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Widow 180 The Podcast with Jen Zwinck

Author: Jen Zwinck

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When you become a widow, the heartache can be overwhelming. You feel lost. You feel broken. You feel alone. And you find yourself trying to pick up the pieces of your life and function. But I believe that every widow has the capacity to endure, that every widow has the power to overcome and the determination to create a new life filled with meaning and purpose. The Widow 180 Podcast is about turning tragedy, loss and fear into strength and creativity and a new passion for life. It's about self-reflection and realizing that we only have this one precious life to live and that a new life and a new you is achievable.Each week I will be interviewing widows, incredible survivors of loss. These women have taken the lessons they've learned and the insights they've gained and used them to grow and transform themselves. Some have started businesses, went back to school, run marathons, lost 100 pounds, and moved across the world! They made a choice not to be held down.How did they do it? How did they get through their grief? What's their secret? What lessons can we learn from them that will transform our own lives? How can we write our own story because our story isn't over yet? How can we begin our Chapter 2? I hope that you are as inspired by these women as I am. And maybe hearing even just one story will be life-changing for you.

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“Just leave the door open a crack. Light has a way of finding its way in.” When your spouse dies, the world doesn’t just feel sad. It feels unrecognizable. And well-meaning advice to “stay positive” can sting more than it soothes. In this gentle, honest episode, we explore how optimism and grief can sit side by side. Optimism isn’t pretending you’re fine or rushing through pain. It’s the quiet belief that meaning, connection, and even joy can return, someday. You’ll hear: Why healthy grievin...
Your husband said there was a life insurance policy. Now you can't find it! The claim is delayed, or a denial letter just arrived! What now? In this episode, we sit down with Stephanie Prestridge, attorney and founder of Life Claim, a law practice focused exclusively on life insurance disputes. After nearly two decades in estate planning, Stephanie knows where grieving families get blindsided: lost policies, missed premiums, the two-year contestability period, and the sympathetic phone call f...
"The hardest part about grief is adapting to your new reality, and adapting to your life without that person in it." - Lauren Four months after losing her husband, Porter, therapist and grief educator Lauren joins us on Widow180 to talk about widowhood as it's happening. After a sudden medical emergency on their anniversary trip, Lauren had to make the hardest decision of her life. She shares what it's like to be a grief professional living through grief herself, and how she's rebuilding her ...
Nobody warns you that grief shows up in your kitchen! If you've lost your spouse and suddenly can't figure out what to make for dinner — or don't even want to try — you're not alone, and you're not doing anything wrong! In this episode, we talk through the real, often unspoken emotional side of cooking for one after loss: the guilt of eating a favorite meal without them, the apathy that makes food feel pointless, the overwhelm of grocery shopping for one, and the way a single smell or r...
In this episode of Widow 180, listeners are invited into the deeply personal journey of Stephanie Edens as she recounts the day her world changed forever with the sudden loss of her husband, Peter. The conversation focused on the intense shock of unexpected tragedy, the struggle to process loss, and the profound impact on her and her young children. A key theme that emerged was the remarkable timing of a critical conversation Stephanie and Peter had the night before his death—one in which Pet...
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