# Loneliness After Loss: Miist on Finding Your Voice and the 15 Seconds That Can Save a Life | EP 501 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501.md Podcast: [Grief 2 Growth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728) Published: 2026-08-11T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19604356-loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501.mp3 Audio file: https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19604356-loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501 Duration seconds: 3638 ## Resource 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 didn't. By 28, she had a terminal cancer diagnosis and doctors telling her she had a month, maybe three. And here's the part that stopped me: she still doesn't hold any bad feeling toward that diagnosis. It's the thing that finally brought her family bac... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/loneliness-after-loss-miist-on-finding-your-voice-and-the-15-seconds-that-can-save-a-life-ep-501.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.