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Headstone with Pete Wright
A well-lived life deserves a great last line. Headstone is a podcast about legacy—not the kind etched in marble, but the kind we carry in memory, in laughter, in the stories we tell long after someone’s gone. Hosted by Pete Wright, Headstone uses one deceptively simple question—What do you want on your headstone?—to explore the lives behind the legacies. In each episode, guests reflect on meaning, mortality, creativity, failure, grief, and joy, finding humor and humanity in the messy middle of…
Episodes
Headstone with Pete WrightDerek Brandow: A Performance of Confidence
A note before we begin: this is not a new conversation. It's the first one. Before Headstone had a single episode in the feed, I needed to know whether the…
Headstone with Pete WrightChris Schembra: The Strange Mercy of a Good Middle
This is the last conversation of my first season, and I almost didn’t finish it. Chris Schembra came to me the way the best guests do, as a name pressed into…
Headstone with Pete WrightDr. Nachi Felt: Always Becoming
Sometimes at fifteen, sometimes much later, we finally stop running from ourselves. We sit down and ask the quiet but impossible question: Who do I want to be?…
Headstone with Pete WrightJames Ochoa: The Storm Chaser
Some people study chaos because they have to. Others because they can’t look away. James Ochoa has spent his life inside both camps—born into a noisy, loving…
Headstone with Pete WrightThe Generous Goodbye with Aliza Kline
Aliza Kline has built her life around connection—the kind that happens when people gather around a table, or descend beneath the surface of the water, or find…
Headstone with Pete WrightBuilding Cathedrals from Dry Erase with Rob Kubasko
Step into Rob Kubasko’s office and you’ll find a reliquary of light and story: Iron Man’s helmet, a model of the USS Enterprise, a Phantom of the Opera music…
Headstone with Pete WrightThe Lasting Impressions in Lost Things with Glenn Fleishman
History is often written in bold type. We remember the wars, the inventions, the big cultural shifts that announce themselves with headlines. But Glenn…
Headstone with Pete WrightWhat We Lift and What We Carry with Srdjan Injac
When Srdjan Injac was a kid, he was small. Picked last for dodgeball small. Picked on. Smacked around. Defended by others on the playground small. He carried a…
Headstone with Pete WrightClever Dialogue and the Crushing Weight of Mortality Kyle Olson
What happens when the people you’ve spent years working alongside suddenly aren’t there anymore? For Kyle Olson—writer, podcaster, audio dramatist, and…
Headstone with Pete WrightA Large Collection of Tiny Brief Encounters with Seth Nelson, Esq
There’s a moment in every western where a lone figure walks into a dusty town. They are anonymous—neither good nor evil, simply unknown. They solve a problem…
Headstone with Pete WrightHow to Be Remembered Without Saying a Word With Carrie Fox
In 1888, Alfred Nobel read his own obituary. A clerical error, yes—but also a mirror, a reckoning, a chance to see what his legacy might become. The Merchant…
Headstone with Pete WrightA Well-Lived Life Deserves a Great Last Line
Before the granite. Before the eulogy. Before someone says your name for the last time. Headstone is a podcast about legacy—not just the kind carved into…