Ep. 119 | What Remains: How Love, Loss, and Legacy Change the Way We Live

A few weeks ago I sat behind this microphone and told you I didn't know how this story ended. I was looking for an ending, and what I got instead was another chapter. Some days it still doesn't feel real, and I'm learning that grief doesn't announce itself so much as quietly become part of your days.

Since I recorded episode 116, my father-in-law passed away. We called him Pops. He wasn't my dad biologically, but for 34 years he was my dad in every way that counted, and he kept choosing me even after a divorce reshaped our entire family. When I lost him, I wasn't saying goodbye to my father-in-law. I was saying goodbye to my dad.

So this is me being honest with you about what this season is teaching me, not from the other side of grief, because I am nowhere near the other side. I share what's holding me up right now, what I misread as failure a few weeks ago, and the question I haven't been able to put down since the day he died. If you've ever lost someone who made you feel safe simply by walking into a room, you already know why I needed to say all of this out loud.

Here's what I get into:

• The difference between retreating and disappearing, and why one of them restores you while the other quietly takes you out of your own life

• What I understand now about my Glow Up School launch that I couldn't see while I was living it, and why the timing I resented may have been the gift

• The question I'm carrying for the rest of my life, and why it has nothing to do with what you build, what you own, or what you accomplish

If you're quietly carrying something heavy right now, I hope this one reminds you that you don't have to carry it alone.

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