016 – Live with greater intention – Arza Goldstein
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Today, after 11 years as a hospice nurse, supporting hundreds of terminally ill patients and their families, Arza Goldstein established a private practice as an End of Life Doula, helping patients and their families make their remaining time together less stressful and more meaningful. Most of us don’t like to talk about dying, but stay for the conversation and see how thinking about death and dying makes us live our lives with greater intention.
Arza Goldstein is an entrepreneur, journeywoman and advocate. Her career path has taken her from training and development to sales, investment banking, real estate, birth doula to hospice nurse and community organizer. She has a private practice as an End of Life Doula and is the co-founder of Living Wisely, Dying Well, an organization designed to encourage conversations about death and dying.
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In this episode we discuss:
Arza’s career path that led her through sales, real estate, birth doula, hospice nursing, and now as an End of Life doula.
How certain indescribable feelings served as cues to her that she was ready to move on from different jobs during her career.
The fears that she confronted when she was not an income earning member of her family, and how those led her to pursue her nursing education.
How Arza views death and how she uses her insights to help people live better while preparing for end of life.
The various services she performs in her role as an end of life doula.
Arza’s strength at helping people journey through the end of their lives.
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Books mentioned in this episode:
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
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