Tendrils of Grief

Susan, your host, welcomes you to another episode of The Tendrils of Grief Podcast , this time she is accompanied by Yolanda Copes-Stepney who is a founder, development producer, anti-racism and EDI educator, and podcaster. After gaining her degree in journalism, she went on to become a PR, events, and digital content specialist working for national and global brands.   In 2016 she founded Speak&D...

Susan is accompanied by Kathryn E. Nuñez in today's episode. Kathryn is the founder of The Social Selling Agency. She is a LinkedIn Marketing Expert and a Top Visibility Thought leader. She is an authority on sales and, has built a rapid-growing following of over 30,000 professionals.   Kathryn has a long grief story, that began when she was only 14 years old and is made of eight devastating losse...

Susan is accompanied to today's episode by the award-winning coach and speaker, Jane Duncan Rogers who says " I was devastated when my husband died – this was not in our plans! My greatest fear had come true, my life had completely changed, I was on my own again at age 54, too young to be an old widow, but too old to be a young one. However, little did I know that three years on I would be publish...

Susan, your host, welcomes Michael J. Florio to today's episode. Michael is an American independent comic book editor and writer working out of Biloxi, Mississippi. He graduated from Full Sail University with his bachelor's and master's in creative writing for entertainment. Currently, he works as a copy editor and writer for Inked Studios, a small crowdfunding think tank that helps comics creator...

Silke Herwald is the Grief Specialist and inventor of the "Grief to Love" blueprint. Over the past 12 years, Silke has assisted hundreds of grieving clients online, in person, and with her "Grief To Love" courses .   Silke supports bereaved women and teaches grief counselors, Hypnotherapists, and Psychologists her groundbreaking "Grief To Love" blueprint. She is an international speaker and grief...

Susan, your host, welcomes you to another episode of The Tendrils of Grief Podcast. Today, she is accompanied by Jonathan Wess, CEO and Founder of TimeCapsule Family Connections, LLC , a company that is helping people everywhere to leave a legacy for their families after they're gone. Jonathan founded the company in 2018. He graduated in Political Science, Entrepreneurship, and Human Resources fro...

Susan, your host, welcomes Dr. Michele Pfannenstiel to today's episode. Dr. Pfannenstiel is a veteran veterinarian turned business coach and food safety strategist. The products Michele has created have been transformative, generating millions of dollars in revenue for her clients in just a few years. Dr. Pfannenstiel is known in her industry for being an innovator, and she is on a mission to tran...

Marci Glidden Savage is the CEO of a family-owned packaging supply company. After experiencing the catastrophic impact of suicide twice, Marci emerges as a fierce proponent for eliminating the social stigma attached to mental illness which keeps many individuals battling depression and anxiety from seeking help.   Marci is the author of And No One Saw It Coming , a book that she wrote with the int...

Christina Wooten is a Certified Psychic Medium who helps heart-centered women access the wisdom and support of the Spirit World to elevate their life. She enjoys teaching others to access their intuition and discover their own connection with the other side. She is also the host of Modern Life and Spirit Podcast where she shares topics such as intuitive living and integrating spiritual philosophy...

Reverend Mark Sowersby has been married to his wonderful wife Jennifer for 17 years and is the father of four children. Mark has been an ordained minister with Assembly of God for over 25 years and is currently the Pastor of Calvary Community Church in Dudley, MA. Pastor Mark holds a BA in theology from Zion Bible College/Northpoint Bible College.   In 2019, Pastor Mark went through a time of grea...

Susan, your host, welcomes Sandy Weiner to today's episode. Sandy Weiner, is the founder of Last First Date and The Woman of Value, she is an internationally known TEDx speaker, dating and relationship coach, women's empowerment coach, NLP certified coach, author, and podcast host. She believes a woman of value gets the respect she deserves in life and love.   Sandy is the author of Becoming a Wom...

Susan, your host, is accompanied by Shannon MacFarlane to today's episode. Shannon is a compassionate human and grief enthusiast who creates art around big emotions (and teaches self-professed non-artists how to do the same). She started her first photography business in 2009 and decided in 2013 that end-of-life and medical stories were the ones that called to her, so she did what people told her...

Susan, your host, is accompanied by Sherrie Dunlevy to today's episode. Former NBC News Anchor Sherrie Dunlevy served the Wheeling, WV area for nearly 30 years, both on television and radio. Today, she is a best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and the Founder of the Graduating Grief Academy and online support community, host of the Graduating Grief podcast and is also an Aging Awesomely Coa...

Susan, your host, welcomes Peg Conway to today's episode. Peg writes and practices healing touch therapy in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she also volunteers at The Children's Grief Center . Her essays about early mother loss and long-term grieving have appeared at The Manifestation, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and The Mighty. After earning a Master's in Journalism and working in Corporate Communications,...

 Susan is accompanied to today's episode by Alyse Oram. Alyse's grief journey started in 2016 with the loss of a childhood friend, then her younger brother six months later. While processing her loss, she became aware of the limited resources available to sibling loss specifically and the discomfort she witnessed from others when discussing the topic. Alyse and her family created a local summer ca...

Laah Wallace is a writer and dreamer, a recovering social worker turned mushroom farmer and business consultant. Her personal and professional lives have been steeped in grief, each loss cumulative and heavy and left her floating and untethered after the loss of both parents and a sibling. As with the dynamism of loss and life, the grief waxes and wanes but is ever-present, now a welcome reminder...

Michele Benyo is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, parent mentor, and founder of Good Grief Parenting , whose purpose is to support parents who are raising young bereaved siblings after child loss. Her mission is to be a voice for the youngest of grievers and to help parents nurture and understand the unique needs of children who have lost a sibling in early childhood.  When Michele's six-ye...

Susan welcomes Elizabeth Kipp to today's episode. Elizabeth is a Chronic Pain Specialist, Yoga-Informed Addiction Recovery Coach, Ancestral Clearing® Practitioner, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, and international best-selling author of The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power . She focuses on helping people realize the power of their inherent healing. Elizabeth healed from o...

Susan, your host, welcomes Caroline Nadine Helsing to today's episode. She is an alumna of The University of Hawaii. She currently lives in Newport Beach, California with her husband and their dog, Daisy. Unapologetic: Tales of the Original Party Crasher is her debut book and is the heartfelt story of a daughter processing the loss of her mother while she examines and celebrates her mother's story...

Amanda Farrat is the founder of Value Yourself Counseling, a certified emotional wellness counselor, Advanced EFT Practitioner, and professional speaker. Amanda has a prolonged history of education and experience in the mental health and wellness field and social services. She received her undergraduate degree in Family Science from Montana State University and later pursued a Master of Social Wor...

Dr. Kevin J. Payne joins Susan in today's episode. He is a scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He's spent 15 years as a professor and a decade as a startup founder and consulting data scientist. He had the life he loved shredded by decades battling multiple sclerosis. When he lost everything he cared about, he decided to rebuild his life by facing the fear of his uncooperative body in the air and...

Susan is joined in today's episode by  Carmen De La Russe who is a self-independent writer who decided to embrace her mother's passing by writing poetry. Carmen is 28 years young, one year ago her mother passed away from complications of COVID and she is still learning to cope with this huge loss day by day. Carmen decided to write away all her pain and published her very first poetry book Poesia...

Susan welcomes you to a special New Year's episode of Tendrils of Grief Podcast. This is a solo episode, where Susan shares the tools that can help you make it through each day at this particular time of the year. Remember that it is ok not to be ok, and in your grief journey, there will be good and bad days. Listen to this episode and learn how to interrupt that deep grief for a moment, focus on...

Susan welcomes Heather Dempsey to today's episode. She is an emotional health coach and Mentor for life and business. Heather is a cat-loving foodie, personal development coach and self-care enthusiast who has helped hundreds of anxious and overwhelmed individuals and service-based entrepreneurs create radical emotional and mindset transformations so that they thrive. She supports her clients — fr...

Susan welcomes Samantha Ruth to today's episode. Samantha is a Psychologist, Speaker, Best Selling Author, and the Proud Founder of Griefhab : a 24/7 support community open to anyone who has experienced a loss. She helps people around the world turn their pain into their power by guiding them to be their true selves not who they think they need to be, by embracing their differences, and by living...