What I Let Die Podcast
Akilah S. Richards
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S1E12 Ep 12: How to Start a Grief Circle (Even If You've Never Done This Before)
You don't need credentials to hold space for grief. You just need care. A space. And the courage to stay. In this final episode of Season One, we walk through the how-to of starting your own grief…
S1E11 Ep 11: Daily Grieftending: Small Rituals That Change Everything
This grieftending episode is full of rituals that meet you where you actually are. In it, I offer you small grief practices for real life. Not just retreats. Not just deep dives, but daily, doable…
S1E10 EP 10. Parenting While Grieving, Grieving While Parenting
Final episode in the Grief in Community arc of What I Let Die What happens when you're grieving and trying to show up for your kids at the same time? What happens when you're the one responsible for…
S1E9 Ep. 9: How Body Death Teaches Us To Hold Kananápo
In this episode, Akilah S. Richards reflects on the journey so far inside What I Let Die, pausing to honor how physical death has shaped her relationship with non-physical losses. She weaves in the…
S1E8 Ep. 8: Grieving Together: Why Our Communities Need More Grief Literacy
Episode 8: Grieving Together: Why Our Communities Need More Grief Literacy What does it take to hold space for someone else's grief without making it about us? And what if we stopped waiting for the…
S1E7 Ep. 7: Friend-ings (When Friendships End)
Friendships can be life affirming rescue work, and they can also feel like the death of us. Whether we're talking about longtime friendships new ones that felt so aligned and perfect for a short…
S1E6 Ep. 6: The Parent You Thought You'd Be
In Episode 6, we cracked open the quiet griefs of parenting. The grief of aging and shifting roles. The grief of children growing into their own sovereignty. The grief of estrangement—sometimes…
S1E5 Ep. 5: Working Through Grief, Grieving Through Work
Grief doesn't wait for a pink slip. In this episode, we explore the layered grief of working under capitalism—when the job keeps going, but parts of you have already ended. Akilah unpacks the grief…
S1E4 Ep. 4: Seeing Yourself and Being Seen (Identity Deaths Overview)
Episode 4 is an invitation into the layered world of identity death: the parts of us we've shed, outgrown, or been forced to release— and the ache that follows, both ours and other people's. Core…
S1E3 Ep. 3: Sorting Through Grief, Trauma, and Depression
In Episode 3, we feel into the reality that grief can show up in ways we don't always recognize. In this episode, I explore the blurry lines between grief, trauma, and depression — how they overlap,…
S1E2 Ep. 2: Naming the Deaths We Don't See (Kananápo)
In this second episode of the grief foundations section, I'm sharing some of the language, context, and real-life patterns that shape how I live with loss—and how I support others in doing the same.…
S1E1 Ep. 1: Grief Basics: What We Were Never Taught
Let's talk about what we were never taught about grief, because let's be real, most of us grew up with this b.s. idea about what grief is, how it works, and who deserves to feel it, and when we…
S1 Introducing: What I Let Die aka WILD Podcast
Grief literacy—the ability to name, witness, and tend to endings—is a socially sanctioned ignorance. We are living in a time of collapse, irreparability, and profound shifts. But no one taught us how…
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What I Let Die Podcast has published 13 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.
What I Let Die Podcast is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 26m.
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