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The Empowered Life podcast with Dustin Vaughn Warncke is your guide to unlocking your life’s greatest potential. Through inspiring conversations and practical advice, Dustin explores the interconnectedness of personal growth, professional success, and a life filled with love and light. Discover how to cultivate a mindset of empowerment, achieve your goals, and create a meaningful impact on the world. We do this living with purpose, meaning, and significance Join Dustin as your guide to learning about unlocking your life’s ULTIMATE potential. Through inspiring conversations with special guests and proven wisdom, Dustin explores the interconnected values of personal growth, professional success, and a wholesome life filled with love and light. A show is based on tactical and practical concepts for life’s greatest successes and achieving your goals, as well as full of inspiration to help you live your best life right now. Discover how to cultivate a mindset of empowerment, achieve success, and create a meaningful impact on the world, all while nurturing genuine connections and living with purpose, meaning, and significance...
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Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Thursday Aug 21, 2025
Dustin and Lori go way back to their middle and high school years and even both attended the same college, Texas Lutheran University in nearby Seguin, Texas.
In this heartfelt and eye-opening conversation, Dustin Vaughn Warncke sits down with Lori, a compassionate professional in hospice and end-of-life care. Together, they shed light on one of life’s most tender and often misunderstood seasons—supporting individuals and families as they walk through the final chapters of life and how the body knows how to die which sheds insights on why certain end-of-life care is done with certain guidelines.
As a Registered Nurse as well as a very emotionally intelligent, compassionate person, Lori shares her journey into hospice care and the powerful lessons she’s learned about compassion, presence, mindfulness, and the dignity every person deserves at the end of life. From stories of meaningful connections with patients to practical advice for families facing difficult decisions, this episode offers both inspiration and comfort.
Dustin and Lori also explore the deeper spiritual and emotional dimensions of hospice care, reminding us that end-of-life moments are not only about closure but about love, grace, and living fully until the very last breath.
Key Themes Include:
- Understanding what hospice truly is—and what it is not.
- How hospice teams support both patients and families through care, counseling, and compassion.
- The importance of dignity, respect, and presence in end-of-life situations.
- Stories that reveal the beauty of connection in some of life’s hardest times.
- Spiritual and emotional takeaways for anyone seeking peace, healing, and perspective.
This episode is an invitation to see end-of-life care through a lens of HOPE, not fear. Whether you’re facing these decisions now or simply want to be better prepared, Lori’s wisdom and Dustin’s heartfelt questions offer guidance and encouragement for the journey.
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