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What I Let Die Podcast

Akilah S. Richards

In What I Let Die (WILD Podcast), Grief & Loss Educator Akilah S. Richards invites us to stop running from grief and start tending to it. This podcast is about grief literacy—learning how to name, witness, and work with endings, especially the ones that don"t come with funerals.

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Ep 12: How to Start a Grief Circle (Even If You’ve...

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2025/06/01

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 circle—from the kitchen table to the community center to a Zoom call. Whether you’ve never hosted a space like this before, or you’re ready to return to one with more intention, this episode offers a warm, practical guide to making room for what hurts and what still matters. We explore the rituals that

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Ep 11: Daily Grieftending: Small Rituals That Change...

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2025/05/18

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 rituals. We named grief myths and we honored non-body deaths (Kananápo). We asked: What do you want to stop carrying, and start composting? We explore: Micro-Funerals (for endings and expired expectations) The Audio Mirror (unfiltered voice journaling) Composting Grief (turning loss into

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EP 10. Parenting While Grieving, Grieving While...

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2025/05/18

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 someone else’s emotional safety, while still unraveling inside your own pain? This episode is about that. It’s about the parents, caregivers, aunties, mentors, and chosen family members trying to hold it down for the young ones—while carrying grief that isn’t always named, understood, or supported. In

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Ep. 9: How Body Death Teaches Us To Hold Kananápo

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2025/05/11

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 concept of Kananápo—the grief that comes from endings that don’t involve a body—and explores how tending to body death can grow our capacity to hold what we can’t see but deeply feel. Grief and joy show up together here, as they often do. With metaphors rooted in permaculture and practices from the ILID

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Ep. 8: Grieving Together: Why Our Communities Need...

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2025/05/04

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 "right" words and just started witnessing each other better? In this episode, I’m reflecting on what I’ve learned about grieving in community—from grief at work to grief in friendships to the subtle, daily losses we rarely name out loud. I’m also sharing a personal story that changed the way I show up

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Ep. 7: Friend-ings (When Friendships End)

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2025/04/27

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 time, or once formed within our family circle (because a sister or cousin can also be a friend), friendships shape us. Like us, friendships are born they grow the change, the age, and sometimes they die. Let's talk about how loss and change and friendship impacts our choices, our willingness, or lack

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Ep. 6: The Parent You Thought You'd Be

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2025/04/20

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 chosen, sometimes forced. The grief of letting go of the version of yourself that thought you’d always know how to do this. Akilah covers the topics of: Letting go of old parental ideals and identities Estrangement and emotional distance Grieving loss of control and certainty Joy and terror in witnessing a

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Ep. 5: Working Through Grief, Grieving Through Work

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2025/04/13

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 of staying employable at the expense of your well-being, the ache of entrepreneurship, and what it means to leave a job you once loved. We ask: What did I lose just to keep getting paid? What version of me is still performing out of fear? What would I need to stop pretending this doesn’t hurt? This

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Ep. 4: Seeing Yourself and Being Seen (Identity...

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2025/04/06

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 Themes: Identity Death: chosen, forced, or slowly revealed The grief of being unseen or held to outdated versions of self What it stirs when others change, or don’t How perimenopause, aging, career shifts, body changes, and belief unravelings reshape us The difference between knowing who you were and being

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Ep. 3: Sorting Through Grief, Trauma, and Depression

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2025/03/30

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, how they differ, and why it matters that we don’t lump them all into the same category. I’m not speaking as a clinician, but as someone who’s lived and studied grief, and who’s made space for others to do the same. Together, we’ll look at what happens when grief goes untended, and how that can impact our

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Ep. 1: Grief Basics: What We Were Never Taught

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2025/03/23

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 deserve to feel it. So let's unlearn some of that together. Some things need to die. Period. Not to complete a cycle, not to fit into our tidy narratives—just because they are done, and dragging them forward only feeds the rot, the stench, the futile energy. That’s What I Let Die—a podcast series

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Ep. 2: Naming the Deaths We Don’t See (Kananápo)

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2025/03/23

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. In this one, I’m leaning into non-body deaths—the grief that doesn’t come with obituaries or casseroles. I talk about a Jamaican Patois term gifted it to my vocabulary by my mother's mother, my beloved grandmother, that captures the sudden absence of something you didn’t realize mattered until it was

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Introducing: What I Let Die aka WILD Podcast

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2025/02/27

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 to hold loss. We were told to move on. To push through. To keep busy. But grief don’t work like that. When untended, it refuses to wait for permission or convenient timing. And grief? It ain’t just about death. It’s about everything that’s been left behind. Relationships that no longer fit. Roles

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