Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic
by Angela Kennecke
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After His Son's Death, Music Executive Takes on Mental Health and Fentanyl Crisis
Jun 24, 2026
40m 25s
How High Achievement Masked a Quiet Battle with Addiction
Jun 17, 2026
54m 22s
From Prison to the Runway
Jun 10, 2026
36m 51s
She Lost Her Son. Then She Started Following the Money.
Jun 3, 2026
46m 50s
He Lost His Brother, Then Lost Himself
May 27, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 | After His Son's Death, Music Executive Takes on Mental Health and Fentanyl Crisis | As a veteran of the music and entertainment industry, David Nathan has helped shape the careers of A-list artists including Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse and Ariana Grande. But behind that success, he faced a loss he never could have imagined. His son took what he believed was a Percocet, unaware it was laced with fentanyl, and died at just 19. Now, Nathan is focused on his most personal work yet: helping others navigate mental health challenges in his son’s honor. What makes that mission even ... | 40m 25s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | How High Achievement Masked a Quiet Battle with Addiction | Today’s guest on Grieving Out Loud found success early in life. Mark Ehrenkranz built a career in the entertainment industry in California and New York, taking on a range of roles. But beneath that success, he was quietly fighting a battle with addiction. Over the years, Mark says recovery would come in long stretches, sometimes years before everything would unravel again. In one case, he says it was triggered by a medication prescribed by a doctor. Other times, it started with the thought th... | 54m 22s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | From Prison to the Runway✨ | addictionrecovery+3 | Danica Miller | New York Fashion WeekMiss Mt. Rushmore | — | addictionrecovery+5 | — | 36m 51s | |
| 6/3/26 | She Lost Her Son. Then She Started Following the Money.✨ | opioid crisisgrief+4 | Alexis Pleus | Grieving Out Loudopioid manufacturers+2 | — | opioid overdosegrief+5 | — | 46m 50s | |
| 5/27/26 | He Lost His Brother, Then Lost Himself✨ | griefloss+3 | Hakeem Bourne McFarlane | — | — | grievingloss+4 | — | 46m 09s | |
| 5/20/26 | What Grief Really Looks Like and Why We Don't Talk About It✨ | griefloss+4 | Stephanie Peirolo | — | — | griefloss+5 | — | 50m 36s | |
| 5/13/26 | Mom Survives Back-to-Back Loss of Son and Husband, Finds Meaning in Life Again✨ | griefloss+4 | Kym Hinchey | — | — | griefloss+5 | — | 54m 13s | |
| 5/6/26 | The Dandelion in the Window✨ | addictionmental health+3 | Toni Handboy | — | — | opioid epidemicgrief+3 | — | 1h 03m 55s | |
| 4/29/26 | Why 72,000 Deaths a Year Is Not a Success Story✨ | drug overdoseaddiction research+3 | Dr. Wayne Kepner | Stanford | — | drug overdose deathsopioid epidemic+3 | — | 42m 12s | |
| 4/22/26 | The Alcohol Addiction Treatment Many Don’t Know Exists✨ | alcohol addictionsubstance use disorder+2 | Katie Lain | the National Survey on Drug Use and HealthGrieving Out Loud | the United States | alcohol use disorderaddiction treatment+1 | — | 45m 56s | |
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| 4/15/26 | The Fight Isn't Over: Mississippi's Attorney General on Opioids, Fentanyl, and What's Still at Stake✨ | opioid epidemiclegal action+2 | Mississippi'S Attorney General | Grieving Out Loud | Mississippi | opioidsfentanyl+3 | — | 48m 39s | |
| 4/8/26 | She Left a Mental Health Facility and Bought a Gun. Her Mother Is Fighting to Change That✨ | mental healthsuicide prevention+3 | Larissa Strong | Grieving Out Loud | the United States | mental health facilitysuicide rates+2 | — | 42m 28s | |
| 4/1/26 | The Wounds Beneath the Addiction: One Treatment Center's Deeper Approach to Recovery✨ | mental healthaddiction+2 | Greg VorstMichael Nolan | Embodied Recovery | Silicon Valley | Silicon ValleyEmbodied Recovery+1 | — | 50m 16s | |
| 3/25/26 | How to Live With Grief, Not Be Defined By It✨ | griefloss+3 | Sylvia Wolfer | Grieving Out Loud | — | opioid epidemicheart attack+3 | — | 37m 28s | |
| 3/18/26 | Honoring Artists We've Lost✨ | griefloss+3 | Andrea Magder | — | — | purposeimpact+3 | — | 37m 17s | |
| 3/11/26 | A Drug Historian on What America Keeps Getting Wrong About the Fentanyl Crisis✨ | fentanyl crisisdrug history+2 | Dr David Herzberg | The White HouseGrieving Out Loud | Americathe United States | fentanylopioids+2 | — | 41m 20s | |
| 3/4/26 | A New Strategy for America’s Addiction Crisis✨ | addictionpublic health+2 | Pam Jenkins | ShatterproofGrieving Out Loud | — | Shatterproofopioid epidemic+2 | — | 45m 45s | |
| 2/25/26 | A Wife’s Battle With Addiction, A Husband’s Journey to Love Her Through It✨ | addictionrelationships+2 | Lori Kellar | — | — | opioid epidemicalcoholism+2 | — | 30m 21s | |
| 2/18/26 | How the System Fails People with Addiction✨ | addictionoverdose crisis+3 | Patricia Roos | Surviving Alex: A Mother’s Story of Love, Loss, and AddictionRutgers University | — | heroin overdoseSurviving Alex+3 | — | 39m 24s | |
| 2/11/26 | The Voice You Knew — The Story You Didn’t | You may know her as the voice of Sally Brown in Peanuts, but by the time she was just 11 years old, Hilary Momberger-Powers had already appeared in dozens of commercials. Behind that familiar voice, though, was a child quietly struggling — with the voices in her own head and the ones she couldn’t escape at home, where she endured emotional abuse from a mother battling alcohol addiction. That early trauma set Hilary on a dangerous path marked by substance use, abuse and homelessness at a young... | 51m 33s | ||||||
| 2/4/26 | He Saw a Gap in Addiction Treatment and Decided to Do Something About It | Sometimes the most meaningful change does not start in a boardroom or a big city. It starts when one person decides they cannot look away anymore. That is exactly what happened with today’s guest. After seeing firsthand the urgent need for compassionate and accessible substance use disorder treatment in his New Mexico community, Trent Carter decided to take action. Trent is a nurse practitioner with a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati and the founder of Renew Health, a recover... | 42m 40s | ||||||
| 1/28/26 | A Brain Scientist’s Warning Every Parent Should Hear | Today’s marijuana is not the marijuana of the 1960s and ’70s. It’s far more potent, and a growing body of research is linking heavy use to serious mental health issues, including psychosis and schizophrenia. Our guest on Grieving Out Loud, Kristen Gilliland, knows those dangers all too well. Her son experienced cannabis-induced psychosis and later died from an accidental drug overdose — a loss Kristen never imagined her own family would face. That reality is especially striking given her back... | 41m 36s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | She Promised It Would End With Her—Then It Didn’t | Substance use disorder is a devastating and complex disease, not only for the person experiencing it, but also for their families. Many people struggling with substance use carry deep shame, often asking themselves: Why can’t I stop? Why am I hurting the people I love? What’s wrong with me? The disease can also span generations, shaping both family histories and futures. That’s the case for Jennifer Chase. After the turmoil substances caused throughout her childhood, Chase was determined to t... | 48m 14s | ||||||
| 1/14/26 | The Cost of Getting Marijuana Wrong | Marijuana is a word that can quickly spark debate. Should it be legal? Does it offer real medical benefits? Is it a gateway drug? These questions continue to fuel controversy, and strong opinions exist on all sides. In this episode of Grieving Out Loud, we sit down with Crissy Groenewegen, director of the Parent Action Network. She works closely with parents and families impacted by marijuana, helping them share their stories in ways that reach and influence lawmakers. We do not shy away from... | 41m 16s | ||||||
| 1/7/26 | Dr. Sophie Two Hawk on Healing Native Communities from Addiction and Trauma | When you think of a trailblazer, you think of someone who walks into the unknown and leaves a path behind for others to follow. Dr. Sophie Two Hawk is one of those people. She spent her childhood moving from place to place, living on and off reservations. And by 16, she had already graduated high school — not just early, but as valedictorian. Three years later, she’d finished her undergraduate degree. And in 1987, she became the first Native American to graduate from medical school in South D... | 46m 16s | ||||||
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