Welcome to this episode of Thrive, “How To Have a Peaceful Death” with my guest Deanna Cochran. Deanna Cochran is a death doula and world leader in the positive death movement where she serves families and organization who work with end of life.. She is the creator of the first multidisciplinary community called The End of Life Practitioner’s Collective to be a resources for consumer. She has been featured in the New York Times and is the author of the upcoming book “But I’m Not Dying! Palliative Care From Diagnosis Onward.”

In this episode, Deanna tells us what a death doula is and how she came in to this line of work. How her experience with death as a young child set the tone for her life’s work of service. Deanna also explains to us what a peaceful death looks like and how we can prepare ourselves for that time of life for ourselves and our families. Then Deanna and I shift gears and talk about how she grew her business into something profitable and what other service-oriented entrepreneurs need to think about in order to be successful without selling their souls.

I was really bless to have Deanna on the show. She does very important work in the world.