💡 ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Natalie sits back down with Jessica and Elizabeth, the sisters behind the Grieving Sisters Podcast, to pick up where part one left off. This conversation goes into the parts of grief that tend to stay hidden — the shame of moving on, the guilt of laughing, the identity questions that surface when loss redefines how the world sees you and how you see yourself. Jessica and Elizabeth talk through survivor's remorse, the strange comfort of holding onto someone's things, and what it actually looks like to keep a relationship alive after someone is gone.
They also get into the grief that does not come with a death certificate — the kind that shows up when you leave a job, when a relationship ends, when you realize the version of yourself from before is just gone. Jessica and Elizabeth have built the Grieving Sisters Podcast around the belief that grief does not need to be taboo, and this episode is that belief in action. Raw, specific, and occasionally funny in the way that only people who have been through it can pull off.
🎯 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Grief hides in the smallest things. A nail polish color, a jacket in a Tupperware, a postcard in a box — the triggers are never the ones you plan for.
• Shame and grief are more tangled than people admit. Moving forward, laughing, having a good day — all of it can come with a guilt that has to be named before it can be worked through.
• Survivor's remorse is not just for disasters. Siblings, partners, friends carry it too, quietly, in the gap between their life continuing and someone else's not.
• Keeping the relationship going changes everything. Treating the connection as something that did not end with the loss is one of the most powerful reframes in grief.
• Social media is not a grief report. Someone posting a funny video the same week they cried for two hours is not a contradiction. It is survival.
• Loss reshapes your identity whether you invite it to or not. Being seen only as someone's daughter, sister, or the person who went through that thing is its own kind of grief to navigate.
• There is no right way, and the proof is everywhere. The bath water saved in a bottle, the briefcase full of junk, the coroner's report read alone in a car — grief is as specific as the person you lost.
TOPICS
LEADERSHIP & CAREER
STRATEGIC THINKING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
