{"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":"What if the pain you’ve been avoiding is actually pointing you toward healing? with Alexis Leigh | EP 472","slug":"what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472","published_at":"2026-01-27T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728/what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grief-2-growth-247728","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/18571185-what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/695488/episodes/18571185-what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472.mp3","summary":"In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, Brian Smith is joined by writer and seeker Alexis Lee, author of Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, for a courageous conversation about grief, trauma, and radical self-healing. Alexis shares the moment that changed her life — hearing a voice while walking in the woods that told her her life would have been a tragedy if it ended that day. That message became the beginning of a profound journey into grief she had buried since childhood, including the l...","meta_description":"In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, Brian Smith is joined by writer and seeker Alexis Lee, author of Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, for a coura…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3894,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grief-2-growth-247728/episodes/what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472/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/what-if-the-pain-you-ve-been-avoiding-is-actually-pointing-you-toward-healing-with-alexis-leigh-ep-472.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}