Golden Crown Conversations Podcast

Host Andrea Wright shares a deeply personal episode honoring her late grandfather, a “gentle giant” who modeled godly love, community care, patience, and generosity through his work as a MARTA bus driver and with the Atlanta Braves. She reflects on the weight of his passing, moments of feeling his presence after death (including a peppermint left at her door), and the “golden rules” he taught her: the world doesn’t owe you anything and you don’t owe it anything, and if you take care of your things, they will take care of you—lessons she applies now to caring for her body while navigating motherhood, burnout, postpartum depression, therapy, and medication. To help others face the “empty chair” of loss, she offers three tools: continuing-bonds scripting via a legacy letter, nervous system regulation with the butterfly hug or box breathing, and a grief fighter/comfort kit with items to smell, touch, and read.

In her debut episode, podcast host Andrea takes listeners inside the most frightening chapter of her life: a pregnancy derailed by preeclampsia, an emergency early induction, and an ICU stay she almost didn't come back from — all while her 3 lb 13 oz daughter fought in the NICU. With humor, vulnerability, and hard-won wisdom.

Andrea traces the journey from a headache at a work training to a profound reckoning with fear, faith, and identity. This episode is for every NICU parent, every person whose plan fell apart, and everyone who needs a reminder that your crown is still yours — even in the storm.