Coffin Talk

Lisa Sugarman is an author, a nationally syndicated columnist, a survivor of suicide loss, a mental health advocate, a crisis counselor with The Trevor Project, and a storyteller with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She writes the syndicated opinion column It Is What It Is and is the author of How To Ra

Kat Albrecht is a police detective-turned-pet detective, mystery and nonfiction author, and inspirational speaker. Since 1998 she has trained professional and volunteer pet detectives (including dogs trained to track lost pets) through her online pet detective academy. You can read her quirky and fascinating stories at

Joseph Khasho is a Board member of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, a non-profit affiliated with Dr. Jeffrey Long founder of NDERF.org. NDERF.org is a publicly available website that aggregates and disseminates near-death experiences (NDEs) from around the world.  Please rate us on Apple and Spotify and s

Eric Kaplan is a writer and philosopher who has written for Futurama, The Flight of the Conchords, The Big Bang Theory, and Young Sheldon. His philosophy book, Does Santa Exist? deals with ontology, logic, mysticism, and the philosophy of religion. His comedy philosophy podcast “Terrifying Questions” (with Taylor Carma

This is from 2017 and it is tied into yesterday's essay on coping with sadness. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikeyopp.substack.com/subscribe

Emerson Souza is an Organizational Psychologist by trade, working as a government consultant in the field of Human Capital, Human Centered Design, and Tech Integration and Development. He's an overtly curious person with a profound interest in people. For example, he went to five colleges, intentionally, to diversify t