Navigating Widowhood: Wisdom from Donna Kendrick
Featured on My Perfect Failure • November 12, 2023 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5V3aEGPqBt2RxqIbA98WJy?si=zNbDyUnqRVmHjwopyaU2dw In a deeply inspiring episode of My Perfect Failure, host Paul Padmore welcomes Donna Kendrick—a widow who turned her...
Turning Widowhood Into Wisdom & Wealth: My Journey on the Widow 180 Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDx1jOq2LCw Insights, lessons, and practical steps from my heartfelt conversation with Jen Zwinck Recently, I had the privilege of joining Jen Zwinck on her Widow 180 podcast (Episode 159) to talk about the moment my world changed, the...
Grief and Finances: Rebuilding After Loss
When life changes in an instant, there’s no playbook. I know this because I’ve lived it. When my husband passed away suddenly, I was thrown into a new reality—not just emotionally, but financially. I was a mom, a widow, and overnight, I became the sole decision-maker...
From Sudden Loss to Purpose: What I Learned About Strength, Support, and Starting Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUebqbo6fc0 When my husband died by suicide, my world shattered. I wasn’t prepared. I didn’t have a roadmap for what to do next, how to talk to my kids, or even how to keep the lights on in the house. Everything I thought I knew about...
Good Grief with Cheryl Espinosa Jones
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5gszpJRFQonoaGBpqc2CnP?si=IDR5wgNXRGmMigdJ65b3Hg Grief has a way of reshaping everything—especially the plans we thought were set in stone. On a recent episode of Good Grief with Cheryl Espinosa Jones, financial professional and author...
Facing Finances After Loss: My Conversation on The Rabbi’s Widow Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2z5gcxPknnAD06ydvf4PfG?si=1XJAj5YXQkuKgZb-JIHS5Q I had the privilege of being featured on The Rabbi’s Widow podcast—Episode 31—for a heartfelt and honest conversation about widowhood and financial planning. As a Certified Financial...
Navigating Finances Through Widowhood: Finding Purpose in the Unthinkable
As featured on "Grief, Gratitude and the Gray in Between" with Kendra Rinaldi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1agFx-MlCY When the unexpected happens—when life divides into the “before” and “after”—you don’t get a manual. You’re handed the weight of loss, a sea of...
Life After Loss: The Financial Journey No One Prepares You For
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2kajpQ1ShmNA36z2BQOdqz?si=-zi88oHiTSeAh-YoONF8Og When my husband Greg passed away suddenly in November 2013, I wasn’t prepared. No one is. One moment we were living our busy, beautiful life—raising kids, building a future—and the next,...
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