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Andy Chaleff
Andy Chaleff is an American-born, Amsterdam-based author, mentor, and speaker whose memoir "Dying to Live" explores grief, mortality, and meaning; he directs Amsterdam's Welvaren training center.
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Sep 17, 2026
What Death Can Teach Us About Living
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9:51Andy ChaleffGUEST
When I was on that tour, the first session I gave, I had never done a session like this before.
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10:05Andy ChaleffGUEST
And when I shared the first time that story, it had been 30 years since my mom was killed.
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A Tibet House US Menla ConverSation with Andy Chaleff
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9:16Andy ChaleffGUEST
And then the seer simultaneously laughing at him and having fun and not giving anyone the control.
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9:25Andy ChaleffGUEST
And then seeing the construction of everything in terms of the narration And how that narration is defining me as I'm, it's almost like the humor of even seeing myself do anything and then realize that that way I'm creating an identity and I'm now stuck again.
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215 - Dying to Live
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11:48Andy ChaleffGUEST
Yeah, it's, you know, uh, there's a, stories that I repeat over and over again because they kind of fit the narrative, but when you repeat them so often, it, it, they feel like they lose a little bit of the emotion.
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12:02Andy ChaleffGUEST
But I, I, I'll still repeat it only because it, it's relevant, was that when I've gone through my life, you know, I, I, my freshman year in school, I told you, I, y- I, I mentioned that, you know, my mom died when I was 18, and, and before she died, I was taking a sociology of death class, and that classJust, just, just by chance, it was just, I said, "Again, I wanna move into my discomfort." I, I realized, well, I'm gonna lose everything I loved, and then I was compelled to write her a letter that she got an- only a few hours before she was killed by this drunk driver.
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12:41Andy ChaleffGUEST
And so this sense that, oh, there's an urgency to life that I'm not going to, um, I'm not gonna, like, let slip through my fingers, that's, that carried me sort of at a very young age.
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12:54Andy ChaleffGUEST
And then, you know, fast-forward 30 years later, my mentor had cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and he had, you know, five years to live, and everyone said, "Hey, you know, relax.
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