Over My Dead Poddy

💀🎙️🤘🏻 Series 2: Episode 9 - Talking Before It's Too Late: How  Palliative Care Is There To Help''    🤘🏻🎙️💀  
This one’s gentle, honest, and as always, vitally important. In this episode we’re talking end of life choices and the support available if you or someone you love needs palliative care. What it actually is (and what it isn’t), where to find help, how it can support families, and how to start the conversations most people avoid until it’s too late.More than anything, it’s a reminder: you’re not alone, and there is support for the hard moments and the hard words.
We’re joined by palliative care specialists Hayley and Claire, helping us cut through the fear and the myths, with warmth, clarity and real-world truth.
🎧 Download the latest episode now wherever you usually find your Podcasts. 
Disclaimer: all views shared are those of our guests and are not representative of any organisation or Trust they are associated with.

🎙️💀🤘🏻Series 2: Episode 8: Tiny Life, Massive Love: Bex and Evelyn's Story🤘🏻🎙️💀
This one is tender, raw, and deeply real. We sit down with our gorgeous former Co-host Bex,  as she shares Evelyn’s story, losing her baby just hours after she was born. We talk honestly about those first unbearable moments, and how being a Funeral Director helped Bex find her footing, and later helped her support other families walking the same road.
It’s a longer listen, because some stories deserve time and space. We couldn’t cut it short, and we wouldn’t want to.If you’re carrying your own grief, go gently with this one. And if you don’t know what to say to someone who is, this episode might help.
Download the latest episode now wherever you get your Podcasts

🤘🏻💀🎙️ Season 2 Episode 7 🤘🏻💀🎙️
This week we’re getting uncomfortably practical about death. Wills, Probate and Power of Attorney. Whether you’ve got a record collection and a cat or a million-pound mansion, someone’s dealing with it one day, and you need to deal with it now!
We’re joined by the brilliant Danielle Sutcliffe to make sense of it all and inspire you to set up your own Death File! No doom. No jargon. Just dead good advice and a few laughs along the way.                                                                 
Download the latest episode now, from wherever you usually get your Poddys and check out Danelle's services at www.DSWills.uk 

🎙️💀🤘🏻WE’RE BACK. with Hosts Nichola Reeder and Cllr Carl Tate SERIES 2 EPISODE 6 🎙️💀🤘🏻
                                                                           
After a short hiatus where life (and yes… death) did what it does best and got in the way, Over My Dead Poddy is back on the airwaves. And we're so excited! 
 
In this latest episode, we’re catching up on what’s really going on in the funeral world right now and the stuff families are quietly dealing with. 
 
We're talking: 
 
⚖️ Why is it taking so long in some areas to register a death?
💷 What is the real cost of a funeral, and why does it vary so wildly?
🖤 Why Carl's got his ranty-pants on?
 
It’s honest, it’s unfiltered, and it’s very much us.
 
👀 And… stay with us right to the end, where we're calling on you, our trusty listeners, for a little help.
 
Same poddy. Same honest truth. Just back where we belong.
 
🎧 Listen now wherever your download your Podcasts. or via this link:
 
 
#OverMyDeadPoddy #FuneralTalk #DeathChat #RebelHeart #BackOnAir #TheFuneralWorld #funerals #funeraldirector #celebrant Association of Independent Celebrants

Ever wondered what really happens inside a crematorium? This week we’re joined by Simon Routledge from the Crematoria & Memorial Group — a man who has seen everything… including the day the Teletubbies hijacked a funeral. Yes, really. We’re pulling back the metaphorical (and very literal) curtain to talk about the unseen world of crematoria: the care, the precision, the surprises, the humanity, the technology… and why getting to know your local crem team before you need them,  might be one of the smartest, most empowering things you do. It’s candid. It’s eye-opening. It’s surprisingly uplifting. And it’s full of the usual chat that reminds you that funerals are far more human — and far less gloomy — than people assume. And we'll also be sharing the plans for a special Christmas Remembrance Episode we'll be releasing next week.

This week we’re talking legacies — the real kind, not the dry legal sort. We’re joined by Katie from Dead Good Legacies, who’s flipping the script on death education and showing why your impact doesn’t end when the funeral does. We dig into how personal a goodbye can be, what losing someone taught her about living, and why getting comfy with your own mortality might just be the most life-affirming thing you do. Dead honest, dead good, and absolutely not dead boring.

This week, we invite fellow Funeral Director David Knowles into the studio to do two things: 1)  fact-check a few of Carl’s Series 1 bombshells, and 2) bring the kind of experience that makes Carl and Nichola look like interns!  We get into the wildest logistical ask of David’s career (yes, it involved hiring a private jet), the invisible work that makes difficult days smoother, and why he believes more regulation isn’t red tape—it’s real protection that leads to better outcomes for families. (Spoiler alert: we agree.)
Expect honesty,  and the usual OMDP mischief...especially from the lunatic lurcher Cisco who makes a guest appearance right at the very end of the show!
Hit play, make a brew, and let’s get myth-busting. 💀🎧

This week we’re chatting with the brilliant and award-winning Katie Costello — soul midwife, funeral celebrant, death education powerhouse — about why talking about death and dying actually makes life bigger, more peaceful and a whole lot braver.
We dig into the real stuff: why we dodge death chat like it’s contagious, how fear and silence hold us back, and why finding the guts to say what you really want (yes, even about your funeral) is one of the most liberating things you can do.
It’s fast-paced, fiery and full of those “oh yeah” moments — the kind that make you think differently about living and dying.
If you’ve ever wondered where to start with those difficult conversations… or why you keep putting them off… this one is most definitely for you.
💥 Listen. Laugh. Reflect. Be inspired to start one of the most important conversations of your life.
 
Check Katie out via her website at https://www.katiecsoulmidwife.com/ 

Season 2 kicks off with a big, old catch-up episode, chatting about what we've been up to, what's coming up in the new series, and why Carl's devastated he's had to give up his beloved Pop Tarts!  You can expect more myth busting, more honest truths and some laughs along the way. 
We're so excited to back - still curious, still human and still dying to answer all the questions you daren't ask! 
So tune in to Episode 1 now, and get reacquainted with your favourite funeral crew! 

🎙️💀🤘🏻 Episode 11: The Live Edit – Season Finale 🎙️💀🤘🏻
Fast. Frantic. Occasionally flying off at a tangent (ok, often flying off at a tangent)… this one’s raw, unfiltered and very much live.
We were honoured to crash Stockton Crematorium’s Open Day, where we set up the mics, threw out the rulebook, and invited your burning questions. No edits, no scripts – just us, a curious crowd, and the kind of conversations you don’t normally hear in public.
It’s messy, it’s honest, and it’s the perfect send-off for Season One.
🎙🤘🏻💀 Tune in, buckle up… and welcome to The Live Edit.🎙🤘🏻💀