Grief 2 Growth
"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."
Episodes
494 episodes
Preserving the Memories of Those You Love- with Alexander Josephson | EP 507
What if the memories of someone you love had a real place to live, and you could walk through them whenever you needed to?In this episode, I talk with architect Alexander Josephson about how to preserve memories of a loved one, and why ...
Grief Stored in the Body: Dr. Karyn Shanks on Why Illness Isn't a Failure | EP 506
What if your body isn't broken — it's trying to tell you something?In this episode of Grief 2 Growth, Brian sits down with Dr. Karyn Shanks, a physician who spent over 40 years learning what medical school never taught her — inclu...
Grieving Your Old Self After A Diagnosis with Loni Fagel | EP 505
What happens when the person you used to be doesn't exist anymore — not because they died, but because a diagnosis, a surgery, or a health crisis rewrote who you are? In this episode, Loni Fagel joins me to talk about a grief almost ...
Spirit Guides vs. Angels What's The Difference? with Michael McAdams | EP 504
What if the "guardian angel" you've prayed to and the "spirit guide" you've been told to fear are the exact same presence, just described through a different lens?In this episode, Brian sits down with Michael McAdams — a man raised in a ...
What My Mother's Deathbed Visions Taught Me About What Comes Next | Alexandra Grabbe | EP 503
What if the strangest moments at the end of life are actually the most meaningful?In this episode, Alexandra Grabbe joins Brian to talk about the seven months she spent caring for her 96-year-old mother, Bea, at home — and the dea...
Why This ICU Doctor No Longer Fears Death- with Dr. Adam Rizvi | EP 502
What does an ICU doctor see when he's present at the exact moment someone dies?Dr. Adam Rizvi has spent his career in critical care medicine, standing at hundreds of bedsides during life's most sacred transitions. Trained as a physician ...
Loneliness After Loss: Miist on Finding Your Voice and the 15 Seconds That Can Save a Life | EP 501
Miist was five years old when her parents removed themselves from her life. Not through death — through choice. As she tells me in this episode, that distinction made the wound deeper, not shallower. She knew they could come back. They simply d...
Reclaiming Divine Feminine Power with Maya Tiwari | EP 500
At 18, Maya Tiwari was given a death sentence — six months to live. Instead, she spent six months alone in the Vermont woods, and came back a different person entirely. That single decision set her on a path that led through 25 years...
John Promised He Would Come Through in Music. Then Marcie Heard Him. with Marcie Dean | EP 499
Within two weeks of meeting John, Marcie Dean received a message she hoped was only fear: enjoy this, it's real, but he's going to die. He'd been getting the same feeling before they ever met. He was 38, healthy, five years younger than her. Th...
Healing After Suicide Loss: Breaking the Silence That Keeps Survivors Stuck | Jayne Madigan EP |
When someone passes by suicide, the casseroles don't come. Neither do the cards or the phone calls. Jayne Madigan's sister lives in a neighborhood with a meal train for every birth and every death. When her 24-year-old son Brandon passed, she g...
Can Past Lives Heal Grief? with Michelle Brock | EP 497
What if the grief you're carrying reaches back further than this one lifetime? In this episode, I talk with Michelle Brock, a past life regression specialist, psychic medium, and spiritual life coach based in New York City. This one got persona...
Empath Energy Protection: How to Stop Carrying Everyone Else's Pain | Lisa Campion
You walk into a room and you know who is upset before anyone opens their mouth. You come home from a store you were only in for forty minutes and you have nothing left. Your friends bring you their pain because you are the one who can hold it, ...
Medium Barbra Banner: The Signs From Loved You're Already Missing | EP
Barbra Banner didn't set out to become a medium. It found her — through flying clocks, flickering lights, and orbs that showed up in her audition tapes, all within the span of a few days. What she didn't know then was that she was stepping into...
Remembering PMH Atwater: The Near-Death Experience Pioneer Who Died Three Times | EP 496
This week, we lost one of the true pioneers of near-death research. PMH Atwater passed away, and as a tribute to her, I'm re-releasing the very first interview I ever recorded with her back in 2019 — before she knew who I was, before I knew wha...
Becoming a Grief Doula, with Dina Bell-Laroche | EP 495
What if the word "coach" isn't big enough for what grief actually needs?In this conversation, Dina Bell-Laroche walks me through the journey that took her from a devastated 29-year-old — grieving her younger sister Tracy, who passed from...
Spiritual Awakening After Loss: A Skeptic's Story with Nico Martens | EP 494
What if the worst day of your life is also the doorway to who you were always meant to be?In this episode, I sit down with my friend Nico Martens for one of the most personal conversations I've had on the show. Nico and I met about 11 ye...
Finding the Will to Recover: Nick Prefontaine | EP 493
Finding the Will to Recover: Nick Prefontaine on Running Out of the Hospital After Doctors Said He Never WouldAt 14, Nick Prefontaine caught the edge of his snowboard going off the biggest jump in the terrain park — and that was t...
How to Break Karmic Cycle — with Liane Marie Lambert | EP 492
What if the patterns that keep you stuck aren't punishment — they're an invitation?Liane Marie Lambert was 27 years old, living in London, when she looked the wrong way crossing the street and was struck by a double-decker bus. She walke...
Why Loss Lives in Your Body (and How to Release It) | Kurtis Lee Thomas | EP 491
We tend to think of grief as something we feel — a heaviness in the heart, a fog in the mind. But what if grief is also something we store, physically, in the body? And what if the breath you take without thinking could be the very thi...
When the Body Holds Grief: Secret Language of Pain — with Inna Segal | EP 490
What if your body isn't broken — it's trying to tell you something?That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Inna Segal, one of the world's leading voices in energy medicine and body-mind healing. Inna's story didn't beg...
When the Flowers Stop Coming: The Truth About Grief Support After the Funeral with Kelly Edmondson
The casseroles arrive. The flowers fill the house. For a few weeks, people show up.And then they don't.For most grieving people, the silence that follows the funeral is one of the loneliest parts of loss — and one of the least tal...
An Ancient Technique For Helping Grief with Dr. Irene Blinston | EP 488
What if the people you love aren't as far away as they seem?For more than two decades, Dr. Irene Blinston has been quietly studying something most psychologists won't touch — an ancient Greek practice called the psychomanteum. ...
How Courtney Pray Duke Was Carried Forward by Faith After Being Widowed at 29 Years Old | EP 487
What happens when the person you've loved since childhood is suddenly gone — and you're left at 29 with three small children and no idea how to be an adult without them?Courtney Pray Duke doesn't answer that question with easy...
The Consciousness Awakening Coming in 2026: A Message from the Angelic Realm | Rachel Corpus EP 486
Something is coming. And if you've been feeling it — that low hum of there's more to this than we've been told — this episode is going to land differently for you.Rachel Corpus reached out with a message she says she's been rece...
What Hospice Nurses Know About Death— With Christa McDonald | EP 485
What if the people who've spent the most time at the threshold of death have something to teach the rest of us about how to live?Christa McDonald has spent more than 20 years as a hospice nurse, watching thousands of people take their fi...
