The Reverend Wakil David Matthews has worked many years in hospice as a chaplain, and in funeral services and end-of-life planning and companionship. He offers classes on end-of-life, grief counseling, and interfaith (or no faith!) spiritual direction. For more please visit endoflifeconvos.substack.com.

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Patrick Granfield is a writer, policy professional, and editor who served at high levels of the Obama Administration, as a speechwriter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and prior to politics, as a journalist in the Middle East. He also taught high school. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Bulwark, among others, and lives with his wife and two kids in Virginia. He is also a MikeyOpp subscriber.

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Russell Van Brocklen is a New York State Senate-funded dyslexia researcher with severe dyslexia. His articulation-first writing program moved students from a middle-school writing level to graduate level on the GRE Analytical Writing Assessment — a 7–8 grade-level leap in one school year. He was told he’d never read at grade level, but he reads at graduate level, and he’s helping others do the same! For more, check out: https://dyslexiaclasses.com/author/admin/

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Ryan Glass is a social worker currently working as a Qualified Mental Health Provider serving special education students in a public elementary school. Drawing from his lived experience as a survivor of adverse childhood experiences, he views students through a trauma-informed lens to try and bring empathy and authenticity to his work. Integrating mindfulness, music/video production, humor, and ecological systems theory, he strives to design unconventional and creative individualized interventions for youth that foster connection, growth, and emotional resilience.

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Levi Ulmer just completed dental school in Arizona, and now lives with his wife and dog in Texas, where he is furthering his specialization in endodontics. In his free time he enjoys the outdoors, games (board, tabletop, video, etc.) and story-telling.

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Nicole Schmidt is the author of the memoir With Love, Nicole, a deeply personal account of caregiving, anticipatory grief, and life after the loss of her husband. Through her writing and her grief resource center, Heartfelt Haven, she explores the emotional and spiritual complexities of loving someone through terminal illness. Nicole writes with raw honesty about grief, identity, and the ways love continues even after loss. Purchase her book HERE!

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After a US Army tour in Vietnam, George Montgomery completed a BBA degree and then went on to achieve an MBA. He then spent 40 years as a business and tax consultant, fifteen of which was done while living and traveling full time in a motorhome. He has now retired and writes novels and short stories.

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S. P. “Sherma” Venkata, is desperately trying to become Indian again, but he has instead stumbled into being a cowboy but he hopes he will somehow synthesize the two. He is a very social person, but doesn’t believe in social media or any other popular media like TV, radio, or newspapers. Check out his novels on Amazon.

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