“Every week on New Day, we’ll find one new way to make life a little better. So many of us are suffering in silence. Maybe you’re successful but miserable at work. Perhaps you have the perfect family on Instagram, but you’re at each other’s throats IRL. Maybe you can’t even put your finger on what feels weird – but you know you deserve more. Whatever it is, you’re not alone.”

Conversations with change-catalysts, culture-shifters, and more than a few troublemakers who are innovating, creating, and daring to lead.

“On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.”

Terrible Thanks for Asking. You may have seen host Nora McInery‘s popular TED talk, about losing her husband, and moving forward but not moving on. Nora’s funny, irreverent, and heartbreaking pod-cast highlights the wide variety of losses experienced by her guests. Listening to this podcast feels a bit like misery loves company with a fair amount of laughter.

Grief Is a Sneaky Bitch is hosted by Lisa Keefauver. I’ve only listened to bits and pieces and it’s more sincere and less irreverent than is usually my jam, but try it. She knows her stuff

This podcast connected to the work of the Dougy Center for children and teens is hosted by Jana DeCristofaro and is opening up the often avoided conversations around grief. It is a mix of beautiful, personal, and educational interviews and stories.

Dani the author of multiple memoirs including “Devotion” and “Inheritance.” Dani shares brutally honest, beautiful writing about family relationships and secrets. Her book Devotion launched a podcast that highlights primarily stories of losses from other writers. Her voice is soothing, and sometimes it’s comforting to get lost in other’s pain and redemption.

Kelly Corrigan is just the best. Her podcast, Tell Me More is lovely, warm, and smart, and her episodes with Anna Quindlen and Anna Sales, cover grief and loss in some of the most beautiful language out there. Listen to all the episodes here.

Brooke’s father was diagnosed with cancer and was in hospice six months later. After realizing that most of us are woefully unprepared as it relates to grief and loss, Brooke decided to better equip all of us to be able to speak about death and dying through this podcast.