Life in 20 Lessons with Chris Meyer
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
“Do epic shit every day.” – Chris Meyer
Chris Meyer is a lawyer, filmmaker, funeral home owner and author of a new book, "Life in 20 Lessons: What a Funeral Guy Discovered about Life, from Death" is like "This is my Life" meets "Tuesdays with Morrie." Meyer spent 14 years in the funeral business assisting grieving families and in one case, the soon to be departed, in planning funerals. It was a life chapter he never intended to write, but he feels grateful for, given the impact the career detour had on him personally.
In this beautifully lighthearted conversation we talk about:
- After being a lawyer, filmmaker, how the unusual “funeral guy” career came to pass – how the motivation for the career shift sprung from the birth of his son
- Job description of mortician, funeral director, funeral home owner…
- Funeral considerations - burial vs cremation, death certificates, embalming, preparation for visitation
- Intensity of dealing with families after a death – when emotions are high, and personalities are charged
- Psychological impacts of literally living and breathing death day after day, and how necessary it became to dissociate
- The difficulty compartmentalizing when a child had died
- After thousands of funerals, the most memorable eulogies were lives well lived - people with simple lives, who relished the smaller moments, lived in the present, lived with empathy and compassion for their elders, had great connections with family and friends
- A few of his lessons learned: make a few great friends, enjoy food, stop worrying about money, DEST - do epic shit today
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all means. |
| 0:17.5 | Chris Meyer is joining me today on the show. |
| 0:20.8 | And in this episode, we do talk a bit about what happens. Chris Meyer is joining me today on the show. |
| 0:27.2 | And in this episode, we do talk a bit about what happens to the body when we die. So you might want to not have small ears present for today's episode. |
| 0:33.2 | Chris is a lawyer, filmmaker, funeral home owner, and author of a new book, Life in 20 Lessons. |
| 0:42.5 | What a Funeral Guy discovered about life from death. |
| 0:47.4 | This book is Like This Is My Life meets Tuesdays with Mori. |
| 0:53.3 | Meyer spent 14 years in the funeral business assisting grieving |
| 0:57.0 | families and in one case the soon to be departed in planning funerals. It was a life chapter |
| 1:03.9 | he never intended to write, but he feels grateful for the impact that this career detour has had on him personally. Welcome, Chris. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:18.0 | Hi, everybody. I just wanted to thank you all for your continuing support of the show and for |
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