Grief 2 Growth

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 receiving her entire life, piece by piece, from the angelic realm. A message about humanity's consciousness awakening, UAP disclosure, and what happen...

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 final breaths. What she's witnessed has reshaped everything she believes about death, grief, connection, and the soul. In this conversation, she brings th...

What if death didn't end the conversation? When Dawn Baumann Brunke's husband Bob died suddenly in September 2024, she had 20 years of experience communicating with animals across the veil. But nothing fully prepared her for losing her partner of 33 years. What happened in the eight weeks that followed became her most extraordinary book yet — Talks with Bob: A True Story of Love, Death a...

Kat and I are friends going back a couple of years. We each have a daughter in spirit. Kat is the affiliate leader of the UK Helping Parents Heal group. Kat had a successful business career before having a Kundalini awakening experience and becoming a professional medium. In addition to mediumship, Kat practices multiple healing modalities. Kat heard my episode on mediumship and wanted to have a c...

Kat Baillie is an International Evidential Psychic Medium | Clinical Hypnotherapist | Sound Healer | Reiki Master | CBT Psychotherapist.  Kat experienced a Kundalini awakening after a diving accident. This awakening opened up several abilities. She has left her highly successful corporate career and now focuses on helping others through several healing modalities, including evidential mediumship....

What if you could finally have the conversation you never got to finish? John Kammer lost three of his closest friends in just a few years — each loss sudden, each one leaving words unsaid. Out of that grief, and after more than a decade of silence and struggle, John built Guardian A(i)ngels (guardianaingels.ai) — an AI-powered interactive journal designed to help grieving people find language for...

What if grief could be metabolized — not just managed? Most of us have been told to process grief through talking, reading, and time. And those things help. But what if there's a layer of grief stored in your body that talk therapy simply can't reach? What if the density of your pain is the very thing blocking you from feeling the spiritual connection you're desperate for? That&apos...

What if grief isn't something to get over — but something to grow through? In this powerful episode, Brian sits down with intuitive healer, ThetaHealing practitioner, and bestselling author Amanda Beth Johnson, who was widowed at just 27 years old when her husband Jeff was killed suddenly in a car accident. Nearly 30 years later, Amanda has transformed that devastating loss into a life of ser...

What if the most painful moments of your life were actually part of a plan? And what if the people you've lost are closer than you ever imagined — just three feet away? In this beautiful, wide-ranging conversation, Brian welcomes spiritual messenger and author Fara Gibson for a long-overdue first interview. Fara has been sharing messages from heaven her entire life — without training, without...

The materialist argument that consciousness ends with the brain has a serious problem: the evidence.  In this episode, I sit down with Simon Bown — clinical hypnotherapist, past life regression guide, and author of Verified Near-Death Experiences: Proof of an Afterlife — to examine the cases that no materialist theory can explain. Simon has interviewed hundreds of NDE experiencers across more than...

What happens when someone doesn't just brush the edge of death — but actually crosses over? On May 22nd, 2023, Jonathan Ashford's organs failed. He collapsed alone on his bathroom floor at 4:30 in the morning, clinically dead for three hours. When he woke up, his temperature was 94 degrees — and the man who had lived inside that body for 25 years was gone. The corporate executive who dis...

What if your daughter spent years telling you exactly how she was going to die — and then kept communicating after she did? That's the extraordinary story Louise Crist lives every day. In this episode, Louise shares the most remarkable account of a child predicting their own death and continued after-death communication I've ever featured on this podcast. From premonitions that began at...

When Lisa Woolery found her husband Eric slumped over in his home office—gone at 53 from sudden heart failure—she never imagined what would come next. Not just the frozen assets, the angry 12-year-old, or walking 20,000 steps a day to process the pain. But this: grief made her a better parent. In this honest, hope-filled conversation, Lisa shares how losing everything forced her to shed perfection...

What if those unexplainable feelings you get — those quiet nudges that something is about to change — aren't just anxiety or imagination, but your soul preparing you for what's ahead? In this deeply moving episode, I talk with Tami Pitetti Sanders, an intuitive guide whose journey began with subtle intuitive signs before death that she didn't fully understand until after loss transf...

What happens when grief doesn't just visit once—but keeps coming back? In this deeply honest conversation, Vanessa May shares how she navigated losing her son Harry, then her husband Anthony, and father during the pandemic, all while battling COVID and later a cancer diagnosis. Vanessa doesn't sugarcoat. She doesn't spiritually bypass. She tells the truth about what it's like w...

Some struggles don’t make sense. You do the work. You try to heal. And yet the same emotional patterns, grief, anxiety, or disconnection keep resurfacing. In this special Grief 2 Growth episode , Brian D. Smith welcomes back Dr. Lotte Valentin , medical doctor, psychotherapist, ancestral healer, and two-time near-death experiencer, for a profound conversation about inherited emotional patterns and...

In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth , Brian Smith is joined by writer and seeker Alexis Lee , author of Pain Is a Portal to Beauty , for a courageous conversation about grief, trauma, and radical self-healing. Alexis shares the moment that changed her life — hearing a voice while walking in the woods that told her her life would have been a tragedy if it ended that day. That message b...

Before the microphones were turned on, Richard Ashworth asked Brian for his birth information. What followed was an unexpected and deeply personal moment—Richard identified a pivotal event at age seven that reshaped Brian’s view of life. He was right. In this episode of Grief 2 Growth , Brian and Richard explore how grief, destiny, and choice intersect—and how ancient systems like Bazi can help us...

What if your voice could continue to guide the people you love—long after you’re gone? In this deeply moving episode of Grief 2 Growth , Brian D. Smith is joined by Cristian Cibilis Bernardes , founder and CEO of Autograph AI , for a conversation that sits at the crossroads of grief, technology, memory, and meaning. Cristian shares the personal loss that inspired the creation of Walter , an emotio...

What happens when grief collides with faith — and suicide shatters everything you thought you believed? In this candid and raw episode of Grief 2 Growth , Brian sits down with Rachel Powell , widow, author, speaker, and founder of Hope Speaker , to explore the complicated intersection of grief, faith, suicide loss, and hope . After losing her husband André to suicide — and surviving suicide attemp...

What if your loved one never truly left? What if grief itself is the doorway to a deeper connection? In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth , Brian D. Smith speaks with Janet Kaufman , author of Through the Veil: A Soul’s Journey in Grief and Grace . Janet shares the story of her son Alexander—a sensitive, loving soul whose struggles with mental health and addiction ultimately led to his...

Nervous System Healing After Trauma: From Survival to Sovereignty with Angela Jean What if healing isn’t about fixing your thoughts—but about retraining your body? In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth , Brian Smith sits down with Angela Jean , a mindset and nervous system strategist whose life was shaped by profound trauma—and radical transformation. After surviving childhood abuse, ho...

What if a single moment in your grief revealed a truth that rewrote your entire identity? That’s exactly what happened to today’s guest, Rich Boerner , whose life changed forever after his mother’s passing. While cleaning out her apartment, Rich uncovered a long-hidden secret about his father—one that forced him to confront love, betrayal, forgiveness, and ultimately, healing. This episode dives d...

In this deeply moving conversation, Brian sits down with Michael Reed , author of The Million Stages of Grief , whose life changed forever on the night of the 2016 Gatlinburg fires. Michael lost his wife Constance and daughters Chloe and Lily in the tragedy—and today, he shares not only his story, but the wisdom, compassion, and hard-earned insight that grew from unimaginable loss. This episode ex...

In today’s powerful episode of Grief 2 Growth , Brian sits down with Samina Bari — author of Don’t Call Me Widow and host of the Afterlife podcast — for a raw and insightful look at spousal loss, solo parenting, grief brain, and the quiet ways we can show up for those who are hurting most. Samina lost her husband suddenly in 2023. What followed was a journey through shock, trauma, identity loss, a...