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
Becoming the Woman I Don’t Recognize Yet
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In the Season One finale of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika closes the year with a letter, not to who she was, but to who she’s becoming.
It’s a love letter to the future self, the woman still in the making, the version shaped by healing, motherhood, grief, resilience, creativity, and purpose.
It’s about identity after loss, rebuilding after life breaks open, and becoming someone you don’t recognize yet, but hope to meet.
This episode isn’t about grief as tragedy, it’s about grief as transformation.
It asks: Who do we become after the worst thing happens? Who do we become when the world forces us to grow? Who do we become when survival stops being enough?
If you’re in a season of becoming, after divorce, after loss, after heartbreak, after disappointment, or simply after a year that changed you, this episode is for you.
Season Two begins March 17th.
Until then, Erika will be sharing a new series on TikTok called The Intentional Interruption, for the moments life reroutes you, pauses you, or hands you a choice.
🧡 Stay connected:
TikTok: @by.erikahernandez
Instagram: @byerikahernandez
🎧 New episodes drop the 1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month
📬 Want to share your story or connect?
Email: byerikahernandez@gmail.com
💛 Thanks for listening. Keep choosing purpose, not pity.