Host Tracy Wood shares a short message with listeners about her experience this year celebrating the holidays without her father who passed away in 2020. She relates how she has been handling this situation and offers suggestions for how she has been coping with the challenge.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com.

Highlights from this episode include:

Managing grief on top of COVID-19 concerns during the holidays this year (1:02)

Focus on one holiday at a time and have plans a, b, and c (2:33)

If you have children, make them a part of the planning (4:26)

Sudden unexpected grief moments (7:20)

Honoring the memory of our loved ones who have passed on (11:40)

Thank you Susan for sharing some very practical advice for going through the holidays after losing a loved one. We hope the holiday season for our listeners is filled with lots of joy and love.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com.

We wish you and yours a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. Here's a special message from our Grave to Great Host, Tracy Wood.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com. 

In this episode of Grave to Great, host Tracy Wood is joined by Julie Baumgardner, the President and CEO of First Things First, a national nonprofit based in Chattanooga designed for helping people to have healthy relationships in all areas of life. Both Tracy and Julie have faced challenges in being women leading large organizations and offer advice from their experience in this conversation. 

Highlights from the episode include: 

• Overview of Julie’s background (0:40)
• The challenges of being women in workplace leadership (3:11)
• What makes leaders great (6:41)
• Advice for young women looking to take their career to the next level (10:40)

Thank you Julie for being on the show and for sharing your experiences. 

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com. 

In this episode of Grave to Great, host Tracy Wood is joined by Nicole Brown from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. In addition to her faculty role at UTC, Nicole is also a documentary producer and diversity, equity, and inclusion advocate.

Highlights from this episode include: 

• Nicole Brown’s role at UTC and working as a documentary producer (0:58)
• Defining equity and identifying bias in hiring (4:16)
• Being intentional about your behavior and helping eliminate biases (7:26)
• How to move our workplaces forward in 2020 in equity and diversity (14:23) 

Thank you Nicole for joining the show to discuss this very important topic. You can follow Nicole on Twitter @LiveNicoleBrown and Instagram @nbrownlive.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com. 

In this special crossover episode of Grave to Great, Tracy Wood is joined by Erica Ligenza Gwynn, host of the podcast THRIVE and the creator of the website Coming Up Roses. Erica shares the story of her daughter Olivia’s complicated birth and how her family was able to go from grave to great following a 73-day stay in the NICU.

In this episode: 

• Starting Coming Up Roses and THRIVE (0:43)
• Going from a smooth pregnancy to knowing that she would need to have an emergency, premature delivery (3:20)
• Losing the normal joys of having a baby (8:15)
• Spending more than two months in the NICU (10:03)
• Tuning in to the joy of everyday life (18:26)

Thank you Erica for sharing your story with us. We are looking forward to continuing our conversation on your podcast.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com. 

In this episode of Grave to Great, host Tracy Wood shares the personal story of unexpectedly losing her father this month. She communicates that with how sad she has been, she still focuses on the blessings of all the wonderful years she had to spend with him and the peace she felt that his wishes were known and honored.

In this episode: 

• Death is so hard to talk about (3:24)
• “It never crossed my mind that my dad was that sick” (6:06)
• Conversations about his wishes and honoring them (11:13) 

Thank you for listening to Tracy’s personal story and the touching tribute to her father. We hope that her story is helpful for our listeners who may be experiencing recent loss as well.

Grave to Great is a weekly conversation that seeks to reframe end of life conversations and hospice care and is hosted by the CEO of Alleo Health, Tracy Wood. For more information, or to subscribe, please visit gravetogreat.com.