The Deep End

The Deep End

The Deep End offers heartfelt guidance and real-life wisdom for navigating serious illness, caregiving and the end of life. Each episode provides meaningful resources, compassionate education and gentle encouragement to help listeners live fully - even in the face of life’s hardest moments. Through personal stories, expert insights, and reflective conversations, The Deep End invites you to consider what it means to be truly present, to care deeply and to find peace in the journey.

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August 6, 2026 47 mins

Stories are more than entertainment. They help us make sense of our lives, connect with one another and understand what truly matters. In this episode, host Kelley Scott sits down with Branda Piersall, co-founder of OK, So Tulsa StorySlam and a hospice nurse, who has spent years listening topeople's stories, both on stage and at the bedside.

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Many of us like to think of ourselves as independent. We celebrate personal success and self-reliance. But the truth is that none of us get through life alone. In this episode, host Kelley Scott, sits down with Carla Meyer, Chief ResourceDevelopment and Finance Officer at Tulsa Area United Way, to explore what happens when a community decides that everyone's well-being matters.

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Host Kelley Scott sits down with Kathy Clarke, a movement and mindfulness practitioner and instructor and labyrinth facilitator, to explore how gentle movement, mindfulness and labyrinth walking can help us move through grief and loss with greater awareness, compassion, and resilience.

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We don’t avoid these conversations because we don’t care. We avoid them because no one ever taught us how. That’s the problem—and the opportunity. At Clarehouse, education is becoming a core part of the solution. Join host Kelley Scott and Britni Smith, Clarehouse Education Director, to talk about how we show up for each other when it matters most.

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In this episode, Host Kelley Scott speaks with Beth Lynn Hoey, Executive Director of the Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Syracuse and board member of Omega Home Network. They explore the compassionate work behind Omega Homes, loving end-of-life care and what caregiving teaches us about life.

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Longtime Clarehouse volunteer Melanie Wignall shares how profound personal loss shaped her compassion. What began as a personal search for meaning after losing her father evolved into a two-decade commitment that has shaped the organization's voice, visuals and spirit.

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Many of us feel it: the rush, the pressure, the urgency of healthcare. But where is it taking us? Join host Kelley Scott and Jennifer Clark, MD, for a powerful conversation about slowing down medicine and restoring dignity to care.

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Host Kelley Scott speaks with Thad Hensley, a self-identified physicalist who does not believe in a nonphysical realm, and Scott Gordon, a longtime hospice chaplain shaped by Christian faith. Their dialogue explores how people make meaning at the end of life, how belief systems evolve under pressure and why human connection matters more than any answer about what comes next.

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Dementia changes people - but what remains of who they are? Join host Kelley Scott as Jarrod Noftsger and Donna Eastham share raw, moving stories about love, loss and caregiving.

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Host Kelley Scott sits down with Dr. Jennifer Clark—palliative medicine physician, healthcare delivery scientist and author of Suffer.—to explore one of life’s most universal experiences: suffering. Suffering doesn’t have to destroy us. It can reveal what’s most essential about being human.

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Join host Kelley Scott and hospice nurse Amy Bailey as they cut through the myths to reveal how hospice really supports patients and families with choice, comfort and care when it matters most.

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September 4, 2025 43 mins

Kelley Scott, Clarehouse Executive Director, is joined by special guest Robin Ballenger, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation and the first female chairman of The Flintco Companies, Inc., to discuss how family, heritage, and values shape the stories we leave behind. Together, they reflect on the ways legacy is defined, reminding us that making a difference is about so much more than accomplishments—it’s about the m...

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Kelley Scott, Clarehouse Executive Director, shares the complex realities of caregiving through serious illness and end of life. Joined by Dwan Borens, Chief Nursing Officer at Ascension St. John Broken Arrow & Clarehouse Board Member, they discuss cultural barriers in talking about death - especially in the African American community - and highlight the transformative power of honest conversations about death, caregiving and f...

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