Grief, Gratitude & The Gray in Between

Grant Garry is an award winning filmmaker, actor, and singer. He is the director of the documentary Meet Me Where I Am - now streaming on Amazon Prime Video and TUBI.

Grant recently starred as the “Beast” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at The San Luis Obispo Opera and as “Professor Callahan” in Legally Blonde: The Musical at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Grant Graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts from Loyola Marymount University. He currently hosts The Where I Am Podcast available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.

MEET ME WHERE I AM is the winner of The Audience Award for Best Documentary at Dances with Films. The film is now available on Prime Video, Apple TV, and a few other platforms.

Meet Me Where I Am features individual stories of love, loss, and hope. I was honored to sit down with some of the world’s most renowned grief experts, as well as artists, cultural figures, and everyday individuals to tackle this complex subject. The film features actor Anthony Rapp (Tony Award Winning "Best Musical" RENT, Star Trek: Discovery, Without You - New World Stages Hell’s Kitchen), acclaimed author and grief expert, David Kessler (author, Finding Meaning, ABC’s Good Morning America contributor), Ron Marasco Ph.D. (author, About Grief: Insights, Setbacks, Grace Notes, Taboos), Donna Schurmaan Ph.D. (Sr. Director of Advocacy & Training at The Dougy Center) and actor, brother of the late great comedian Chris Farley, John Farley, among others, to comprise a diverse roster of professionals who inspire us, through personal stories as well as researched-based insights, to move forward with our grief.

I've included a link to watch options as well as the official trailer. I hope you'll check it out! If you think you'd be interested in featuring the film on your podcast as well, let me know!

Watch MEET ME WHERE I AM (2024)

MEET ME WHERE I AM (2024) - Official Trailer

Contact Kendra Rinaldi to be a guest on the podcast  https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/book-online

Camilo Russi es autor del libro "El duelo duele... y eso está bien". Camilo es un referente con respecto a la educación sobre la muerte y el duelo, fundador del Death Education Group, y acompañante de duelo.

Fundó eventos educativos como el Congreso Internacional de Educación sobre la Muerte, y como la Escuela de la Muerte, que han apoyado a más de 45,000 personas alrededor del mundo.

Camilo se entrenó como ingeniero, y hace más de una década es conferencista y tallerista internacional para decenas de organizaciones multinacionales.

Escucha la primera entrevista que tuve con Camilo: https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/podcast/episode/904069d4/64claridad-sobre-la-muerte-es-libertad-para-la-vida-con-camilo-russi-espanol

Connectate con Camilo Rusi:

https://www.instagram.com/bycamilorussi/?igsh=MXVxZTVzdWczc2o3eg%3D%3D

https://www.deatheducationgroup.com/

Curso virtual de acceso libre para personas en duelo y profesionales involucrados con el duelo. Comienza el 19 de septiembre. Detalles y registro sin costo aquí: https://www.deatheducationgroup.com/4trampasduelo o en Instagram @bycamilorussi

Contacta a Kendra Rinaldi para ser un invitado en el podcast o para ascesoria de duelo:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Liza Peterson is a yoga teacher and reiki practitioner. She is the owner of Wings Of Resilience Healing where she supports her clients with yoga, reiki, and coaching support. She was inspired to open her business after the sudden loss of both of her parents. Liza is also a competitive ballroom dancer, and loves to perform on the stage. A proud mother of four amazing kids and a Puppy Mom to her cavapoo Penny Lane.

Previous episodes with Liza Peterson:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/podcast/episode/c0b82416/17-mourning-doves-with-liza-peterson

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/podcast/episode/9170d94f/104-home-is-within-me-with-liza-peterson

Contact Liza:

Instagram @wingsofresiliencehealing

Website wingsofresiliencehealing.com

Contact Kendra Rinaldi to be a guest on the podcast or for coaching:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

In this heartfelt episode, we chat with Ona Gritz , her new memoir, Everywhere I Look, won the Readers’ Choice Gold Award for Best Adult Book.  We talk about her profound grief journey following the tragic loss of her sister, Angie. Ona unravels the mystery and tragedy of Angie’s murder and shares her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth.

Ona Gritz holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Her earlier books include On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability and Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won the Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2020 Competition and has received many other honors for her poems, which have been widely anthologized. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia. For more information, please visit her website: https://www.onagritz.com/.

To connect on social media: https://www.instagram.com/onagritz/

Contact Kendra Rinaldi to be a guest on the podcast or to find out more about her offerings:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Sheri  Ramirez

is memoirist, social media vlogger, and certified life coach while working full time as a middle school teacher for the deaf. She lives in Saint Augustine, Florida with her husband, 10 year old twin boys, and energetic 8 year old daughter. She was once a young widow at age 22 after tragically and unexpectedly losing her husband to a brain aneurysm resulting from his chronic kidney disease. She is now married to her current deaf husband for over twelve years, he has brought Sign Language and deaf culture to their home. Through both marriages she has learned to heal her loss, suppressed grief, and the destruction of self-inflicted infidelity. Sheri's mission is to increase healing and advocating for self-love to all those she comes in contact with by sharing her vulnerable story of redemption and life coaching services.

Connect with Sheri: www.sheriramirez.com

Instagram: @saltyselflove

Contact Kendra Rinaldi for Grief Coaching services or to be a guest on the podcast.

Gabriela Georges is a multi-disciplinary artist, creative grief guide and founder of The Grief Cocoon. Her work is inspired by her beloved mother, Samira, who she lost to cancer at the age of twenty. She supports people to creatively process, befriend, and transform their grief through creative writing, movement, rituals, and community connection. Through The Grief Cocoon, Gabriela offers creative online workshops, a podcast, educational online content, a mobile community app, and 1:1 support.

thegriefcocoon.com

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thegriefcocoon/

- https://www.instagram.com/gab_georges/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/thegriefcocoon

TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@thegriefcocoon

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@thegriefcocoon

Contact Kendra Rinaldi for coaching or to be a guest on the podcast

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Tyndale novelist Cheryl Grey Bostrom, M.A., writes surprising prose and poetry that reflect her keen interest in nature and human behavior. The author of four books, her most recent include her international best seller Sugar Birds—the winner of more than a dozen fiction awards, and Leaning on Air, endorsed as “a reader’s dream,” and a “cross-generational masterpiece." An avid photographer, she and her veterinarian husband live in the rural Pacific Northwest.

Connect with her at CherylBostrom.com

Contact Kenera Rinaldi  for Grief Coaching information or to be a guest 

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Ashmeeta Rama Madhav is an educator, grief support advocate/expert, entrepreneur, author, and lifelong learner. She has been intimately acquainted with grief since her early twenties, having experienced miscarriage, rejection, and the loss of her parents and husband, which exposed her to a range of profound emotions. Her story is one of love, acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, growth, and self-discovery, a narrative that resonates with those who have faced loss or are on a path of self-discovery following loss.

Through her personal experiences, Ashmeeta has developed a deep appreciation for the significance of personal growth within the journey of the soul. Her mission is to share the knowledge she's gained with others. At the heart of her book, "What’s Your Story?" is her passion for helping others and sharing her experiences. Through this book, she shares her personal journey through grief and self-discovery with the intention of providing  and inspiration to those confronting similar experiences.

Ashmeeta's desire is for others to recognize that profound loss need not signify the end of one's story; rather, it can mark the commencement of a new and meaningful chapter. Her message is one of hope and healing, and she is here to help guide the grieving to feel alive again.

https://storyoutellyourself.com/

Contact Kendra Rinaldi to schedule a free discovery coaching call or to be a guest on the podcast

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/resources

Marisa Renee Lee is an award-winning advocate, writer, and speaker on coping with grief and loss of all forms. The past two decades of her life have been marked by loss: first of her mother, then of a much-wanted pregnancy and her fertility, and finally of the early and tragic deaths of her cousin Ebonee to COVID and more recently Imani to domestic violence. These losses transformed her life and led her to question what grief really is and what healing truly requires.

As a leading grief advocate, Marisa regularly offers incisive and compassionate advice on managing life after loss with unique insights for women and African American communities. In 2022 her first book, an instant bestseller, Grief is Love Living with Loss was released. Grief is Love has since been awarded a Gold Award from Nautilus Book Awards’ Better Books for a Better World and was recently acquired by Al Roker Entertainment for a docuseries.

Connect with Marisa 

https://www.marisareneelee.com/about

Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, and LinkedIn

Contact Kendra Rinaldi for grief coaching or to be a guest on the podcast To be a guest on the podcast:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/

Emily P. Bingham is a certified grief educator, grief coach, widow, and founder of moveTHRU. After the loss of her husband in 2019 to Uveal Melanoma, she started moveTHRU to create new meaning out of her tragedy by helping others heal. Emily has worked with hundreds of clients in both private and coaching groups. Additionally, she has reached millions of followers through her social media content. Her goal is to help anyone who has experienced a loss embrace grief through movement and mindset. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver and a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She lives with her newly blended family of six in Denver, Colorado.

Emily’s book, Love & Grief: Find Healing, Meaning, and Purpose in Life After Loss  offers tools for embracing grief, managing it, and identifying coping strategies inside a practical, reassuring guide.

There is no right or wrong way to ride grief, but having gone through the process of grief herself after losing her husband at a young age, Emily’s writing provides an extra layer of comfort, inspiration, and solidarity. As a spiritual life coach and widow, Emily has amassed a social media following of over 35 thousand people, offering coaching, tips, and testimonials about her own grief journey.

https://www.movethrugrief.com/

https://www.instagram.com/emilypbingham/

More information abotu coaching with Kendra Rinaldi: https://www.kendrarinaldi.com/

To be a guest on the podcast:

https://www.griefgratitudeandthegrayinbetween.com/