The Heart of Hospice Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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The Heart of Hospice Podcast

Hosted by Helen Bauer, BSN RN CHPN

Health & Fitness

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/42d. Total Eps: 634

The Heart of Hospice podcast is dedicated to helping personal and professional caregivers who are caring for someone with serious illness. We're here to provide information and education so people can make informed choices about end of life care.

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13/08/2026
#93
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10/08/2026
#83
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29/07/2026
#78
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28/07/2026
#47
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27/07/2026
#45
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26/07/2026
#53
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20/06/2026
#98
🇨🇦 Canada - medicine
13/03/2025
#77
🇨🇦 Canada - medicine
12/03/2025
#45
🇨🇦 Canada - medicine
11/03/2025
#54

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https://www.theheartofhospice.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/theheartofhospice
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https://www.facebook.com/barbarakarnesrn
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https://facebook.com/grandpad
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https://www.instagram.com/theheartofhospice
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https://www.instagram.com/barbarakarnesrn
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https://www.instagram.com/grandpad_social
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Score global : 72%

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Starting Out in the End: Talking With Barbara Karnes

Season 9 · Episode 15

Monday, November 4, 2024 • Duration 45:22

In honor of National Hospice and Palliative Care Month - and National Family Caregivers Month - we’re featuring a special 4-part series with special guest Barbara Karnes, Hospice Nurse and End of Life Educator. In the first episode of the series, Barbara shares how she got started in end of life care back before the Medicare hospice benefit was established in the 1980’s.

Here are some highlights of this special episode:

Barbara thinks she should have been a social worker but her mother talked her into nursing.
She and her fellow hospice nurses learned how to provide their own self care without really knowing what it was.
Barbara’s aversion to causing patients any pain or suffering made patient care difficult for her.
She believes it’s important for hospice leadership to truly understand end of life work, and to have a comprehensive knowledge of hospice care.
Barbara believes sacred rituals and beautiful memories can be created at the time of death.

Connect with Barbara Karnes:

Website: bkbooks.com

Blog: bkbooks.com

Shop her products: bkbooks.com

Socials: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Pinterest YouTube

Email: barbara@bkbooks.com

Thank you to our series sponsor The Death Deck!

Connect with the End of Life Deck and the Death Deck:

Website: thedeathdeck.com https://thedeathdeck.com/

Shop: End of Life Deck Death Deck

Socials for the Death Deck: Facebook IG Twitter (X)

Hospice Navigation Services is here for you. If you have questions about hospice care or need to troubleshoot the care you’re already receiving, book a session with an expert Hospice Navigator at theheartofhospice.com.

Connect with The Heart of Hospice Podcast and host Helen Bauer

Website: theheartofhospice.com

Email: helen@theheartofhospice.com

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How to Improve Death Literacy in a Community

Season 9 · Episode 14

Friday, November 1, 2024 • Duration 46:05

Death educator Lee Warren believes preparing for death in advance makes a good death possible.

Over a period of two years, she experienced several deaths in her small community of 125 people, teaching her the best lessons about death as she cared for them.

Those deaths, and the generous people who experienced them, offered an incredible opportunity for Lee to reweave a more holistic approach to end-of-life than the one generally offered to us in the U.S. The outcome of stewarding those deaths together as a community, including after-death care, home funerals, and home burials, was life changing and heart opening for Lee. She has channeled the wisdom she learned into work as a Death Educator and End-of-Life Preparation Guide.

Connect with Death Educator and End-of-Life Preparation Guide Lee Warren

Website: queenofdeath.org/course reclaimingwisdom.com/about

Email: lee@reclaimingwisdom.com

Socials for Lee Warren: Facebook IG

Connect with the End of Life Deck and the Death Deck

Website: thedeathdeck.com https://thedeathdeck.com/

Shop: End of Life Deck Death Deck

Socials for the Death Deck:

How to Plan for Your End of Life

Season 9 · Episode 5

Friday, August 30, 2024 • Duration 01:03:46

As co-founder of Empowered Endings, Dr. Bob Uslander, is working to shift the paradigm of End of Life Care by supporting, guiding, and teaching an empowered approach to Palliative and End of Life Care. He became aware of the gaps in hospice and palliative care that cause patients to struggle. The deaths of his parents and a dear friend provided a personal perspective into caregiving that formed Bob’s determination to meet the needs of people with serious illness in a better way.

Empowered Endings supports both patients and families through the final stages of life. Bob, his wife Medical Social Worker Elizabeth, and the Empowered Endings team ensure each person feels heard, held, and whole throughout the end of life journey. The team utilizes End of Life Doulas, nurses, a chaplain, and a grief and dementia doula.

Connect with Dr. Bob Uslander:

Website: https://empoweredendings.com/

Empowered Endings Community: https://empoweredendings.com/community/

Empowered Endings Foundation: https://empoweredendings.com/foundation/

Social Media for Empowered Endings

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobuslander/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empowered_endings_/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empowerendings/

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Learn How to Love Your Life to Death With Yvonne Heath, Episode 137

Season 7 · Episode 137

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 • Duration 01:01:10

Love Your Life to Death founder Yvonne Heath is teaching us how to just show up for someone who’s grieving. Yvonne has been a Registered Nurse since 1988, working in emergency and ICU settings as well as hospice and palliative care. According to her website LoveYourLifetoDeath, Yvonne “witnessed our grief-phobic society and how our reluctance to talk about, plan and prepare for grief, death, and dying causes excessive suffering in life and at the end of life.” She channeled her experience, both professional and personal, into an award-winning book and a celebrated TEDx talk. Empowering people to live life to the fullest and show up for each other to diffuse the fear around death, dying, and grief is at the center of Love Your Life to Death. As Yvonne would say, the most important thing to do is just show up.

Connect with Love Your Life to Death at loveyourlifetodeath.com.

Read more about founder Yvonne Heath here.

Join the #ijustshowedup movement here.

Watch Yvonne’s weekly vlog here.

Order a care package for someone you love at BeyondWordsCo.com.

Find care packages and workplace gift programs for corporate gifting, employees, co-workers, and clients here.

Read more about how Catherine Hinz founded BeyondWords here.

Connect with podcast host Helen Bauer at .

How to Find the Benefits of Grief with Jenny Dilts, Episode 136

Season 7 · Episode 136

Friday, December 23, 2022 • Duration 47:02

Certified Grief Coach Jenny Dilts is helping people to find the calm inside the grief storm. Jenny finds incredible meaning in supporting people going through a loss. Jenny defines grief as a loss, change, or absence of connection. Whether it’s from a death, a relationship, or a life role, she guides clients to find both the sadness and joy inside the grief experience. Loss of identity, trauma, independence, finances, unmet expectations and dreams are all sources of grief. Hospice patients and their caregivers deal with grief long before a death occurs. Anticipatory grief includes so many different types of loss. Jenny believes in finding the joy that exists along with the sadness of grief.

Listen to Jenny Dilts’ podcast Sharing Your Story: Exploring Humanity One Heart at a Time on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Anchor FM.

Connect with Jenny’s resources at Grievingcoach.com.

Follow Grieving Coach on Facebook here.

Check out Reimagine here.

Order a care package for someone you love at BeyondWordsCo.com.

Find care packages and workplace gift programs for corporate gifting, employees, co-workers and clients here.

Read more about how Catherine Hinz founded BeyondWords here.

Hospice Nurse Penny is a TikTok Phenom, Episode 135

Season 7 · Episode 135

Friday, December 16, 2022 • Duration 42:49

We're talking with Hospice Nurse Penny about how her TikTok videos about end of life care have become a social media phenomenon. After finding her way to hospice nursing, Penny Smith realized there was a big gap in accurate information about end of life care. She decided to educate people in a unique way, utilizing social media. With videos, reels, and dancing, Penny helps expand understanding of hospice care. She normalizes the dying process and helps people to be more comfortable with someone who’s dying. Penny says she gets the biggest response from videos about end of life visioning (seeing dead people or pets) and the dancing videos. Her video about eating at the end of life has over a million views. Using a fun medium, Penny Smith is making a difference in end of life care.

Penny Smith's bio -

Penny Smith is a nationally certified hospice and palliative care registered nurse. She has been a hospice nurse for 17 years and worked in a variety of care settings and roles within hospice including inpatient, home case management, education, quality and regulatory. She currently works as a hospice quality manager. Penny is a passionate advocate for hospice education with a mission to normalize the end-of-life process to remove the stigma and fear around hospice care, death and dying. During the pandemic Penny found her way to social media and discovered a unique way to utilize her death care expertise to provide education to a worldwide audience at a grassroots level. Using a variety of teaching styles including Tiktok trends, dark humor, dancing and storytelling, she has gathered over 450,000 followers on Tiktok and 100,000 on Instagram as @hospicenursepenny.

Connect with Hospice Nurse Penny’s on social media.

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When You Need an Expert, Empathy.com is Your Friend, Episode 134

Season 7 · Episode 134

Friday, December 9, 2022 • Duration 49:49

Empathy co-founder and CEO Ron Gura created the company with one mission in mind: to help families deal with loss. It’s the friend we all need when we’re navigating the death of a loved one. According to the Empathy website, Empathy was “designed to help bereaved families find balance during one of life's most challenging moments.” Combining technology and human support, the Empathy app helps families through all the financial, legal, emotional, and logistical challenges after losing a loved one. Grief and loss cost businesses millions of dollars a year, yet most companies are ill-equipped to support employees after a loss. Ron and the team at Empathy partner with individuals, employers, and hospice agencies to help them navigate the many challenges and unknowns after a death. Through the website and an award-winning app, Empathy provides both administrative and emotional support.

Connect with Empathy’s resources for individuals here.

Find Empathy’s resource for supporting an employee through a loss here.

If you’re a hospice agency wanting to partner with Empathy’s services, click here.

Read more articles on Empathy’s Knowledge Base.

Find more information about hospice philosophy, end of life care, and self care for both personal and professional caregivers here.

Find more podcast episodes from The Heart of Hospice at The Heart of Hospice Podcast (theheartofhospice.com)

Connect with podcast host Helen Bauer at .

Hospice Social Worker Nathan Yemane Honors His Father's Legacy of Service, Episode 133

Season 7 · Episode 133

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 • Duration 49:52

Hospice social worker Nathan Yemane is meeting the needs of his community by opening the first black-owned hospice agency in Washington State and carrying on his father’s legacy of service. Nathan grew up in Washington, has his masters in Social Work, and in 2013 obtained his clinical license in social work. He has worked in healthcare since 2010, primarily in the hospice field. Nathan and his business partner David Turner were awarded a Certificate of Need approval from the DOH to establish the first Black-owned hospice in Washington State. Nathan recognized the end of life needs of people of color in King County. Studies show African Americans have the highest mortality rate from 3 of the most common 4 hospice diagnoses, and yet utilization of hospice is reduced. As an agency owner, Nathan is serving his community in a unique way. Opening a hospice agency in Washington State takes numerous steps, resulting in the awarding of a Certificate of Need by the state. It’s a grueling process, but Nathan and his team were patient and persistent. He’s passionate about educating and serving the people of King County and correcting the racial disparity among hospice patients.

Read more about Nathan Yemane’s agency here.

Connect with Nathan’s agency Heart ‘n Soul Hospice at heartnsoulhospice.com.

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How to Survive as a Caregiver Warrior with Susanne White, Episode 132

Season 7 · Episode 132

Friday, December 2, 2022 • Duration 38:25

Caregiver Warrior founder Susanne White is sharing the many lessons she learned as a caregiver for her dad and mom. According to the Caregiver Warrior website, Susanne offers “advice, helpful tips, and strategies based on the experience, strength, and hope I found while surviving my own caregiving journey. It has become my mission to share my stories and the things I learned about being an empowered caregiver.” Susanne is an advocate for surrounding yourself with your caregiving village, to find support in friends and family to help you do the caregiver job. She realizes the lessons she learned about herself, her mom, and how they communicated. Through her caregiving experiences and a lot of hard work, Susanne came to a place of self-awareness in her interactions with her mom. She’s sharing all she’s learned with others who are walking someone else home. Caregiving changed her life, and changed who she was.

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