Grief 2 Growth
Brian D. Smith
"Transform your grief into growth with Brian Smith, an empathetic life coach, certified grief educator, public speaker, and author who has walked the treacherous path of profound loss. Grief 2 Growth unravels the intricacies of life, death, and the spaces in between, offering listeners a new perspective on what it means to be 'Planted. Not Buried.'Join Brian and his compelling guests—bereaved parents, life coaches, mediums, healers, near death experiencers, and experts in various fields—as they discuss topics like survival guilt, synchronicities, and the scientific evidence supporting the existence of the afterlife. You'll come away with actionable advice, renewed hope, and the comforting knowledge that love and life are eternal.One of the most powerful ways we know what awaits us and where we came from is Near Death Experiences. Much of Brian's knowledge is derived from extensive study of this phenomenon, along with interviewing dozens of near death experience experiencers.Brian knows the soul-crushing weight of loss; his journey began with the sudden passing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Shayna. It's not an odyssey he would have chosen, but it has been an odyssey that has chosen him to guide others.Grief 2 Growth is a sanctuary for those grieving, those curious about the beyond, and anyone eager to explore the fuller dimensions of life and death. Each episode delves into topics that matter most—how to cope, grow, and connect with loved ones in the afterlife. If you ask: “Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?” this podcast is for you.This isn't about forgetting your loss or simply 'moving on'; it's about growing in a new direction that honors your loved ones and your spirit. It’s about finding joy and purpose again.Grief 2 Growth is more than a podcast; it's a community of souls committed to supporting one another through the darkest valleys and highest peaks of human existence. Listen today and start planting seeds for a brighter, more spiritually connected tomorrow."
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Mar 17, 2020 • 1h 7min
FROM SKEPTIC TO BELIEVER: Kim’s INCREDIBLE Journey from Atheism to Afterlife Connections!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondI met Kim a couple of years ago on Facebook. At the time, she was working for Snopes, a fact-checking website. Kim joined a group I as in called Afterlife Topics and Metaphysics. Kim was of the opinion that when you die, you die. That's it. Lights out. Game over. People who believed in the afterlife were self-deluded, wishful thinking. But, Kim was a true skeptic, open to data. She asked if anyone in the group knew of a really good medium. She wanted to test the best and reassure herself that mediums are all frauds. I referred Kim to my friend, Carolyn Clapper, the rest is history.Fast forward a couple of years and Kim remains an atheist and a skeptic. But, her eyes have been opened to a whole new view of reality. She has an on-going relationship with her deceased husband, Joseph. She works for www.truthorfiction.com and she has founded a society for people who want to maintain a relationship with those who have crossed over at www.redstringsociety.comIn this interview, we discuss what it means to be a skeptic, what it means to be an atheist, the nature of reality and how this larger view of life helps us cope with grief.ℹ️Find Kim at: https://www.redstringsociety.comVisit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Mar 13, 2020 • 12min
ROUGH WATERS AHEAD: How to FACE FEAR and Conquer Panic Together!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondIn the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, we are seeing a wave of fear and panic. I believe fear has a place in our life. In this episode, I'll tell you why. Panic never has a place. We will get through this together. But, we have some rough water ahead of us in the short term.Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Mar 10, 2020 • 56min
TRAGEDY BY DESIGN: Isabella Johnson's Journey and Her Gift of SPIRIT COMMUNICATION!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondIsabella is an evidential certified Medium, Medical Intuitive, Grief Recovery Specialist, and Remote Viewer. Isabella has committed her life to providing healing and comfort to the bereaved. She allows herself to be a pure channel for those in Spirit wishing to have a continuing conversation or closure with their loved ones still in the physical. I met Isabella when I sat for a test reading for her certification program. Isabella is an amazing natural medium who has always seen and felt Spirit. In this episode, we talk about soul planning and why we would have both chosen to be parents of children who left this world before we did.Isabella was featured in the film Life to Afterlife- Tragedy by Design by Craig McMahon. You can find Isabella at https://www.thesoulreadingmedium.comVisit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Mar 7, 2020 • 13min
The Corona Virus- Is it Time to Panic?
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondMy thoughts on the rapidly spreading Corona virus. Should we panic? What are the lessons we can take from it?Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Mar 3, 2020 • 1h 15min
FATHER'S PERSPECTIVE: Conrad Leslie on Healing, Forgiveness, and Signs from Beyond
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondThe mission statement of Helping Parents Heal is: Sharing the Journey from Bereaved to Shining Light Parent. Conrad and Paolo Leslie embody this journey. Their beautiful only son Nicolas was murdered by a terrorist in Nice, France on July 14, 2016. Conrad and Paola were obviously devastated by Nicholas' passing. Conrad is an accomplished engineer and business owner. He has taken a no-nonsense approach to finding his way since Nicolas' passing. Paola has taken a different approach, including being heavily involved with Helping Parents Heal. I've known the Leslies, mainly Paola for a few years.In this interview, Conrad opens up about the difficulty of the journey but also the beauty he has found along the way. He shares the incredible signs he and Paola have received from Nicolas, who remains active in their lives. We talk about forgiveness and how it's a process, not an act. It was refreshing to talk with a father about his perspective, as Helping Parents Heals consists mainly of mothers.Conrad has given me permission to share the document he created that chronicles the signs from Nicolas, "Gifts from Nick", including photographs we discussed during the interview. If you would like a copy, send an email to me.Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Feb 27, 2020 • 9min
A NIGHT OUT WITH KAYLA- Reflection on Les Miserables After 30 Years
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondWell, really a night at the theater. But, it doesn't have as much of a ring.Kayla and I went to see my all-time favorite story and favorite musical, Les Miserables. 30 plus years after my first viewing of it, my perspective has changed. Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Feb 25, 2020 • 1h 5min
PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP EXPOSED: Marion Dampier-Jeans' REVOLUTIONARY Practices!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondMarion Dampier-Jeans is a fascinating woman living in England. She hahas Norwegian roots and has studied the "old ways" going back to shamanism in several cultures that we in America don't normally associate with shamanism. Marion is one of the few people who sat with Leslie Flint on a regular basis. Leslie Flint was, during his time, the most accomplished and tested physical medium in the world. In case you don't know what physical mediumship is, it's where the departed can make themselves seen and heard objectively in the room for everyone in the room to see, hear or touch.Physical mediumship has normally been done in the dark. Today's physical mediums, like Marion, are bringing these phenomena into the light (literally). There were some technical issues with our connection. The audio drops out here and there during our interview. Please bear with me. You will want to get all the way through this intriguing episode.Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Feb 18, 2020 • 1h 4min
CHANGE MAKER: How Becky's Brother's Death REVITALIZED Her Life and Purpose!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondRebecca Austill-Clausen is one of the most enthusiastic, cheerful people I've had the pleasure to interview. Our time together flew by as she shared with me her amazing life. When Becky's brother David passed away, it opened her up spiritually in a way that she could never have anticipated. After 20 years of silence, Becky sold her large private rehabilitation practice and published the award-winning book "Change Maker, How My Brother's Death Woke Up My Life".During our interview, Becky related the story of the magical event that occurred shortly after David's passing. It's a spiritually transformative event unlike any I have heard.Becky has extensive experience with after-death communication, shamanism, past-life regression, Reiki, automatic writing, crystal energy, and more. Becky has an upcoming workshop in October 2020ℹ️you can find more about Rebecca at https://www.rebeccaaustillclausen.comVisit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Feb 11, 2020 • 47min
TRANSFORMATIVE SELF-CARE: Sarah Brassard's EASY Process for Peace and Grace!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondFor the last 20 years, Sarah Brassard has been guiding women from a place of struggle in life to one of grace, peace, and ease. She does this through her signature process of self-care.I was thrilled to learn that Sarah's process of self-care isn't "one more thing to do." It's intentionally an easy process that you can incorporate into your life in just three to six minutes a day.Sarah helps people turn their focus from trying to control what is around you to what you can control, what is within you. Sarah takes us from "getting a grip" to letting go.Sarah's process is steeped in her experience as a Kundalini yoga instructor, an Interfaith Minister, and a certified practitioner of bodywork in several modalities. Her work is based on nurturing the soul, spirit, heart, body, and mind back to love and back to life.Sarah's book is: "Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within to Stay Vibrant and Alive Through All Life's Challenges". ℹ️ you can find Sarah at: https://www.sarahbrassard.com💵 to become a Patron and get exclusive content, find me on Patreon at:https://www.patreon.com/grief2growthfor more information see me at:📚 https://www.grief2growth.comVisit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store I'm excited to announce a new resource I'm very proud of. This guide outlines the four daily practices I discovered on my grief journey. These techniques have helped dozens of my clients. Get it free today.GEMS- 4 Steps To Go From Grief To Joy Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
Feb 7, 2020 • 16min
RELEASING GUILT: Overcoming the Burden of Grief and Finding Peace!
Send me a Text Message- please include your contact information so I can respondA common problem I run into with the clients I work with is they feel guilty about the passing of a loved one. There may be circumstances where some guilt can be rationalized. (We can talk about that at another time). I'm talking about guilt over things beyond our control, guilt about things that we couldn't possibly have known or prevented if we had known. When we're going through grief, sometimes it seems that we look for reasons to feel even worse. Please do not do this to yourself. Let's talk about why you feel guilty and see if we can do something about it.Visit the Grief 2 Growth store for FREE items as well as other tools to help you along your journey:Guided MeditationsMy book GEMS of Healing (signed copy)My Oracle deck to help you connect with your loved onesMini-coursesMini-guidesCheck it out at https://grief2growth.com/store Support the show🧑🏿🤝🧑🏻 Join Facebook Group- Get Support and Education 👛 Subscribe to Grief 2 Growth Premium (bonus episodes)📰 Get A Free Gift📅 Book A Complimentary Discovery Call📈 Leave A ReviewThanks so much for your support
