Breathing Wind is a podcast about grief and loss and how we journey with these lifelong companions. Naila Francis, grief coach, writer and former journalist and Sarah Davis, podcast consultant, speaker and writer, are cohosts. We offer warm, honest and insightful conversations for the introspective at heart. Launched in 2019 as a personal grief project, the podcast struck a chord with listeners looking for a space to feel less alone in their grief. Quickly, a dedicated community grew around the candid and compelling conversations with others who knew grief just as intimately and those who offered guidance for navigating this universal human experience.In its three seasons of publishing monthly episodes, Breathing Wind has become a trusted space to explore who we become and how we make meaning in the midst of our post-loss lives. It's also the place where joy, laughter, wonder and possibility co-exist alongside deep heartbreak.Find out more at www.breathingwind.com.Follow us on Ins
Required Pod Score for this podcast. PitchCentric checks your profile against host openness, topical fit, and audience signals before you generate a pitch.
Contact path
Verified email
Booking probability
24%
Guest openness
Selective
Sign up to generate a grounded pitch for Breathing Wind.
Signup to Generate a PitchBreathing Wind is a podcast about grief and loss and how we journey with these lifelong companions. Naila Francis, grief coach, writer and former journalist and Sarah Davis, podcast consultant, speaker and writer, are cohosts. We offer warm, honest and insightful conversations for the introspective at heart.
Recent episodes include ""Doors To Grief" Ep. 3: An Artist's Invitation" (15 March 2025, 39 minutes), ""Doors To Grief" Ep. 2: Breathwork" (27 February 2025, 31 minutes), and ""Doors To Grief" Ep. 1: Asteroid City" (11 February 2025, 28 minutes).
Breathing Wind publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 42 minutes across 106 episodes.
Booking probability for Breathing Wind is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Breathing Wind requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Breathing Wind's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Breathing Wind are Family & Social Services. Breathing Wind has a society audience.
Breathing Wind is a society podcast with 106 episodes published.
Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.
Breathing Wind
<p>“What first started as a necessity of what I was going through, really evolved into this larger calling and feeling like, Why stop here? There’s so much to uncover.” ~ Brianna Hernández </p><p>Hi! Guest host Julia...
Episode #105
<p>“Your body already knows how to ride the waves. I think we’ve gotten so used to only trusting our minds and not trusting our bodies to do what’s good for them, and I think our body has a deep knowing.”</p><p>~ Erin...
Episode #104
<p>“In this movie you've got this guy who's, by all accounts, trying really hard to just keep everything together...That ends up being a much more potent thing for communicating this message than something that's more...
Episode #103
<p>“We need to stay open to this very natural response to how we experience the big losses changes in our lives. And if we can do that — it doesn’t come at once, it doesn’t come in big ahas — but there there is...
Episode #102
<p >“I've been very present to the fact that there have been these huge, huge joys. But every time I meet a huge joy, it just drops me deeper into the grief, which is part of what I always say about grief.</p> <p >The...
Episode #101
<p >“So if our narrative understood that it's emotional and cognitive and physical and spiritual and relational, how might we attend to ourselves differently? How might we attend to other people in our lives...
Episode #100
<p >“As a death midwife, one of the things many of us do is work on legacy projects with people who are dying and their loved ones, and yet sometimes I think it's really not up to us to know what our legacy is. I can...
<p >“I think some of the clearest decisions I've ever made have come in the aftermath of grief.” ~Naila Francis</p> <p >In this episode, we look back on our enchanting and insightful conversation with Mara June, an...
Episode #97
<p >"In allowing ourselves to feel our grief, or to feel present with whatever is coming up for us — not excluding our joy — that's actually helping us to feel more deeply in all of these areas in our life. And I think...
Episode #97
<p>In this episode, inspired by our powerful conversation with communal grief tender and song circle leader, Alexandra “Ahlay” Blakeley, we discuss our own experiences with song circles and how they impacted us — as...
Episode #94
<p >“I believe that community singing, which I define as, when a group of folks come together and they sing songs together that are easy enough lyrically and easy enough melodically to be taught in the moment. And then...
Episode #95
<p >“When I was on the Camino, there was this moment when I was spreading [my dad’s] ashes and just talking to him and I realized that was why I was there, that he wanted me there. And I felt so connected to him, and at...
<p >“If we have the intention to live with love and compassion, we can handle anything. We are amazing beings, we humans. We can also really screw up badly, but if we have the intention to live with love and compassion...
Episode #93
<p >“Our Christmas lights now are all blue since Ron left. I want to honor the day and the spirit of it, but the bright, shining twinkle lights and jingle bells don't speak to my heart. When the blue lights are turned...
Episode #92
<p >"If you're willing to open to the journey and if you're willing to really allow yourself to feel your grief and have practices to engage it, it does shape-shift over time. It does become softer. It does become...
Episode #90
<p>“Just having that dream visit, even just one visit, can nourish somebody and really give them the courage to go into their grief because it's not enough to have those dreams. It doesn't negate the pain of their...
Episode #90
<p >“I think runners, by nature, have this environment of excitement and energy and support just built into a race. It doesn't matter how fast you're running. You're just all together and you're all part of this big...
Episode #89
<p >“I have never been more practiced in honoring my grief, and I truly have never had more gratitude and joy and reverence for life…When you really feel into grief, my experience is you’re able to love and feel a part...
Episode #88
<p >In this bonus episode, we reflect on our conversation with Dan Fischer of One Last Wave, an amazing project that invites grievers to memorialize their loved ones by having their names etched on a surfboard that Dan...
Episode #87
<p >“Having an established creative practice helped me in ways I would have never known, and I think it’s the greatest gift my younger self gave me now.”</p> <p >~ Rosemmery Wahtola Trommer</p> <p >This month, we’re...
Recent guests on Breathing Wind. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
Senior Vice President of State Affairs, Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking
Grief Coach and Death Midwife, This Hallowed Wilderness
Grief Activist, author of "Grief is a Sneaky Bitch"
facilitator, hip-hop artist, educator, activist, Pendle Hill Study Center
PitchCentric classifies Breathing Wind under these industries. Guests from them are the closest fit, and each links to the best podcasts in that industry.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Is this podcast yours and you'd like to remove or correct details? Request removal or email privacy@pitchcentric.com.
Questions about the free trial? See the pricing FAQ
