Kickingthebucketpodcast

Kickingthebucketpodcast An episodic dark-comedy podcast driving conversations on senior living and end of life autonomy. Created & hosted by Andee Kinzy. DROPS JULY 2nd, 2025!!

08/21/2025

Your unofficial guide to aging, autonomy, and all the stuff no one told you.

SPECIAL GUEST: Allison Benavides, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

This week, we discuss: rewiring your brain’s response to pain, navigating chronic illness through a sacred lens, and making the body a safer place for your spirit to live.

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Join our weekly Kicking the Bucket livestreams - bonus content for our fiction dramedy podcast about an elderly couple with terminal illnesses winging it at the end of life. These are the resources Dolores and Howard should've had. We’re diving into aging, elder care, Shakespeare, and what it really means to live (and die) on your own terms.

https://improvedarts.org/kickingthebucketpodcast

08/20/2025

Where we laugh before we cry.

After tuning in to Kicking the Bucket EPISODE 7: "What's Done is Done," we welcome guest facilitator, Allison Ray Benavides.

✨ Allison Ray Benavides, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Golden Pathos Healing
Allison is a medical social worker who provides holistic telehealth therapy in CA and TX. Drawing on her hospice background and advocacy for pediatric cannabis, she supports individuals coping with chronic illness, pain, trauma, and end-of-life challenges. She integrates approaches such as Pain Reprocessing Therapy, EMDR, Energy Psychology, and Buddhist Psychology into her practice.

💬 Join us LIVE with Allison Ray Benavides as we continue the conversation from our Listening Club! We'll be discussing r...
08/20/2025

💬 Join us LIVE with Allison Ray Benavides as we continue the conversation from our Listening Club! We'll be discussing rewiring your brain’s response to pain, navigating chronic illness through a sacred lens, and making the body a safer place for your spirit to live.

🗓️ Thu 8/21 @ 10:30 AM CT
📍FB + our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/)

✨ Your body holds your story — come learn how to rewrite it with care.

🤓 Join us at Menchaca Road Branch Austin Public Library TOMORROW August 20th at 6pm for the FINAL EPISODE of Kicking the...
08/19/2025

🤓 Join us at Menchaca Road Branch Austin Public Library TOMORROW August 20th at 6pm for the FINAL EPISODE of Kicking the Bucket Podcast! We’ll be tuning in together to either Episode 8A "Round With A Sleep" or Episode 8B "Brave New World" — you decide! — followed by a guided discussion with featured expert guest Allison Ray Benavides. ➡️ Read more about Allison below!

✨ Allison Ray Benavides, LCSW, Golden Pathos Healing
Allison provides holistic telehealth therapy to the residents of CA and TX. An experienced medical social worker, she helps those struggling to manage chronic illness or pain - physical, emotional, or spiritual.

Her work is intimately informed by her experiences as a hospice social worker, and an advocate for pediatric cannabis — supporting families, patients, and children coping with severe chronic symptoms, trauma, fear, and death.

Engaged in sacred and science based interventions, she draws from:

❤️‍🩹 Pain Reprocessing Therapy
❤️‍🩹 EMDR
❤️‍🩹 Energy Psychology
❤️‍🩹 Buddhist Psychology

✅ RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/cc/kicking-the-bucket-4278533
⛔️ Note: Themes include Alzheimer’s, cancer, and death.

Guest speaker and facilitator Wendy Corn with KTB creator Andee Kinzy at our seventh Listening Club. 😍There is only ONE ...
08/18/2025

Guest speaker and facilitator Wendy Corn with KTB creator Andee Kinzy at our seventh Listening Club. 😍

There is only ONE Listening Club session left!! 😱 Our FINAL Listening Club event is happening this Wednesday, August 20th and it's an extra exciting one because YOU, our audience, get to choose how our story ends! Will you pick Episode 8A where Dolores and Howard go out on their own terms, needing no permission, making no apologies? Or will you choose Episode 8B where Dolores and Howard find a way to share their truth, open up, speak their hearts and invite their childern to understand and support them? Join us for our final Listening Club to seal our characters' fates.

More details on our expert guest speaker for this week coming soon.
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/cc/kicking-the-bucket-4278533

08/14/2025

Your unofficial guide to aging, autonomy, and all the stuff no one told you.

SPECIAL GUEST: Amanda Fugate-Moss, Creator, "Driving the Daisies," a dramedy musical film

This week, we discuss: transforming grief into storytelling, embracing humor and music in caregiving, and honoring legacy through creative expression.

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Join our weekly Kicking the Bucket livestreams - bonus content for our fiction dramedy podcast about an elderly couple with terminal illnesses winging it at the end of life. These are the resources Dolores and Howard should've had. We’re diving into aging, elder care, Shakespeare, and what it really means to live (and die) on your own terms.

https://improvedarts.org/kickingthebucketpodcast

08/13/2025

Where we laugh before we cry.

After tuning in to Kicking the Bucket EPISODE 7: "What's Done is Done," we welcome guest facilitator, Wendy R. Corn.

✨ Wendy R. Corn, End-of-Life Doula and 'Exit Strategy' Filmmaker
Wendy is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and EOL doula whose work has been featured at SXSW and other festivals. Her films explore spirituality, community, and healing, with subjects ranging from laughter-as-medicine to Jewish culture. She has produced and programmed film festivals, served on the SXSW Photography Crew, and worked for MoMA, Miramax Films, and MTV Networks. She is a published writer and photographer.

💬 Caregiving can be heavy — but it can also be hilarious, musical, and deeply meaningful. Join us LIVE with Amanda Fugat...
08/13/2025

💬 Caregiving can be heavy — but it can also be hilarious, musical, and deeply meaningful. Join us LIVE with Amanda Fugate-Moss, creator of AFM Productions-Driving the Daisies Series, for a conversation on love, legacy, and the power of presence.

🗓️ Thu 8/14 @ 10:30 AM CT
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Come be part of this beautiful story. 🌼

🤓 Join us at Howson Branch Austin Public Library THIS WEDNESDAY August 13th at 6pm for another episode of Kicking the Bu...
08/12/2025

🤓 Join us at Howson Branch Austin Public Library THIS WEDNESDAY August 13th at 6pm for another episode of Kicking the Bucket Podcast! We’ll be tuning in together to EPISODE 7 “What’s Done Is Done”, followed by a guided discussion with featured expert guest Wendy R. Corn. Read more about Wendy below!

✨ Wendy R. Corn, Film Maker, End of Life Doula
Wendy is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have been featured at SXSW and other festivals. Her films have addressed spirituality and community on topics such as death, laughter, Judaism, and community song circles. Wendy produced an annual teen 24-hr. filmmaking event called “Lights, Camera, Chutzpah” underwritten by the Austin Jewish Film Festival. She has been a part of the SXSW Photography Crew as a photographer & crew chief. Wendy conceived, produced, cast, and shot the award-winning “Praise HA!”, a documentary about laughter as a healer, which included Wavy Gravy, and Patch Adams amongst others. She produced and helped program the Avignon/New York Film Festival, and has worked on various other film festivals (New Directors/New Films, NYFF, Shorts International, NY Comedy, New York Women in Film and Television) in management and programming. She has also been in front of the camera as a location reporter. She has worked for media and film departments at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Miramax Films, and MTV Networks and is a published writer and photographer.

✅ RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/cc/kicking-the-bucket-4278533
⛔️ Note: Themes include Alzheimer’s, cancer, and death.

Our very own Richard Gartner (the voice of Howard), creator of KTB Andee Kinzy, and guest speaker and facilitator Nadia ...
08/12/2025

Our very own Richard Gartner (the voice of Howard), creator of KTB Andee Kinzy, and guest speaker and facilitator Nadia Velazquez at our sixth Listening Club. 😍

Our next Listening Club event is happening TOMORROW Wednesday, August 13th! (There are only 2 Listening Club sessions left!!) More details on our expert guest speaker for this week coming later today.

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/cc/kicking-the-bucket-4278533

08/07/2025

Your unofficial guide to aging, autonomy, and all the stuff no one told you.

SPECIAL GUEST: Alex Casas, End-of-Life Educator and Doula

This week, we discuss: preparing others to advocate for your care, demystifying the funeral industry, and creating rituals that reflect your life and values.

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Join our weekly Kicking the Bucket livestreams - bonus content for our fiction dramedy podcast about an elderly couple with terminal illnesses winging it at the end of life. These are the resources Dolores and Howard should've had. We’re diving into aging, elder care, Shakespeare, and what it really means to live (and die) on your own terms.

https://improvedarts.org/kickingthebucketpodcast

08/06/2025

Where we laugh before we cry.

After tuning in together to Kicking the Bucket EPISODE 6: "In Such a Pickle," we are guided in discussion with guest facilitator, Nadia Velasquez.

✨ Nadia Velasquez, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Supervisor
Nadia Velazquez, LCSW-S, specializes in aging, mental wellness, and grief. A graduate of UT Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work, she began her career as a hospice social worker and now serves as Clinical Director at Family Eldercare, providing in-home psychotherapy to homebound adults. Her private practice, Luna Tides Counseling, brings a culturally sensitive, relational approach to supporting adults through life transitions, caregiving, and chronic illness.

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