Dying of Laughter Chelsea London Lloyd | Comedian + Grief Gal

Dean Lambert leads The Love Always Project, created to promote discussion about end-of-life issues, provide expert information and encourage people to preplan and pay for their funeral as the ultimate act of love for those they will leave behind. 
Dean is a military brat who moved 18 times in 17 years. Today we discuss the loss of Dean's son, Adam. Adam was a USMC Corporal who served in Afghanistan and died by suicide a year after coming home at age 24. 
Dean's home base was Flushing, Queens, where both of his parents grew up on the same block. He now live in Des Moines, Iowa with his Shiksa wife of 37 years.
@the_love_always_project
www.lovealwaysproject.org

Today my good friend Meryl is interviewing me. She is an established comedian, not to mention one of my funniest friends. We discuss the differences between our breakups, dating in LA, and we then deep-dive on almost every date I've been on in the past year. So to tie this into grief, we are grieving our past romantic selves. Close enough! Part 1 gives the context, and Part 2 gives the tea. YODO!
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Meryl Klemow is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Burbank, CA. She performs stand-up comedy all over Southern California at venues such as The Comedy Store, The Improv, Flapper's and Burbank Comedy Festival. Meryl is also the Lead Lifestyle Editor for The LA Girl and covers travel, food, and new happenings all around Los Angeles. @merylklemow
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Daniélle Hill is a Social Media Manager for small businesses and creatives. She help business owners simplify their video marketing so that they can get lead clients and customers and have an amazing time online. She is also a podcaster that has #reallife heart to hearts laughter and guest interviews all centered around the importance of connection and normalizing real life and the human experience. For fun, she loves to podcast, dance, explore her beautiful city of Chicago. Today we discuss the loss of her mother Darlene, who passed away by a pulmonary embolism the day after Christmas. 
 
https://www.instagram.com/dahill486/
 
https://reallifepodcast.blog/
 
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It's a new year. It's a new you. Or is the same you? Girl, let's get your money together. I have 3 credit cards that I'm obsessed with - and I will share them here! Plus a little bit of dating tea...
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Today we explore Mackenzie's poetry, informed by their own losses. Their brother was killed in a car accident at 19 and their mom died 5 years later from breast cancer.
Mackenzie is an associate marriage and family therapist, certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher and trauma informed yoga teacher. They specialize in working with grief and loss, having served the bereavement department of Pathways Hospice as a grief counselor. 
Mackenzie also specializes in LGBTQ+ issues, lifecycles and transitions, and has a particular affinity and skill for working with teens and young adults.
Mackenzie holds a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies, and a bachelors degree in Gender Studies from Syracuse University. Mackenzie is a writer and poet, small dog enthusiast, and ocean lover.
https://www.mackenziestudebaker.com/
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▶▶ Welcome back to Dying Of Laughter! In this episode, I'm re-sharing the first episode I ever launched...  This is the story of my parents getting sick: my dad's journey with ALS and my mom's journey with breast cancer. Happy holidays!
Okay, that ended a little too jolly. If you're feeling holly this year, go off; if you're feeling unhinged or unwell this year, go off. You can be holly, jolly, or nolly (not jolly) and I'd support any and of all of it. YODO, you only die once! See (hear?) you in 2024. Cheers DOLlies. 
I really resonate with the quote: "Grief is love with nowhere to go." Maybe this podcast could be a place to go...
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