The Everyday Grief Podcast
Everyday Grief is a podcast for professionals, leaders, and caregivers navigating the unspoken grief that comes with life’s hardest changes — career transitions, layoffs, leadership shifts, relationship loss, death, and personal identity loss. Hosted by Dr. Anitra — a grief and change-transformed leadership voice, certified executive coach, HR consultant, minister, educator, and clinically trained chaplain — this podcast blends deep expertise in grief, leadership, organizational change, and personal transformation, guided by ethics, biblical scholarship, and theology. Here, we explore how grief shows up beyond death — and within it — in workplaces, leadership, family, and identity — and what it means to move through loss while holding onto your worth and dignity. If you’ve ever asked: Who am I now that this role is gone? How do I lead when I’m grieving? How do I rebuild after a relationship ends — or after loss that changed my life? How do I carry a death that still lives with me? — you belong here. Each episode offers: Real conversations about workplace grief, leadership loss, identity shifts, relationship grief, and death-related loss. Gentle reflection to help you process grief without pressure — and without having to "move on" too fast. Practical strategies for navigating non-death grief, professional loss, relationship grief, and deep personal transformation — with compassion and care. Whether you’re facing a layoff, leadership change, breakup, divorce, estrangement, death of a loved one, or a quiet loss no one sees, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Take the Grief Resilience Assessment: https://everydaygriefcoach.com/assessments Join the Everyday Grief Community: https://www.everydaygriefprograms.com/products/communities/everydaygriefcommunity Because grief belongs in the conversations we have about leadership, love, loss, and life — and so do you.
Episodes
In today’s episode, we dive deep into the often-overlooked power of taking leave—whether it’s for personal health, grief, or family. Leave isn’t just about stepping away from work; it’s an opportunity to pause, reflect, and heal.
In this conversation, we acknowledge the internal struggles that come with taking time for yourself—guilt, pressure, uncertainty—and why it’s essential to make space for self-compassion during...
In this episode of The Everyday Grief Podcast, Dr. Anitra Manning dives deep into the power of the stories we tell ourselves, especially during times of grief. Exploring how grief can transform us, Dr. Anitra discusses the importance of confronting and embracing our grief instead of bypassing it. She invites you to view grief not as a roadblock, but as a gateway that leads to a more authentic version of yourself.
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In the final episode of the You Are Not a Line Item series, Dr. Anitra steps back to look at the collective grief caused by layoffs, systemic disconnection, and the commodification of human beings in the workplace.
Sharing from her personal experience of being laid off while carrying others’ shock and sorrow, she names the deep exhaustion of those who are always expected to hold space — even while unraveling themselves...
In this soul-grounding episode, Dr. Anitra walks us through what happens after the layoff — when the door has closed, but the grief, confusion, and silence still remain.
She shares her own story of being laid off while also comforting others through it, and how even as she held space for others, she was unraveling inside. With the help of sacred scripture — Hannah, the woman w...
In this soul-grounding episode, Dr. Anitra Manning opens a new mini-series exploring the often overlooked grief of layoffs. With compassion, clarity, and spiritual depth, she invites listeners to name the moral injury, shame, and identity rupture that follow job loss — and begin the process of healing.
Drawing from her own story, along with wisdom from grief-informed frameworks and faith-based reflection, Dr. Anitra re...
You knew leadership would be challenging—but no one prepared you for this. Letting people go. Watching jobs disappear. Delivering news that changes lives. Carrying the weight of decisions that feel necessary, yet deeply personal.
If you’ve ever had to lead through layoffs, you know this isn’t just a business decision. It’s a human one. And it leaves its mark.
In this episode of Everyday Grief, Dr. Anitra invites you int...
What happens when the job that gave you meaning is gone?
In this first episode of the Layoffs, Leaves & Promotions series, Dr. Anitra shares her personal story of job loss and how it shook her identity — along with reflections on what it means to grieve a role that felt like part of you.
Whether you’ve experienced a layoff, career transition, leadership change, or find yourself asking "Who am I now that this pa...
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