Brave Widow Show

Today I talk with Wensday Stanley. We talk about gratitude and grief. We talk about finding your why and your purpose in this next chapter of life. And we talk about how faith and God plays a role in your grieving and healing journey, or at least how it did for the two of us.

Wensday is a 49 year old gymnastics coach. She has two daughters and a stepson, one granddaughter, and married the love of her life at 21. They were married for 27 years. And yes, I asked her what the secret to a happy, successful marriage of 27 years is, and she does give the answer. Her husband died three days after their 27th anniversary. And she's a faithful follower of Christ.

You can find Wensday at:

Facebook | Wensday Schlitzberger Stanley

Instagram | Wensday Schlitzberger Stanley

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

I have Susan Ford Collins, who is a fellow widow, a successful leadership coach, and has has proven to be a brave and courageous person throughout her entire career, throughout her entire grieving process, and she has had some significant challenges and obstacles that she's had to overcome.

Susan Ford Collins is the founder and CEO of the Technology of Success, a training, consulting, and coaching company, which teaches the 10 success and leadership skills she discovered highly successful people use unconsciously and so struggle to consciously pass on.

She is the author of the Technology of Success book series, which includes the bestselling Joy of Success, Success Has Gears. Our children are watching and now her fourth book, Blur, Clear the Way Ahead, Even in the Worst of Times, is available on Amazon and Audible.

She's facilitated more than 4, 000 training sessions and major corporations, educational and governmental organizations. She has coached individuals and teams worldwide in person and on zoom. And CNN has quoted her as being America's premier success and leadership coach

So please join me in listening and welcoming Susan to the Brave Widow show. And I hope that you enjoy all of the insights and the wisdom that she has to share in this episode!

You can find Susan at:

Facebook | susanfordcollins

Instagram | susanfordcollins

LinkedIn | susanfordcollins

For Susan's free gift of Short and Sweet Secrets of Success email her at [email protected]

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | Brave Widow

Today in episode 46 of the Brave Widow Show, we are going to do some myth busting. I've got seven myths about dating that I want to cover. I get asked tons of questions about dating, when is too soon? What are the safety tips that are out there for dating apps? Meeting someone in person? Listen to episode 46 as we dive in more to these questions!

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

From the board room to a hospital room, Codi's life changed quickly when faced with a life changing diagnosis of a chronic nervous system disorder. This mama of five, foster mom, healthcare executive and community advocate knew life may look different but her faith must remain anchored. Grief was no stranger, losing her brother at a young age, Codi knew the importance of finding the goodness of God even in the hardest moments. Despite her trials, Codi works daily to help others remember how loved they are, and no one will walk alone.

Find Codi on:

Instagram | @anchored_wildflower or @thefaithfulfoster

Facebook | Anchored Wildflower or The Faithful Foster

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

In episode 44 of the Brave Widow Show we are talking about why it feels like you get stuck in grief.

Now, this is something that I hear commonly from widows or people who are grieving a loved one. Maybe it's been months or years or decades, and people just feel like they're as stuck almost as much as they were in the very beginning or even worse, that at times they're healing, they're getting better, they're getting better, and then all of a sudden they're going backwards and that thought is really overwhelming of how can I be getting better and feel like I'm healing and feel like I can smile and laugh a little bit. Then the next day feel like I've gone three steps backwards.

So today we're going to talk about why is it that you feel that you get stuck in grief.

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

In episode 43 of the Brave Widow Show, I had the opportunity to speak with Rick who has some really great insights and tips for widows specifically when it comes to financial planning.

Rick Salmeron is a financial advisor with clients throughout America, based in Dallas, Texas.

He's a certified financial planner and CEO of Salmeron Financial. He entered the business in 1990, then branched out to begin his own firm in 2001. His guidance and experience helps clients spend less time worrying about their money so that they can enjoy other areas of their life.

Where to find Rick:

Facebook | Salmeron Financial

Instagram | ricksalmeron

Youtube | Salmeron Financial

Website | RICK SALMERON, CFP®Financial Advisor

Email | [email protected]

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

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The Transcript is below.

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Today is a special day because it's my 40th birthday, and I thought, what an amazing time for me to share 40 things that I have learned since being a widow and what I would tell someone who's widowed, especially someone who's early on or they're still trying to figure out what this grief stuff is all about.

I broke these up into 3 different categories:

1. What to expect - just getting your mindset in the right direction of what to expect in being a widow.

2. Being in survival mode - you're just trying to get through the day. Some things I've learned and would tell people.

3. Healing - moving forward in your grief journey.

Resources Mentioned:

Free Live Event | Get Unstuck from Grief

Free Resources | bravewidow.com/free

Episode 027 | Grief = "And", not "Or"

The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Russell Friedman

The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

Today I speak with Marie Scott, she is the creator and founder of Happy and Healthy After Widowhood.

She is a bestselling author, speaker, and functional medicine health coach. After losing her beloved husband Dave, after 30 years along with her mom in the same year. It set her on a path to not only heal herself, but to find her mission and purpose for life part two, helping other widows and widowers to be happy and healthy after widowhood.

Marie talks about how to rebuild this next part of your life and some of the things that she has seen that's worked well, some of the tips, some of the pitfalls. And for those of you maybe like me, who were spoiled and had your husband cooked everything for you, she also has some really encouraging news about this cookbook that she's working on that will help even the newbies to cooking and their cooking skills and allow you to cook for one person or 20 people.

Download her Top Ten Tips to Dating Safely

You can connect with Marie on:

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

Email

Website

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

In episode 40 of the Brave Widow Show I get to speak with Kimberly (@hopefully_kimberly). Kimberly is a widow living in Minneapolis. Her husband, a school principal, died by suicide four months and 19 days after their wedding.

Kimberly's hope is that others who are walking a similar journey of love and trauma during and after loss will find an ally and will find hope. She wants you to know that you matter. When she's not scrolling on Instagram. She is teaching or watering flowers.

You can find Kimberly on:

Instagram | @hopefully_kimberly

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow

On today's episode of The Brave Widow Show podcast I get to introduce you to Nicole.

Nicole Roberts, CFP® hosts the podcast, He's Gone But the Money's Not, where she and co-host, Summer Parry, interview widows about their financial journies. She works as a financial advisor for Rock House Financial working with business owners and widows. Nicole has been working with families and individuals to build their financial plans for 11 years. 

Check out this week's episode as we dive in to all things financial planning.

You can find Nicole on:

Website | He's Gone But the Money's Not  

Instagram | @hesgonethemoneysnot 

Find out more about Nicole or sign up for a financial consultation with Nicole here https://rockhousefinancial.com/

Find the podcast He's Gone But the Money's Not on your favorite podcast player

Things mentioned:

Financial Planning For Widows | Wings for Widows

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The Brave Widow Community is a place where you can connect with other widows, find hope and healing, and begin to dream again for the future.  Learn more at bravewidow.com.  

Hey guys, I’m Emily Jones

I was widowed at age 37, one month shy of our 20 year wedding anniversary.  Nathan and I have four beautiful children together.  My world was turned completely upside down when I lost him.  With faith, community, and wisdom from others, I’ve been able to find hope, joy, and dream again for the future.  I want to help others do the same, too!

FOLLOW me on SOCIAL:

Twitter | @brave_widow

Instagram | @brave_widow

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/bravewidow

YouTube | @bravewidow