42. Noni Allwood - End of Life Doula Artwork

Curiosity with Kristen

Here you’ll hear real conversations with every day people making a difference, living their purpose, being parents, trying their best and sharing their knowledge of life experiences, both professionally and personally. You’ll also hear from executives about their companies and what cool things they are doing plus how they are navigating their companies and people forward. Each episode is unique and covers wide ranging topics that give my guests an opportunity to share what they have learned, are learning and continuing to learn. Along with their wisdom, hope and some great stories too!

All Episodes

Curiosity with Kristen

42. Noni Allwood - End of Life Doula

December 15, 2024 • Kristen Revell

Episode 42 is a special one with my friend, Noni Allwood, as we discuss her most important career as an end of life doula. We met in 2018 while on a Cuba trip with 20 women entrepreneurs to help women in business throughout Cuba. Noni lives in the bay area near San Francisco and is originally from El Salvador. She is an experienced executive, speaker and research fellow focused on corporate culture transformation and equality in support of innovation and business success.

Noni is now retired but spent her career as an Engineer, over 13 years at Cisco as a Senior Director in Connected Urban Development , which is a global initiative to help solve the problem of climate change in cities. Noni then started her own firm and ran that for almost 16 years. Noni has also served on many boards in her career.

In 2021, Noni's sister in El Salvador was diagnose with terminal cancer. Noni spent the next 10 months by her side in El Salvador caring for her until she passed. Noni has now dedicated her life to her new career as an End of Life Doula, which she says is her most profound and meaningful role. This episode is unlike any I've done over the last 4 1/2 years. Not only will you learn how to help your friends, loved ones and even yourself. It will give you perspective on life and hopefully inspire you to live like you really know you should.

Find me on LinkedIn @ www.linkedin.com/in/krev/
www.therevellgroup.com