All There Is with Anderson Cooper - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I’ve been listening since the start of your new podcast - patiently waiting for the next one to drop ! The honest and raw grief you share is so moving and so helpful to those who experience it. You bring back such real feelings that are so raw to me. We lost our 18 year old son to alcohol poisoning in 2008 at a fraternity hazing event. The hole in your heart never goes away , but that keeps my son close to me always, enabling me to think of his silly smile and all the love he brought to our family. Thank you for this wonderful dialogue about grief - it helps ! 💙

Thank you for creating a space for deep and thoughtful conversations about that which in many families has been kept unsaid - to avoid the pain and leave the tragedy behind. But those who have lost a parent as a young child know that it doesn’t go away. Instead it shapes our lives, choices and experiences. My dad passed away when I was a toddler and I think about this loss everyday. Wondering how would my life be WITH a dad. This podcast is a community in which I’ve found my feelings and thought reflected in so many wiser voices. Thank you all for your generosity and courage.

I somewhat randomly stumbled upon this podcast last night and listened to the recent episode with Stephen Colbert. I was blown away by how profound and intimate the conversation was. I cried along with both of you all the way through. What a beautiful contribution this podcast is to this complicated life we all live. So helpful to have something like this for me to process my own grief. Thank you for sharing yourself so deeply with the world. It is truly a gift and you are exceptional for putting your own grief out there so publicly.

As a professional podcaster of 10 years and a nurse of 26 years, I deeply appreciate Mr. Cooper’s authenticity, honesty, excellent interview skills, and wonderful guests. To speak openly about grief and death in this society of ours is a true gift. Thank you so much for a compelling and gripping show that fills my emotional well every Wednesday.

I lost my spouse 2 years ago to breast cancer, and subsequently read and listened to lots of content about grief and loss. There is so much better material out there than this podcast. It is steeped in celebrity and privilege. I get it, the ultra rich suffer too, but regular people, and actual artists and writers, are more interesting to me. And frankly, while I’ve enjoyed some of Anderson Cooper’s journalism, this comes across as exhibitionistic. Colbert’s insights are very apt, however…

As a commentator and reporter, no one matches Anderson Cooper. This podcast is not a great example of his skill.

There is something very different about struggling with grief when you can afford to keep a loved one’s apartments in NYC for several years versus the experience of “the rest of us.” It is very, very different when worrying about how to pay for a funeral, how to resolve sticky sibling issues, how to pay for attorneys, how to divide family heirlooms and more. While managing grief.

What exactly is the point of this very public baring of the soul?