{"podcast":{"title":"Grief 2 Growth","slug":"grief-2-growth-247728","podcast_index_feed_id":247728,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/695488.rss","website_url":"https://www.grief2growth.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/oe4m0s9pi20ofimsywxiqw00b4jt?.jpg","author":"Brian D. Smith","episode_count":451,"summary":"\"Transform your grief into growth with Brian Smith, an empathetic life coach, certified grief educator, public speaker, and author who has walked the treacherous path of profound loss. Grief 2 Growth unravels the intricacies of life, death, and the spaces in between, offering listeners a new perspective on what it means to be 'Planted. Not Buried.' Join Brian and his compelling guests—bereaved parents, life coaches, mediums, healers, near death experiencers, and experts in various fields—as they discuss topics like survival guilt, synchronicities, and the scientific evidence supporting the existence of the afterlife. You'll come away with actionable advice, renewed hope, and the comforting knowledge that love and life are eternal. One of the most powerful ways we know what awaits us and where we came from is Near Death Experiences. Much of Brian's knowledge is derived from extensive study of this phenomenon, along with interviewing dozens of near death experience experiencers. Brian knows the soul-crushing weight of loss; his journey began with the sudden passing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Shayna. It's not an odyssey he would have chosen, but it has been an odyssey that has…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T14:22:27.743778+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728"},"episode":{"title":"Grieving Your Old Self After A Diagnosis with Loni Fagel | EP 505","slug":"grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505","published_at":"2026-09-15T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19809372-grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19809372-grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505.mp3","summary":"What happens when the person you used to be doesn't exist anymore — not because they died, but because a diagnosis, a surgery, or a health crisis rewrote who you are? In this episode, Loni Fagel joins me to talk about a grief almost nobody names: the grief of losing yourself while you're still here. Loni knows this from both sides of the therapy room. A genetic cancer mutation, a mysterious chronic illness, and a health crisis that landed her at Mayo Clinic didn't just interrupt her graduat...","meta_description":"What happens when the person you used to be doesn't exist anymore — not because they died, but because a diagnosis, a surgery, or a health crisis rewrote…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3854,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/grieving-your-old-self-after-a-diagnosis-with-loni-fagel-ep-505.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}