# The Parenting Series: Will Hunter Howell on Becoming Dad Without a Dad Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grief-gang-1198525/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-without-a-dad Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grief-gang-1198525/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-without-a-dad.md Podcast: [The Grief Gang](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grief-gang-1198525) Published: 2025-05-29T12:00:29+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thegriefgang/episodes/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-with Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/61853de864f92b00193bfaae/e/68384c5d2780b226c71431c8/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grief-gang-1198525/episodes/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-without-a-dad Duration seconds: 3111 ## Resource Welcome to the parenting without a parent series of the podcast! This topic has been one that has been widely requested throughout the years of GG and I'm finally getting round to it and can't be happier to have started this conversation with today's guest. For the first ep in this series, we're meeting Will Hunter Howell. Will is a bestselling author and the creator of The Pretty Painful Grief Book, a journal full of carefully crafted prompts to help you navigate your own grief journey. Having lost his Dad in a plane crash on his 3rd day at university, when he was just 19, this journal is the result of Will's own experiences with life after loss. An unapologetic space for you to stop pretending you're okay and start feeling it all—every raw, messy, f*cked-up emotion that comes with losing someone you love. Will shares with us in this episode what it was like for him to lose his dad at an incredibly young age and in incredibly tragic circumstances. Will walks us through his experience of becoming a Dad and the nuances it presented for him and still does. The question's we might ask ourself when it comes to our parenting styles - the styles we might pull on from our parents and the ones we leave behind. How we memorialise and tell our children about their ancestors and who they come from. Lastly, how we tend to our own grief whilst navigating becoming another human beings protector, provider and safe space. Will is so candid in this episode and I loved every minute of our chat, I hope you do too! Find and purchase Will's book via the links below: Book: Available on Amazon or  linktr.ee/prettypainfulgriefbook   Instagram @prettypainfulgriefbook TikTok @prettypainfulgriefbook ***Please forgive the slight clicky noises throughout this ep. I tried m… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grief-gang-1198525/episodes/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-without-a-dad/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grief-gang-1198525/the-parenting-series-will-hunter-howell-on-becoming-dad-without-a-dad.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.