Emilio Parga is a grief educator, speaker, and nonprofit founder who has worked with thousands of children, teens, and adults navigating loss over the course of 24 years.

Most men are carrying grief they never named — from a father who died too young, a marriage that fell apart, a friendship that quietly disappeared. And because no one taught them how to grieve, it doesn't disappear. It shows up as rage, addiction, broken relationships, chronic disconnection, and a creeping sense that something is just wrong. Emilio Parga has sat with thousands of people across two and a half decades and watched the same pattern play out over and over. This conversation is about what grief actually is, how men bury it without knowing, and what it costs them when they do.

Expect to learn what unprocessed grief actually looks like in a man's body and behavior, why most men don't realize they're grieving until the damage is already done, what the five regrets of dying people reveal about how we're living right now, how to support a grieving friend using specific language that actually opens the door, why children are far more capable of processing death than adults allow them to be, how different cultures grieve and what Western men can learn from that, why grief doesn't end when a relationship ends, and what it really means to learn to live with loss rather than get over it and much more...

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