# What Losing a Child Does to Your Marriage, Family, and Business - Matthew Efird | Our Family Invests Podcast (ep.79)

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Podcast: [Our Family Invests Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-family-invests-podcast-7209628)
Published: 2026-07-07T10:01:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4640

## Resource

In 2019, Matthew Efird and his wife Hannah learned their unborn son Noah had Trisomy 13, a condition incompatible with life. They chose to carry him to term. Noah lived 57 hours. What followed reshaped how Matthew leads his businesses, loves his wife, and spends his time. Matthew is the founder and CEO of three businesses, bestselling author of Even Though We Will , a speaker, and host of the Pillars of Purpose Podcast. He and his family now travel the country full time in an RV with their three sons while he runs his companies from the road. This conversation covers grief, marriage, empathetic leadership, and what it actually takes to build a business that survives without you. What You'll Learn: How Matthew and Hannah built a two-question check-in that protected their marriage through six months of anticipatory grief What Noah's death revealed about the gaps in his leadership and how he rebuilt his team around them Why empathetic leadership means accepting that your employees bring their whole lives to work How a 45-day sabbatical proved whether he'd built a real business or just a high-paying job What selling their house and buying an RV had to do with a conviction about time Subscribe to The Weekly Compass, our free weekly newsletter with short practical tips for building wealth, aligning your family, and living intentionally: https://OurFamilyInvests.com/newsletter

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