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All right, folks, this week we chat with Karen Dietrich from the Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association to do a deep dive on advanced care planning.

What the hell is advanced care planning?

Well, it's basically where you make decisions about your health care and your personal care in advance based on your values and your wishes. Karen walks us through the importance

of communicating your wishes to loved ones and health care providers to ensure that your care aligns with your preferences.

So stay tuned because in the wrap up, I get to tell the fellas all about a man who became an amphibian for 100 days

and has possibly unlocked the key to immortality or some shit.

So without further ado, this is our conversation with our new friend, Karen.

Karen.

Today, fellas, we are joined by our new friend Karen Diedrich, the director of advanced care planning at Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, the CHPCA, which we're familiar with because they gave us an award.

But whatever, we're not here to talk about the award.

She has joined the CHPCA after serving as vice president,

public engagement and knowledge mobilization at Volunteer Canada,

following a longstanding role as national priority advisor at the Canadian Center on Substance Use and Addiction.

She has worked in the nonprofit sector for over

15 years, leveraging her skills in partnership development, strategic planning, and communications

to tackle complex social challenges. And we are absolutely excited to...

Chuffed to bits. To be speaking with you today,

Karen, uh, because we're going to be talking about something that, A, is extraordinarily

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