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Hosted by Erika Hernandez · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Purpose, Not Pity: After the Impact is a podcast about rebuilding your life after loss, heartbreak, identity shifts, and unexpected change. Hosted by Erika Hernandez, this show explores what happens when grief, divorce, career pivots, or major life disruption reshape who you are. It’s not about replaying the pain. It’s about understanding your identity after loss and learning how to move forward with intention. If you’re navigating grief, starting over, rebuilding confidence after a setback, or trying to find clarity in the middle of change, this space is for you. Through grounded, emotionally intelligent conversations, you’ll find language for what you’re feeling and direction for what comes next. Because life doesn’t stop after the impact. You build forward.
Erika Hernandez hosts Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact, a education show with 20 episodes published.
For the first time ever, Erika has a guest. Donielle Young, known as the Grief Disruptor, lost her husband to stage four colon cancer, is raising a teenage son alone, and built an entire movement for women who refuse to
The lease renewal came. The rent stays the same. And Erika cried anyway. In Episode 4 of Purpose Not Pity, Erika Hernandez gets honest about what it feels like to face losing the first home she ever chose for herself. No
I recorded this episode four times. Did my hair. Set up the lights. Tried to make it look put together. And every single time, I deleted it. So this is version five. No makeup. No lighting. Just me in my pajamas being ho
Most of us don't question the structure holding our identity together, until it's gone. In episode 2, Erika gets honest about what happens after the loss you planned for turns into the disorientation you didn't see comin
No one is coming to hand you the stability you've been waiting for. That is not a harsh truth, it is a freeing one. Season 2 of Purpose, Not Pity: After the Impact is an honest look at what recalibration actually feels l
What do you do when life hits you again — right after you thought you had finally found your footing? Two days after the Season 1 finale aired, Erika's position was eliminated. In this episode, she opens Season 2 with th
In the Season One finale of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika closes the year with a letter, not to who she was, but to who she’s becoming. It’s a love letter to the future self, the woman still in the making, the version shaped
In this deeply reflective episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika explores the quiet, often unspoken emotional space that many people find themselves in during the holidays after loss, heartbreak, or major life change. Not t
In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika reflects on a recent real-life moment that revealed how much she’s changed, not through what she did, but through what she no longer felt the need to carry. Through honest stor
In this deeply personal and unexpected episode, Erika shares the moment that stopped her in her tracks, a simple family photo on Facebook that opened a door to a truth she never fully acknowledged until now. What begins
This episode explores the possibility that not all hardship is punishment, some of it is preparation. Inspired by a conversation on Angie Martinez IRL with Joe Budden reflecting on Kobe Bryant, Erika asks a powerful ques
A FaceTime call from my bonus son, Malachi, flipped my whole day. What started as a normal check-in turned into him admitting something he never says out loud… that since my son Jovan passed, he hasn’t been able to find
Most people expect anger after loss to look loud and obvious. But what if your anger is quiet? What if it lives in your body, in long silences, in questions you can’t say out loud? In this “halfway” episode of Purpose, N
When life doesn’t go as planned, it’s not just your dreams that disappear, it’s the version of yourself you thought you’d always be. In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika Hernandez shares what it feels like to stan
When life breaks you open through loss, heartbreak, or tragedy, it is not just the person you lose. It is the friendships you thought would last forever. Some friends vanish. Some go silent. And sometimes, it is you who
What happens when grief collides with your menstrual cycle? In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika opens up about a deeply personal experience: a week of nonstop tears that felt like a setback in her healing journey
On the second anniversary of my son Jovan’s passing, I’m opening this podcast with something deeply personal, a letter to him. This isn’t a story told from a place of healing already found, but from the middle of it. In
What does it really mean to live again after loss? In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, I open up about the reality of rebuilding after Jovan’s passing, not in the big, dramatic moments, but in the daily ones. The first
Who were you before your heartbreak? Before the divorce, the loss, the diagnosis, the friendship that ended, the dream that slipped away? In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, I open up about the version of me that exist
What do you do when life breaks you open, and nothing looks like you imagined? Welcome to Purpose, Not Pity, a podcast for anyone who’s walked through loss, pain, or transformation and is learning to live with intention
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Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact is hosted by Erika Hernandez. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 20 episodes.
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