GRIT - Stories of Resilience

GRIT can mean pebbles on the beach. It can also mean courage, passion, perserverance and even humilty. It is doing in an honorable way whatever it takes.GRIT is an essential characteristic of starting over in life when someone has hit a rough patch. With it, almost anything is possible. Without, not so much.This is a podcast about facing adversity, including mental health issues and starting over after a total career breakup. I talk candidly about it all and have interviews with many professional folks and friends who tell some of their own stories and searches for GRIT.

GRIT - Stories of Resilience is a true crime podcast hosted by Jim Blackburn, with 135 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jim Blackburn hosts GRIT - Stories of Resilience, a true crime show with 135 episodes published.

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  Loss and Resilience - Finding your way Back

  Jul 27, 202652 min

  This week, in a second podcast dealing with irrevocable loss, I talk with two men who know this issue well. Jim Glasgow is a retired minister from Wilmington, NC and has spent a lifetime counseling those who have suffered great loss. Now, in retirement, he faces it himself as his wife Suzanne has Stage Four Cancer, and who is now past the six months of life that her doctors gave her. Geoff Hulse lost his brother Bruce eighteen years ago after an argument in his back yard in Goldsboro, NC over whether Geoff should seek treatment out of state for alcoholism. Geoff blacked out and he woke up, Bruce had died of a heart attack. In an unflinching and searingly honest podcast, they each talk about loss and how they have handled it or are presently handling it in their own lives. They talk about faith, fear, disbelief, loneliness and sharing pain with others. Jim answers the question why in a way that might surprise you. This is a podcast on loss that cannot be fixed and finding your way back.

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  A Celebration of Life - Dealing with Grief

  Jul 13, 202655 min

  What do you do when you are told by doctors that the child you want most in life is not going to live and you should terminate the pregnancy? Do you believe in miracles? What if miracles come and then after only 36 days of life, everything goes black and life is no more? How do you respond? How do you get over the loss of a child? How do you deal with grief? Meredith tells her story of promise, hope, life, sadness, loss and grief. She also tells the story of faith, kindness, taking pictures, and the human spirt that enveloped she and her husband Anderson.

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  Pomp and Circumstance - Journey into Uncertain Times

  Jun 2, 202642 min

  From marching to graduation to the sounds of the orchestra playing Pomp and Circumstance to the "yawning uncertainty" of the of their lives, the new graduates and all the rest of us must deal with the uncertainty of where we are as a country, how we came to be so divided with each other, losing our way and figuring out how to get better. It is not too late but time is short. We need to educate ourselves as to who we have been as a country and what we want to be going forward. What we need is civility, passion and Volume Two of President Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage. A provocative look at where we might go from here.

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  The Times of Our Lives - Making Them Last

  May 18, 202638 min

  The recent death of a good friend and lawyer Norman Kellum of New Bern, North Carolina, has pushed me to reflect on living each day to it greatest potential and to take care of myself. Since I was a young person at the age of ten, I have tended to fall or trip and break arms and legs. Casts, crutches and boots have been part of my life. Most recently a fall on the beach where nothing was hurt but my pride has finally made me take notice and to walk every day and try to improve my balance. Two recent books, When We See You Again and Dispatches from Grief are about the untimely deaths of a child. There are to me, no more days where I wish them away or to hurry on to the next day. Today is all I have got, and likely the same for you. This is a serious and at times whimsical look at how best to live your life...one day at a time

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  Serving Time - one basket of hushpuppies at a time

  Mar 30, 202648 min

  From the back of the house cooking quesadillas at the Border Cafe (back of the house) to hosting and then working as a waiter at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar (front of the house), I joined the ranks of probably millions of people all over the world, working for tips. For me, it was not my first job, nor to make money for school, but to simply work and make money. I didn't know i would work at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar and find myself again allowing me to start over with my life. Both poignant and light, it remains one of the best things I ever did. s t b

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