Life, Death, All of It

How to Talk About Shame with Patrycja Slawuta: Part 2

Patrycja Slawuta, Ph.D., has spent a lifetime studying what most of us spend our lives trying not to touch — shame. As a behavior scientist and expert in collective shame, her work explores the holy trinity of taboo — shame, secrecy, and silence — and how invisible shame shapes every part of our lives, from family systems to finances.In part two of this conversation, we move beyond financial shame into the deeper architecture of human belonging: we explore the roots of shame, its silent inheritance, and how it fractures our sense of self long before we find the language to name it. We talk about how shame shapes belonging, morality, and the stories we tell — or never tell — about who we are.
Together we explore how hope is born from adversity, why vulnerability is the beginning of true power, and what it really means to live a life of nothing left unsaid.
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How to Talk About Shame with Patrycja Slawuta: Part 1

Patrycja Slawuta, Ph.D., has spent a lifetime studying what most of us spend our lives trying not to touch — shame. As a behavior scientist and expert in collective shame, her work explores the holy trinity of taboo — shame, secrecy, and silence — and how invisible shame shapes every part of our lives, including one of its most taboo arenas: money.In part one of this two-part conversation, we follow the thread of shame into our financial lives — how money becomes a silent biography, shaped by unspoken rules, intergenerational scars, and the stories we tell (or never tell) about what we deserve.At its heart, this episode asks: how do we unlearn the shame we inherited around wealth, work, and worth — and what new story might we write if we could?
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How to Talk About This Podcast with Krista Berlincourt

Have you ever wondered what might happen if you stopped leaving things unsaid? Life, Death, All of It is a groundbreaking new podcast that explores the question: what happens when we stop hiding the most human parts of ourselves?
This opening episode is an unfiltered conversation between me and my producer, Katrina McIlvenna — the untold story behind the podcast's creation. How a simple research question unraveled into a decade-long exploration of shame, silence, and what it truly means to belong to ourselves.
This series is dedicated to liberating the unspoken beliefs we inherit, the stories we’re told not to touch, and the quiet reckoning that begins when we dare to reach toward confidence by naming the invisible shame that holds us back.
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