Brian D Smith is a life coach and grief counsellor, and the host of Grief 2 Growth Podcast. " After 57 years of experience and almost that much time helping and leading people informally, I decided to make it official, obtain my life coaching certification, and seek to help people more formally. I&rsquo've had a career as an engineer, incorporate tech sales, and as a small business owner of a business I built from the ground up. I&rsquo've raised two children. I&rsquo've experienced the death of a child. I&rsquo've been married for nearly thirty years. More importantly, I have a passion for helping people. Grief 2 Growth is a natural progression of my time on this planet." explains Brian.
Listen to the song I wrote after being inspired by my conversation with Brian called Grief 2 Growth and all the other Podsongs
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
GRIEF 2 GROWTH
Everyone you know
One day will go
Through the initiation of death
You’re left with grief
But it’s not an emotion
It’s a myriad of feelings that flow
Now whether you grieve for them
Or they grieve for you
Depends upon who’s leaving who
But really you know
There’s nowhere they go
They’re just here in a different way
So go from grief to growth
Be planted not buried
Willing and ready
For the next time around
Grief’s not an illness
We grieve cos we love
And we go through it time and again
You say the deeper the love
The deeper the mourning
But how are you honouring them?
They’re not the same
You’ll never be again
But be version 2.0
Happiness is fleeting
Wealth is deceiving
Fulfilment is what you should flow
So go from grief to growth
Be planted not buried
Willing and ready
For the next time around
So go from grief to growth
Be planted not buried
Willing and ready
For the next time around