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The Everyday Grief Podcast
Everyday Grief is a podcast for professionals, leaders, and caregivers navigating the unspoken grief that comes with life’s hardest changes — career transitions, layoffs, leadership shifts, relationship loss, death, and personal identity loss.
Hosted by Dr. Anitra — a grief and change-transformed leadership voice, certified executive coach, HR consultant, minister, educator, and clinically trained chaplain — this podcast blends deep expertise in grief, leadership, organizational change, and personal transformation, guided by ethics, biblical scholarship, and theology.
Here, we explore how grief shows up beyond death — and within it — in workplaces, leadership, family, and identity — and what it means to move through loss while holding onto your worth and dignity.
If you’ve ever asked:
- Who am I now that this role is gone?
- How do I lead when I’m grieving?
- How do I rebuild after a relationship ends — or after loss that changed my life?
- How do I carry a death that still lives with me?
— you belong here.
Each episode offers:
- Real conversations about workplace grief, leadership loss, identity shifts, relationship grief, and death-related loss.
- Gentle reflection to help you process grief without pressure — and without having to "move on" too fast.
- Practical strategies for navigating non-death grief, professional loss, relationship grief, and deep personal transformation — with compassion and care.
Whether you’re facing a layoff, leadership change, breakup, divorce, estrangement, death of a loved one, or a quiet loss no one sees, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Take the Grief Resilience Assessment: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments
Join the Everyday Grief Community: https://www.everydaygriefprograms.com/products/communities/everydaygriefcommunity
Because grief belongs in the conversations we have about leadership, love, loss, and life — and so do you.
The Everyday Grief Podcast
Leadership After Layoffs: Grief, Guilt & Finding Your Way Forward
You knew leadership would be challenging—but no one prepared you for this. Letting people go. Watching jobs disappear. Delivering news that changes lives. Carrying the weight of decisions that feel necessary, yet deeply personal.
If you’ve ever had to lead through layoffs, you know this isn’t just a business decision. It’s a human one. And it leaves its mark.
In this episode of Everyday Grief, Dr. Anitra invites you into a different kind of leadership conversation—one that acknowledges the grief, the guilt, and the deep responsibility that comes with layoffs. Through the unexpected wisdom of Gideon’s story, we explore:
- Why layoffs feel personal—even when they’re strategic.
- The hidden grief of leadership and how it shapes your decision-making.
- Moral injury—when doing the “right thing” still feels wrong.
- How to move from guilt and shame to moral clarity.
- A simple but powerful breathing practice to release what is not yours to carry.
- How to lead layoffs with dignity, compassion, and integrity.
This episode isn’t about corporate best practices—it’s about how to hold onto your humanity while making impossible choices. Because leadership isn’t just about strategy—it’s about how you carry it.
If you’ve ever walked away from a difficult decision and thought, "Did I do that right?"—this episode is for you.
Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Take the Grief Resilience Assessment by going here: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments/
If this episode spoke to you, please:
- Share it with another leader who may be carrying this weight alone.
- Leave a review on Apple Podcasts—it helps others find this space.
- Subscribe so you never miss a conversation that helps you lead with integrity and resilience.
Thank you for being here. Take a breath. You are not alone in this.
Want to learn more about Everyday Grief Inc. and my work?
You can visit us at everydaygriefcoach.com.
To learn more about me and why I do this work, visit everydaygriefcoach.com/about.