PODCASTS, SPEAKING & INTERVIEWS
Honest conversations about grief.
I'm a grief educator, author, podcast host, and speaker. I help people name what loss changed and find language for life after it.
"These shows exist because I needed them to exist. I couldn't find anything honest enough when my father died. So eventually, I made it myself."
— Robert DelFave
Grief Educator, Author & Host
PODCASTS I HOST
Carried Forward
Grief has a way of finding you in ordinary places: the grocery store, an old song, a familiar smell, or the split second when you forget they’re gone.
Carried Forward is a podcast about what loss does to identity and what it actually looks like to carry grief forward. Hosted by Robert DelFave, each episode explores grief through honest conversations with professionals, authors, researchers, and people with lived experience.
Host Robert DelFave is a grief coach, author, and someone who lost both parents young. Every episode is an honest conversation about loss, rebuilding, and what it means to carry it forward.
UNPARENTED
Unparented is the original podcast that began Robert’s public work around grief, parent loss, and identity. The show explores what it means to lose parents young and carry that loss into adulthood, relationships, family, and fatherhood.
Host Robert DelFave is a grief coach, author, and someone who lost both parents young. Every episode is an honest conversation about loss, rebuilding, and what it means to carry it forward.
AS HEARD ON
Healthy Mind, Healthy Life — "Unprocessed Grief and the Quiet Ways It Shapes Your Life"
A conversation on what happens when grief doesn't go away, it goes underground: the signs of unprocessed grief, why it often masquerades as anxiety or a short fuse, and why teenage grief is uniquely complicated when adults avoid the topic.
Speaking
I speak about grief from the inside. The teen who lost a parent. The adult still carrying it. What it takes to move forward with the loss integrated rather than buried.
Signature Topics
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How grief changes identity, family roles, faith, routines, and the future you thought you were building.
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A practical conversation for parents, counselors, educators, and church leaders supporting grieving teens.
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How parent loss shapes parenting, fear, memory, love, and the desire to give your kids what you did not have.
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A grounded talk on language, honesty, and rebuilding life after the terrain has changed.
Want to be a guest and show up honestly?
Carried Forward features honest conversations with grief professionals, authors, researchers, caregivers, and people with lived experience. If your story or work helps people understand what it means to carry loss forward, I’d love to hear from you.
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