Go With The Jo's Deathwalker Care

05/06/2026

✨ Check out our new DEAD EASY WORKSHOPS EVENT
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03/06/2026

✨ Pop on over to our sister page at Dead Easy Workshops and say hi to Jo Carter. 🌿✨ Meet JO CARTER ✨🌿
We're delighted to introduce another of our DEAD🧡ucators and Dead Easy Workshop facilitators, Jo Carter.

With years of experience in Reiki and holistic energy healing, Jo brings a calm, compassionate presence to some of life's most sacred moments. She believes every life deserves to be honoured with dignity, respect, and gentle care, offering comfort, connection, and support to both individuals and their loved ones.

As a Deathwalker and co-founder of Go With The Jo's Deathwalker Care, Jo works alongside her sister-in-law, Jo Payne, providing heart-led End-of-Life Care rooted in presence, reverence, and love.

At the heart of Jo's work is a deep commitment to choice. She believes every person deserves the opportunity to understand their options and make informed decisions that honour their values, beliefs, and wishes. Through education, advocacy, and compassionate support, Jo empowers individuals and families to approach end-of-life with greater confidence, connection, and peace, because informed choice is at the heart of meaningful care.

Jo is also the founder of The Luv Co., creating Luv Wraps, bespoke natural burial shrouds and Luv Notes, personalised legacy songs.

Part fairy, part magpie, Jo brings creativity, sparkle, heart, and humour wherever she goes. She has a gift for finding beauty in unexpected places and reminding us that even conversations about death can be filled with warmth, connection, and the occasional giggle.

We're incredibly grateful to have Jo sharing her wisdom, creativity, and heartfelt care with communities throughout the North Island.

✨ Quite simply, Jo is the creative sparkle in our crown. 👑🧚🏻✨

03/06/2026

✨ Pop on over to our sister page at Dead Easy Workshops and say hi to JO PAYNE ✨
🌿 💫 Meet Jo Payne 💫🌿
We're delighted to introduce another of our DEAD🧡ucators and Dead Easy Workshop facilitators, Jo Payne.

With more than five years of experience working within the funeral industry, Jo brings a unique blend of practical knowledge, lived experience, and heartfelt compassion to the world of end-of-life care.

Her background includes funeral directing, embalming, and after-death care, giving her a deep understanding of both the practical and emotional aspects of supporting individuals and families through death, dying, and grief.

Today, Jo works as a Deathwalker, guiding people through end-of-life conversations, planning, and experiences in a more personal, empowering, and heart-centred way.

Jo is passionate about helping people feel informed, supported, and confident during one of life's most natural yet often misunderstood transitions. She believes that when we understand our choices, we can approach death and grief with greater connection, confidence, and peace.

Together with her sister-in-law, Jo Carter, she co-founded Go With The Jo's Deathwalker Care. Heart-led and grounded in shared values, the two Jo's offer compassionate End-of-Life Care rooted in presence, reverence, and love.

Jo's warm, down-to-earth nature, combined with her funeral industry experience and genuine care for others, makes her an invaluable part of our Dead Easy Workshops team.

Whether she's sharing practical knowledge, answering questions, or helping people discover that they have more choices than they realise, Jo brings wisdom, authenticity, and a calming presence to every workshop.

We're incredibly grateful to have Jo sharing her experience and passion with communities throughout the North Island.

Quite simply, Jo is the gold in our crown. ✨💛👑

📞 027 357 1222�
📧 [email protected]�
🌐 www.gowiththejos.nz

Please join us in giving Jo a warm welcome!

03/06/2026

💫 Pop on over to our sister page at Dead Easy Workshops and say hi to Carol Wales 💫
🌿 💎 Meet CAROL WALES 💎🌿
We're delighted to introduce one of our DEAD🧡ucators and Dead Easy Workshop facilitators, Carol Wales, an experienced End-of-Life Companion based in Katikati.

Carol's journey began alongside a corporate career and gradually grew into a heartfelt calling that she has devoted more than 20 years to. Through volunteering, ongoing training, lived experience, and her own business, Carol offers compassionate support, advocacy, education, and awareness around dying, death, advance planning, and after-death care.

With a calm, grounded presence, Carol walks alongside individuals and families during some of life's most tender times, helping people feel informed, supported, and empowered to make choices that are right for them.

Carol believes that when we understand our options, we can approach death with greater confidence, connection, and peace. Her wealth of knowledge, practical experience, and genuine compassion make her an invaluable part of our Dead Easy Workshop team.

The many stories, experiences, and teachings shared with Carol over the years continue to inspire her work and deepen her commitment to bringing conversations about death, dying, and after-death care back into our homes and communities.

We are incredibly grateful to have Carol sharing her wisdom, warmth, experience, and gentle presence at our workshops throughout the North Island.

Quite simply, Carol is the diamond in our crown. 💎👑🧡

📞 021 878 730
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.carolwales.nz
Please join us in giving Carol a warm welcome!
🌿🧡💎

28/05/2026

✨ DEAD EASY WORKSHOPS ✨
Empowering ❣️ Sacred ❣️ Inspiring
Death touches every family, yet many of us feel uncertain, disconnected, or unprepared when it comes to caring for someone after they die. What if we felt more confident? What if we understood our choices and knew how to care for our loved ones gently, meaningfully, and in ways that felt deeply personal?

DEAD EASY WORKSHOPS can be hosted in private homes, halls or community centres, creating a safe and supportive space for important conversations around death, dying, and home-based funeral care.

Facilitated by experienced End-of-Life Doulas and Home Funeral Guides Carol Wales, Jo Carter, and Jo Payne, this beautiful two-part workshop gently explores practical, hands-on home funeral care while empowering families and communities to reconnect with sacred, meaningful end-of-life traditions.

Carol is based in Katikati, Jo Carter in Tauranga, and Jo Payne in Hamilton, with the trio travelling throughout the North Island sharing practical knowledge, compassionate support, and empowering conversations around home-based deathcare.

🌿 YOU have choices.

Many people are surprised to learn that caring for loved ones at home after death is both possible and legal in New Zealand. Families can be more involved than they may realise, creating farewells that are deeply personal, healing, beautiful, and often far more affordable than conventional funerals.

The workshops explore:
✨ Preparation & planning
✨ Legal rights and responsibilities
✨ Practical body care after death
✨ Shrouding and dressing
✨ Ritual washing and anointing
✨ Cooling and preservation techniques
✨ Creating meaningful farewells
✨ Reducing fear and building confidence around deathcare

Far from doom ’n’ gloom, DEAD-ucators Carol, Jo and Jo bring warmth, humour, compassion, and grounded practical wisdom to these workshops. Participants often leave feeling empowered, reassured, connected, and deeply inspired.

💫 Workshop Investment: $120.00 per person
🌿 Host 10 paying participants and your place is FREE.
🚗 Out-of-town travel fees may apply.

Whether you are planning ahead, supporting ageing parents, curious about home funerals, or simply wanting to better understand end-of-life care, these workshops offer gentle guidance, practical learning, and heartfelt community connection.

🌿 Expressions of interest are warmly welcomed for future workshops throughout the North Island. If you are interested in attending, hosting a workshop in your community, or learning more, please reach out.

Because end of life… isn’t the end of choice. 🌱
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22/05/2026

Something beautiful is blooming… 🌿✨💐

I’m so excited to finally share that I’ll soon be launching my brand new website…
🤍 THE LUV CO 🤍

A loving little umbrella bringing together both of my heart-centred creations:
🎶 Luv Notes ~ personalised legacy & memorial songs
🌱 Luv Wraps ~ natural burial shrouds lovingly handcrafted with care for people and planet

And this is only the beginning … there’s MORE LUV to come 💫

The Luv Co has been created as one soulful space where love, grief, healing, remembrance, creativity, music, connection and earth-conscious living can all sit together at the same table … probably drinking herbal tea while I’m off having another wildly inspired creative idea at 2am 😄

Honestly, I feel deeply honoured to work in such meaningful spaces … helping people honour life, love and loss through music, ritual, storytelling, conscious dying and heartfelt creations made with intention.

Whether it’s wrapping someone gently for their final journey back to nature 🌱
or turning treasured memories into a forever song 🎵
everything I create comes from love first.

And the best part?
Everything I offer will be available WORLDWIDE 🌍💞

Thank you to everyone cheering me on, believing in my visions, and supporting my relentless creativity in the most beautiful and positive way possible.

Stay tuned … the next chapter is nearly here ✨

Luv,
Jo Carter 💞

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21/05/2026

‼️UPDATE ~ MY HUN 🎸🌲☕ Today I share this deeply personal Luv Note with immense gratitude to beautiful Terri, whose courage and open heart allowed her love story with Joe to be shared with the world. 🤍

Terri graciously gave me permission to post this deeply private and heartfelt tribute in the hope that it may comfort others walking through grief, and inspire people to preserve the stories, voices, and essence of those they love through music.

Legacy songs are deservedly longer than a “normal” song … because a whole life, a whole love story, simply cannot fit into three minutes. These songs are memory keepers. Soul archives. Love letters stitched into melody. ✨

Thank you, Terri, for trusting me with something so sacred. Your love for Joe radiates through every lyric.

20/05/2026

MY HUN 🎸🌲☕ Some stories are too big for ordinary words.
Terri & Joe’s love story became a Luv Notes memorial song … a woven tapestry of 34 years + filled with laughter, hard work, pine trees, bushman boots, late-night coffees, forgotten anniversaries, rock’n’roll, and a love that still echoes beyond this world.

From a chance meeting at the local fish & chip shop to final whispered words of love, this song honours Joe’s larger-than-life spirit and the deep connection he shared with Terri.

Reading Terri’s beautiful review touched my heart deeply:

“This song was created for me by Jo Carter of Luv Notes, it captured the strength, love and the quiet sacrifices of my husband Joe. Expressing companionship in a very touching way. A sincere tribute to partnership, loyalty and enduring love. The melody compliments the emotion perfectly. I would recommend Luv Notes to anyone going through grief at any stage.” ~ Terri

Creating these songs is more than music. They become memory lanterns ✨ carrying voices, love, humour, and stories forward for generations to hold close.

Terri, thank you so much for your kind words. 🤍
It was truly an honour to walk beside you in creating this tribute for Joe. I could feel the love, laughter, loyalty and deep friendship woven through every memory you shared. He was clearly a one-of-a-kind man with a huge spirit and an even bigger heart.

Creating Joe's song felt like stitching together little pieces of your life together … the coffees, the bushman boots, the humour, the quiet sacrifices, and the everlasting love that still surrounds you.

Thank you for trusting me with something so precious. Sending you the biggest hug and so much love.🤍✨
💞🎶 LUV NOTES link in comments below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

18/05/2026

🪶🎶💞 Some songs are written with melody…
This one was written with love, grief, sunrise coffees, butterflies, Tennessee Whiskey, and the ache of missing someone whose fingerprints remain on your soul forever. It was my honour to create this song for Bern ... thank you.🌅🦋

“TWO Hearts Forever Entwined” is a tribute from Bern, to her beautiful Dad, Joe (Joseph Hastie).
A bushman. A tinkerer. A hunter & fisherman. A jack of all trades. The legendary “Timberland Terror.” A man who could fix absolutely anything … except the fact that time was slipping away too soon.
Joe transitioned peacefully on Wednesday 20th September 2023, with Tennessee Whiskey softly playing as he took his final breath and smiled into the next adventure. Bern was blessed to be by his side in that sacred moment.

This song carries their sunrise coffee mornings, his old sayings, the laughter, the garage chaos, the butterflies, the ocean between Australia and New Zealand, and the invisible thread between this world and the next.

Dad called me “sweetheart.”
And I’d give absolutely anything to hear him say it one more time.

When I look in the mirror …
I still see our sunrise in my eyes. ☀️

I love you, Dadda.
Always will.
TWO hearts forever entwined. 🤍

18/05/2026

🪶🎶 💞 Introducing … LUV NOTES ✨
Personalised Songs ❥ Love Letters ❥ Heavenly Hugs
Some words are too important to leave unsaid.

What would Y-O-U say if your loved one could still hear you?
What memories would Y-O-U share?
What laughter, stories, nicknames, songs, and soul connections would Y-O-U want wrapped into one final love note?

Welcome to LUV NOTES 🪶🎶 💞

A deeply personal song-writing service created with heart by Jo Carter, where music becomes more than melody … it becomes memory, connection, comfort, and a heavenly hug.

Each Luv Note is lovingly customised using Y-O-U-R stories, treasured moments, funny memories, favourite sayings, and the beautiful little details that made your person uniquely them.

From the funniest Gramps …
to the most amazing and loving hubby …
the sportiest sister …
the crazy bestie …
the mum who made the world’s best dinners while crafting magic from absolutely nothing …

Every life has a rhythm.
Every goodbye has a voice.
And every love deserves its note. 🎶

💞 Funeral & memorial songs
💞 Celebration of life tributes
💞 Future love notes for family
💞 Personalised lyrics & music
💞 Includes personalised song cover photo, digital lyric sheet & downloadable song file

Available in person throughout Tauranga, New Zealand, or via Zoom and phone worldwide.

It feels like part love letter, part soul soundtrack, part memory-keeper …
Like folding someone’s heartbeat into music and sending it skyward on invisible wings. 🪽

Send a heavenly hug. 🤍 PM for enquiries or to begin creating Y-O-U-R Luv Note.🪶🎶 💞