{"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":"Verified Near-Death Experiences: Proof of an Afterlife with Simon Bown  | EP 479","slug":"verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479","published_at":"2026-03-10T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/18822590-verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/18822590-verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479.mp3","summary":"The materialist argument that consciousness ends with the brain has a serious problem: the evidence. In this episode, I sit down with Simon Bown — clinical hypnotherapist, past life regression guide, and author of Verified Near-Death Experiences: Proof of an Afterlife — to examine the cases that no materialist theory can explain. Simon has interviewed hundreds of NDE experiencers across more than 900 podcast episodes. His book focuses on 30 verified cases — people who witnessed real, co...","meta_description":"The materialist argument that consciousness ends with the brain has a serious problem: the evidence. In this episode, I sit down with Simon Bown — clinica…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3947,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479/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/verified-near-death-experiences-proof-of-an-afterlife-with-simon-bown-ep-479.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}