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“If you die before you die, you won’t die when you die.”

– Inscription over a door at St. Paul’s Monastery on Mount Athos

Death is a vital part of life. It marks the end of every day and season. It’s present in every exhale and goodbye. It guides you through all your life transitions.

We experience many deaths in life – careers, relationships, beliefs, identities. Each life transition invites us to shed the familiar and to step into the unknown.

Death initiates you into change – the only constant in life. Without it, there would be no growth, no new chapters, no expansion, no transformation.

Each of us are the heroes in our own journeys. We face our fears as we walk into these death portals, shedding old skins, and re-emerge anew. We do this many times in a lifetime. Our stories hold deep wisdom and offer healing.

As a storyteller and entheogenic death companion, I walk daily with brave souls through death and rebirth.

My intention with this podcast is to share vulnerable stories of death, in all the ways we experience death portals in this human life – death of loved ones, identities, life stages, careers, parts of our bodies, health, dreams and expectations of our lives, relationships, innocence…the list is truly endless.

So I invite you to enter this portal of discovery with me. Together, let’s break our fearful silence and uplift our stories of death and grief.

Let’s be inspired to live our lives, LOUD.

Welcome to Mum.


Guest Appearances

  • Microdosing Institute

    Microdosing and Befriending Death – Microdosing Institute Table Talk

    “With Ellen Wong, entheogenic death and grief companion, we explore how microdosing with entheogens can support us as we move through these special portals.“

  • Sacred Psychedelics

    Embracing Life Through Death – Sacred Psychedelics with Xochitl Ashe

    “Ellen shares her journey with psychedelics and the profound connection between psychedelics and the end-of-life process.”

  • Die Before We Die with Grief Companion Ellen Wong – Rebranding God with Alex Gil

    Die Before We Die with Grief Companion Ellen Wong – Rebranding God with Alex Gil

    “Ellen eloquently discusses how grief serves as a portal to love, healing, and freedom.”

  • Anger that is an Invitation with Ellen Wong – Hello Universe Podcast with Eva Liao and Kyley Caldwell

    Anger that is an Invitation with Ellen Wong – Hello Universe

    “Ellen Wong brings her deep wisdom around death, transformation and compassion, to a conversation we all deeply needed. How the hell do we show up for the world right now?”

  • A Reverence for Life and Death with Ellen Wong – The Mosaic Podcast with Daniel Levin

    A Reverence for Life and Death with Ellen Wong – The Mosaic Podcast with Daniel Levin

    “We spoke about physical death and the mental, emotional and spiritual deaths that happen during life transitions.”

  • Reciprocity and Remembering Who You Are – A Wave Away with Waverly Davis

    Reciprocity and Remembering Who You Are – A Wave Away with Waverly Davis

    Ellen shares “what reciprocity means and how she practices it in her life and work.”

    “The impact Ellen feels the rise of plant medicine in mainstream culture is having on the plants and indigenous medicine carriers.”

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  • Do you have a story to share?

    I am excited and honored to share YOUR death portal experience. If you have a story, please email mum@tripwithellen.com.