🎙 Grand Exit Season 2, Episode 8: "Grief Needs a Rebrand, with Carla Fernandez, Author: Renegade Grief and Co-Founder: The Dinner Party"

Friends, family, listeners and those bold enough to be here -

Chiming in to let you know that we just launched a NEW episode -– #8 of Season 2: Grief Needs a Rebrand, with Carla Fernandez, Author: Renegade Grief and Co-Founder: The Dinner Party. (Wooooo!)

And in this one, we get to be in deep and meaningful conversation with Carla about what it takes to grieve well in a society that refuses to make eye contact with someone in the thick of it.

Carla is the author of Renegade Grief: A Guide To The Wild Ride of Life After Loss (Simon & Schuster) and co-founder of The Dinner Party, an organization connecting young adult grievers to peers over community dinners that normalize grieving through honest conversations with others who get it.

Have a listen 🎧

You can expect to hear:

⚪ What it means to be renegade griever

⚪ How the curiosity in Carla’s early grief gave way to a powerful counterculture

⚪ A moment of connection between Tamatha and Carla’s late father, Jose

⚪ The dire need for not just greater grief literacy but grief allyship, from the group text to the workplace to Capitol Hill

⚪ Some profanity (oops)...because WTF is with people being so weird about loss?!

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So, when you find a half hour or so, get in here!!

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To the revolution!

With gratitude for NOW,

Tamatha and Chelsea

P.S. Once you listen to the episode, come back here for these hot links:

🟩 Pick up a copy of the book, for you or someone in your life that needs it, here, or anywhere you get your books!

🟩 Find a stop on the Renegade Grief Roadshow, perhaps in a city near you, here

🟩 Request a seat at the table with The Dinner Party, or make a donation to ensure there’s a seat for everyone, here

🟩 Connect with Carla on Instagram @carlitafernandez

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