643 Nothing to Fear with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
I am so thrilled to welcome Hospice Nurse Julie to the show to talk to us all about end-of-life care: what to expect, what actively dying looks like, why it's so important to normalize discussing death, and what inspired Julie to start posting on TikTok and write her book, Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully.
If you're afraid of dying, or even thinking about death, this conversation might just be the one you need to hear. Julie's content went viral on TikTok just after 4 days which speaks to the need for education around death and dying. And getting educated often reduces our fear around it, so I hope you enjoy this conversation with Julie as much as I did.
CW: a large portion of this conversation focuses on death and dying, and Julie talks about what actively dying looks like at the 22 minute mark. If you're sensitive to this, please consider skipping that section or this conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to a special episode of the Terry Cole show. |
| 0:05.0 | I just had a fascinating conversation with hospice nurse Julie, |
| 0:10.0 | who is someone that I found on Instagram, |
| 0:13.0 | talking about end of life in such a way |
| 0:16.0 | that it really sparked my interest, so accessible, so smart. |
| 0:21.0 | She has a beautiful book out right now called Nothing to Fear. |
| 0:25.0 | Really all about how how can we it's nothing to fear demystifying death to live more fully and |
| 0:32.3 | basically you know this death is a part of fear demyestifying death to live more fully. |
| 0:32.7 | And basically, you know, this death is a part of life. |
| 0:36.3 | And for so much of us, so for so many of us, |
| 0:39.5 | we just don't talk about it. |
| 0:40.4 | We just act like it's never gonna happen to us. |
| 0:42.4 | But as I like to say, none of us are getting out of here |
| 0:44.8 | live so might as well learn about how can we do end of life well from someone who is an expert in it. |
| 0:53.0 | So she's a hospice and palliative care nurse |
| 0:55.0 | with more than 15 years experience, |
| 0:57.0 | super passionate about normalizing death and dying. |
| 1:00.0 | She was over 3 million followers over social media, as I told you, as hospice nurse Julie, that's how I found her. |
| 1:06.0 | She's been in USA Today and Newsweek, the Atlantic, Business Insider, |
| 1:10.0 | many other outlets worldwide, and she really is demystifying death and dying and I |
| 1:16.4 | really hope that you enjoy this interview with hospice nurse Julie as much as I |
| 1:20.1 | enjoyed interviewing her. This is the Terry Cole show and as you might have guessed, I'm your host Terry Cole. |
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