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From First Responder to Last Responder

About the event

What happens when the person whose job it was to keep you alive learns that death was never the enemy?

In this deeply personal and practically grounded talk, Danielle Slupeksy shares her journey from emergency room nurse to death doula, anchored by a near-death experience that transformed everything she thought she knew about living and dying. Her presentation moves through three phases: life on the front lines of emergency medicine, where death was the enemy; the NDE that cracked that worldview open; and the work she now does helping individuals and families approach death with intention, grace, and dignity.

This talk is for anyone who has ever felt the tension between knowing, on some level, that death is not the end, and still feeling unprepared, afraid, or uncertain about how to face it or talk about it. Danielle offers both the inspiration of lived experience and practical guidance for preparing for death consciously, including how to start conversations with loved ones, what end-of-life wishes and documents to have in place, and how to be present with someone who is dying.

At the heart of this presentation is a powerful shift in perspective: death is not a failure, it is a passage. This is not a talk about fear. It is a talk about what becomes possible when we stop looking away. Attendees will leave with greater clarity, real language for conversations many families avoid, and a deeper understanding of how facing death openly can make life richer, more intentional, and more free.

About danielle

Danielle Slupeksy has spent her life caring for others, beginning as an EMT at age 18 and later serving as an ER nurse. In 2013, a life-threatening illness and near-death experience transformed her understanding of life and death. Months of recovery taught her surrender, resilience, and deep compassion for those facing serious illness and end-of-life.

Today, as a death doula, Danielle guides individuals and families through these vulnerable transitions, helping them plan, make informed choices, and approach death with love, courage, and dignity. Her purpose and passion are to support her clients and their families through this natural passage with peace, meaning, and grace.

Danielle holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Cal State Hayward and is a Certified End-of-Life Guide and Death Doula through the Conscious Dying Institute.

Danielle’s Website:

https://www.deathdouladanielle.com/

Danielle’s Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-slupesky-83a534269/

Danielle’s Services:

https://calendly.com/deathdouladanielle/initial-consultation-with-death-doula-danielle

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Why are some NDEs distressing?

After a terrifying and distressing near-death experience in 1999, Kathy McDaniel spent years asking, “Why me?” In this powerful presentation, she shares her story, reflects on distressing NDEs, and explores how even the darkest experiences may hold meaning, purpose, and transformation.

About the event

Distressing near-death experiences have received increasing public attention in recent years, and Kathy McDaniel’s story offers a rare and illuminating perspective on this often misunderstood aspect of the NDE phenomenon.

In 1999, after being placed on a ventilator for lung failure, Kathy had a near-death experience and immediately found herself in the midst of a dystopian nightmare. When a booming voice asked, “Do you know where you are?”, she answered meekly, “Hell?”—and heard only demonic laughter in reply.

Since then, Kathy has spent many years asking, “Why me? Why was my NDE so hellish?” In this presentation, she will share her extraordinary story, speak about the subject of distressing NDEs, and explore her reflections on that enduring question of “Why?”

At once uplifting, humorous, chilling, and deeply engrossing, this evening offers an opportunity to hear a powerful firsthand account and to consider the deeper meaning that can emerge from even the most difficult spiritually transformative experiences.

About kathy

Kathy McDaniel is the author of Misfit in Hell to Heaven Expat, first published in 2021. She makes her earthly home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where the mountains, bays, flora, and fauna of Puget Sound offer respite, peace, and a glimpse of the heaven she feels she will one day return to.

Kathy’s haunting 1999 near-death experience, and the emotional trauma that followed, began to loosen its hold when she answered a deep inner calling to share her story in book form. With the support of the Seattle IANDS group, she gradually came to accept her mission: to face her NDE and ultimately embrace it as a pre-planned experience she chose.

Today, Kathy shares her story with a growing audience and continues to attend IANDS meetings and annual conferences, connecting with others who look toward their heavenly home with joy. Her gentle message centers on love and kindness in daily life—listening to strangers on airplanes, and looking deeply into the eyes of suffering souls.

 

Kathy’s Website:

https://misfitinhelltoheavenexpat.com

Kathy’s Book:

https://a.co/d/0dQTEetL

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Imagination Creates Reality

After a near-death experience transformed her understanding of reality, identity, and suffering, Lisa Everhart now shares a powerful message of inner change and conscious creation. In this inspiring session, she explores how shifting perception can help us move beyond fear and begin shaping a more beautiful life.

About the event

In this thought-provoking presentation, Lisa Everhart shares how her near-death experience opened a profound new understanding of reality, identity, and suffering. What she encountered changed the way she saw life itself, revealing that we are not simply at the mercy of circumstances, but active participants in shaping our personal experience.

A central theme of Lisa’s message is the reframing of suffering—not as the end of the story, but as part of the bridge to transformation. By shifting perception, she shows how fear can begin to loosen, making way for greater clarity, peace, and a more conscious way of living.

Lisa also explores how identity shapes reality. When we change who we believe ourselves to be, our experience of life begins to change as well. Drawing from her own journey, as well as her background in psychology, subconscious reprogramming, and Neville Goddard’s teachings, she offers a perspective on how to step out of repeating patterns and begin choosing a new way of being.

Using the idea of “living from the end,” Lisa invites attendees to consider what becomes possible when we no longer live in fear of the unknown. When we trust more deeply in where the story is leading, the uncertainty of the middle begins to lose its power.

Join Lisa for an inspiring and empowering session that offers a renewed perspective on suffering, identity, and the creative power within each of us—along with simple tools for beginning to shape a more aligned and beautiful life.

About lisa

Lisa Everhart is a transformational coach and speaker whose near-death experience profoundly changed her perception of life and identity. Through that experience, she came to understand reality in a new way and began exploring how inner beliefs shape personal experience.

Blending her background in psychology with her work in subconscious reprogramming and the teachings of Neville Goddard, Lisa now helps others move beyond limiting patterns, reconnect with their deeper sense of self, and consciously create a more aligned and meaningful life.

 

Lisa’s Website:

https://lisaeverhart.com/

Lisa’s Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.everhart.505

https://www.youtube.com/@account4yourability-22

Lisa’s services:

https://calendly.com/lisaeverhart

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

I Changed My Life Blueprint In Heaven

International medium and author Ginette Biro shares how her near-death experience revealed profound insight into the soul’s journey, life’s blueprint, and the power of conscious choice. In this inspiring session, she offers four daily practices to help cultivate greater awareness, connection, and alignment with your highest purpose.

About the event

In this transformative session, Ginette Biro, an international medium and author of “Avalon to Aurora: Lessons from the Other Side”, shares her profound near-death experience and the unique insights it revealed. Having crossed to the other side and returned, Ginette offers a rare perspective on the soul’s journey and life’s blueprint.

At the heart of her message is the empowering truth that the greatest gift we have is conscious choice—the ability to shape our lives through intentional actions and awareness. Drawing from her experiences and divine lessons, Ginette will share four daily practices to cultivate greater consciousness and connection in your life. These practices are accessible, profound, and transformative, providing a roadmap to align with your highest purpose.

Join Ginette for an inspiring and practical session to deepen your understanding of life, awaken your spiritual potential, and embrace the power of conscious living.

About ginette

Ginette Biro is a world-class spiritual medium, cosmic channeler, and ascension guide. Her profound NDE during a surgery makes her unique and rare as a medium. This journey to the other side amplified her spiritual gifts and deepened her connection to higher dimensions providing extraordinary insight into life’s blueprint and the soul’s purpose.

As a gifted clairaudient, clairvoyant, clairsentient, and claircognizant, Ginette channels beings from many dimensions, bringing forth messages of inspiration and guidance during this time of planetary ascension.

With a background in Kinesiology and Sports Medicine and an international music career, Ginette seamlessly blends grounded expertise with spiritual wisdom. She is the author of “Avalon to Aurora: Lessons from the Other Side to Guide Your Life on Earth | A Medium’s Near-Death Experience”, host of The Spirit Wisdom Podcast and owner of Avalon Spirit, offering transformative insights into consciousness, NDEs, and life’s divine path.

 

Ginette’s Website:

https://avalonspirit.com/

Ginette’s YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@ginettebiromedium

Ginette’s Books & Publications:

https://avalonspirit.com/collections/books

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

A Psychic Medium’s NDE and the Messages Received from the Other Side

Amber Cavanagh, psychic medium and near-death experiencer, will share insights from her journey to the Other Side, with part of the presentation offering channeled guidance based on what is most needed for the audience in the moment.

About the event

Amber Cavanagh will share insights from her near-death experience and the teachings that were confirmed for her while on the Other Side. Because Amber will be channeling her guides during the presentation, some of what is shared will be guided in the moment by what is most needed for the audience.

Drawing from both her NDE and her prior work as a psychic medium, Amber will speak about what the experience of crossing over is like, the choices we make, meeting our soul and soul family, connecting with guides, and what can change when we return. She will also explore some of the deepest questions many people carry: Why are we here? What happens when we die? Will we see our loved ones again?

Through this presentation, Amber offers comfort, hope, and a broader understanding of life beyond the physical world. Attendees will be invited into a thoughtful exploration of the Other Side and the deeper meaning of our human existence.

About amber

Amber Cavanagh, known as The West Coast Medium, is a psychic medium, empath, medical intuitive, healer, animal communicator, and author. She has spent years helping people connect with loved ones in spirit and gain insight into the unseen dimensions of life.

After surviving both a stroke and a near-death experience, Amber found that many of the spiritual teachings she had long shared were profoundly validated by what she encountered on the Other Side. She recounts that journey in her book, At the Stroke of Eternity, where she shares the lessons, messages, and deeper understanding she brought back from her experience.

Amber’s website:

http://www.thewestcoastmedium.com/

Amber’s social media:

https://www.instagram.com/westcoastmedium1/

https://www.facebook.com/westcoastmedium1

https://www.youtube.com/@westcoastmedium6824

https://www.tiktok.com/@west_coast_medium

Amber’s Book:

 

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

Beyond NDEs

Lynn K. Russell invites you to discover just how magnificent you truly are. Drawing from decades of spiritual study, scientific curiosity, and research into 2,500 near-death experiences, she reveals why affirmations often fall short—and how to access a deeper reality beyond the Light, beyond universal consciousness, and into the greater truth of who you are.

About the Event

You are magnificent, and Lynn K. Russell will prove it. Take steps to become all that you can be. Using a gentle blend of science and the incredible spiritual knowledge shared by NDErs, Lynn will show you a new reality. We will explore the Source and how to help you gain a deep understanding of yourself. You will go beyond NDEs, beyond the Light, beyond Universal Consciousness, to a part of you that you never knew existed.

About Lynn

Lynn has been a spiritual seeker since childhood and has studied the major world religions and spiritual philosophies for over 70 years in search of truth. This is coupled with an ongoing interest in science for over 50 years. Lynn was a family counselor for 30 years. After retirement, she had the marvelous opportunity to research 2500 NDEs with NDERF. That research brought her years of study into a cohesive whole. Over the years, Lynn has offered numerous talks, countless workshops, and multiple interviews. She was featured in two magazine articles.

Lynn‘s website:

https://lynnkrussell.com/

Lynn‘s social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnrussell/

 

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

It’s Time To Remember

Bill Letson’s near-death experience offers a grounded yet expansive look at consciousness beyond the body. Drawing from his own NDE, shared accounts from other experiencers, and ancient wisdom, Bill explores kindness, transformation, and the continuity of awareness. His story reminds us that we are all on the same journey—and that growth, understanding, and transcendence unfold when we are ready.

This presentation brings together Bill Letson’s near-death experience, the accounts of other NDEs, ancient wisdom teachings, and the hidden messages present all around us. Together, these elements form a larger picture—pieces of a cosmic puzzle waiting to be assembled. These are meaningful times, as the veil continues to lift and the “time of secrets” comes to an end.

Near-death experiencers have an important role in what is unfolding. Through their experiences, ordinary people remind us that we are all on the same journey and that each of us is equally important and deeply celebrated. Again and again, NDEs point to a universe that is unhurried, where time is an illusion and worry is unnecessary, and where every life has purpose and meaning.

In sharing his experience, Bill explores what NDEs reveal about consciousness, kindness, and transformation. His story reflects the understanding that there is a finish line—and that all of us are invited to transform and transcend when we are ready. Participants will come away with greater reassurance about life and death, a deeper sense of connection, and renewed trust in the larger unfolding of their own spiritual journey.

About Bill

Bill Letson is a retired fire captain and forester with 35 years of service. In 1994, while responding with his engine company to a severely ill patient in the Santa Barbara area, Bill was unknowingly exposed to the same illness. Within days, he was hospitalized and admitted to intensive care, where he spent the night critically dehydrated with failing vital signs.

During that night, Bill experienced a profound near-death experience. He separated from his physical body, traveled through a star-filled realm, and interacted with unusual, otherworldly beings. What followed were deeply blissful sensations of dying, encounters marked by intelligence and love, and a clear persistence of self—consciousness continuing without a physical body.

For the next 15 years, Bill quietly worked to understand what he had experienced. In 2010, recognizing the many similarities shared across NDE accounts, he began a more intentional exploration of the true nature of our earthly journey. His ongoing inquiry weaves together his near-death experience with shamanic ceremony (DMT), kundalini awakening, precession, and ancient knowledge.

Bill lives in Atascadero, California with Lia, his wife of 40 years. He enjoys time with their ranch cats, running dogs, and joyful egg-laying hens, and splits his time between California and Costa Rica.

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!

NDEs and Parenting

When a near-death experience happens during motherhood, is its meaning only personal—or does it extend to the whole family? After surviving a fatal car crash as a young mother, Dr. Efrat Shokef discovered that spiritually transformative experiences carry invitations not just for the experiencer, but for partners, children, and community. In this webinar, she explores parent-child soul promises and why embracing the gifts of these experiences may be essential to fulfilling the sacred agreements we made with our children.

What invitation is embedded in near-death experiences that occur when we are already parents, whether during childbirth or when we are already parents of adult children? Is the invitation only for us as individuals? Or could the invitations embedded in near-death and other spiritually transformative experiences also be for more than just us? Our partner? Our children? Our family? Friends? Community? And humanity?
When Dr. Shokef was a young mother, she was involved in a car crash, was fatally injured, and had a profound near-death experience. In her webinar, she will explore how and why the invitations in near-death and spiritually transformative experiences are always for more than just the experiencers themselves.
She will discuss the invitation (distinct from an initiation), the social gaps that challenge our ability to fully embrace the gifts offered through our experiences, and communication with family, friends, and community about these experiences, especially with our children. She will share how one’s journey and individual experiences affect the family as a whole, explore parent-child soul promises, and her perspective on why embracing our near-death experience gifts is the key to fulfilling the soul promises we made not only to ourselves but also to our children.

About Efrat

Efrat Shokef, Ph.D., walks the knowing that everything is possible if we follow our intuition and say YES to the invitations the universe graciously offers us. Her journey took her from an academic path, through a car crash and a near-death experience, becoming absent as a mom, unable to care for her daughters. The reorganization of her physical body, together with the integration of her near-death experience, invited her to say multiple yes’s to the universe, and to explore the essence of motherhood and our sacred soul relationship with our children.
Today, Dr. Shokef guides parents in parenting from their essence and becoming the humans their children chose to come to. She is a shamanic energy healing practitioner working with children, teens, parents, and families, a mother to three spiritually aware, intuitive teens, who constantly invite her to grow, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a cosmic journeyer, and a writer. She holds a Ph.D. in social-organizational psychology, is a Fulbright Alumni, homeschools her daughters, raises four loving dogs, and loves nature, reading, cooking, and crafts.
Efrat is the author of two award-winning books: The Promise We Made: Three Universal Soul Promises We Made to Our Children, and UniverSoul Promises: Foundations for Creating the Conditions Our Children Need to Thrive in Times of Transformation.

Efrat’s website:

https://www.efratshokef.com

 

Efrat’s social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/efratshokef

https://www.youtube.com/@efratshokef

https://www.facebook.com/efratshokefwriter/

https://www.pinterest.com/EfratShokefSpiritualParenting/

 

Efrat’s Books:

https://www.amazon.com/author/efratshokef

https://efratshokef.com/books/universoul-promises/

https://efratshokef.com/books/the-promise-we-made/

 

This event will be recorded and available to view on our Videos page 3-5 business days after the live event!