Digital Legacies - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 1/22/26
The Best of Coast to Coast AM
iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM
4.1 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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George Noory and Mandy Benoualid discuss her work helping families create online memorials for deceased loved ones, how a trip to a cemetery helped her see the importance of family history, and why more people are changing the way they honor loved ones before they die.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.4 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.2 | George Norrie with you. |
| 0:12.2 | Mandy Ben will lead back with us, |
| 0:13.8 | President and co-founder of Keeper, |
| 0:15.8 | which is online memorial and digital legacy platform |
| 0:19.9 | that helps folks document their life stories |
| 0:22.9 | and helps families preserve and share those memories after a death. |
| 0:27.5 | She is also the co-founder and editor of TalkDeft.com, |
| 0:31.1 | a death education platform dedicated to encouraging thoughtful conversations about those who have passed. |
| 0:38.0 | Mandy, welcome back. |
| 0:39.0 | How are you? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm good, thanks, George. |
| 0:41.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:43.3 | What was that moment in your life that caused you to go into this field? |
| 0:50.0 | Of course. |
| 0:51.6 | I was at a cemetery, classic. I was visiting my grandfather, and I was walking through a mausoleum where they had urns in these like glass front cases. And so families would place objects like, you know, little photos of them and different items |
| 1:16.5 | and mementos. |
| 1:18.2 | And one of them just kind of stopped me in my tracks. |
| 1:21.8 | There was a blank CD, so, you know, CD from the 90s that we all used to use. And it would say, it said |
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