Welcome to 2024! I miss you and even though the podcast has officially ended, I still have so much great content you haven’t heard. So how about a little bonus episode to kick off the year!Jesse Moss is the rockstar Director of Marketing at Exp

Nana: “Bye, bye darling.”

Oct 22nd, 2023 40m 54s

Welcome to I Swear on My Mother’s Grave and the finale episode of Season 3. Yay! 3 seasons, baby!I don’t want to bury the lead…so, I also want to welcome you to the end of my podcast journey with all of you. This is it, friends. I am turning

Mary: "Tips from Dead People"

Oct 8th, 2023 58m 47s

Today’s guest is a friend I met on TikTok. Yep! Mary McGreevy, hosts the Tips from Dead People page on TikTok, where she earnestly, and respectfully curates and personally reads unique obituaries from submissions she receives from all over the

Mitchell: “I do not believe in the myth of blood relations.”

Sep 24th, 2023 1h 3m

Mitchell Fain was born a natural storyteller. He is an incredible actor/comedian/circus performer who grew up in a Jewish home in Rhode Island and now lives in Chicago.In this episode, we will talk about how his bingo-gambling mother never cl

Jessica: “Caregiving is an active choice.”

Sep 10th, 2023 1h 5m

Jessica Guthrie is a millennial, only child of a single mother living with Alzheimer’s. She likes to say that she has made an active, conscious choice to care for her mother in the last 8 years, at first commuting from Texas to Virginia, but no

Barri: “We are born, when somebody is lost, to find them.”

Aug 27th, 2023 1h 14m

The one and only, Barri Leiner Grant is here. Barri is the Chief Grief Officer and a Certified Grief Coach with The Memory Circle, a space and place to be with your grief.When Barri’s own beautiful mother died in 1993, there were no resources

Kevin: "She worked thru so many things that were challenging for her, because she loved me so much."

Aug 13th, 2023 1h 9m

In this episode, my dear friend Kevin, talks about how his Christian mother struggled to accept her son’s sexuality even though she deeply loved him, and he loved her.Kevin’s mother always avoided the spotlight for most of her life, made a ch

Ryan: “Most people say ‘One day, one day I’ll make my will.’ I would make that day…today.”

Jun 12th, 2023 57m 33s

Hey! Pull up a chair and let’s talk about how to set our loved ones up for success by making a will and checking it twice. It is one of the kindest things you can do for the people who love you. Wading thru grief without dealing with the lega

Amanda: “She just, to me...feels like someone who was always trying to fill this void.”

May 28th, 2023 1h 13m

In this episode, Amanda shares the shocking moment in her early 20s that she discovered she was adopted, how her lone-wolf mother“ loved to party," what meeting her birth mother in a coffee shop felt like, why the smell of gasoline reminds her

Anna and Diane: A daughter and a mother on Mother’s Day.

May 14th, 2023 1h 13m

Welcome to the 3rd Season! In this episode, a mother and a daughter are going to try to remember a fight they had (yep, they are going to struggle to find ONE example), they are going to discuss suicide and personal end of life wishes together

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Season 3 is coming back…on Mother’s Day!

Apr 14th, 2023 27m 55s

I missed you, and I hope you missed me too! Drumroll, please…we are coming back with a 3rd Season on Mother’s Day! Yay. I can't wait for you to get to meet all of these amazing humans. So many stories, people to learn from...and a big reminder

Cory: “And for women, I think we’re taught to put other people's pleasure and needs ahead of our own.”

Dec 19th, 2022 56m 11s

Welcome to the last episode of Season 2! Yay! Do you believe that someone can love more than one person during their lifetime? Do you ever wonder what your parent’s sexual history or desires were? Are you curious about how to talk to your own y

Dana: “Seeing gift cards that say To: Dana, From: Mom in her own handwriting, are breathtaking.”

Dec 5th, 2022 21m 12s

Today, it’s just you and me in front of a crackling fire talking about holidays past, American Girl Dolls, and inherited objects that are heavy literally AND figuratively. Grab a cup of hot cocoa, put on a warm robe and let’s process some grief

Billy and Evelyn: “If you want to know me, you need to know this thing about me.”

Nov 21st, 2022 1h 25m

This episode features my first pair of siblings! Billy and his sister Evelyn are actually half siblings, and they grew up in Texas. Their mother was raised a missionary kid, became a beloved math teacher, loved to travel, had a cackle that coul

Rachel: “She kind of knew it was an exit interview of sorts."

Nov 7th, 2022 1h 5m

This episode’s guest is Rachel Matlow, a producer, audio content creator, and writer based in Canada. They created one of my favorite audio pieces ever, “Dead Mom Talking,” which won the Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist

Greg: “And I’m the guy who walks around with intersectional feminist hoodies on!”

Oct 24th, 2022 56m 3s

Greg Geffrard lost his Haitian mother when he was only 16. She died from AIDS, but that is only a part of her story.This is an episode about a black son seeing his mother’s infectious “joy” and wanting to protect it. It’s about what it is like

Mrs. Black: “She’s making science sexy!”

Oct 10th, 2022 1h 7m

Welcome to the second season of I Swear on My Mother’s Grave podcast. In this episode, we go back to my mom's former classroom at Glenbard North High School in Carol Stream, Illinois, where she taught honors biology for over 20 years. She retir

Peter: “I only want you to be happy.”

Sep 26th, 2022 1h 7m

Welcome to the 2nd Season of I Swear on My Mother’s Grave podcast. My second guest this season is the one and only…Peter Sagal, the long running host of NPR’s news/trivia game show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! In this episode, Peter and I chat abou

Lauren: “Though she’s with you in spirit, she’s part of your past.”

Sep 12th, 2022 59m 2s

We are back, baby! Welcome to the 2nd Season of I Swear on My Mother’s Grave podcast. My first guest is my friend Lauren Montgomery. She is an amazing actor, a new mom, and a professor at Chicago’s Truman College.In this episode, we talk abou

I’m getting married this week! And Season 2 is COMING!

Jun 16th, 2022 15m 46s

Hey, I'm back! Real quick...to let you know that I am getting married this week! Ahh! And it's on the patio of my 95 year old Nana's nursing home. In this bonus/mini episode, I wanted to talk thru some of my fear around the words "till death do

Suzi

May 9th, 2021 59m 26s

Today’s guest is Suzi Pond. We recorded this conversation one year ago, on Mother’s Day 2020. It was my first interview for this project/podcast. I didn’t know yet what this was going to be, but I knew I needed to talk to one of my oldest frien

Halley

Apr 4th, 2021 58m 10s

Today’s guest is Halley Mayo. She lost her mother when she and her twin brother were just 4 years old. In this episode, Halley expresses how she doesn’t know her life without grief and doesn’t understand why she is still crying…over a woman she

Daisy

Mar 7th, 2021 39m 27s

Today’s guest is Daisy Salto. Daisy is currently 16 years old, grew up in Chicago with her 4 siblings, and lost her mom when she was just 8 years old. She remembers watching Curious George with her mother and, even though she didn’t speak Engli

Lucy

Feb 14th, 2021 53m 50s

Today’s guest is Lucy Sandy. Lucy was born and raised in Houston, Texas by two immigrant parents from Sierra Leone: Mommy and Daddy, as they are affectionately called. In this episode, as Lucy approached the 10-year anniversary of her mom’s dea

Jess

Jan 24th, 2021 55m 2s

Today’s guest is Jess Jones. She used to be an agent (one of my agents, to be exact!) and is now the Center Director for The Kaufherr Center in Chicago, which supports professional and emerging performing artists seeking opportunity within the