Brian D. Smith is a grief guide, author, speaker, and host of the Grief 2 Growth podcast. His life was profoundly changed in 2015 after the sudden passing of his fifteen-year-old daughter, Shayna. Through his work, Brian explores grief as a crisis of meaning—not something to “get over,” but something to understand and live alongside. Drawing from lived experience, philosophy, consciousness studies, and near-death experience research, he speaks about love that continues and relationships that evolve beyond the physical. Brian serves on the Board of Directors of Helping Parents Heal and the Advisory Board of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), creating space for honest questions, gentle reframing, and hope.
