Grief doesn't end, it transforms.The Carried Forward Podcast is a conversation-driven show about what happens after loss. Not the moment of loss itself, but the long, slow, often invisible work of rebuilding identity, meaning, and purpose on the other side of it.Host Robert DelFave is a grief coach, author, and someone who lost both parents young. He sits down with grief professionals, researchers, therapists, authors, and thought leaders to ask the questions his clients are living with every day. What does carrying grief forward actually look like? How do you rebuild who you are on the other side of this?
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Signup to Generate a PitchGrief doesn't end, it transforms. The Carried Forward Podcast is a conversation-driven show about what happens after loss. Not the moment of loss itself, but the long, slow, often invisible work of rebuilding identity, meaning, and purpose on the other side of it. Host Robert DelFave is a grief coach, author, and someone who lost both parents young.
Carried Forward is hosted by Robert DelFave. The show has published 11 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "From the Carried Forward Archive: From Carrying Pain to Carrying Wisdom w/ Rebecca Gaeta" (17 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Can Your Relationship With a Parent Continue After They Die? with Alana Michaels" (12 October 2026, 38 minutes), and "What “It Is What It Is” Was Hiding" (5 October 2026, 19 minutes).
Carried Forward publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 11 episodes.
Booking probability for Carried Forward is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Carried Forward requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Carried Forward's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Carried Forward are Family & Social Services and Health & Wellness Services. Carried Forward has a health audience.
Robert DelFave hosts Carried Forward, a health show with 11 episodes published.
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This conversation first aired on Carried Forward on September 8, 2026. I’m sharing it through Unparented so Rebecca’s story remains available. Rebecca Gaeta lost both of her parents when she was eight years old. Her...
Carried Forward
After Alana Michaels’s father died suddenly, she began noticing numbers, songs, and moments that felt deeply connected to him. Her father, John “Johnny Mikes” Michaels, was a CPA, a devoted grandfather, a long-suffering...
Carried Forward
"I'm so sorry about your parents." "Thanks. It's okay." The response comes quickly, even when nothing about the loss feels okay. Sometimes "it is what it is" expresses acceptance. Sometimes it protects a boundary or...
Carried Forward
A photograph you cannot explain. A question from your child. A small detail about your own life that only your mother or father would have known. In this episode of Unparented , Robert DelFave explores what happens when...
Carried Forward
You organize the family gathering, check on everyone else, and show up when you're needed. But when someone asks what you need, you aren't sure how to answer. In this episode of Unparented, Robert DelFave explores the...
Episode #14
Why can grief catch you off guard years or even decades after someone dies? While writing his book, Robert began reflecting on the childhood trips he took to the airport with his father. He had always believed he...
Carried Forward
Having a spouse, children, and a family of your own does not remove the desire to call your parents. In this solo episode, Robert reflects on losing his father at fourteen and his mother at twenty-six. He talks about...
Episode #13
At eight years old, Rebecca Gaeta lost both parents—and learned that being “good” meant staying quiet about her grief. Decades later, she discovered that what happens to us may be beyond our control, but how we carry it...
Episode #8
"Grief alone is grief compounded." In this episode, I sit down with grief therapist and counselor Carl Nassar for a conversation about why sorrow becomes heavier when we carry it by ourselves, and what becomes possible...
Episode #7
“I know the pause of grief.” In this episode, I sit down with attorney Stephanie Prestridge for a conversation about the part of grief almost nobody talks about: the collision between emotional loss and the systems...
Episode #6
“Many grieving people genuinely think they are losing themselves, when in reality their brain and body are adapting to profound change.” In this episode, I sit down with Sylvia Wolfer for a conversation about what grief...
Episode #5
"I'm just carrying it. I don't know where forward is anymore." That's what Katie said when I asked her what carrying grief forward meant to her. And I think it might be the most honest thing anyone has said on this...
Episode #4
“I’m just carrying it. I don’t know where forward is anymore.” In this episode, I sit down with author, poet, and grieving mother Katie Rizzo for one of the most honest conversations I’ve had about addiction, shame...
Episode #4
<p>“I’m just carrying it. I don’t know where forward is anymore.”</p><p><br>In this episode, I sit down with author, poet, and grieving mother Katie Rizzo for one of the most honest conversations I’ve had about...
Episode #3
“Everyone asks how the parents are doing. Nobody asks how the siblings are doing.” In this episode, I sit down with author, speaker, counselor, and sibling grief advocate Zander Sprague for a deeply honest conversation...
Episode #3
<p>“Everyone asks how the parents are doing. Nobody asks how the siblings are doing.”</p><p>In this episode, I sit down with author, speaker, counselor, and sibling grief advocate Zander Sprague for a deeply honest...
Episode #2
“Grief is love that has nowhere to go.” In this episode, I sit down with therapist and grief counselor Zulma Williams for an honest conversation about grief, trauma, healing, and the emotional unpredictability of loss...
Episode #2
<p>“Grief is love that has nowhere to go.”<br><br></p><p>In this episode, I sit down with therapist and grief counselor Zulma Williams for an honest conversation about grief, trauma, healing, and the emotional...
Episode #1
What's the grief milestone nobody prepares you for? Not the funeral. Not the first year. The weird specific one nobody talks about. I asked that question recently and over nine hundred people answered. Their responses...
Episode #1
<p>What's the grief milestone nobody prepares you for? Not the funeral. Not the first year. The weird specific one nobody talks about.</p><p>I asked that question recently and over nine hundred people answered. Their...
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mother, high school teacher, author
TV host, award-winning author, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
licensed clinical social worker, founder, Dragonfly Therapy Services
founder of Grief.com, author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, Grief.com
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