223. How Facing Death Gives Life with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden

Spiritually Hungry

Monica Berg and Michael Berg

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Growth, Selfimprovement, Fulfillment, Parenting, Love, Anxierty, Reincarnation, Relationships, Fear, Society & Culture, Manifest, Mental Health, Life-changing, Lifes Purpose, Well-being, Improve Life, Spirituality, Wellness, Wisdom, Inspirational, Transformation, Self-help, Education, Culture, Kabbalah, Happiness, Society

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this deeply moving episode of Spiritually Hungry Podcast, we sit down with Julie McFadden, registered nurse and New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to Fear. Her path from intensive care to hospice has fueled her mission to change how we talk about death. After years of watching patients and families struggle in silence, Julie began to speak up—holding honest conversations, offering education, and creating space for truth in life’s most vulnerable moments. She believes that when we stop resisting death and allow it to unfold, the journey can be profoundly sacred. Join us as Julie shares how preparation allows us to experience this sacredness fully, helping us be present with our loved ones instead of consumed by fear.

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0:00.0	Nothing to fear what the dying teach us about living with hospice nurse Julie McFadden.
0:14.2	What if the greatest lessons about life come from those who are about to leave it?
0:18.4	Today we're sitting down with Julie McVadden, known to millions as
0:21.9	hospice nurse Julie, a deeply compassionate voice helping to demystify death. Julie has spent years
0:28.0	walking alongside the dying, and in the sacred space, she's learned profound truths about
0:32.3	life, love, and the soul's journey. We're talking about what truly matters in the end and how we can start
0:38.0	living with greater purpose now. With her bestselling book, Nothing to Fear, and her powerful
0:42.9	new journal, as our guide, Julie invites us to face mortality, not with fear, but with presence,
0:48.5	peace, and love. This conversation isn't about dying. It's about waking up.
0:56.7	Welcome to spiritually hungry.
0:59.1	Julie, we're so grateful for you to join us today.
1:02.6	Your work in hospice care and discussion about death, I think, will be very enlightening, actually,
1:09.6	and illuminating for our listeners.
1:11.6	And I'm really personally excited to have this conversation with you today.
1:15.0	So thank you for coming.
1:16.2	Great.
1:16.8	Thank you.
1:17.4	I'm excited.
1:18.1	I'm very excited.
1:19.2	We'll get into it, but we both, Michael's lost both of his parents.
1:22.5	His mother died five years ago now and my father four years ago and my grandmother a year ago. And we often speak
1:31.2	about death with our listeners. And I certainly went through a period after my father died.
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