Brian D. Smith

Grief 2 Growth

Religion EN ↓ 438 episodes

"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 exi...

Author

Brian D. Smith

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Religion

Podcast website

www.grief2growth.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Episodes

SHOCKING Journey to Mediumship: How Daniel John Embraced His Spiritual Gift! 11.08.2020

I met Daniel about a year ago in a group for bereaved parents. Daniel was volunteering his time to help the parents out. I could immediately sense he was a sincere and generous guy with a high ethical standard. Daniel and I were raised as Christians. When his mediumship opened up spontaneously in January 2017, he didn't know what had hit him. He wasn't sure he believed in mediumship, and...

Revealing the Secrets of End-of-Life Care: Dr. Karen Wyatt's Inspiring Journey 04.08.2020

The death of Dr. Wyatt's father prompted her to move from a family practice physician to hospice care. Dr. Wyatt wanted to help others make their transitions. Little did she know that there were valuable life lessons waiting for her as she did this work. Dr. Karen Wyatt is the bestselling author of the book "7 Lessons for Living from the Dying", which contains stories of patients sh...

Extraordinary Success: How Chris Kito's Near-Death Launched His Career 28.07.2020

Chris Kito, B.S. experienced an NDE at the age of 24 due to an allergic reaction to a food allergy.  In April of 2012, 22-year-old Chris Kito went into anaphylactic shock due to a peanut allergy, leading to his near-death experience. He was young and just starting a career.  Chris feels that a transformation took place, changing what had been his previous youthful outlook on life and mindset as he...

SHOCKING Shared Death Experience: How Lisa Jones Transformed Her Life After Loss 21.07.2020

Lisa Jones had a Shared Death Experience when her husband passed due to cancer. Lisa's intuitive and mediumship abilities were opened up by the experience. She eventually moved to Hawaii, became a medium, started a podcast, and is now leading a group called The Real Onez. Author, speaker, and host of the Exploring Death podcast, she has had the privilege to work with groups and individuals, b...

MIND-BLOWING Journey: Martha Hunt Handler on Grief, Suicide, and Spiritualism 14.07.2020

Martha Hunt Handler is an environmentalist, an award-winning author, and the Board President of the Wolf Conservation Center. Martha is author of the new book Winter of the Wolf. For this interview, we discussed a wide range of topics including how tragedy helped form the story of her novel and how her life led to the 18-year journey to get the book out. Winter of the Wolf is an exploration in gri...

Heart-Wrenching Loss and Healing: Miami Knight's Fight Against Gun Violence 07.07.2020

Miami's Knight is a powerhouse. After her son Ty-Key took his own life with a gun, years after being shot and witnessing the murder of his best friend, Miami dedicated her life to healing herself and others. She is a gun violence prevention advocate. She is a certified grief counselor. She is an energy healer. In this interview, we discuss the events that led up to Ty-Key's passing and t...

SHOCKING Surgery Gone Wrong: Karen Thomas'Verified Near-Death Experience! 30.06.2020

Karen was a physical therapist at Alaska Hospital and Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska in 1982 when she was the 32-year-old mother of a daughter, 9 years old, and a son, 6 years old. She and her husband had moved their family there from a small upstate New York town the previous year. Karen injured her back and had to have spinal surgery. Her near-death experience occurred during this surgery w...

IANDS 2020 Live Online Conference 24.06.2020

I will be moderating a panel on Grief, Loss and Healing at the 2020 IANDS Conference. The conference will be held live online this year. So, you can attend with no travel expense. If you can't make it live, the video will be available for all "attendees" for 90 days after the conference.  The keynote speakers will be Anita Moorjani, Dr. Mary Neal, Rev. Howard Storm, and my friend, t...

MIND-BLOWING Creativity: How an NDE Unlocked David Ditchfield's Artistic and Musical Talent! 23.06.2020

David is a near-death experience (NDE)-inspired artist, composer, and author. He wants to use his NDE to make a positive difference in people's lives. In 2006, he was dragged under a speeding train in a freak accident. As the surgeons fought to save him, he had a profound NDE. When he woke up in the hospital, he had acquired astonishing new abilities. David found he could paint dramatic paint...

MIND-BLOWING Urban Legend: The True Story Behind the Hospital Shoe NDE! 16.06.2020

Kimberly Clark-Sharp is the founder of Seattle IANDS, the author of "After the Light: The Spiritual Path to Purpose, and an eyewitness to one of the most talked-about NDEs ever. She sets the record on this NDE that has become an urban legend- finding a shoe on a hospital ledge. In this interview, Kim tells me about her experience in the light and the absolutely amazing path that opened up bef...

PROFOUND Insights: Michelle Freed on Remote Viewing, Past Lives, and Future Decisions! 09.06.2020

Michelle Freed is a certified Hypnotherapist and Professional Remote Viewer. She is experienced in operational targets working with detectives to help solve crimes and find missing people as well as teaching the skill of remote viewing in her 6-week training program. She is the former Producer for the popular radio show created by Art Bell, “Midnight in the Desert”.  In this audio-only interview,...

PROFOUND Medicine Songs: How Robin Landsong's NDEs Transformed Her Life! 02.06.2020

Robin Aisha Landsong is a Transformational Speaker, Visual Artist, Medicine Singer and Medical/ Health Intuitive. She had two Near-Death Experiences during the Rhodesian War in 1977 when she was eight years old. When she was called back to life by the Medicine Song of a rural Zimbabwean woman, it opened her own Medicine Songs, and she has given Singing Medicine to over 14,000 people. Robin now tel...

Jonathon Aslay- What The Heck Is Self Love Anyway? 26.05.2020

Jonathon Aslay is one of America's leading mid-life dating coaches. His view of life changed and expanded in 2018 with the passing of his 18-year-old son, Connor.  Jonathon's grief led him on a soul-searching inner journey which opened him to the most common emotional health issue faced by people- a lack of self-love, self-regard, and self-worth. Jonathon takes this new understanding wit...

MIND-BLOWING Insights: How A Course in Miracles Aligns with Near-Death Experiences! 19.05.2020

Robert Perry is one of the most respected teachers of the modern spiritual path A Course in Miracles.  A Course in Miracles is a course that is intended to be a spiritual path. The material is claimed to be channeled from Jesus in the late 60s and early 70s. In this conversation, Robert and I discuss the teachings of the course and how closely they align with the lessons from Near-Death Experience...

Is There Purpose For Your Pain? Bonus Episode 18.05.2020

This is an expanded version of a talk I gave to Sandra Champlain's Sunday Service on May 17, 2020. The question of why there are pain and suffering is an old as humankind itself. In this bonus, I take you back to my Sunday school days with a metaphysical interpretation of the Creation story. Is what we are living really God's Plan B? What if we got the lesson of that story exactly backwa...

PROFOUND Spiritual Events That Shaped Donna Seebo's Career! 12.05.2020

Donna Seebo is an internationally recognized award-winning author/ publisher, keynote speaker, renowned mental practitioner, counselor, teacher, broadcasting personality and host of international talk shows, her schedule is a busy one. A woman of many talents, little did she realize that psychic mind skills would take her on a journey of discovery, travel, and interacting with thousands of people...

SHOCKING Truths About Inner Child Healing with Dr. Rebecca Valla! 05.05.2020

Rebecca and I discussed how the pain in our youth creates wounds in our "inner child" and we must heal through Self-love. Painful experiences are opportunities for us to grow if we do the healing work. Rebecca Valla MD is a Psychiatrist in private practice in Winston-Salem, NC. She has been a lifelong spiritual seeker, which led to her interest in Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation, a...

Simple Health Secrets REVEALED! Create Your Own Wellness Practice Today! 28.04.2020

This episode is a two-fer. Judi spends the first hour or so telling us about some very simple techniques we can all use to stay healthy. From these, you can form your own regimen/practice. Judi then leads us in her Energy Centering Meditation that you can use any time you are feeling out of balance. Judi Hancox joins me for a second time. This time we discuss specific healing tips that you can use...

HEAR ME ON THE DONNA SEEBO SHOW 24.04.2020

I was a guest on The Donna Seebo radio program. If you want to hear me interviewed, here is your chance. You've been listening. You're doing the work. But there's still this feeling that you're circling the same place. Maybe you've thought about working with me one-on-one. Maybe something's held you back.  I get that. And I want you to know there's still a place...

From DOUBT to BELIEF: Nancy Van Alphen’s INCREDIBLE Encounters with the Divine! 21.04.2020

Nancy Van Alphen tells us about her amazing Spiritually Transformative Experiences. The stories are riveting. To get the details behind the stories, purchase her book. In "Caught Between Heaven & Earth, My Profound Encounters with God and the Remarkable Truth of Our Existence", Nancy takes us on her unexpected spiritual journey that changed her from agnostic to believer. She also giv...

TRANSFORMATION Through NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES: Sue Pighini's Journey of WISDOM and GROWTH! 14.04.2020

Sue Pighini is an award-winning author on the subjects of near-death and the wisdom that comes from such experiences. Sue has had 3 near-death events, one as recently as November 2019. Her passion is helping others discover more about themselves after an extraordinary experience - combat, death of a loved one, the coronavirus pandemic, loss of a job or career, financial hardship, etc. Life is all...

EMERGENCY LANDING to SPIRITUAL LIFT-OFF: Tony Woody's Remarkable TRANSFORMATIONS! 07.04.2020

Tony Woody is a US Navy Chief Petty Officer with 22 years of honorable service as an Instructor Flight Engineer on the P3 Orion aircraft.  In 1982, he had an incredible Spiritually Transformative Experience over the course of a couple of days. It was initially triggered by an emergency landing that he miraculously survived. Today, Tony helps others who have had near-death experiences integrate the...

From DESPAIR to DIVINITY: How CRISIS Sparked Mary’s Terehune's Spiritual TRANSFORMATION! 01.04.2020

I sat down with Mary again to discuss spiritual awakening during a time of crisis. Mary's series of spiritually transformative experiences began at a low point in her life when. It was then that she had her awakening and received divine guidance into her own divinity. In this timely interview recorded March 31, 2020, we are at or near the peak of the coronavirus crisis that is facing mankind....

THE NEW NORMAL: Learning to Appreciate Life's Uncertainties! 31.03.2020

We want to know how things are going to be. We want to know things will remain the same. We want a sense of normalcy. The coronavirus has tossed all of that in the air. We suddenly find ourselves in uncharted waters, in a situation we thought only happens in horror movies. Is it possible that this uncertainty is here for a reason? Can we learn to accept and even appreciate it? You've been lis...

From Tragedy to Truth: Ali Norell's Story of Losing and Reconnecting with Her Daughter Romy! 24.03.2020

Ali Norell's 5-month-old daughter passed into Spirit at just 5 months of age. Ali was already a natural-born medium. But, after Romy's passing, Ali lost belief in everything spiritual. In this interview and her book, Ali tells of this journey from belief to the loss of belief and back to knowing that her daughter Romy is still part of the family, along with her husband and three other ch...

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