Working For Progress
Working for Progress is a podcast about work, wellbeing, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Hosted by social entrepreneur Dani Trudeau and rooted in the community of Tribe Porty in Edinburgh, each season explores a theme, The Body, through honest, unhurried conversations with people who are shaping their working lives with intention. These aren't interviews about career advice or productivity hacks. They're deeper conversations about values, identity, creativity, burnout, purpose, and the quiet grit behind the work people do.
If you love podcasts like On Being or The Pause, and you're asking bigger questions about how you want to work and live, this is for you.
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Working For Progress
Loretta Dunn on Birth, Death, and How Facing Both Changes Everything
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In this episode, Dani speaks with Loretta Dunn. Life Celebrant, Death Doula, nurse, midwife, and one of those rare people who seems to hold the full span of human experience with extraordinary grace.
Loretta's work sits at the threshold between life and death, and this conversation follows her there. She speaks about the formative experiences that shaped her path, including her years working abroad in healthcare, and offers a deeply considered frame for understanding dying not as an ending but as part of a circle that began at birth.
There is a quality to Loretta that is hard to put into words. A mothering wisdom, a groundedness, an ability to speak about the most profound things with honesty and warmth. This conversation has that quality too.
They explore what it means to confront death as a way of living more fully, and why bringing death out of the shadows might be one of the most life-affirming things we can do.
One of those episodes that stays with you.
Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson.
Dani Trudeau, founder of Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Edinburgh built on the belief that creativity, collaboration, and care are good for people, business, and the world.
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