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02/28/24 • 47 min
In this MUM episode, death doula Marta Macbeth shares her experiences with loss and grief, emphasizing the importance of living joyfully after grieving. Marta introduces her new offering Exit Plan, which intends to make end-of-life planning easy and fun, addressing practical aspects such as writing letters, creating videos, and considering important details they may not have thought about.
About Marta Macbeth:
Marta Macbeth’s journey began with her father's sudden death when she was ten, a moment that deeply impacted her. Throughout life, she's faced more losses, including a best friend in her 30s and her mother at forty. In 2022, she grappled with profound grief, bidding farewell to two close friends within a month, followed by the sudden loss of her partner of twenty years.
Now 69 years old, as she enters 2024, she's in a phase of reinvention after a year of navigating grief and joy. Marta is a student of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as a mother, grandmother, and death doula, reflecting the diverse aspects of her life journey.
Link with Marta:
- Exit Plan (free) on March 23
Get ready to tackle the serious stuff in a lighthearted way with Exit Plan - the online event that makes end of life planning a breeze.
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
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If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth program and her spirit medicine solo retreats.
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11/15/23 • 76 min
“Suddenly I just didn't know who I was without that anymore. It was a real unmooring. But I think that I felt completely untethered to this world. I had nothing holding me here anymore, and that was really weird. I did not expect that. I think I expected to be sad about my dad being gone, but I don't think I expected—I literally do not know who I am anymore, and I don't know what my attachment is to life because I've lost so much of my context that I didn't even know was that big of my context.”
Karen Shih is a fellow first-generation Taiwanese American death doula (in the making), a triple Gemini, and a deeply devoted dog auntie.
In this episode, Karen shares about the death of her father, which led to her stepping out of her career to honor her grief.
Karen shares, “After my dad died unexpectedly in October of 2015, I completely hit pause on my life (which is a huge privilege on a variety on levels that I think most people can't do or maybe wouldn't even choose to do if they could). I quit my job, watched a lot of Grey's Anatomy, traveled to Taiwan, and eventually left New York and my life there behind. It felt like I stripped my life and identity down to nothing and had to start from scratch. The next 7+ years felt like a slow incubation as I navigated my inner jungle and surfaced a path and myself choice by choice.”
Learn more about Karen Shih at https://www.life-changing-magic.com/
Follow her on IG @shihster
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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Two Spirit
MUM
09/13/23 • 54 min
"I think it's important as an elder queer person and I wear that very proudly, that I do think our stories are important because I didn't come from a place that where we had these tools. So as an elder queer person, it's also not too f*****g late for me to honor it now, right? And to go living this next however long on this plane as my authentic self, including name. And to just do that because I understand the healing frequencies that it sends back. That sends healing back to those that couldn't. And it models for generations to come."
TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) is a two spirit, nonbinary, queer, native indigenous person of color and has been in recovery since 1989. They are the founder of Vamonos, a care and harm reduction practice that specializes in working with and supporting: people at the margin, 2SLGBTQ+, substance overuse/misuse, facilitator abuse, psychedelics in recovery, integration support + safety, and breathwork + movement.
TanyaMarck shares their journey of self-discovery and acceptance as a two-spirit individual. They reflect on their childhood experiences, including a summer romance at the age of ten, and how it shaped their understanding of love and identity.
They also explore the significance of an intimate ceremony and the merging of their two spirits, ultimately embracing their whole self and sharing their story to inspire compassion and understanding.
Learn more about TanyaMarck at tanyamarck.com.
Follow them on IG @tanyamarck.
Email at [email protected].
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Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
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08/31/23 • 31 min
In this first ever episode of Mum, host Ellen Wong shares her journey in befriending Grief, supported by the sacred mushroom, after decades of escaping and resisting.
She breaks her silence through the inception of Mum and invites you along on this journey in meeting the many deaths of our lives through stories, liberating ourselves to live LOUD and preparing ourselves to meet the end of life with openness, peace and permission.
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
08/22/23 • 1 min
Death is a vital part of life. It marks the end of every day and season. It’s present in every exhale and goodbye. It guides you through all your life transitions.
Death initiates you into change – the only constant in life. Without it, there would be no growth, no new chapters, no expansion, no transformation.
Each of us are the heroes in our own journeys. We face our fears as we walk into these death portals, shedding old skins, and re-emerge anew. We do this many times in a lifetime. Our stories hold deep wisdom and offer healing.
I’m Ellen Wong – I’m a storyteller and entheogenic death companion. I walk daily with brave souls through death and rebirth.
I invite you to enter this portal of discovery with me. And together, let’s break our fearful silence and uplift our stories of death and grief , so that we can all be inspired to live our lives, LOUD.
Welcome to Mum.
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Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about private Death/Rebirth mentorship and medicine journey programs.
Join the Medicine Membership to attend a virutal medicine ceremony and integration circle each month, as well as access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by host Ellen Wong.
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04/10/24 • 68 min
In this MUM episode, deathworker Hope De La Mora shares the profound impact of the deaths in Hope's life starting at a young age, the deep grief experienced when we lose our animal soul companions, and how talismans can keep the energy of our loved ones close with us.
Content Warning: We discuss suicidality which may be triggering for some individuals. Please exercise conscious discernment when listening.
About Hope De La Mora:
Hope De La Mora (founder of Hope Ascendant) is a Metaphysical Minister, Ritualist, Death Liberationist, Talisman Maker, and Quantum Healer deploying self-channeled healing and attunement modalities.
Hope grew up in a dynamic way where multiple inputs and cultures informed Hope’s growth and abilities (from both an epigenetic and experiential perspective). This ultimately led Hope to the study of cultural anthropology and history, which continues to inform Hope’s work for both the living and the dying.
Hope and death became friends at a very early age through the untimely (and in some cases intentional) deaths of friends and close family. Between 2010 and 2013, Hope would become the caregiver and death doula for both of Hope’s Grandparents who were like parents to Hope and the primary force cultivating Hope’s development.
However, it was not until the 2020’s that Hope would begin listening to the whispers of this calling to deathwork, finally becoming formally trained through INELDA in 2023, just as Hope was companioning Edward, Hope’s 19 year old non-human guardian + familiar along his walk to the death portal.
Hope’s heartwork is in service to both the living and the dying ~ for the living, the subtle art of unlocking one’s innate metaphysical wisdom + stepping onto one’s path of gnosis, and for the dying, the rituals and sacred memorial objects that provide comfort to the living and a sacred space for the dying. Hope’s service is not just limited to humans, either.
Finally, Hope has a deep calling to expand awareness + advocacy for death and dying praxis in vulnerable populations, such as the incarcerated and the undomiciled, as well as begin conversations on how we may better companion and serve neurodivergent individuals in the process of death, dying, and grief.
Link with Hope:
Instagram: @hope_ascendant
Instagram: @traditionsindeath
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.
Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.
MUM Links
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05/08/24 • 71 min
In this MUM episode, Kyley Caldwell, a money coach and trauma alchemist, shares her grieving process about a former best friend, how anger can take shape and help into setting boundaries, and embracing self-love amidst fears of abandonment.
About Kyley Caldwell:
Kyley Caldwell is a money coach, trauma alchemist, and all around magic maker and seeker. Her sacred work is helping us turn towards the parts of ourselves that we’ve been taught to reject, so that we might remember that we are whole.
Link with Kyley:
Money Magic Masterclass: Money freedom requires that we feel safe with and within ourselves, and that is a deep journey of trauma release and self-compassion.
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.
Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.
MUM Links
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
10/04/23 • 73 min
“This particular residency was a thematic one, and the theme was titled Meeting for Teas. So it drew artists curators and thinkers from all over. We all had this time and space to sit with Tea independently, sit with Tea communally, and talk about tea in all the different ways, including decolonizing as an aspect of tea and tea culture. And I couldn't stop crying the first two weeks when I was there, and I didn't even really know what I was crying about. To a certain degree, I kind of did, because the day that I received news that I've been accepted was the same day my Nai Nai passed away.”
Mimi Young, née Lin, is a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, Tea devotée, writer, and the founder of Ceremonie. Mimi’s work lies at the intersection of animacy and re-animation, intuition and creativity, using symbolic interpretation and ancient Chinese wisdom practices to commune with the Unseen and invite new possibilities during times of uncertainty and change.
In this podcast episode, Mimi shares excerpts from her limited edition artist's book, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain.
“Created during the 5-week thematic residency, Meeting For Teas, held at the Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, located on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain, this collection of poems and illustrations of grey-scaled cyanotypes (sun prints) is both prayer and journey through light, shadow, and verse, giving honour to the painful and healing moments of locating oneself over and over again, with Tea, the departed, and the more-than-human.”
She also has an upcoming sliding scale 6-week transformational writing series titled UGLY WORDS.
Learn more about Mimi Young at https://shopceremonie.com/
Follow her on IG @shopceremonie
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
10/11/23 • 60 min
“I feel so clearly called to death and birth work in this primal way of, like, this is what I'm here for now. All of the logistics of capitalism have not been mastered and would love to put the onus of mastery to someone else to just make it possible for me to do this. Because this feels so like even the gentle way that I'm sometimes feeling guided to death work in this place. I love old people and I love talking to people about their reproductive organs and how all of these things go together. And it just seems like only in weird deathy spaces or weird birthworky spaces do I feel at home.”
A student of life, Avé is a writer, full-spectrum doula, public scholar, and wellness guide. Inspired by traditional healing and aerial perspective, the goal is guiding life with abundance towards death in solace. Oriented towards justice, Avé Lanett chooses transformation. With over three decades of multidisciplinary yoga practice, they have committed their life to sharing wellness. Most commonly known for their political, environmental, and social justice work in the LGBTQ community, their methods are rooted in health through Black Liberation. From birthwork to end-of-life support, Avé enjoys serving as a witness of becoming.
In this podcast episode, Avé shares insights on how they experienced their mother's death, their journey with grief, and the truth that experiencing grief requires the privilege of space and safety.
Learn more about Avé Lanett at Blkdreamcamp.co
Follow Avé on IG @themblkyogi, @blkdreamcamp
This episode was edited by Nina Maria Iniestra De La Riva and comes to you with the support of Erika Mai T. Apuli from Earth Rooted Assistants.
Your support means so much!
If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
Visit TripwithEllen.com to learn more about Ellen's Death/Rebirth private mentorship and medicine journey programs. Listeners receive a 10% discount if they mention Mum during their discovery call. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-served basis. Payment plans available.
Join the Medicine Membership to join our monthly virtual medicine ceremony and integration circle. Access a growing library of journeys and meditations facilitated by Ellen.
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
04/03/24 • 59 min
In this MUM episode, Death Midwife and Artist Rebecca Mullins shares about death work being collective liberation work,and how her experience of her mother’s sudden passing led to the creation of a ritual offering that supports the dead in crossing over.
About Rebecca Mullins:
Rebecca Mullins is a Death Midwife, Multidimensional Artist, Animist, Grief Guide, Parent, Ancestral Liberator, Energy Practitioner, Conscious Culture/Paradigm Disrupter.
She serves her community from a decolonial, liberatory & Soul centered place. She works with the seen and unseen realms and energies to create art and ritual tools, plus guides people in traversing life and meeting death in a sacred, conscious, compassionate, honest & heart-led way.
Her body of work and service is guided and informed by the elemental, ancestral (human + non-human) and cosmical planes - for this she’s deeply grateful.
From Rebecca, “The prayer I hold for us all is fullness & liberation of the Soul. May the work I create and offer the world empower folks to walk the braiding path alongside one another.”
Link with Rebecca:
MUM is produced by Ellen Wong and edited by Stepfanie Aguilar. Your support allows us to continue creating this podcast. If you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to rate and review. Keep this conversation alive by bringing it to your communities.
Follow Mum on Instagram @mumthepod.
If you are interested in working privately with Ellen, visit tripwithellen.com to learn more about her Death/Birth Program and her spirit medicine private retreats.
Water + Fire Free Community Grief Circle is every 4th Tuesday of the month at 6p pst / 9p est. Register here.
MUM Links
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tripwithellen.substack.com/subscribe
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How many episodes does MUM have?
MUM currently has 37 episodes available.
What topics does MUM cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts and Philosophy.
What is the most popular episode on MUM?
The episode title 'Devotion to Deviance' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on MUM?
The average episode length on MUM is 63 minutes.
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Episodes of MUM are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of MUM was released on Aug 22, 2023.
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