If you missed Terracon 2025, here is the recap of the worlds Natural Organic Reduction conference. With experts flying into Tacoma Washington from all over the United States and World, we learned science, legal regulation, legislation and immersed ourselves in an experience. After three days of surrounding ourselves with some of the most dynamic fr…

We have very exciting news, renowned speaker and restorative art educator Dominic Astorino can now add author to his titles. Dominic's first book, Postmortem Restorative Art, Principles, Methods and Applications will be released on January 16th in time for the spring 2025 semester. If you have not adopted his Restorative Art book yet, now is your c…

We sat down with Chase Downs of Gather, one of the industries premiere funeral home softwares that is on the cutting edge of what the industry needs. Join us as we discuss how funeral home software provides value and how the industry has changed and what features you should be using to keep up and be efficient.…

Did you miss the NFDA convention this year, get a quick recap of some of the seminars and vendors.By Pocasset Hill Productions

We sat down with Brie Smith of Return Home one of the first Terramation companies in the country as she covers the process, what we can expect and the beauty behind this new form of disposition. Terramation, also known as Natural Organic Reduction or Human Composting is a natural process of converting the body to soil. A very environmentally safe p…

You read that right, the two funeral programs in Massachusetts situated at Community Colleges, Cape Cod Community Colleges funeral program in Bridgewater Mass on the Bridgewater State University Campus and North Shore Community College's funeral program in Danvers are both free to Massachusetts Residents that do not have a prior Bachelor degree or …

We sat down with Bill A Johnston author and owner of Post and Boost as he discusses his new book "The Consumer's Journey to Purchasing Funeral Services: A Marketing Roadmap for Growing Market Share and Revenue"By Pocasset Hill Productions

Join us with Kim Zavrotny from Funeral Professionals Peer Support. FPPS is a non-profit that provides peer-based mental wellness support to bereavement professionals worldwide. Visit funeralpeersupport.com for more information. This is a great program providing free monthly peer meetings specific to students, funeral directors, embalmers, cemetery …

Join as as we continue the conversation with Faith Haug Department Chair of Mortuary Science at Arapahoe Community College in Colorado. This is part two of transitioning funeral service as we move into how students are today and how the industry will change with them.By Pocasset Hill Productions

Episode 17 : Funeral service is transitioning - Join us as Faith Haug discusses with Dan Shea and Jess Clasby how funeral service can grow and serve clients as more transgender funeral professionals and students feel comfortable becoming their true self as well as serving families and navigating conversations at the arrangment conference. How to in…

This month we compare two popular mortuary simulation games with real life management.By Pocasset Hill Productions

What does it mean to go the extra mile and how do we collectively improve. As an industry we either grow together or we sink together. We need to do the extra stuff and leave our comfort zone. It is the seminars, speakers, conferences and allow us to grow and learn how to improve based on others work. Preventing a stagnant environment requires the …

Join us as Prof. Shea covers study techniques that will prepare you for your semester and academic career no matter what field you are studying for.By Pocasset Hill Productions

Join us for a chat with Chelsea Cush, funeral director, embalmer and mortuary educator. Chelsea is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Michigan and Pennsylvania and teaches for the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, PIMS.By Pocasset Hill Productions

The NFDA's arranger training is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills at the arrangement conference and in general will make you better at funeral home operation and management. This eight hour day will be a mixture of learning, interacting, networking and practicing your skills. Melissa Loose offers a dynamic day of learning and when you leav…

Join us as we cover how a funeral director and embalmer can approach suicide related deaths and tell the deceased story the way the family wants.By Pocasset Hill Productions

Following Governor Maura Healey's announcement of Mass Reconnect we sat down the the President of Cape Cod Community College, Dr. John Cox to discuss this monumental moment that will open doors and break down barriers to education. If you are 25 or older and ready to pursue your first college degree or maybe you have started but never finished, vis…

Emma Waugh, Public Health Program Coordinator for the United South and Eastern Tribes - USET joins us this to discuss how funeral directors can better serve Native Americans, their tribes, death certificate misclassification and funeral directors can do to correct this. USET also provides training throughout the United States at your location.…

Joe Reardon joins Melissa in discussing cremation and how it affects the modern funeral director. What can we do to serve families better and keep up with the times.By Pocasset Hill Productions

As the spring semester starts, we thought it would be beneficial to provide another lecture from the Cape Cod Community College Funeral Service Lecture Series. This time we bring you to test taking and study techniques with Dr. Shea. Dr. Shea ran a board exam review course for emergency physicians in the 90s. The physicians realizing that test taki…

Shawna Rodabaugh returns to the show this month to discuss quality embalming and the problems the funeral industry faces with embalming, why are we not getting the quality we expect.By Pocasset Hill Productions

Dr. Shea joins us as part of the Cape Cod Community College Funeral Service Program Lecture Series to discuss how funeral directors can better work with the healthcare community in completing the medical section of the death certificate.By Pocasset Hill Productions

Episode 3: Remote funeral attendance with Bruce Likly president of TribuCast® the leading remote funeral attendance program, join us as Bruce discusses how the industry has changed in light of families being able to remotely attending services and how we can serve families better. TribuCast® is breaking down barriers allowing family members to atte…

A discussion with Prof. Fin regarding the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) open meeting that took place on October 20th, 2022 for public comment on modernizing the funeral rule. Join us as Prof. Fin provides a witty overview and what this change means for the funeral industry. Prof. Fin will continue to provide an evaluation and commentary as the FTC…

Episode 2: Anatomical Embalming with out guest Shawna Rodabaugh, the A-List speaker of anatomical Embalming Shares with you what you need to know, the difference between cosmetic and anatomical embalming with some valuable trade knowledge on what makes or breaks clinical preservation techniques and how we can improve. Shawna is involved in a new sa…

Intro to the newest mortuary podcast serving the funeral community coving all things mortary and undertaking, the newest and most advanced embalming and funeral directing techniques, news, events and just pure mayhem coming your way.By Cape Cod CC Funeral Service