation – represents the gentle and not-so-gentle curves that are taken in pursuit of honesty and social justice. Expect serious talk and a good dose of humor through explorations of politics and pop culture wherever they lead.
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The Leftscape is a podcast dedicated to exploring the prominent and hidden conversations among progressives in the U.S. Co-hosted by artists and entrepreneurs Robin Renée and Wendy Sheridan, the show features discussions on the most pressing current events, engaging personal dialogue, and guests from the worlds of activism, music, theater, publishing, STEM, spirituality, and more. The tagline of the podcast – the shape of progressive conversation – represents the gentle and not-so-gentle curves that are taken in pursuit of honesty and social justice. Expect serious talk and a good dose of humor through explorations of politics and pop culture wherever they lead.
Grief, Healing, and the Fiercely Alive (Episode 174)
The Leftscape
57 minutes 42 seconds
5 months ago
Grief, Healing, and the Fiercely Alive (Episode 174)
Naila Francis is a certified grief coach and death midwife. As the founder of This Hallowed Wilderness, she helps people transform their relationship to grief and loss through one-on-one coaching, workshops, rituals and ceremonies. Naila is also a founding member of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective normalizing grief through community rituals. In this featured conversation, she shares about offering compassion, the necessity of healing from both personal losses and greater world tragedies, and the "fierce aliveness" that often emerges from moving through our deepest emotional work.
Co-hosts Wendy Sheridan and Robin Renée open the show with some levity in the Timeline Cleanse segment - this time on the pleasures of sipping Negronis and petting jellyfish. They are ready for the rainbow celebrations of June and contemplate an "All Lives Matter" moment at a Pride march. Visibly celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride is one of the recommended actions in Pièce de Résistance, along with picking up some feminist reading and attending a No Kings Day protest. Wendy reads another brief exerpt from On Tyrrany.
Things to do:
Learn more about Naila Fracis and her work on the This Hallowed Wilderness website, on Instagram, and on Facebook.
Attend the Philadelphia Death and Arts Festival, May 29 - June 1, 2025.
Join a June 14th No Kings Day protest: Indivisible, FiftyFifty.one/events.
Read The Flytrap - worker-owned, reader-supported intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
Read On Tyrrany: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder.
Visit the National Aquarium.
Celebrate Pride!
Have a Negroni!
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The Leftscape
The Leftscape is a podcast dedicated to exploring the prominent and hidden conversations among progressives in the U.S. Co-hosted by artists and entrepreneurs Robin Renée and Wendy Sheridan, the show features discussions on the most pressing current events, engaging personal dialogue, and guests from the worlds of activism, music, theater, publishing, STEM, spirituality, and more. The tagline of the podcast – the shape of progressive conversation – represents the gentle and not-so-gentle curves that are taken in pursuit of honesty and social justice. Expect serious talk and a good dose of humor through explorations of politics and pop culture wherever they lead.
