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Episode 005

How Yvonne Caputo Found Joy in Her Greatest Sorrow

Yvonne Caputo didn’t plan to become the family death doula. But life had other ideas.

After years working in education, HR, and mental health, it was a moment in a retirement community ethics meeting that lit the match.

That moment sent her straight to her father’s bedside — not just to talk about death, but to prepare for it, legally and lovingly. What followed was a tender, sometimes cranky, always intimate journey through grief, connection, and the kind of conversations most people run from. Yvonne faced them head-on, and came out with something rare — a paradoxical grief. One that aches and glows at the same time.

Also? She published her first book at 72 and her second at 75. If you think you’re too late, she’ll lovingly call your bluff.

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