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We Get It, Your Dad Died

16 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings

CEO and multi 7-figure business owner Margy Feldhuhn speaks with high performing entrepreneurs about their experiences with grief and death. After losing her dad to suicide in 2015, Margy was surprised to find that this traumatic loss actually transformed her life and contributed to her success as a entrepreneur. On this show, she interviews other high achieving business owners about how they found resilience, success and joy after profound loss. This show will inspire you to see the losses in your own life differently, or at the very least, serve as a reminder that you are not alone.

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Episodes

S3E4: Alicia

May 02, 2022 05:03 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MB

Margy is joined by Alicia Cramer on this episode of We Get it Your Dad Died. Growing up, Alicia’s mother went through a series of abusive relationships and would often drop her off at a relatives house to stay safe. As she got older, she realized that she was repeating the self-destructive patterns that her mother had demonstrated for her. The healing that she needed was not happening, and instead her anxieties grew to the point where they were running her everyday life. Was she going to let ...

S3E3: Melisa

May 02, 2022 05:02 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MB

In this episode of we get it your dad died, Margy invites Melisa Keenan on the show. Melisa’s father was a free-spirit and street drug addict for most of his life. When Melisa needed it most, he tamed himself and those who knew him were so excited that he finally found the motivation to turn his life around. Three weeks later, he was diagnosed with cancer.    This episode will make you laugh and cry as you hear Melisa share the stories of her father and how her relationship with him evolve...

S3E2: Sam

May 02, 2022 05:01 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MB

In this episode of We Get it Your Dad Died, Margy Feldhuhn is joined by Sam Jayanti. At 12 years old, both of Sam’s parents and her brother died in a plane crash. She was left with her nanny and her dog to recover from this tragedy. The three of them moved to India to live with Sam’s aunt and uncle with this question: Will we survive this, or will it ruin us?  Listen to Margy and Sam discuss the impact this tragedy has had on her. She swallowed her vulnerability, and it wasn’t until she was ...

S3E1: Suzy

May 02, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes - 61.8 MB

In the first episode of season 3 for We Get it Your Dad Died, Margy Feldhuhn invites Suzy Ashworth to discuss the loss of her parents. Suzy’s foster parents were found in the back of a magazine and they raised her from the age of 3 months old. In this conversation, they discuss how Suzy’s parents raised her and her sister in an environment that balanced freedom with building a strong work ethic. They explore how the relationship between themselves and their loved ones evolve even after they p...

S2E5: Elisabeth

November 22, 2021 08:02 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MB

What if the things you feel most shame about have nothing to do with who you are as a person? This episode offers the most powerful gift of all; freedom from shame and self loathing. In this finale episode of Season 2, we break from the norm. This conversation doesn’t feature a death, but is one of the most profound and valuable conversations I’ve ever had. We went deep into topics like codependency, binge eating, self harm and boundaries. Elisabeth Kristof shares incredible wisdom tha...

S2E4: Tracy

November 22, 2021 08:01 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MB

How often do you actually see other people? How often do you make eye contact and smile at the person working at the grocery check out? Do you always take the opportunity to be present and fully acknowledge the human being right in front of you? This conversation with Tracy Litt inspired me to change the way I approach all these small interactions throughout the day. Tracy’s mother Toby was a master at this. She always took the opportunity to let others know they were seen and loved, even...

S2E3: Monique

November 22, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MB

How do we grieve an abuser? I am so grateful to Monique Allen for being willing to share so openly on this episode. This is a conversation that is very underrepresented in the dialogue about grief. There aren’t enough spaces talking openly about grief in any capacity, but in the ones that do exist so often it’s a conversation around healing from the loss of someone described by all as a great person. While no one is perfect, the dead sometimes take on a Saint like quality in the minds of ...

S2E2: Mo

November 22, 2021 07:59 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB

Ali was only 21 years old when he died unexpectedly on the operating table during a routine appendix surgery. I sat down with Ali’s dad Mo Gawdat, best selling author and former Chief Business Officer of Google X, to discuss the incredible aftermath of that loss. When you hear about Ali, he strikes you as being more of a spiritual teacher than your average 20 year old, and the wisdom and kindness he showed in his life is something people of all ages can learn from. Mo addresses grief f...

S2E1: Kristine

November 22, 2021 07:58 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB

Richard Carlson was 45 and in seemingly perfect health when he died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism on a flight from California to New York. Richard is well known as the best selling author of the self help classic, "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff." I spoke with Richard's wife Kristine Carlson, a best selling author in her own right, about the impact of losing Richard so suddenly. Her perspectives on grief, loss, and creating joy out of even the darkest moments are powerful. She also shared...

S1E7: Debra

April 29, 2021 10:05 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MB

In the final episode of Season One of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn speaks with Debra Driscoll.   Debra Lynne Driscoll is a Grief Guide, Author, Healer, and Speaker. Through spiritual practice and creative process, Debra works with groups and individuals to ease the ‘ouch’ of loss and open to the heart and soul expansion possible when we surrender and journey with life, death, grief, and loss. Debra first dealt with the grief after the man she loved took his life. Debra ...

S1E6: Jacqueline

April 29, 2021 10:04 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MB

In this episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn speaks with Jacqueline Nagle. Jacqueline has forged a successful career dependent on redefinition and evolution. She has conceptualized and deployed strategies and projects which have driven rapid multiple 7 and 8 figure growth repeatedly. Realizing that the only way ‘out’ is ‘through’ Jacqueline has emerged from personal and professional firestorms knowing first hand that the scars from our past and the demons in our mind mus...

S1E5: Rubina

April 29, 2021 10:03 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MB

In the fifth episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn speaks with Rubina Cohen.    Rubina is an expert marketer who has helped numerous businesses and individuals develop and implement profit-raising marketing strategies. Rubina guides entrepreneurs, freelancers, and marketing managers in mastering their marketing efforts and elevating their strategic outcomes.    Rubina lost her mother at the young age of 12. Her mother was sick most of Rubina’s life.  As the middle c...

S1E4: Brandi (Part 2)

April 29, 2021 10:02 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MB

In this special episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn continues her conversation with Brandi Bernoskie.    If you haven’t listened to episode 3, go back and check that episode out! After Margy and Brandi stopped recording, they couldn’t stop talking so they decided to record a Part II.    This episode focuses on the grief experienced when losing a pet. After Brandi’s mother passed, Brandi also lost her cat of 16 years, Hugo. Even though Brandi knew she would likely ...

S1E3: Brandi

April 29, 2021 10:01 - 39 minutes - 54.5 MB

In the third episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn speaks with Brandi Bernoskie.   Brandi is a digital strategist, website developer, and founder of Alchemy+Aim and North Star Sites, companies that help entrepreneurs and business owners elevate their online presence and enhance their digital experience. She is an advocate for using technology in ways that humanize, connect and serve people as well as for asking deeper philosophical questions and teaching others to think...

S1E2: Chris

April 29, 2021 10:00 - 48 minutes - 65.9 MB

In this episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn speaks with Chris Kenney.    Chris Kenney is a multi 7-figure business owner and a sought-after business leverage expert who teaches coaches and consultants the Chris Kenney Sales Mastery Formula. This episode tells the story of Chris losing his dad and his sister.   In 2016, Chris was in London for a speaking event when he found out that his dad had died suddenly and unexpectedly. Chris had come home for the funeral the...

S1E1: My Story

April 27, 2021 12:30 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MB

In the inaugural episode of We Get It Your Dad Died, host Margy Feldhuhn, tells her story about losing her dad to suicide in 2015.    The day Margy’s dad died, Margy was living across the world in Asia. When she got the call that her dad had died by suicide, she was entirely shell-shocked. Pretty soon, she would have to face this reality head-on, and she found that this experience completely transformed her life.   When Margy returned to her dad’s house, completely broken, she found ...