Charlene Lam is a certified grief coach, speaker, and founder of The Grief Gallery. After her mother died suddenly in 2013, Charlene leaned into her creativity and instincts as a curator to guide herself through grief. In her interview for The Apologies Podcast, Charlene shares how she developed her Curating Grief framework and discusses how she now uses it to help others.

Meghan Riordan Jarvis is a psychotherapist, two-time Tedx Speaker, and host of the podcast Grief is my Side Hustle. She’s also the author of the memoir, End of the Hour. In the book, Meghan, a trauma therapist, shares her own experience with PTSD after her mother’s sudden death, just two years after her father died from cancer. Ultimately, Meghan checked herself into the same in-patient facility where she sends her most difficult cases, and reemerged inspired to teach and speak in public platforms about the importance of creating a more grief informed culture. Founder of MRJ Consulting, her team consults regularly with fortune 500 companies to address the many ways grief impacts the workplace.

In this episode of The Apologies Podcast, Meghan talks with me about her new book End of the Hour: A Therapist’s Memoir and shares what happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized.

Chuck Eastman reflects on his 20 years in the military and shares how he’s found an unexpected sense of purpose working for the org Stop Soldier Suicide.

Caleb Abrams shares how he went from fine artist to filmmaker and, ultimately, became a steward of Seneca history and culture.

Evelyn Wald is an ordained Lutheran minister, a trained divorce and custody mediator and a restorative justice advocate.She shares how experiencing a season of loss in her twenties shaped her life and career.