EP.39 Season 3 Premiere:
The First Five Years of Grief
Host: Nina Rodriguez | IG: @griefandlight
September 11, 2024, will mark five years since Yosef’s passing. In this episode, I take a moment to reflect on how grief and life have shifted, what challenges each year presented, and discuss the importance of allowing grief to unfold in our own personal timeline.
This episode is one that I wish I would have been able to listen to in my early grief, particularly in years one and two.... READ MORE
EP.40 Grief and Resilience: Tools for 'Bouncing Forward' After loss
Guest: Blair Kaplan Venables, Founder, The Global Resilience Project | IG: @blairfromblairland
In this conversation, Blair Kaplan Venables, a grief and resilience expert, shares her personal journey of resilience and how she turned her pain into purpose after experiencing multiple losses, including the loss of both parents and a pregnancy. She discusses the concept of resilience and defines it as 'bouncing forward' from a challenging experience. Blair also introduces the Navigating Grief Framework, which consists of five tools .... READ MORE
EP.41 Tending Grief: The Healing Power of Care in Community
Guest: Camille Sapara Barton | Author, TENDING GRIEF | @camillesaparabarton
Camille Sapara Barton, author of 'Tending Grief, Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Caring Community,' discusses the importance of tending to grief and creating communal spaces for grief. They emphasize the need to process grief through the body, and draw inspiration from the grief rituals of the Dagara people, who see grief as a generative force that supports the well-being of the community. They also highlight the impact of incorporating joy and pleasure into social movements, and the importance of creating spaces for .... READ MORE
EP.42 Start Where You Are: Megan Gluth Bohan's Transformation from Struggles to Success
Guest: Megan Gluth-Bohan | Owner and CEO | @megangluthbohan
From rock bottom to CEO, Megan Gluth-Bohan's path to success has been anything but a straight line, shaped by her challenging upbringing and personal struggles. Growing up in rural Iowa below the poverty line, Megan faced dysfunction, trauma, and difficult circumstances. She struggled with alcohol and drug use, however, she eventually turned her life around .... READ MORE
EP.43 Is Joy Possible After Loss?
Host: Nina Rodriguez | @griefandlight
How can we unlock joy after loss?
This episode explores the possibility of experiencing joy after loss and provides guidance on incorporating self-compassion and joy into the grieving process. It emphasizes the importance of honoring each moment, leaning into curiosity, and rewarding the questions that arise. Nina shares .... READ MORE
EP.44 Margo Fowkes on losing her son, creating community and Leading Through Loss at work
Guest: Margo M. Fowkes, Author, Founder, Consultant | Salt Water | On Target Consulting | @findyourharbor
Margo shares her journey of grief after the death of her son, Jimmy. She discusses Jimmy's resilience during his illness, and the moments that shaped her perspective on motherhood and loss.

She delves into the challenges of grief in the workplace—how to support grieving colleagues ... READ MORE
EP.45 | MENDED MAN: Oscar 'OG' Guerrero on losing his son, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Brotherhood
Guest: Oscar Guerrero, Host of the Mended Man Podcast, and Post-Trauma Growth Coach | @oscarcguerrero
In this conversation, Oscar 'O.G.' Guerrero shares his story as a father navigating the devastating and sudden loss of his two-year-old son, Ollie, and how he has found a way to channel his grief into helping other men heal from trauma and loss ... READ MORE
EP.46 | The Healing Power of Grief Dreams with Dr. Joshua Black
Guest: Dr. Joshua Black, Bereavement Researcher, Speaker, Educator, Host of the Grief Dreams Podcast | @griefdreams
Dr. Joshua Black, leading grief and bereavement researcher, speaker, and host of the Grief Dreams Podcast, shares his journey into the field of grief dreams (e.g., dreams of the deceased), and the profound insights they offer into the grieving process and continuing connections beyond ... READ MORE
EP.47 | Always a Sibling: Navigating Sibling Loss with Annie Sklaver Orenstein
Guest: Annie Sklaver Orenstein, Writer, Cultural Researcher | @anniesklaverorenstein
More than 4 million American adults each year will lose a sibling, yet there wasn’t a modern resource guide available that speaks directly to this type of grief that can be overshadowed by grieving parents and spouses, and made even more difficult by the complexities of sibling dynamics — until now ... READ MORE
EP.48 | Bridging the GriefSpan after losing her brother and both parents in five yeaers
Guest: Moira Khan, Grief Educator, GriefSpan | @griefspaneducation
Join us for a powerful conversation with Moira Khan, a Certified Grief Educator and creator of GriefSpan, an online grief support community. After losing her mother, brother, and father within just five years, Moira faced the immense challenge of being the last remaining member of her ... READ MORE