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Grief Doesn’t Care About Your Plan

Surviving Grief’s Firsts

When Meaning Well Doesn't End Well

Stop fighting resistance. Start leading people through loss.

Growing Up In Chaos: How Trauma Shaped a Leader, and a Brother

Surviving the Holidays After a Devastating Loss

The Kind of Leadership They Never Teach You at Work

The Leper and the Sundial

Surviving Grief’s Firsts: Three Vulnerable Stories

Surviving a Spouse’s Suicide

The Ocean Took His Son. The Aftermath Became Phil's Life's Work

Why Your Friends Never Mention Your Dead Kid

The Best Question to Ask When Supporting a Grieving Person

Resilience is Relational

He Lost Both Sons in a Crash. What He Says Next Will Change How You See Grief.

Wrestling with God

Running Out of Dread

Resilience Isn’t Strength. It's Skill

From Grief to Growth: How Jacque Ecuyer Turned Intolerable Pain into Purpose

Episode 1: Why I Started This Podcast (and Why I Think It Matters)

Full Tank, Full Heart

The Uniform and the Aftermath

My wife’s death almost killed me too with Jeff Pinner

Life After a Child’s Death with Aaron Sorensen

When the Place that Hurts the Most is the Place that Feels Most Like Home

Rock Bottom Wasn’t the Night My Wife Died

Oh Grief, I Stand on Guard for Thee

Resilience Is Built Between the Storms

Grief & Growth After Losing A Daughter with Mark Pearson

The One Thing I Wish I Could Take Back

Do They Just Not Want to Know?

How Looking Back is Helping Me Move Forward

My Dad Changed My Life By How He Cleaned a Urinal

The Thin Line Between Mike and Me

Will I Ever Be Called Dad Again?

Grief blew your life apart; this guide won’t fix it.

Man Down: Stay in the Fight

I'm No Longer Scared

A Love Letter to the Grievers

Man Down: You Don’t Owe Anyone a Comeback Story Right Now

Man Down: The Seven Deadly Lies

Man Down: When the Urge to Escape Takes Over

Left Behind: The Intergenerational Impact of Police Suicide

What Were Her Last Moments Like?

The Scourge of Shame

The Sun is Emerging from Behind the Clouds

Man Down: The Mask Is a Lie You Tell Yourself to Feel in Control

Man Down: What to Do Right Now

Man Down: What to Expect in the Days, Weeks and Months Ahead

Man Down: What Grief Does to a Man’s Mind

Man Down: What the Hell is Happening to Me?

Man Down:

Learning to Live with What Can Never Be Made Right

Grieving One Death on the Grave of Another

Strong? No. Doing My Best? Yes.

From Surface Talk to Soul Talk

Leading Through Loss is Here

The Most Powerful Phrase in Difficult Conversations

One Shade of Grey

There's Always Another Mountain to Climb

The Work Isn’t Over. It’s Just Becoming Yours.

What About Everyone Else?

When Presence Isn't Enough Anymore

How to Build Safety, Trust and Connection in the Hardest Moments

The Lie I’ve Been Telling Myself Since Chloe Died

What Leaders Get Wrong About Grief (And What It Costs Them)

Why Grief at Work is Everyone's Business

Leading Through Loss

15 Lessons from 15 Years

How to Show Up Without Blowing It

The Most Misunderstood Relationship Skill (In Life and Leadership)

How to Have the Hard Conversations Grief Makes Even Harder

When Things That Make No Sense Make Perfect Sense

Why Being Effective is Better than Being Right

The 10 Things You Say That Hurt More Than They Help

Signal vs. Noise: How Grief Screws With Your Head (And What to Do About It)

One Choice. A Lifetime of Consequences.

I'm the 'Dad Expert' Who Couldn't Save His Own Daughter

Hot Wings, Heavy Grief, and My Daughter’s Boyfriend’s Chest Puff

A Story of Puke, Perseverance, and Possibility on Mt. Kilimanjaro

Grief Tools for Men #4: The Questions That Help (When Nothing Else Does)

How to Show Up for Someone Who’s Hurting - Without Making Things Worse

Grief Tools for Men #3: Be the Jaguar and Face It

Grief Tools for Men #2: How to Talk Like a Man Who Stands Up Instead of Staying Down

What Men Get Wrong About Grief (And What to Do Instead)

Grief Tools for Men #1: How to Focus on What You Can Control

The Right Questions Can Change Everything

From Traps to Tools

A Love Letter to the Family CEOs Out There

Trap #5: Playing the Victim

Trap #4: Trying to Outwork the Pain

Trap #3 Locking Everything Away to Survive Another Day

Trap #2: Destroying Yourself by Avoiding the Pain

The Five Traps Keeping You Stuck