Susan, your host, welcomes Jesse Brisendine to today's episode. Jesse is an award-winning speaker and best-selling author. Jesse Brisendine is a world-renowned expert who works with individuals and organizations to move beyond their limitations, unlock their greatness, & build their Camelot.

Business leaders, Hollywood celebrities, entrepreneurs, medical professionals, and educators have utilized Jesse's services to reduce stress, increase productivity, improve communication, elevate happiness, experience more daily joy, enhance company culture, build thriving businesses, and live fulfilling lives.

Jesse has helped to mentor over 4,000 people on their healing journeys following the loss of a loved one.

Jesse is a big fan of buffets, professional wrestling, and finding the silver lining in any situation.

Key Takeaways:

• Jesse explains why he firmly believes there is a purpose to pain and that within pain, you can always find purpose.

• Jesse shares how he found purpose through pain in his life.

• Jesse and Susan talk about the lonely feeling when grieving when you want the world to stop and just join how you feel.

• After one year of losing his friend, Jesse also lost his father; he became completely overwhelmed by his grieving and realized he needed to change his life narrative based on resilience and finding the light in the darkest moment of his life.

• Jesse began the one-year 1000 Challenge, one year dedicated to healing.

• Susan reminds us there is no normal way of grieving nor a timeline for grief; grief your own way, let yourself feel!

• Do not identify with your grief. It is not who you are; it is how you feel.

• You don't have to apologize for how you are grieving.

• Jesse emphasizes the value of compassion and empathy.

• Choose the life you want to live after loss. You can be the living legacy of the people you have lost.

• Life is like legos; you can build something really neat that can easily be knocked down; we can feel it is broken, but it is only displaced.

Resources

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