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To My Gs: The Healing Power of Showing Up

Kris Saim shares a letter he originally planned to hold onto until he entered hospice care. It is a letter of boundless gratitude written to his "Gs,” his community of nearly 800 colleagues at Gale. Instead of saving his final words for the end, Kris is choosing to speak them out loud today, while the people who earned them can actually hear them.

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To the Friend Who Left: The Letter I Never Sent

Kris Saim reads an unsent letter to a former best friend who stepped away right after his stage four cancer diagnosis. But this isn't an episode about anger—it's a masterclass in true forgiveness.

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The Creative Cocoon: Transforming Grief Through Art, Community, and Compassion

In this tender and powerful episode of Dying Out Loud, host Kristopher Saim welcomes back his dear friend and grief coach, Jen Ripa, creator of Thrivologie and the "Creative Cocoon." Jen shares her profound personal journey of loss—first the death of her 16-year-old son, Oliver, to cancer, followed four years later by the passing of her husband of 25 years.

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