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The Deep End
The Deep End offers heartfelt guidance and real-life wisdom for navigating serious illness, caregiving and the end of life. Each episode provides meaningful resources, compassionate education and gentle encouragement to help listeners live fully - even in the face of life’s hardest moments. Through personal stories, expert insights, and reflective conversations, The Deep End invites you to consider what it means to be truly present, to care deeply and to find peace in the journey.
Episodes
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Nourishing Life: Food, Connection and the Art of Living Well
In this episode of The Deep End, Kelley Scott visits with longtime Clarehouse volunteer Derek Bransford about cooking for families and guests in our care. They…
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The Why Behind the Work
Death has a way of stripping life down to what’s real. Not the schedules. Not the distractions. Not the versions of ourselves we perform for other people. Just…
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A Safe Place to Land
What if home isn't a place? What if home is where someonefinally feels safe enough to breathe? In this episode of The Deep End, Kelley Scott talks with Sherry…
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The Stories That Remain: Storytelling, Connection and Legacy
Stories are more than entertainment. They help us make sense of our lives, connect with one another and understand what truly matters. In this episode, host…
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Showing Up: How Communities Care for One Another
Many of us like to think of ourselves as independent. We celebrate personal success and self-reliance. But the truth is that none of us get through life alone…
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Walking Through Grief: Mindfulness, Movement and the Healing Path of the Labyrinth
Host Kelley Scott sits down with Kathy Clarke, a movement and mindfulness practitioner and instructor and labyrinth facilitator, to explore how gentle…
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From Loss to Leadership: Teaching the Hard Conversations
We don’t avoid these conversations because we don’t care. We avoid them because no one ever taught us how. That’s the problem—and the opportunity. At…
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The Quiet Movement Changing End-of-Life Care
In this episode, Host Kelley Scott speaks with Beth Lynn Hoey, Executive Director of the Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Syracuse and board member of…
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The Long Yes: Love, Loss and the Courage to Keep Showing Up
Longtime Clarehouse volunteer Melanie Wignall shares how profound personal loss shaped her compassion. What began as a personal search for meaning after losing…
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Pulling the Emergency Brake: Rethinking Care in a High-Velocity System
Many of us feel it: the rush, the pressure, the urgency of healthcare. But where is it taking us? Join host Kelley Scott and Jennifer Clark, MD, for a powerful…
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When Belief Meets Mortality: Conversation About the Mystery of the After
Host Kelley Scott speaks with Thad Hensley, a self-identified physicalist who does not believe in a nonphysical realm, and Scott Gordon, a longtime hospice…
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Presence in the Fade: Stories of Dementia, Care and Connection
Dementia changes people - but what remains of who they are? Join host Kelley Scott as Jarrod Noftsger and Donna Eastham share raw, moving stories about love…
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What Hurts Us Most Can Also Teach Us the Most
Host Kelley Scott sits down with Dr. Jennifer Clark—palliative medicine physician, healthcare delivery scientist and author of Suffer.—to explore one of life’s…
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Mythbusting: Conversation About the Realities of Hospice Care
Join host Kelley Scott and hospice nurse Amy Bailey as they cut through the myths to reveal how hospice really supports patients and families with choice…
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Legacy and the Desire to Be Remembered
Kelley Scott, Clarehouse Executive Director, is joined by special guest Robin Ballenger, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and the first female…
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Breaking the Silence: Conversations About Death and Dying
Kelley Scott, Clarehouse Executive Director, shares the complex realities of caregiving through serious illness and end of life. Joined by Dwan Borens, Chief…