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 ! 💙

This is a man who absolutely understands loss and grief. I know, he’s also the CNN news guy. But what I mean is that in this podcast, he’s a son and brother who’s lost many loved ones and is trying to do the grief work, as hard as that is, while including us in his journey.

This podcast is new but in just a few episodes, Anderson and his guests have managed to validate for thousands that grief is always with us, it’s incredibly painful but a part of life, it’s something we all have in common and we are all not alone in our grief, even though it often feels that way.

I am 12 years out from losing my brother to suicide. 10 years out from losing my husband (he’s still here with us) to a traumatic brain injury (ambiguous loss). 4 years out from losing my dad to Alzheimer’s and my mom to COPD - just two days after my dad passed. I’ve been in therapy for 12 years, done support groups, retreats, read books and talked to loved ones. I’ve done so much grief work. Yet this podcast managed to teach me new concepts that moved me even further along my grief journey. When Colbert mentioned that the people who would remember certain stories in his life are now all gone, I said out loud in the car - “me too!! You don’t think of that right away but me too!”

Thank you Anderson for opening your heart to us in this podcast and sharing with us your struggles, thoughts and stories that have touched us all and left us all feeling very much less alone.

This show has really been a blessing to me. This past year I lost my 88 year old father to multiple myeloma. To date, this was by far my biggest loss. This show not only validates the loneliness of grief, Anderson and his guests share their feelings and thoughts on living amidst the complexities associated with the loss of a loved one. I’m so grateful to hear Anderson’s own journey with the recent loss of his mother and how it ties to earlier painful memories of having lost his father and brother as well. My heart hurts for him as he says that he feels so alone quite often, especially as he has to go through his late mother’s apartment, and encountering notes that she left him, and he shares how he is unsure at times about how to proceed. If he reads this, I want him to know that he is proceeding in a way that helping so many of us, and to keep going with this despite the fact that this is a very painful and much misunderstood period/life changing and yet inevitable part of life which is rarely if ever publicly discussed. This is a much needed wake up call to redefine our relationship with death, even if that choice is to not define it at all. Stephen C.’s story hit me particularly hard in a beneficial, yet ugly cry way. Anderson, you are not alone in your pain, and I’m so sorry that you are hurting and having to relive pains that perhaps you hadn’t realized until sharing this with us. Thank you so much for your unapologetic vulnerability with your audience and guests. I feel a little less lonely because of your show, despite my own identity being so different from what will soon be a year on November 5 when my father and best friend/president of my family club, left this world. I’m trying to figure out how to stay on track with my identity and how I want to live, let alone take care of my own family, especially my little ones. His loss has made my life not just sad, but also confusing. Who can I call when something wonderful or funny happens, knowing how we will laugh so hard. We saw the world so beautifully in tandem that I almost feel angry for making me love and then leaving. I turned 50 this year, and yet I feel a tremendous childish loss. I haven’t poured out my heart like this publicly, so I’m very grateful for this show that exists at least for me, in a very timely way. Thank you, Anderson Cooper. Much love.

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.

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?

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…