{"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":"Spirit Guides vs. Angels What's The Difference? with Michael McAdams | EP 504","slug":"spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504","published_at":"2026-09-12T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19793927-spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/19793927-spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504.mp3","summary":"What if the \"guardian angel\" you've prayed to and the \"spirit guide\" you've been told to fear are the exact same presence, just described through a different lens? In this episode, Brian sits down with Michael McAdams — a man raised in a family soaked in Pentecostal conviction who discovered he had the gift of psychometry, the ability to receive information simply by holding an object. Michael shares the story of his mother, Wilma Jean Jones, a devout Christian who sat down at her typewriter ...","meta_description":"What if the \"guardian angel\" you've prayed to and the \"spirit guide\" you've been told to fear are the exact same presence, just described through a differ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3666,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504/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/spirit-guides-vs-angels-what-s-the-difference-with-michael-mcadams-ep-504.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}