All There Is With Anderson Cooper Debuts Second Season

There are podcasts about depression, anxiety, anger management, emotional intelligence, and emotional attachment styles. 

Grief is no exception to the range of emotional states that podcasting covers.

Grief is an all-too-common emotion that affects so many. About 2.5 million people die in the United States annually, each leaving an average of five grieving people behind. It's estimated that 1.5 million children (five percent of children in the United States) have lost one or both parents by age 15.

According to the National Library Of Medicine, after a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or child, up to a third of the people most directly affected will suffer detrimental effects on their physical or mental health, or both. Such bereavements increase the risk of death from heart disease and suicide, as well as causing or contributing to a variety of psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders. About a quarter of widows and widowers will experience clinical depression and anxiety during the first year of bereavement; the risk drops to about 17 percent by the end of the first year and continues to decline thereafter.

So grief is an emotional state that has affected most, if not all, of us at some time in our lives. One of the best podcasts about grief is All There Is with Anderson Cooper.


 CNN Audio just announced that its anchor, Anderson Cooper, will continue a series of intimate and deeply personal discussions about grief in a second season of his podcast, All There Is with Anderson Cooper, premiering Wednesday, November 29.

Cooper began the podcast in 2022 while emptying out his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment after she died. He found himself going through boxes of her things, and his father and brother’s belongings, who died decades earlier. An unexpected discovery in one of the boxes this year motivated him to begin a new series of conversations. In Season 2, Cooper continues to try to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses. All There Is with Anderson Cooper is about the people we lose, the people left behind, and how we can live on – with loss and with love.

Special guests this season include President Joe Biden, The New Yorker’s Amanda Petrusich, best-selling author Nicole Chung, and others with extraordinarily moving and powerful stories and experiences.

“The last few months have been a revelation to me in terms of my understanding of grief and loss and the need to reach out to, and learn from, others who are living with it,” said Cooper. “We don’t talk enough about grief, I certainly haven’t. Maybe we don’t know what to say, or it’s painful, or we’ve buried it so deep we can’t even allow ourselves to feel it. Whatever the reason, I hope these conversations are helpful to people. They have been for me, and I am grateful.”

All There Is with Anderson Cooper will debut new episodes on Wednesdays and will be available to listen wherever you get your podcasts.