{"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":441,"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":"2026-07-21T22:18:42.750042+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728"},"episode":{"title":"How Courtney Pray Duke Was Carried Forward by Faith After Being Widowed at 29 Years Old | EP 487","slug":"how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487","published_at":"2026-05-12T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19157196-how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19157196-how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487.mp3","summary":"What happens when the person you've loved since childhood is suddenly gone — and you're left at 29 with three small children and no idea how to be an adult without them? Courtney Pray Duke doesn't answer that question with easy comfort. She answers it with her life. Widowed after her husband Andrew was killed in a cycling accident, Courtney walked through the kind of loss that rewrites everything — and came out the other side not unscathed, but transformed. In this episode, Courtney and Bri...","meta_description":"What happens when the person you've loved since childhood is suddenly gone — and you're left at 29 with three small children and no idea how to be an adul…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3634,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487/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/how-courtney-pray-duke-was-carried-forward-by-faith-after-being-widowed-at-29-years-old-ep-487.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}