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Thank you for being part of Love after Loss. Whether you joined us live or are discovering the summit now, we're delighted to share these conversations, insights and experiences with you.
Our presenters have come together to explore the many ways we can navigate profound loss, find support, reconnect with ourselves and discover the possibilities that can emerge as we move forward.
Take your time. Watch the presentations that speak to you, revisit the conversations that touch your heart, and allow yourself to take away whatever feels meaningful.
The Love after Loss Summit recordings are available to everyone from Tuesday, November 24 through Saturday, November 28, 2026.
Please enjoy the presentations during this five-day window. Public replay access will end after November 28, and the recordings will be removed from this page.
We hope these conversations bring you comfort, encouragement and a renewed sense of possibility.
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These presentations were created to offer encouragement, understanding and inspiration as you navigate life after profound loss.
Each speaker brings their own experience, wisdom and perspective. You don't have to watch everything at once. Follow what draws your attention, take notes, and give yourself permission to pause whenever you need to.
We hope you find something here that speaks to your heart.
DAY 1 — NOVEMBER 21
A day of connection, understanding and new perspectives on the journey through loss.
Choose a presentation below to watch.
10:30 AM | Kevin Hughes (Kevin the Medium)
Love Never Leaves: Messages of Connection Beyond Loss
Kevin Hughes Meet Kevin Hughes My connection with Spirit began when I was young. My father passed away before I was born, and I grew up having vivid dreams of conversations with him. Over time, I came to understand those experiences as part of my spiritual connection. At 55, I embraced mediumship more fully. Training helped me develop my approach, and sharing this work with others became an important part of my life. A grounded, compassionate approach I aim to offer a calm, respectful space where you can bring your questions and explore connection with loved ones in Spirit. Whether we meet privately or in a group, I welcome both curiosity and an open mind. Every experience is individual. A reading cannot guarantee a message from a specific loved one or a particular outcome. Based in Maple Creek, I offer private online readings by Zoom and welcome group inquiries from Medicine Hat, Swift Current, and surrounding communities. More from Kevin: Tuning into Truth: https://kevinthemedium.ca/podcast Dear Universe with Angela Clement: https://kevinthemedium.ca/healing-hearts-session
Messages of Connection with Kevin the Medium
Join Kevin the Medium for a special evening of Messages of Connection, where we come together to experience the love, guidance, and reassurance that can come through from the spirit world. During this free event, Kevin will offer mini mediumship readings, connecting with loved ones who have passed and sharing the messages they wish to bring forward. Whether you're hoping to hear from someone special, curious about mediumship, or simply looking to experience the magic of spirit communication, you're warmly invited. This is a FREE event! Please note that readings will be offered as time permits, and while not everyone is guaranteed a personal reading, everyone is welcome to share in the experience. Come with an open heart, an open mind, and a willingness to experience the beautiful connections that remind us love never truly ends. The connections remain. The love continues.
11:00 AM | Kari Driskell
You Don’t Have to Grieve Forever
Kari Driskell You Don’t Have to Grieve Forever Kari Driskell is a Grief + Widow Coach, remarried widow + mom of two. When her husband Eric died suddenly in 2017, she was 38 and raising two young daughters. Her own experience led her to this work — and to the belief that you can miss your person + still build a life you want to live. Kari brings a real, no-BS perspective to grief. She helps people understand the difference between living with grief and actively grieving, feel more like themselves again + figure out what comes next. Her work makes room for both the pain of loss and the possibility of a life worth living. Website: KariDriskell.com
Free gift: 10 Days to Stop Feeling Like This
You don’t have to spend the rest of your life feeling the way you did when your person died. This free 10-day email series offers short reads + small, practical shifts to help you start feeling better and more like yourself again. Because healing doesn’t mean letting them go.
11:30 AM | Kyla Thomson
Grieving Bravely with Kyla Thomson
Kyla Thomson is a speaker, advocate, and former teacher whose life was shaped by her daughter Bella, known to millions as “Bella Brave.” After a decade navigating rare disease and complex medical care, Kyla now shares her experience as a grieving mother following Bella’s passing in 2024. Through her platforms and her podcast, Beyond Brave, she speaks on medical parenting, grief, resilience, and hope, carrying forward Bella’s legacy with honesty, courage, and heart.
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12:00 PM | Lisa Holt
Opening to Love without Leaving Love Behind
Meet Lisa Holt
Lisa Holt, PhD, is a Spiritual Counselor and Certified Life and Relationship Coach with over a decade of experience guiding individuals through personal growth and transformation. Her journey began in the beauty industry, where she owned a boutique salon for over 10 years. While working as a hairstylist for 22 years, she discovered her intuitive ability to support clients on a deeper level. This realization led her to transition into coaching, where she helps clients cultivate fulfillment and self-awareness through the lens of relationships. With a unique blend of insight, empathy, and transformational tools, Lisa empowers others to navigate life and love with clarity and purpose.
🎁 Lisa's Free Gift: Heart-Opening Visualization
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12:30 PM | Allison Pilling
A Widow's Path to Parenting
Meet Allison Pilling
Allison Pilling is an author, coach, and medium who helps people overcome fears of abandonment and build strong, healthy relationships with themselves and others. After the death of her husband, she left her career in environmental engineering to focus on her family's grief journey. During this time, she became certified in various coaching modalities and embraced spirituality as an important part of her healing and personal growth. She is the author of R.I.P. – Restoring Inner Peace: A Young Widow's Story of Being Transformed by L.O.V.E., which reached #1 Best Seller in Grief & Bereavement on Amazon.ca. Through her experiences with love, loss, solo parenting, health care advocacy, and mental health challenges, she shares her Transformed by L.O.V.E. 4-Step Action Plan to help others release fear, build confidence, and create a more empowered life. A nature lover who finds strength and grounding in the natural world, she is fascinated by orcas, loves heavy metal music, and enjoys travelling to new places. Through her coaching, talks, and workshops, she is passionate about creating an Empowerment Ripple Effect—one person, one family, one community at a time.
🎁 Allison's Free Gift: The 4 Step Action Plan to Confidently Make Decisions Guilt-Free
This resource is designed to help you release fears and move forward by taking empowered action. It provides a simple, step-by-step approach you can use anytime, anywhere, and without anyone knowing you are doing it.
1:00–1:30 PM | Adrien Blackwell
Healing Grief, Heal Your Life
Meet Adrien Blackwell
Blackwell has been helping people create profound shifts in their lives for more than 25 years. Her work focuses on energy healing, helping people release emotional blocks, old patterns, fears, and energetic limitations that may be keeping them from the life they truly desire. Adrien is the creator and host of the Making Miracles Happen Masterclass, a global community she founded in 2020 that has welcomed more than 500 speakers, including healers, spiritual teachers, authors, intuitives, celebrities, and thought leaders from around the world. She is also the host of the Making Miracles Happen Masterclass Podcast, where she explores healing, consciousness, intuition, manifesting, spirituality, and the extraordinary possibilities within everyday life. At the heart of Adrien's work is one simple idea: you heal and you can create the life you want, or get pretty damn close!
🎁 Adrien's Free Gift: Ascension Codes – Recorded Healings
It's a group of recorded healings, so you can push play and experience the ease of healing and growth.
1:30–2:00 PM | Shelley Lewin
The Possibility of New Love: The Art, Science and Practices of Building a Healthy Relationship
Meet Shelley Lewin
Known as “The Relationship Architect,” Shelley Lewin specializes in personal and professional relationship development, bringing expertise in love and leadership. For two decades, she has worked at the intersection of psychology, human behavior and relational intelligence. Shelley is a couple counsellor, global leadership coach, retreat leader and author of Uncomplicated Love: A step-by-step guide for building a thriving relationship. Since 2006, she has delivered more than 6000 coaching sessions, supporting growth-minded couples and Fortune 500 executives leading high-performing teams. She develops frameworks and practical tools that help people build healthier relationships and navigate their family and organizational systems with greater clarity and confidence.
🎁 Shelley's Free Gift: Uncomplicated Love Book Giveaway
Shelley is offering a copy of her book Uncomplicated Love.
2:00–2:30 PM | Cary Valentine
A Heart Can Hold Both — Loving Again Without Leaving Love Behind
Meet Cary Valentine
Can a heart hold the love of someone we've lost while opening to the possibility of loving again? For Cary Valentine, that question became deeply personal. Long before his wife Wendy was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer, Cary had devoted his career to helping people discover deeper love and create fulfilling, lasting relationships. Yet nothing could have fully prepared him for the emotional journey that lay ahead. Years before Wendy's diagnosis, the couple had made a loving pact: should either of them pass away, the other would have their blessing to find love and happiness again. It was a reflection of the deep love, trust, and freedom they shared. After caring for Wendy through a two-year battle with brain cancer, Cary experienced the heartbreak of losing her. Yet the understanding they had shared years earlier helped him embrace a profound truth: opening his heart to love again would never mean leaving their love behind. Today, Cary is happily remarried and a proud stepfather of two, living on the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi. A certified relationship expert for over a decade, Cary has helped thousands of singles and couples worldwide create deeper, more joyful connections. He is the bestselling author of In Love Forever, an international speaker, and an award-winning audiobook narrator featured on ABC, CBS, and PBS. Blending his professional wisdom with his deeply personal experience of love, loss, and new beginnings, Cary offers a compassionate and hopeful perspective on one of life's most tender journeys. His message: Loving again doesn't mean loving someone we've lost any less. The heart has room for both.
🎁 Cary's Free Gift: Is Your Heart Ready to Love Again? Your Personal Relationship Readiness Assessment
Could your heart be ready for a beautiful new chapter of love? Discover your relationship strengths, explore what may be holding you back, and gain valuable insights into opening your heart to love again—while honoring the love that will always be part of you. Your complimentary gift includes: - A private Relationship Readiness Assessment to explore where you are on your journey. - Valuable insights into your relationship strengths and opportunities for growth. - An invitation to a complimentary 20-minute, one-on-one Relationship Readiness Consultation with Cary Valentine, bestselling author and relationship expert. Together, you'll explore your assessment results in greater depth, gain personalized insights, and discover meaningful next steps toward creating a loving, fulfilling relationship—when the time feels right for you.
2:30–3:00 PM | Claire Schwartz
Wellness for Workplace Weariness
Meet Claire Schwartz
Claire is a Grief & Trauma Healing Expert with over 40 years on her own healing journey from over 40 losses. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan in Psychology, and she is a Certified Professional Coach, Reiki Master Teacher, Spiritual Counselor and is Certified in Bereavement Trauma by the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She has been in private practice over 18 years, taught multiple Grief and Trauma workshops, hosted Grief Retreats, taught twice at The Global Grief Conference and have been a podcast guest across the country. For her clients, she is called MaMa Bear for her fierce compassion, intelligent insights and quirky warmth.
🎁 Claire's Gift: 15% Off a 90-Minute Session
Exclusive to Summit Attendees! A nice long 90-minute session to get you started with me, at a 15% discount for your first session, which I rarely do.
3:00–3:30 PM | Dr. Gary Salyer
Safe to Love Again After Loss
Meet Dr. Gary Salyer
Dr. Gary Salyer is an attachment theorist, relationship mentor, and author who helps singles and couples rewire the brain for secure, lasting love. For almost twenty years, he has guided hundreds of people in breaking painful relationship patterns and creating deeper emotional connection through attachment science and neuroscience. He is the author of Safe to Love Again and extends the book's vision through his Substack articles and Safe to Love Again Podcast. A featured expert on Hay House Radio, Coast to Coast AM, and KCBS, he also created the online course Open for Love. Learn more at garysalyer.com.
🎁 Dr. Gary's Free Gift: Dr. Gary's Guide to Lasting Love – The Path to Secure Love
What if you could ask some of the world's leading experts how to find lasting love? Dr. Gary Salyer, author of Safe to Love Again: How to Release the Pain of Past Relationships and Create the Love You Deserve, shares the teachings of the best of the best, including his own groundbreaking work, to help you find the love you deserve. These four-to-five-minute videos will introduce you to ways to find a relationship and keep it. And, if you are already coupled, you will learn ways to fall in love all over again with your partner.
3:30–4:00 PM | Angela Clement
Messages for the Heart: Discovering Your Inner Wisdom After Loss
Meet Angela Clement
Angela Clement, former school principal, is a speaker, writer, energy healer, intuitive and the creator and host of the Awaken Your Soul’s Journey Podcast and Summit Series on grief. When her husband Blaine was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer in January 2021, Angela used her knowledge of energy healing to help him with his symptoms and her through the intense emotion. After he transitioned in October 2021, she continued her study, seeking support from healers and coaches to help her. She has since hosted five online summits interviewing over 200 experts in grief and presently hosts a weekly podcast. Her book, Awakening Through Grief was a finalist in the Saskatchewan Book Awards Best First Book 2026. The book is filled with practical advice, spiritual guidance, hope, and inspiration to help you live a life you love again after the loss of your loved one. Angela’s experience has helped her expand her new life and build a supportive community. She is passionate about helping others that are grieving find hope and live a life of joy and meaning after loss. As a certified grief coach, powerful healer and intuitive Angela provides one on one and group grief support, guidance and healing for those suffering from loss.
🎁 A Gift of Self-Discovery Through Writing – 50% Off a Spiritual Discovery Writing Session
Explore your inner wisdom through guided reflection, oracle card inspiration, meditation and intentional writing. Enjoy one session for just $7.50 CAD (regularly $15). Coupon code: LOVEAFTERLOSS50
4:00–4:30 PM | Debbie Squizzero
Forever Connected: Exploring the Bond Between Here and Heaven
Meet Debbie Squizzero
Debbie Squizzero is a Psychic Medium, author, certified Grief Educator, Grief Coach, and creator of Eternal Love, a grief support card deck. Known for her strong, natural ability to connect with Spirit, Debbie is tested and certified through Best American Psychics and dedicated to “healing people one soul at a time.” Her work is grounded in compassion and the belief that death ends a life, not a relationship. A former early childhood special education teacher of 23 years, Debbie holds a master’s degree in special education. Her commitment to lifelong learning has led her to study with accomplished psychic medium teachers and mentors, as well as grief expert David Kessler and coach and author Nancy Levin. Her own experiences with life’s challenges deepen the compassion and understanding she brings to her work. Through mediumship, live group events, grief education, and coaching, Debbie seeks to educate, inspire, comfort, and empower others. She offers energetic practices and tools for emotional resilience, helping clients grow through and with their grief while nurturing their continuing connection with loved ones. Debbie lives in Rhode Island, USA, where she is grateful for the endless love and support of her family and friends.
🎁 Debbie's Free Gift: 11 Insights for Your Grief and Loss Journey
When a Loved One Passes: Here's What You Need to Know This free downloadable PDF offers 11 compassionate insights to support you as you navigate grief and loss. Created to bring comfort, understanding, and gentle encouragement, it reminds you that there is no single right way to grieve, and that you don't have to have it all figured out. Explore these insights at your own pace as you honor your loved one and learn to carry your love and grief together.
DAY 2 — NOVEMBER 22
10:30 AM | Jay Deutsch
Life After Loss
Meet Jay
I’m Jay Deutsch—a solo father, self-love and mindset coach, and someone who knows grief inside and out. In June of 2015, my world shattered when I lost my soulmate of 26 years, Larissa, to suicide. I was left to raise our two children, who were just 3 and 13 at the time, completely on my own. On the outside, I kept going for my kids. But inside, I was numb. I drank, smoked, isolated, I didn't sleep, and I lived with constant guilt, self blame, and hopelessness. I got them the help they needed, but I didn’t believe healing was possible for me. Then, after nearly 5 years of barely surviving, everything came crashing down again. I lost my job at the start of the pandemic, triggering a flood of unresolved trauma, from childhood abandonment to heartbreak and grief. What followed was what many call a "dark night of the soul" and it forced me to face everything I had been avoiding. That breakdown became the beginning of my breakthrough. I dove into self-discovery, neuroscience, NLP, mindset work, emotional healing, and spiritual growth. I read, researched, cried, meditated, and I transformed. I learned how our thoughts shape our reality, how the nervous system responds to grief and negative self-talk, and how healing happens when we stop running from our pain. Today, I’m certified in coaching and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and I specialize in helping people who have lost someone rediscover who they are, and find joy, self love, and meaning again.
🎁 Jay's Free Gift: Free Clarity Call
Book Your Free Clarity Call This is a focused one-on-one conversation to understand what you’re experiencing, what you want to change, and whether you’re ready to actively participate in changing your life. This isn’t therapy or counseling. It isn’t about helping you cope, manage the pain, or learn how to carry grief forever. It’s a conversation about real healing. By the end of the call, you’ll have clarity about what’s happening, what needs to change, and whether working together is the right next step. If something in you knows it’s time, this is the first step.
11:00 AM | John Graham
The Intelligence of What Arises
Meet John Graham
John Graham is a former 3-time USA Memory Champion & Grandmaster of Memory who lived in elite mindset and peak performance only to wake up realizing he always wanted more, never satisfied, filled with anxiety & panic attacks. This led him deep inside, letting go of his mind and conditioning, meeting the dense, suppressed parts of himself. He now lives and mentors in embodiment, staying in contact with the felt sense in your body to guide your action, expression & knowing. Becoming who you truly are behind the distortions of the mind.
🎁 John's Free Gift: An Hour of Embodiment
Meet John live for a free hour of embodiment. Go beyond the mind. Learn to meet and live with the deep living intelligence of what is arising within us. Allow this innate intelligence to cultivate greater energetic capacity and order within yourself and your life. Open conversation and Q&A Friday, Dec 4, 2026 2-3PM EST
11:30 AM | Rev. Kaleel Sakakeeny
Grief: The Price of Love
Meet Rev. Kaleel Sakakeeny
Rev. Kaleel Sakakeeny is an ordained pastoral minister, animal chaplain, and CEO of Animal Talks Inc., a nonprofit organization working in Boston and South Africa. His work focuses on compassionate support for people navigating the loss of a beloved animal companion. With credentials in pet grief counselling and grief education, Kaleel brings a compassionate perspective to the experience of losing an animal we love. He believes that grief and sorrow are not problems to be fixed, but deeply human responses to the loss of a cherished companion. Through his work, Kaleel helps people find comfort and understanding as they navigate the pain of loss, reminding them that there is nothing wrong with feeling lost, frightened, or alone when someone they love is no longer beside them.
🎁 Kaleel's Gift: Scholarship for March 2027 8-week Grief Certification class
Contact Animal Talks for more information at animaltalksinc.com. In his session, Kaleel will explore: Grief, sorrow are not mental health issues. There is nothing to fix in grief. The griever has lost a beloved, cherished animal companion, the angel of his/her better self. What is needed in companioning; not fixing. Not therapy! How does this work? Let's talk. Contact Animal Talks for more information about the March 2027 Grief Certification scholarship.
12:00 PM | Niki J. Borger
Using Art and Creativity to Move Through Grief
Meet Niki J. Borger
Niki J. Borger is an award-winning actor, writer, and producer whose work spans film, theater, and personal transformation. Her short films, "Because I Could" and "A Portrayal of a Subtle Suicide", have screened at international film festivals, and she has performed on stages across Europe, Russia, and the United States. Drawing on her own experiences of profound personal loss, she created "In-Between", a collection of eight one-act plays exploring life, death, grief, and the journey of the soul. Niki is also the creator of the guided meditation app "5-Minute-Meditations" and founder of FireWolf Entertainment, a Hollywood-based production company.
🎁 Niki's Free Gift: 40% discount on Niki's book "In-Between
In-Between: Eight Gender-Neutral One-Act Plays Between Life and Death" explores death, grief, love, and purpose through imaginative, open-minded storytelling. It is not a self-help book. Rather than giving advice or telling readers how to feel, it invites them to question long-held beliefs, explore new perspectives, and discover their own meaning in life's greatest mysteries.
12:30 PM | Dr. Karen Kramer
Healthy Grief
Meet Dr. Karen Kramer
Dr. Karen Kramer (AKA “Dr. Karen”) is an intuitive healer, grief recovery and resilience navigator, and wellness retreat center CEO who has transformed the lives of hundreds-of-thousands of individuals around the globe since the early 1990s. With a profound understanding of the human mind, her true passion as a mindset facilitator, speaker, and author lies in helping navigate heart-wrenching losses, griefs, and traumatic events. Dr. Karen draws her inspiration for her best selling book "Healthy Grief" from personal experiences, including a broken neck, multiple deaths, two divorces, corporate downsizing, and various life challenges, as well as her son's remarkable health recovery and powerful client results. With a wealth of international coaching experience, a profound understanding of techniques that unlock the subconscious mind, and her intuitive abilities, Dr. Karen is dedicated to helping others live happy, healthy, and full lives so we can create a better world for everyone.
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1:00 PM | Irene Weinberg
When Loss Opens the Door to Awakening and Rebirth
Meet Irene Weinberg
Irene Weinberg is the author of the acclaimed book They Serve Bagels in Heaven, which shares her transformative journey through a profound car accident and its aftermath. Her international award-winning podcast, Grief and Rebirth: Finding the Joy in Life, ranks in the top 1% globally, featuring interviews with grief and trauma specialists, healers, mediums, and inspiring stories of resilience. Her new anthology, Good To The Last Drop! Embracing Your Life’s Third Chapter, offers inspiring, uplifting tales of overcoming loss and challenges in later life, advocating for living life’s third chapter fully with love, kindness, and purpose. Irene is one of 60 Thought Leaders interviewed for the documentary by Producer Peter Alessandria titled "Every Soul Knows” which presents stunning insights from interviews with more than 60 Thought Leaders in the fields of near-death experiences, mediumship, channeling, and psychic and other spiritually transformative experiences, bringing to light the many ways understanding our eternal spiritual nature can enhance our lives while we are still in our physical bodies.
🎁 Irene's Free Gift: 📖 Claim Your Free Copy of They Serve Bagels in Heaven + Stay Connected!
For a limited time, get a FREE PDF copy of Irene’s deeply moving and inspiring book, They Serve Bagels in Heaven! 📖🥯💫 In this uplifting read, you’ll discover: ✨ Irene’s powerful story of love, healing, and spiritual connection ❤️ ✨ Comfort and hope through times of grief or loss 🕊️ ✨ Inspiring insights into the journey of the soul 🌟 👉 To claim your free copy, simply email us at: ✉️ hello@ireneweinberg.com ✨ JOIN OUR SUBSTACK COMMUNITY! ✨ Want to stay connected and dive deeper on your healing journey? 🦋 Join our Substack community to get: 🎧 The latest episodes of the Grief and Rebirth podcast 📅 Updates on upcoming events & live conversations 🌿 Powerful healing resources, tools, and spiritual guidance 💡 Exclusive insights to support your heart and mind Subscribe to the Substack community: https://griefandrebirth.substack.com/
1:30 PM | Julie Cluff
The Spiritual Path of Healing After Loss: Grief, Presence, and Continuing Connection
Meet Julie Cluff
Julie Cluff is a spiritual medium and teacher, intuitive, energy worker, grief specialist, author, and host of the Light the Day podcast. Her work bridges the spiritual and human experience, helping others connect with Spirit, discover their inner wisdom, and find healing and purpose. Julie’s spiritual awakening began after the tragic loss of her two youngest children in a car accident in 2007. This profound experience opened her intuitive and mediumistic gifts and inspired her calling to help others heal. With extensive training in grief, trauma, and personal growth, Julie developed the HOPE Model of Healing After Loss and the Five Foundations of Growth to help people navigate grief and rebuild meaningful lives. Today, she combines mediumship, intuitive guidance, energy work, and spiritual teaching to inspire hope, healing, and transformation.
🎁 Julie's Gift: Angel Affirmations
Strengthen your connection with your angels, receive loving guidance, and align with peace, clarity, and support from your spirit team. Let these affirmations open your heart to the presence of your angels, who are always near and always guiding your path forward. Access your gift: In her session, Julie will explore how to honor grief, release expectations, create space for grief, and open to the loving support of angels, spirit guides, and loved ones who have passed. She will share simple ways to recognize signs, nurture continuing connections, and invite divine comfort and guidance into the healing journey.
2:00 PM | Susan Peters
How Marrying My Heart Healed My Broken Heart and Led Me on an Amazing Journey to Discover New Dreams
Meet Susan Peters
As Susan Peters began a journey through grief to discover what could be possible as she searched to find her new identity after the heartbreaking loss of her husband, John, on Valentine's Day of 2021, she created a dream to marry her heart to help her shattered heart to heal and find trust and love again. This led her to want to share her story with others, so she became a published author after writing her bestselling book, "The Miracle of Marrying My Heart: A Journey of Discovering New Dreams After Loss." She also became a co-author in two international bestselling books: "Manifesting Magical Moments: Embrace the Extraordinary in Everyday Life" and "Breath of Gold: Stories of Healing and Awakening Through Breathwork." She hopes to inspire others to connect with their deepest selves after times of loss so that they can trust their hearts to dream again and find true purpose, connection, and joy as they move forward to create the next chapter of their lives. Susan is a graduate of the Class of 2026 Brave Widow Academy and a Certified Grief Coach of the Brave Widow Life Coaching Program. She is a Grief Facilitator for widows and widowers in her local community. She is the creator of the Heart-to-Heart Connection Summit with interviews available to listen to for free on her website at www.susan-peters.com. And she wants everyone to know that even with the most devastating loss, we all have the possibility to move forward, to create new dreams, and to choose a life that we love living.
🎁 Susan's Free Gift: "Journey to Love: 6 Steps To Cultivate Self-Love and Ignite New Dreams After Loss
Guidebook for transformation.
2:30 PM | Raquel Reis
Wide Awake Love: Opening Your Heart After Loss
Meet Raquel Reis
Raquel Reis wants to live in a world where we all feel at home: in our relationships, our communities and within ourselves. As a relationship coach, she appeared on many podcasts including Amplify Her, Meridien Point and EmPowerGraphy. She's also spoken at relationship summits including the Get Your Mojo Back and Creating Magic in Your Relationship and taught classes at The Anima Collective and Parenting Boys Peacefully. she is a contributing author to Confident You, where she wrote "The Power of One to Change a Relationship: Loving More by Doing Less." Between private work, small groups, retreats and online forums, she helped hundreds of clients, coaching them to authentic, grounded connection, getting on the same page, and creating thriving, lifelong partnerships. Raquel loves to simplify misunderstandings, transforming conflict into connection and harmony. When she’s not helping clients make their differences work in their favor, you can find her practicing yoga, hiking, and reading bedtime stories to her nieces and nephews over Zoom.
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3:00 PM | Alanna Knobben
The Intimacy of Loss: The Things We Carry
Meet Alanna Knobben
Alanna Knobben is a speaker, author, grief educator and founder of Carry You With Me. Through engaging keynotes, reflective workshops and creative experiences, she supports individuals, teams, organizations and communities in navigating grief, change and life's complex transitions. Blending more than 20 years of leadership experience across corporate, nonprofit and community environments with her lived experience following the loss of her son, Marshall, Alanna creates welcoming spaces for meaningful connection, reflection and growth. Helping people honour what they carry while discovering new ways to move forward.
🎁 Alanna's Free Gift: TBD
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3:30 PM | Blair Kaplan Venables
Navigating GRIEF: A Practical Framework for High Performers Carrying Loss
Meet Blair Kaplan
Blair Kaplan is a Canadian-based grief and resilience expert and coach, motivational speaker and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project. Her expertise has been featured on media platforms like Psychology Today, Forbes, TEDx, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch, and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world. 'MyStory,’ which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play, showcases Blair's life story. She is the cohost of the RESILIENT A.F. with Blair and Alana podcast and specializes in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods and guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework. The Global Resilience Project’s award-winning books are international bestsellers. In her free time, you can find Blair writing, in nature, travelling the world and helping people to strengthen their resilience muscles.
🎁 Blair's Free Gift: The 5 Secrets to Strengthening Your Resilience Muscle Workbook
Enjoy the gift of a free workbook from The Global Resilience Project: The 5 Secrets to Strengthening Your Resilience Muscle
4:00 PM | Kim McInnes
Letting Love Write
Meet Kim McInnes
Kim McInnes is an award-winning keynote speaker, published author, and positive psychology practitioner who helps people rediscover hope, joy and meaning after life’s heaviest seasons. Combining lived experience with research-informed positive psychology, Kim explores how pain and joy can coexist, and how we can care for what hurts while making room for love, meaning and a life that feels like our own again. Kim is the author of Extraordinary After and founder of Choose Extraordinary. With deep emotional resonance, honesty and touches of humour, she shows audiences see that moving forward doesn’t mean leaving love or grief behind. Kim doesn’t just move audiences. She reignites their spark for life. Outside of work, you’ll usually find her dancing at Zumba, travelling, down at the beach, singing, or eating chocolate.
🎁 Kim's Free Gift: The Emotional Tune Up
The Emotional Tune-Up A gentle, guided reset for your nervous system and inner world. When life feels heavy, foggy or flat, this short workbook helps you slow down, name what you’re feeling, and work out what you need right now. Inside are simple body-based resets (including a 90-second breath reset), a feelings map, and journalling prompts you can come back to any time. It’s a gentle, introspective journey into your inner world, designed to bring a little more calm, peace and joy.