Filled With Gold Widow Podcast

This week's Filled With Gold Widow Podcast is a short one - a holiday message from Melissa and an announcement!

Hear about what's upcoming in the new year and a powerful message on self-care.

You are worthy of being taken care of.

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On this week’s Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, Rachel Kodanaz and I talk about navigating grief in the workplace.

Rachel is a heart-minded professional specializing in current and relevant approaches in support of individuals and workplaces following a loss or trauma. She is a best-selling author, seasoned keynote speaker, and business consultant.

She has served on many grief-related boards of directors and has published numerous articles, blogs, podcasts, and has appeared on Good Morning America. Her books include best-selling Living with Loss One Day at a Time, Finding Peace, One Piece at a Time:  What to do with your and a loved one’s personal possessions and Grief in the Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide for Being Prepared.

She lives a healthy lifestyle in Colorado pursuing physical adventures including the Hawaiian Ironman and providing emergency medical technician (EMT) services to the community.

 Listen in to our discussion about: 

- Rachel’s widow story

- Working in corporate, grieving, and soloparenting her young daughter

- Her mission to support grievers and those supporting them in the workplace

- Bereavement policies are made to be broken!

- Self-advocacy and compassion in the workplace

Links:

website: www.rachelkodanaz.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LivingWithLossOneDayAtATime

Linkedin: Rachel Kodanaz  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkodanaz/

Instagram: rkodanaz

Twitter: @rachelkodanaz

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Hi Filled With Gold Widow Podcast listeners! I met Debra Morrison 10 years ago and after that meeting I had a little spark of hope that changed my life and the lives of my kids. 

Debra is an international transformational speaker, retired from 42-yrs. Practicing Fiduciary Financial Planning & Asset Management as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. She now serves women as a Financial Coach in her new company, Women Navigating Finances.  

After giving pro bono financial planning and asset management service to 8 widows, 1 widow and a 12-yr old orphan after the 9/11 tragedy, Debra obtained her Grief Coach Certification. She dovetailed financial and grief recovery coaching into her Amazon best selling book, My Husband Died Now What? A Widow’s Guide to Grief Recovery & Smart Financial Decisions.

She coaches women to be intentional about living and smelling the flowers, knowing first-hand that life is not a dress rehearsal. Listen in to our lively discussion about: 

- Processing emotions and reasoning

- Living in the land of possibility

- Making mistakes and recovering from them

- “What Next?!” to “What’s next?”

- Putting energy towards the future

"When we pay attention to our money…it pays us back.” - Debra Morrison

Links:

Free Gift - My Husband Died, Now What?

https://womennavigatingfinances.com/widows/

 Debra Morrison TEDx talk - Feel The Financial Fear & Do It Anyway:

www.DebrasTEDxTalk.com

Widow Empowerment by Debra L Morrison:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/811657682236461

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debralmorrison/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debralmorrison/

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Paula Harris and I covered a lot of ground this week on the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast!

Paula is part-financial-advisor and part-dream-architect, who takes great pride in helping her clients, particularly widowed women, obtain financial peace of mind while they get back on their feet, rise up and navigate their path forward. Paula is an engaging speaker and author of “Rise Up: A Widow’s Journal”. She enjoys assisting people in the life planning that goes hand-in-hand with financial planning and is the creator of Rise Up Success Training and Retreats. 

Listen in as we talk about:

- Supporting widows with their finances

- The inspiration for publishing the Rise Up Widow’s Journal

- All the free resources available to widows on her website

- Wisdom Wednesdays

- Do fish clap?

Links:

https://twitter.com/WHCornerstone

https://www.linkedin.com/company/wh-cornerstone-investments/

https://www.facebook.com/WHCornerstone

https://www.instagram.com/whcornerstone/

https://twitter.com/PaulaHarris

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulaharris/

https://www.instagram.com/wisezena/

Wisdom Wednesday | Paula’s ponderings, positivity, prayer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-eZuCUQOPHJBCX-n_M9nNQ

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I had a great conversation with Amanda Ferrat this week on the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast!

Amanda is the founder of Value Yourself Counseling, a certified emotional wellness counselor, Advanced EFT Practitioner, and professional speaker.

She uses her education, experience, skills, intuition, and passion to help other women make peace with their past, fall in love with their present, and get excited about their future. Amanda believes all women navigate difficulties and barriers in their lives and deserve to find safer, braver spaces that empower them to discover and embody their inner badass selves and live life in alignment with their core values and needs, free from guilt and shame.

Amanda shares how Emotional Freedom Technique EFT tapping can be a beautiful tool for honoring and moving through our emotions & for processing and honoring grief.

EFT tapping also helps with rewriting old stories and patterns as well as supporting you in manifesting your future.  Listen in!

Links:

https://campsite.bio/vyc

https://instagram.com/valueyourselfcounseling

https://petastapleton.com/the-science-behind-tapping/

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On this week’s Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, we’re chatting with Krista St-Germain.  

Krista is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too.

Listen in as we talk about:

- Feeling stuck - when you know more is possible, but you don’t know how to do it

- Coaching widowed moms through the grief plateau 

- Making space for the good to come through

- Post-traumatic growth

- Using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping in her coaching practice

Links:

https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lifecoachkrista/

https://www.facebook.com/coachingwithkrista/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-widowed-mom-podcast/id1468127632

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This week's Filled With Gold Widow Podcast guest is Emma Payne.  Emma is the Founder & CEO of Grief Coach.

Grief Coach combines Emma's passion for mobile technology and engagement, with her deep commitment to giving people the confidence and tools they need to support each other through grief. She knows that, while nothing makes grief go away, supporting someone through loss is powerful and transformative for the supporter, and alters the trajectory for the grieving person too.

Listen in as we talk about:

- Emma’s inspiration on combining tech with grief

- Creating a thoughtful and practical gift for grievers

- How Grief.Coach coaches those in grief and their supporters

- What Emma does to take care of herself

- Good advice to grief supporters

If you would like personalized caring support from Grief Coach, please check out grief.coach/filledwithgold for $10 off a full year of grief support - because no one should grieve alone. 

Instagram: @grief.coach

Twitter: mygriefcoach

Facebook: mygriefcoach

Linkedin: griefcoach

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Our guest this week on the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast is Bevin Farrand. In 2019, after unexpectedly losing her husband, Mark, 5 days after they returned from a whirlwind trip to France, Bevin founded the Take the DAMN Trip movement. Her DAMN framework has inspired hundreds to connect with the people that they love, do the “crazy thing” that makes all the difference and, when given a choice, to take the damn trip.  Additionally, she is a business strategist and coach who supports small businesses and entrepreneurs in developing and executing strategies to take their revenue to 6- and 7-figures. 

Bevin is passionate about sharing this message with the world, bringing real-life stories of inspirational people who have taken the leap and done the “crazy” thing that makes all the difference in their lives. And supporting YOU to do the same.

Bevin’s most recent “trip” is deciding to Have the DAMN Baby! She and Mark were about 60 days away from starting IVF to have their third kiddo. In 2020, Bevin decided to move forward with IVF with the embryos they had frozen. She recently gave birth to a beautiful little girl who joined their 4 year old daughter and 2 year old son to make the family complete.

Listen in as Bevin and I talk about:

- The best advice she got from her dad

- Her whirlwind romance with Mark

- Applying the DAMN Framework to her life after Mark’s death

- Bringing her big, bold, “crazy” dreams to life with the DAMN Framework:

D - Decide and Declare

A - Attend Your Own Party

M - Meaningful Moments (moments, not minutes)

N - Now is the Time!

“We’re not promised tomorrow. Take the DAMN trip!”

- Bevin Farrand

WEBSITE: www.takethedamntrip.com 

FACEBOOK GROUP:www.facebook.com/groups/takethedamntrip

INSTAGRAM: @bevinfarrand

Free Guided Meditation: www.collaborate.work/just-one-damn-minute-opt-in

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What happens when two widow podcasters get together? You’ll find out on this week’s Filled With Gold Widow Podcast as I talk with Jen Zwinck of Widow 180!

Jen Zwinck is the founder and host of Widow 180: The Podcast and Widow 180: The Channel. 

In 2011, her husband was walking home from a bachelor party when he was attacked, robbed, and killed. Jen instantly became a young widow, left to raise their two-year-old daughter alone.

Overcome with grief and anxiety over the loss, Jen chose her own unique path to heal. She packed 4 suitcases and moved with her daughter to a tiny island in the Caribbean where she knew no one.  The years she spent on the island gave her the time to process the loss and rebuild her own strength and courage to move forward.

Jen believes that every widow has the capacity to endure, the power to overcome, and the determination to create a new life with meaning and purpose.

That’s how Widow 180: The Podcast came to be. It’s a show about turning tragedy, loss, and fear into strength, creativity, and a new passion for life.  Each week a different widow is interviewed to share her story of loss, how she coped, and how she has taken the lessons she’s learned and used them to transform and grow. 

Jen’s mission through the podcast, the YouTube Channel, blog posts, coaching and speaking is to arm other widows with powerful stories of transformation and knowledge so that they can navigate life after loss. 

Her newest online program is called Dating After Loss: A 4 Step WISH Program For Widows And Widowers Looking to Find Love Again. She helps widows and widowers overcome the overwhelm of getting back into the dating scene after losing their spouse!

Jen remarried in 2017. She and her husband Doug welcomed a new baby girl, Penelope, in 2018. They are enjoying a fun and crazy life as a family of four, in a new house in South Louisiana!

“Widowed moms...we figure out how to make things happen (for our kids).”

-Jen Zwinck

www.widow180.com

https://www.instagram.com/widow_180/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/312036956454927

Dating After Loss: A 4 Step Program For Widows & Widowers Looking To Find Love Again

www.widow180.com/courses

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Are you ready to “tune” yourself towards joy? On this week’s Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, I talk with Carole Marie Downing who is a heart-centered coach, songleader, and facilitator passionate about creating resilience through challenging times. 

She holds a Nursing Doctorate from the University of Colorado and as a nurse provided care in the areas of hospice, integrative medicine, and nursing education. She transitioned to coaching after receiving a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology with an emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing.

She uses both her professional background and personal experience to gently support clients to thrive again after loss and major life transitions. As a community songleader and music guide, she integrates singing into her work and supports both individuals and groups to utilize the transformational and healing aspects of song. 

​Carole lives in Portland, Oregon and loves hot cups of tea, making music, going barefoot in the sand, and spending time outdoors with her son and their dog, Alta.

Listen in as Carole and I chat about:

✓ experiencing love at first sight in Alaska with her husband, Michael

✓ Michael’s colon cancer diagnosis

✓ the rawness, anxiety & vulnerability of grieving her husband’s death 

✓ listening to that little voice telling her to sing, play guitar & ukulele

✓ is it possible to play a sad song on the ukulele and not feel uplifted?

✓ the jungle trip that shifted her from overwhelm to hope

✓ writing her book, Singing Beyond Sorry, from inside her grief

I was scared, overwhelmed, anxious, and unsure. But my son was ahead of me, flying through the jungle, and I had no choice but to leave the ground behind and step into the air below. Turns out I flew.

-Carole Marie Downing

Join Carole in a virtual community song circle simply for the joy of singing! All voices welcome! 1st Sunday of the month, 6:30 Pacific Time

Website: https://www.tunetojoy.com

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/TunetoJoy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tunetojoymusic/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carole-marie-downing-a03b8538/

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On this episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, we sit down with Lysandra Vander Hart. Lysandra is a widow, holistic dietitian, and mother of two little girls who have fueled her quest for a safe home environment for her family and everyone she meets. As her young family has been forever touched by cancer and with more than 80,000 new chemicals introduced since WWII - only 200 of which have been tested on humans and approximately 11 banned in the US - she is grateful to be able to share simple solutions to stock homes with safe products and is passionate about sharing ways to live more holistically with family, friends and new people! 

Lysandra highly values education with a Holistic Health Certificate, two Graduate Degrees, and maintaining her Dietitian Credential - the more we know, the better we can do! Everyone deserves access to the facts in order to make informed decisions for their families. Her goal is to be a clean-living resource and advocate to help others realize that they can make a difference in their own environments and it all starts at home.   

Listen in as we talk about:

✓ Lysandra becoming a young widow in her 30’s with 2 babies after the death of her husband from colon cancer

✓ Creating her Safe Cancer Totes out of necessity

✓ Her self-care practice of sweating, grieving & crying in hot yoga

✓ Jack Johnson on the grief soundtrack

“It’s hard...and there’s no need to put up a front. There’s no need to hold back tears.”

- Lysandra Vander Hart

Website: http://www.cleanlivinginfo.com

FB: facebook.com/wellnessdietitian

IG: @lysandra_hart

Email: cleanlivingcontact@gmail.com

Website: lysandravanderhart.norwex.biz

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This week we chat with Sheila Hoover on the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast! Sheila has a Ph.D. in Adult Education and 20 years of experience in academia as an education specialist making information accessible in creative and engaging ways. She wrote the book "Helping Through Heartache: An Easy Guide to Supporting Anyone Who is Grieving" in the years after the death of her husband. After experiencing what she describes as a confusing mashup of people's reactions, she realized that many people have no idea how to help someone who is profoundly grieving.  

Given her background in education, she set out to write an informative and user-friendly guide. Unlike most grief resources that focus on the bereaved, this book was written for those who are helping the bereaved. This book is also unique because it's intended to be fun to read - it pairs each tip with a cat cartoon, featuring the Sad Cat as the grieving person, and their Cat friends.  

The content in the book is based on Sheila's own research, connections with others who have experienced profound loss, support groups & organizations, and direct experience in the aftermath of losing her husband, parents, and close friends. She has also trained as an end-of-life doula.

Listen in as we talk about:

- The sudden (and not so sudden) death of her husband, Wes, in 2017

- Happy therapy

- Sheila’s book for grief supporters (Yes!!)

- Sad Cat & Cat Friend cartoons can make it all better

- Our Widow Radar - instantly understanding other widows

“(I knew) Wes would want me to be happy...so that helped keep me in the game.”

- Sheila Hoover

Get Sheila’s book "Helping Through Heartache: An Easy Guide to Supporting Anyone Who is Grieving" on Amazon. 

Website:  helpingthroughheartache.com

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Finding true love again after being widowed can be really scary business. Barbara Kenyon knows a thing or two about that. After being married for nine years to the love of her life, and four months after the birth of their first child, Barbara's husband died from pancreatic cancer.  

Five years after being widowed, Barbara married the new love of her life. And, for the last 25+ years she has been joyfully helping widows gain great clarity about what they REALLY want for their life, learn how to love themselves first, and discover how to find a new relationship where they will feel understood, valued, special, safe, and loved. Barbara does this through zoom presentations, workshops, and individual coaching.  

And on this week’s episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, we talk about:

- Being the CEO of your own Universe!

- The steps of her dating process (we got through a few!)

- Creating the life you really want to have

- Getting to a place of confidence in dating

“If every morning you get up and reboot the hard drive of your brain and remind yourself of all the gifts that you possess and all the beauty that’s inside you...it’s not a bad life.”

- Barbara Kenyon

Schedule your FREE Breakthrough Call with Barbara at (352) 633-1377, by email at Barbara@Kenyoncoaching.com. 

Website:  www.WidowsDatingCoach.com

Facebook: widowsdatingcoach

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Did you ever wish you had a guide to support and help you through “all things widow”? Well, Kim Murray wrote it!

Kim Murray is the creator of the popular website Widow 411, which offers information and resources on topics like grief, finances, relationships, and self-care for widows on a quest to make widowhood suck a little less. Kim also created the online course, The Ultimate Survival Guide for Widows, with detailed instructions, worksheets and checklists to help widows tackle the crushing list of to-do’s after their spouse dies.

And on this week’s episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, we talk about:

- Dealing with her husband Mark’s diagnosis of terminal brain cancer and his death in 2014

- The overwhelm of caregiving, solo-parenting, taking over Mark’s business and literally running away from grief

- How Kim made herself move through grief after it caught up with her

- Healing through serving others with Widow 411

“It’s OK to be sad, it sounds simple...and it’s anything but.”

- Kim Murray

Website:  www.widow411.com

Use code GOLD20 to take 20% off The Ultimate Survival Guide For Widows online course or anything else in the Widow 411 store!

Instagram:  www.instagram.com/widow411/

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/widow411

Medium: medium.com/@widow411

Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/widow411/

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On this week’s episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast, Melissa interviews Jenny Lisk.  Jenny is a bestselling author and widowed mom who is dedicated to helping widowed parents increase their family's well-being.

In her book, Future Widow, Jenny draws on her personal and professional experience to provide a real-life guide for surviving and thriving while raising grieving children.

Her show, The Widowed Parent Podcast, draws on over 100 interviews with experts, seasoned widowed parents, and people who lost a parent at a young age. It brings much-needed resources to widowed parents, helping them feel less lost and alone.

In this episode, Jenny shares about:

-Learning to advocate for her husband, Dennis, as he is living with glioblastoma 

-Her life as Dennis’ caregiver for 8 months, then eventual widow parenthood

-CaringBridge (blog for medical journeys) and its role in Jenny’s award-winning book, Future Widow

-Jenny’s self-care practices and suggestions to support widows with moving forward

-Another book might be in the works!

“The book didn’t end when he died, because that’s not the end of my story.”

- Jenny Lisk

Web site: jennylisk.com or widowedparentpodcast.com

Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice: futurewidowbook.com

Instagram:  @liskjenny

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/liskjenny

Links

Camp Widow

https://campwidow.org/

CaringBridge

https://www.caringbridge.org

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Special guest, Rob Kenney, joins the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast! Rob started his “Dad, How Do I?” YouTube channel in April 2020. He thought he would help 30 or 40 people learn some basic skills. A month and a half later his channel went viral and quickly grew to over 1 million subscribers. Now, a year later, he has over 3 million subscribers watching his wholesome “how to” videos.  

Such a fantastic resource for those widows who are solo parenting out there so listen in as Rob and I talk about:

- Rob’s dad leaving the family when he was 14 and being raised by his older brother

- His “Dad, How Do I?” YouTube channel grew out of Rob’s desire to be a good dad to his kids

- How these videos can bring up the emotions of grieving the person who is no longer there

- Rob’s self-care formula (T-A-K-E):

be TRUE to yourself

don’t get AHEAD of  yourself

be KIND to yourself

ENJOY the ride

- Creating his book Dad, How Do I? Practical “Dadvice” for Everyday Tasks and Successful Living

- Wrapping it up with a couple of dad jokes!

Links

www.harpercollins.com/products/dad-how-do-i

https://www.instagram.com/dadhowdoi/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/dadhowdoi

https://www.facebook.com/dadhowdoi/

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Linda Shanti McCabe and I had a very heartfelt and hopeful conversation about our widow and solo-parenting experiences.  Linda is a licensed clinical psychologist, recovery coach, artist, author, imperfect mom, widow and person travelling with grief.  She has been passionate about helping women recover from eating disorders for the past 20 years, and now, helping grievers move forward.  

Listen in and find out about:

-What’s up with the long list of Disney movies where the parent dies?!

-Linda’s self-care practices = art, movement (it’s easier to cry when moving!), music, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping

-Discovering who you are now and being who you are

-Letting go of WOPT (What Other People Think)!

-Helpful authors and books (see links below)

“It doesn’t matter what you do with your ring or with any item that connects you with your loved one other than what you decide to do.  Follow your inner guidance.”

- Linda Shanti McCabe

Links

www.DrLindaShanti.com

Book:

https://www.drlindashanti.com/recovery-book

Instagram: @griefandart

https://www.instagram.com/griefandart/?hl=en

FB:  "Recoverymama"

https://www.facebook.com/recoverymama/?ref=bookmarks

Carole Brody Fleet: 

www.widowswearstilettos.com/

David Kessler:

www.grief.com

Nora McInerny:

www.hotyoungwidowsclub.com

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Autumn Toelle-Jackson is the award-winning author of Boldly into the Darkness: Living with Loss, Growing with Grief & Holding onto Happiness. She has lived a life of love and loss, filled with happiness and marked by tragedy.

Labels are too simple, but they do have meaning and they do tell part of her story: wife, widow, mother, survivor. The loss of a husband, a beloved cousin and mentor, her daughter, and miscarriages have left scars on her soul and memorial tattoos on her body, but Autumn learned to grow through it all. She found love and reasons to get up each day until those days strung into weeks, then months, then years.  Autumn and her family created Growing with Grief to provide those who are grieving with a place to find community, resources, and help.

In this episode we cover:

• The death of Autumn’s husband, Joe, of unknown natural causes at the age of 30. 
• Autumn became a young widow overnight with a 2 week old and almost 3 year old 
• She gained clarity and confidence working with a transformative coach
• That first laugh after the death of your spouse - so strange…
• Marrying her friend & love, Kyle
• Autumn’s grief experience after Joe’s death helped her process the death of her & Kyle’s baby, Riley
• Kintsugi - taking something shattered and fusing your soul & heart back together into something beautiful and loved

“Rather than spending weeks and months exhausting yourself and running from emotions, when you feel them you sit with them and let them happen.  You’ll have a lot more energy...and room to breathe.”

-Autumn Toelle-Jackson

Links:

www.Growingwithgrief.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GrowingWithGrief

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/growingwithgrief/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/growwithgrief

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On this episode of the Filled With Gold Widow Podcast I get to sit down and chat with Mel Shore! Mel is a woman and widow of many talents! She is a professional pianist, producer, and composer, a young widow, co-creator of the podcast, Widow We Do Now? & The Widow Wives Club online support group, and is creator of the Drömkatt healing music YouTube channel, specifically customized for grievers. 

Mel is also a certified life coach, dog agility enthusiast, and black diamond skier, and her passions include helping others gain confidence to fulfill their highest potential. 

We covered a lot of ground in this episode, like:

- How Mel & Scott met (pianist + theater director = “this feels like home”)

- Scott’s death almost 2 years after they married

- Gigging with Chuck Berry

- Trauma, PTSD, ADHD, traumatic brain injuries

- Widow stuff is hard!

- Mel’s self-care practices (which might include bathtub nachos!)

- What’s next for Mel?

“Now that I know I have PTSD and I have this trauma...I should be able to catch it and nip it in the bud, but I know that’s not true. I know I have to do the thought work to not judge it.”

- Mel Shore

Links

IG: @melanieshoremusic

FB: www.facebook.com/melanieshoremusic

Youtube (Mel’s jazz piano channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0NQ2Ej8bthJvSa-4jp3OA

Youtube (Drömkatt healing music): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL1WrSiQGVw2qavRi_7BlQA

Widow We Do Now? Podcast & Widow Wives Club

https://widowwedonow.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/widowwivesclub/

Tillamook Cheese Factory

https://www.tillamook.com/

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Listen in as Carrie and I cover a lot of ground together.  Listen in and find out about:

- How Carrie & Danny met - the exchange of pager numbers, their love of country music

- Danny and his brother Tommy were NY firefighters on 9/11

- Danny’s physical and emotional trauma from working at Ground Zero

- Carrie’s incredibly unique perspective as a widow and a funeral director

- Gilda’s Club was a huge help to Carrie & her kids - supports families with a cancer diagnosis/death

- The chaos of grieving, working, parenting during Covid & delayed grieving after the quarantine

- Self-care in widowhood = yoga, wine, cheese & tennis (not all at the same time though)

“Accept the help. If someone is offering you help, take the help.”

- Carrie Foley

Links

instagram: carriefoley6

facebook: Carrie Benedict Foley

twitter: @CarrieBFoley6

LinkedIn: Carrie Foley

www.westchesterfuneralhome.com

Instagram: westchesterfuneralhome

Facebook: Westchester Funeral Home, Inc. 

https://gildasclubnyc.org

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