Ghosted

Kara spent three years as her dad’s primary caregiver as he battled a rare neurological disease, grieving him long before he was gone.

In this episode, she shares what it was like to love someone through a slow loss: watching him lose different parts of himself, while caregiving became her entire identity. We talk about anticipatory grief, the weight and meaning of being a caregiver, and the disorienting question of who you are when that role suddenly ends.

Kara reflects on honoring her dad at her wedding by playing drums like he once did, and how her experience led her to create Moments by Kara. continuing to make meaningful moments in his memory.

This episode is about love, identity, and the kind of grief that unfolds over time.

Max lost his sister Lisa in a tragic drowning accident but the way he talks about her isn’t just about loss, it’s about love.

In this episode of Ghosted, Max shares what it was like to grow up with Lisa as his best friend, the memories that define their bond, and how that relationship continues to shape the way he lives today.

He doesn’t shy away from the pain but he also doesn’t let it be the only story.

Instead, Max speaks about feeling lucky. Lucky to have loved someone so deeply. Lucky to still carry her with him in the way he shows up in the world.

This conversation is a reminder that grief isn’t just about what’s missing—it’s about what remains. The love, the stories, the connection that doesn’t end.

If you’ve ever lost someone, especially a sibling, this episode will feel like sitting in a space where nothing has to be explained—and where love is still very much alive.

After losing her mom to cancer, Gabi also had to process something harder to explain: the version of her mom she knew was already changing after a brain-altering stroke. She experienced both the slow, painful goodbye of long-term illness and the shock of sudden loss all at once.

She’s also lost her dad, but in a very different way. Highlighting how grief isn’t one-size-fits-all, even within the same life.

Feeling completely alone in what she was going through, Gabi turned to the internet. What started as sharing her story became something bigger: a community of people who get it. People who understand the complicated, messy, and often isolating layers of grief.

Now, she’s taken that pain and turned it into purpose, creating grief coaching services to help others feel less alone in their own stories.

This episode is about the kind of grief we don’t always have language for and what can happen when you decide to speak anyway.

Six months of Ghosted (!!) so we’re doing a solo episode. I’m sharing how this all started, a little about my dad, Jay, and answering your questions about grief, life, and everything in between.

I talk about how that loss has shaped who I am today, the unexpected ways grief shows up over time, and how building this community has changed everything. This episode is about pain, yes, but also about connection, growth, and the quiet, surprising beauty that can come from it. This is your reminder that even in the hardest things, there can be connection, laughter, and a lot of love.

Ben was nine years old when his twin brother collapsed from a brain tumor. After a year in a coma and years of paralysis, his brother passed away, leaving Ben to grow up without the person who was supposed to be by his side for life.

In this week's episode, we talk about what it means to lose a twin at such a young age and how that loss evolves over time. Ben shares what grief looked like as a kid, how understanding deepens as you grow up. Why milestones can still feel heavy nearly two decades later and the quiet ways grief shows up in adulthood, and what it’s like to imagine the life they would have shared.

It’s a conversation about identity, growing up, and carrying someone with you even when they’re no longer here.

In this episode of Ghosted, Emma sits down with Jenny Robinson Clark to talk about grief, signs, and turning loss into something meaningful.

After losing her mom to cancer, Jenny felt a deep connection to something bigger than herself a pull to create something good in the world. What started as a reflection she wrote to her mom into something so much more. Her husband, from the band We the Kings, transformed her words into a song and now into a children’s book released on the anniversary of her mom’s passing, 3/17/26.

We talk about grief, faith, creativity, and how to help kids navigate conversations around death in a way that feels less scary and more open.

This episode is about honoring the people we’ve lost by what we create and who we become.

Resources from Jenny:

• ⁠https://www.jennyrobinsonclark.com/resources⁠

• ⁠https://www.jennyrobinsoncl

This week on Ghosted, I’m joined by Sarah, who lost her mom to pancreatic cancer two years ago.

What started as a light and funny conversation turned into a really honest one about the complicated layers of grief. Sarah shares what it’s like to not only miss her mom, but to grieve the moments her mom will never get to experience like getting to be a grandmother.

We talk about the strange reality of returning to work after loss, and how workplace culture often expects people to move on long before they’re ready. After struggling to talk about her grief in professional spaces, Sarah started sharing online and eventually built a company dedicated to helping businesses better support employees navigating grief.

We also talk about the small ways our parents still show up for us. For Sarah, it’s coins that remind her of her mom. For me, it’s the ways my dad continues to appear in my life. Most of all, we talk about the kind of people our parents were and how we try to carry their kindness forward every day.

This week on Ghosted, Emma sits down with Chay, who lost their dad five years ago and is now navigating grief alongside their journey as a transgender person.

Chay shares what it’s like to lose a parent before coming out, carrying the deep belief that their dad would have been supportive, while knowing they’ll never actually get to hear those words. We talk about the complicated layers of grief that come with identity, including the strange and painful moments that linger, like seeing their deadname and the words “his daughter” printed in their dad’s obituary.

Chay reflects on how their grief has shifted over the last five years, the relationships that helped shape them after their dad’s death, and how loss ultimately inspired them to pursue social work so they can support others navigating grief, identity, and belonging.

This episode is about the versions of ourselves our loved ones knew, the ones they never got to meet, and the love that can still exist in that space in between.

In this week’s episode of Ghosted, I sit down with Mac, who lost her wife, Megan, suddenly at just 28 years old. Mac shares what it means to become a young widow overnight. Navigating shock, sudden loss, and a kind of grief that feels isolating in its specificity.

We talk about the complexities of grieving as a gay spouse, the subtle and not-so-subtle homophobia that can surface in loss, and how systems and social norms don’t always know what to do with queer love. Mac reflects on who Megan was, what she taught her about courage, softness, and living fully, and how she carries Megan forward every single day.

This episode is about young love, sudden loss, queer grief, and the ways we keep the people we love alive in how we move through the world.

This week on Ghosted, I’m talking to Brittany about losing her mom, Alyse, when she was just 17 years old after a seven-year battle with rare appendix cancer.

We talk about what it’s like to grow up alongside a long illness, the anticipatory grief that lives in those years, and the people who stepped up when Brittany needed them most.

Brittany now works in grief therapy, inspired deeply by her mom, the empath, the emotional glue of her friend group. We talk about how we model happy, healthy lives because we’ve seen them. How love teaches us how to live. And how grief can shape not just what we lose, but who we become.

This one is about legacy. And about becoming what she showed you.