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This is You'll Die Trying, a conversation about living a life of meaning with two men who recognize that failure isn't the opposite of success, but is part of it. Become a supporter of this...

She couldn't sell 50 tickets on the other side of the world. Then the promoters canceled the whole tour. Her parents already had flights.She...

Last week's show was rough. I fumbled. A lot. This week I figured out why. I overthought it. Weeks of treating my content like a math proble...

At 10:15 on the night of April 14th, 1865, a president was carried into a stranger's back bedroom and laid diagonally across a bed that was...

I have a confession. I watch strangers mow their lawns on YouTube. On purpose. For fun. When I was going through the hardest stretch of my l...

He was 22, a new dad, drowning in debt, and standing on the wrong side of the rail on the Golden Gate Bridge. The only reason he's alive tod...

A funeral director's answer to the machines. AI tribute generators are everywhere now. Upload a photo, answer three questions, and out comes...

You never met them. You never shook their hand. So why does it feel like you lost a friend when the news says they're gone?nnThis week on Th...

This week on The Mortals Live, we walk through what a visitation at a funeral home is really for. Not the version you see in movies. The rea...

Before my new single "Names I'll Never Lose" drops Friday, I wanted to give you the other half of it. Fifteen years as a funeral director ta...

There was a stretch of time where I did not want to be here anymore. Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, tired, hopeless way.I want to tell y...

Last night The Mortals Live did something it's never done before — we went live on two platforms at once. Katharine and Chris of As The Hear...

He was blinded as a child, preached and sang on Texas street corners for coins, and died penniless in the ashes of his own burned house. The...

"Pick a lane." I've heard it my whole life — funeral director, musician, divorced dad, creator — like one of them has to cancel out the othe...

Tonight on The Mortals: the funeral songs that undo an entire room — and the one thing almost nobody thinks about. It's not which song you p...

He was blind. He was self-taught. And for nearly thirty years he stood on a sidewalk on 6th Avenue in Manhattan dressed like a Viking — cloa...

A funeral director on what happens after you put something into the world and the room stays quiet. The story of Sixto Rodriguez — who relea...

There's a man who never had a near-death experience. He had something more honest. He had a slow death he could watch coming. And he wrote i...

0:00 Cold open — sit down, grab the tea 2:00 Opening statement: October 1956, Chicago — Vivian Maier walks down a sidewalk 6:00 The 150,000...

0:00 Welcome back — and the boo-boo from last week 2:45 The garage sale that worked because the sign said "good stuff, not junk" 7:00 Carame...

0:00 Welcome — three weeks in a row 2:40 Opening statement: the person who shows up on a random Tuesday 8:15 Why presence costs something —...