Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact
Purpose, Not Pity: After the Impact is a podcast about rebuilding your life after loss, heartbreak, identity shifts, and unexpected change.
Hosted by Erika Hernandez, this show explores what happens when grief, divorce, career pivots, or major life disruption reshape who you are. It’s not about replaying the pain. It’s about understanding your identity after loss and learning how to move forward with intention.
If you’re navigating grief, starting over in your 30s or 40s, rebuilding confidence after a setback, or trying to find clarity in the middle of change, this space is for you.
Through grounded, emotionally intelligent conversations, you’ll find language for what you’re feeling and direction for what comes next.
Because life doesn’t stop after the impact.
You build forward.
Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact
A Letter to My Son, Two Years After
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On the second anniversary of my son Jovan’s passing, I’m opening this podcast with something deeply personal, a letter to him.
This isn’t a story told from a place of healing already found, but from the middle of it. In this episode, I take you back to the hours before he left, the silence that followed, the anger I carried, and the truth I finally allowed myself to say out loud.
You’ll hear about grief, yes. But also what it means to start over. To seek peace. To rediscover purpose, not because you’re ready, but because you have no other choice.
This letter is where my story begins. And maybe… where some of yours will begin, too.
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🎧 New episodes drop the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month
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💛 Thanks for listening. Keep choosing purpose, not pity.