Grief Is My Side Hustle

Ep. 40 Author Bethany Harvey: Dipped In It

Bethany Harvey is a debut memoirist whose book, Dipped In It, reached the best seller list on both Barnes & Noble and Amazon when released in July of this year. Dipped In It came to life when Bethany’s "gratitude journaling" went awry. In Dipped In It, Bethany’s daily reflections during a period of deep grief explore the question, “Can gratitude and grief coexist?”  The answer is a resounding yes, as Bethany learns that we can rage, weep, belly laugh, and ache over the beauty and fragility of life—all in one day, hour, or moment. It all gets to belong. 

 

Bethany is a deep thinker and feeler, the mother of two inspiring children, and the owner of a much sought after childcare center in her home State of Rhode Island. 

Ep. 39. Laura Parrott Perry

Author and truth-teller Laura Parrott Perry joins Meghan on the podcast to discuss grief, sobriety, the legacy of sexual abuse, and the power of telling and owning your story.

 

Join us

 

https://lauraparrottperry.com

Ep. 38. Rebekah Jacobs: My Father Ran a Ponzi scheme.

Join me as I talk with Rebekah Jacobs about surviving the destructive force that was her father who ran a Ponzi scheme and swindled friends and family and left her and her mother and brother financially and emotional bereft before landing himself in jail for fifteen years. You won't want to miss the discussion.

 

Rebekah Jacobs is a writer, reading specialist, and book reviewer.  She lives outside of DC with her hubby, 3 kiddos (a teen, a tween, and a preschooler), plus a pandemic puppy. 

 

 

Rebekah's article:

https://www.kveller.com/like-bernie-madoff-my-dad-ran-a-ponzi-scheme-heres-why-we-shouldnt-mourn-their-deaths/

 

Notes to us from Rebekah!

 

Books we discussed during the episode: (that I can remember off the top of my head):

 

Knock At Midnight

Inheritance

Wild Game

Somebody's Daughter    

The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone in Between  

 

Other amazing memoirs about narcissists and/or embezzlers that I have read (and may help readers who have have experienced disenfranchised grief- )

 

Duped 

Nowhere Girl 

The Sociopath Next Door

The End of Normal (Mark Madoff's wife) 

The Survivors 

 

Books about parents in jail for kids (that I wish I had)

From the Desk of Zoe Washington

The Paris Project

Milo Imagines the World (a picture book)

Ep. 37. Diana Kupershmit: A mother‘s grief-special needs and child loss.

Author of the memoir Emma's Laugh: The Gift of Second Chances, Diana Kupershmit takes us into the life of a mother struggling to accept and care for her daughter with special needs.

A Diana Kupershmit holds a Master of Social Work degree and works for the Department of Health in the Early Intervention program, a federal entitlement program servicing children birth to three with developmental delays and disabilities. She has published online in the Manifest Station, Power of Moms, Motherwell Magazine, Still Standing Magazine, and Her View From Home. On the weekends, she indulges her creative passion working as a portrait photographer specializing in newborn, family, maternity, and event photography. She lives in New York City with her family.

 

http://www.dianakupershmit.com

Ep 36. Barri Grant: Grief Coach and Creator of the Memory Circle

Barri Leiner Grant certified Grief Coach and Creator of the Memory Circle shares her experience with her beloved mother, Ellen Jane's death in 1993 and her "calling" to grief work.

 

Links from today's episode:

https://thememorycircle.com/about

https://live-evermore.org

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/01/11/life-death-and-rabbi-leder-the-beauty-of-what-remains/?sh=4441ab50754b

 

Ep. 35. Cheryl Jones: Good Grief Podcast Host, counselor and grief educator

Cheryl lets us into her world of loss as a clinician, podcast host, author, and bereaved spouse.  Cheryl's first wife died over two decades ago when her daughters were 14 and two.  She shares with us her personal experience, clinical knowledge, humor, and deep commitment to joy.

Also, we talk about my favorite grief movie, "Truly, Madly, Deeply."

Join us.

 

Cheryl Jones is a grief counselor, educator, and host of Good Grief, a podcast about transformation after loss. She is also the author of a novel, An Ocean Between Them. Cheryl’s work is informed by the ten years of her first wife’s life-limiting illness. Expected to live six months to a year, she lived with cancer for almost a decade. In the losses Cheryl has experienced since then she has been grateful for what she learned about facing loss and finding greater meaning in her life as a result. Cheryl lives in Oakland with her second wife and is grateful for three children, 3 grandchildren, and the wonder of living!

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-grief-with-cheryl-jones/id761218884

Ep. 34. Double Parent Loss: with Counselor David Pope

David Pope has struggled with depression anxiety and suicidal ideation for most of his life and his battles with mental illness began at six years old.

He was relentlessly bullied throughout primary and secondary school and suffered a double bereavement when he was 25 years old, losing both his parents within a year of each other.

His constant battles with depression and anxiety fuelled his quest to find daily coping mechanisms and strategies to combat his mental illness. 

He subsequently became a private counselor specializing in bereavement, depression, and anxiety and he currently counsels clients over zoom and face-to-face.

David is passionate about sharing physical and cognitive techniques to deal with mental illness and launched an online video course called Depression A New Hope. He also has a guided meditation podcast. The website is healyourgrief.co.uk

 

Ep. 33 Rachel Levy Lesser: Author of Life‘s Accessories and Host of Blaze Baking with Rach

18 years after the death of her mother, author, baker, and all-round lovely human Rachel Levy Lesser joins the podcast to talk about living with loss over time and the ways in which she honors but does not dwell in her mother's death.

https://rachellevylesser.com

Ep. 32. Author Jessica Kantrowitz: Writing through and With Depression

Jessica Kantrowitz is the author of three books, The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression, 365 Days of Peace, and Blessings for the Long Night: Poems and Meditations to Help You through Depression. Her writing has appeared in Sojourners Magazine, The Good Men Project, and the Madeleine L’Engle blog, and she has worked as a storyteller for Together Rising. She also has many years of experience as an editor helping people convey their thoughts clearly and concisely.

 

website for the workshop is workshops.jessicakantrowitz.com.

 

Book I couldn't remember the name of and butchered the author's name:

https://www.marcbrackett.com

Ep. 31 Helkin Berg: The Loneliness of Leadership

Tech CEO Helkin Berg Talks to Meghan about what it's like to ascend to the top ranks in a field dominated by men.  Helkin talks about the challenge of feeling isolated as a leader, further isolated as a woman and the difficulty of trying to be an agent of change to get a wider diversity of voices at the table.