Episode 356: Albert Strasser is a writer, coach, grief guide, and creative facilitator helping people turn toward the hard stuff—grief, loss, uncertainty—and find meaning, connection, and aliveness on the other side. Through 1:1 coaching and workshops like Good Fucking Grief and Writing With Grief, he creates spaces where people can metabolize pain and come home to their humanity.

His work blends irreverence and depth, drawing from Buddhist teachings, story work, and lived experience to remind us that being broken open is not a flaw—it’s a gateway.

Albert shares his deeply personal journey, from losing his father unexpectedly, to caring for a brother in a prolonged vegetative state, to finding levity in the most unlikely corners of pain. They talk about how grief shows up in everything from comedy to ritual, why our culture is terrified of death, and how creative expression can be a lifeline in moments of rupture.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro and Welcome to Albert K. Strasser

01:00 Comedy and depth: blending weirdness with realness

03:55 Unschooling, wild childhood, and following curiosity

05:31 Becoming a monk and facing boredom and ego

09:30 Losing his father suddenly—and grief’s first wave

13:27 Albert's brother's brain injury and living inside of uncertainty

18:45 What helps in grief? Connection, not solutions

21:00 What to say (and not say) to someone in grief

25:14 Grieving someone who’s still alive

28:10 The male lineage of emotional suppression

33:00 Writing as ritual and alchemy for grief

37:47 When grief becomes a teacher

47:00 Death, ritual, and letting grief break you open

54:00 Laughter in the dark: comedy as a survival skill

01:01:06 Albert’s upcoming offerings and where to find him

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