Fierce Farewells

Jennie Komp and Charles Muir
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Fierce Farewells is an 8-episode podcast about what becomes possible when we refuse to let death be handled generically. Hosted by Jennie Komp and Charles Muir, it explores some farewells that were as fierce, intentional, and alive as the people they honored, why that changes everyone in the room, and why it's time we celebrate more of them! Because how we say goodbye matters. And it can bring us together... if we let it. Fierce Farewells is a 3 Bird View Production

Episodes

  1. Sep 2

    Fall Down 7x, Stand Up 8 - Episode 8

    This isn’t just about Kara or her memorial concert anymore — it’s about what we do with what she left us. Charles and Jennie reflect on who they were before that concert and who they are now, and what it means that a woman they loved is still changing people who never met her. The documentary Sparkle On is part lighthouse, part invitation — not a film about grief, not even really a film about death, but a film about what happens when someone lives so authentically and loves so fiercely that their leaving becomes an instruction manual for living more honestly with each other. This episode is the direct invitation to help carry it into the world. Because to know and love Kara is to fall down seven times and stand up an eighth — this time with rock music, fog machines, and new sick moves as an even more honest version of yourself. It's time for all of us to sparkle forward. Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  2. Aug 26

    I Am Not There, I Did Not Die - Episode 7

    The beliefs we subscribe to about consciousness inform and shape our death rituals — and near-death experiences (NDEs) are expanding the ways we remember each other.  Books of first-hand accounts from people who have died and come back. People claiming access to what lies beyond. Kara's own framework — her glitter-soaked paradigm — held that consciousness doesn't end but moves between planes of reality, and she called it Sparkling On. In this episode, Jennie and Charles bring that private inquiry into the open, widen the lens to include insights from books and other media that somehow feel more in touch with our shared experience of life, and arrive at the question underneath all of it: what is consciousness, where does it go, and what does genuinely not knowing change about how we live and how we say goodbye? Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  3. Aug 19

    Love With Nowhere to Go - Episode 6

    Grief is often described as love with nowhere to go — What would it look like if you gave that love somewhere to go? In this episode, Jennie and Charles get practical and philosophical about what happens after the farewell — the tattoos, the books, the baskets, the small deliberate acts that give love somewhere to go once the person it belongs to is gone.  These aren't morbidly prolonging grief. They're a generous channeling of love that has nowhere else to go. Joy, given the freedom to lead, knows exactly where that love belongs — and in following it, shows how the people we lose actually get remembered. Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  4. Aug 12

    The Authenticity of Glitter - Episode 5

    Kara Muir’s fierce farewell wasn’t about her death — it was about a shameless exploration of authentic living in the face of devastating conformity. Jennie met Kara briefly — a handful of times after an instant connection at a karaoke birthday party — before the diagnosis changed everything. She followed Kara's blog and social media as Kara walked her community through her journey of self-discovery, health complications, and the concert that became a beacon for her legacy. In this episode, Jennie and Charles sit with the strange, beautiful reality of her continued presence — in who they've become, in the strangers who light up with hope when they hear her story. What does it mean to carry someone forward without freezing them in amber? Legacy, it turns out, is a living thing. Episode 5 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  5. Aug 5

    Fiercely Furry Farewells - Episode 4

    The more our pets become family, the deeper the pain of losing them becomes — rituals honoring their legacy are long overdue. Jennie and Charles explore pet loss as its own kind of fierce farewell, including the particular weight of choosing when, and the love that makes that choice possible even when it breaks you. Between them, they've said goodbye to more dogs than either can talk about without pause, and they're done pretending that grief doesn't count because it was "just a pet." In our world today, openly grieving a pet is an intentional act with little to no social support. This episode is that conversation, and it's past time we had it. Episode 4 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  6. Aug 5

    Permission For ALL The Feels - Episode 3

    Kara's Sparkle Celebration made every emotion safe at the same time  — fierce farewells are the result of intention over repetition. Grief and laughter and love and rage, all at once, none of them wrong. In this episode, Jennie and Charles explore what it actually takes to build the scaffolding for that kind of permission — what has to be true about the design, the people, and the willingness to hold complexity instead of collapsing it into a single acceptable feeling. The architecture of emotional safety isn't abstract here. It was learned the hard way. Episode 3 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  7. Jul 29

    Part 2 of Episode 2 - Funerals Are For Living

    Most funerals fail the people they're meant to serve — not because anything went wrong, but because we’ve over-sanitized and bubble-wrapped a vital healing ritual. Fun fact about this episode - it was never going to be published. When we recorded it, I held back, as I’ve trained myself to do over the years — and after we were done, I knew it, and it felt like a disservice to our topic. So we went back in and recorded a version that felt more honest. That's the one that went out as Episode 2. So why are you getting this first version now? Because when the universe conspires to make something happen, I do my best to listen. What you're about to hear is the first version of Episode 2, Funerals Are For Living. It has things in it the second one doesn't. And I’m trusting that someone out there needs the fierceness that only this version has. If that someone is you, I hope I get to read about it in the comments someday. Until then, please enjoy and share Fierce Farewells. Episode 2 Part 2 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  8. Jul 22

    Funerals Are For Living — Episode 2

    Most funerals fail the people they're meant to serve — not because anything went wrong, but because we’ve over-sanitized and bubble-wrapped vital healing rituals. Jennie and Charles pull back the cultural curtain on death, prescribed ceremony, and the unspoken rules that tell us which traditions are acceptable and which expressions of grief we need to manage quietly on our own. Jennie brings personal context: planning her son Christopher's farewell inside a deeply prescribed religious community, defying nearly every expectation at the moment it cost the most to do so. The first fierce farewell doesn't always announce itself with a grand procession. Sometimes it's just a quiet refusal to be a passive participant in tired traditions. This is about expanding the range of possibilities we consider when seeking the most loving container for our loss. Episode 2 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  9. Jul 14

    A Life Changing Death Concert - Episode 1

    When one man let his grief get loud, he staggered into a death ritual more people are quietly craving. Kara Muir didn't leave instructions. She left principles — and those principles became Kara's Sparkle Celebration, or her Sparkle-bration as her friends called it, a fully produced Viking-style air guitar rock concert that opened a space where every emotion was safe simultaneously and wrapped an entire community in a blanket of love that has only continued to grow and spread. Hosts Jennie Komp and Charles Muir — Kara’s friend and Kara’s husband — tell the story that started it all. This is where Fierce Farewells begins. And this is why this podcast exists. Episode 1 of 8 Know someone who needs Fierce Farewells? Please like, comment, and share.  You can also follow us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/fiercefarewells/ And join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/3137855596413632 Ready to join us in bringing Kara's story to the big screen? Go to https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-charles-finish-sparkle-on-a-film-about-his-late-wife To get updates and/or tickets to the private showing of Kara’s Sprakle-bration at the Echo Theater  in Portland Oregon 9/19/2026, follow Charles on the Sparkle On Film pages on Facebook or Instagram.  https://www.facebook.com/sparkleonfilm https://www.instagram.com/sparkleonfilm/ As always, the best way to support us and keep this conversation going is to subscribe and share.  Want more episodes at the end of this mini-series?  Better fill up those comments with your questions and the fierce farewells you’ve experienced or are planning.  Until next time, we wish you all the fiercest of farewells.

  • 9 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

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About

Fierce Farewells is an 8-episode podcast about what becomes possible when we refuse to let death be handled generically. Hosted by Jennie Komp and Charles Muir, it explores some farewells that were as fierce, intentional, and alive as the people they honored, why that changes everyone in the room, and why it's time we celebrate more of them! Because how we say goodbye matters. And it can bring us together... if we let it. Fierce Farewells is a 3 Bird View Production

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  • Creator
    Jennie Komp and Charles Muir
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jennie Komp and Charles Muir
  • Show Website
    Fierce Farewells