Changing How We Talk About Death with Hadley Vlahos, RN

Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness

Kim Holderness

Holderness Podcast, Self-improvement, Parenting, 40s, Laugh Line, Gen X, Penn Holderness, Laugh Lines, The Laugh Line, 50s, Kim Holderness, Aging, Getting Older, Humor, The Holderness Family, Marriage, Education

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Penn and I have had our fair share of interactions with hospice as our loved ones grow older. There are so many people who don’t always have access to hospice care in the way they would like. But one thing I do know, the nurses who care for us in our final days are a special breed. One of these special nurses is Hadley Vlahos, a registered nurse devoted to hospice care.

Hadley (or Nurse Hadley as she is known online) recently wrote a New York Times best-selling book The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments and she joined us on this week’s podcast. She writes about the life lessons she gained from her patients and the phenomenon of “the in-between.” These are the days where it seems people have one foot here on Earth, and the other somewhere else. It turns out, you can learn a lot about living from the dying. We talk to Hadley about some of her stories in the book, our own experiences, and her efforts to change the way we die with her non-profit, Hadley House.

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Kim and Penn are online content creators known for their award-winning videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 8 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. I'm Kevin Holderness. And I'm Penn Holderness. And you have found the Holderness
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0:55.7	about this episode. A little different. We're going to be talking about the in between that time
1:00.9	at the end of life and the lessons learned from those at the end of their lives. And but stay with
1:05.8	me here. Don't think this is going to be a downer. This is a really uplifting podcast about death.
1:12.9	Yeah. So and really only one person can can pull that off. I think it's nurse Hadley Vlahos.
1:18.7	You may have seen her on TikTok or Instagram. She is a very vivacious 30 something hospice nurse
1:26.8	who is she lives in Louisiana. And she makes these videos and several of them have spoken to me as
1:32.5	well. They're very creative. And they handle some pretty heavy duty topics about what happens
1:39.0	in hospice care. Not only with the patients themselves, what her reaction is to it. And also
1:45.2	what she's seeing from the caregivers. Now you and I have some personal experience with this,
1:49.2	particularly as caregivers recently. So she's come across our radar before.
1:53.2	Yes. And I think that you can learn a lot about how to live well by those that are dying. And
2:01.3	that's what we're going to be talking about today. She has a new book. So Hadley Vlahos is a registered
2:06.2	nurse devoted to hospice care. Effectually known as nurse Hadley to her 2.1 million followers online.
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