Becoming a Doctor While Fighting Stage 4 Cancer with Kylee

Becoming a Doctor While Fighting Stage 4 Cancer with Kylee

Don't forget to watch on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/F1DvlAPiasU] In this episode of Grief Witnessed, I sit down with my friend Kylee to share the story of her husband, Brett, and the six-year fight that changed their family forever. Kylee and Brett met at BYU, fell in love quickly, and built a beautiful life together. After eight years of marriage and a young son, Brett was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at just 31 years old. Together, they navigated surgeries, chemotherapy, medical residency, IVF, and the joyful surprise of welcoming twins in the middle of an impossible season. We talk about what it means to love someone through terminal illness, the sacredness of hospice, the gift of a death doula, and the unforgettable moments of saying goodbye. Kylee also shares what life looks like now, dating after loss, raising three children, and learning that loving someone new never takes away the love you still carry for your spouse. This conversation is filled with honesty, hope, tears, and laughter. It's a reminder that grief doesn't have an expiration date, and that the deepest loves continue to shape us long after goodbye. If you've ever loved someone through illness, wondered how to keep moving forward, or needed permission to forever grieve, this episode is for you.

The Last Thing We Said Was "I Love You" with Becca Robey

In this episode of Grief Witnessed, I sit down with Becca to talk about loving someone through chronic illness, the unexpected shock of sudden loss, and finding love again after heartbreak. Bekah met Kenyon while working at Sundance, and what started as a snowboarding season romance turned into a marriage full of deep love and unimaginable challenges. Just six months after their wedding, Kenyon underwent life-changing surgeries due to severe ulcerative colitis. Their six and a half years together were marked by caregiving, hospital stays, hope, and learning how to keep loving each other through it all. When Kenyon unexpectedly passed away in his sleep at just 27 years old, Becca's world shattered overnight. In this conversation, she shares the trauma of sudden loss, the incredible support that carried her through, and how she eventually found joy and love again in her chapter two. This episode is about the many forms love can take, the resilience of the human heart, and the reminder that grief and joy can exist side by side. 🤍

Live Like Kyle with Laura Young, Widow to Kidney Cancer

In this episode of Grief Witnessed, I sit down with Laura to share the story of her love with her husband, Kyle. The two met on Bumble and knew almost immediately that they had found their soulmate. They got married and soon welcomed their baby girl into the world. Like so many new parents, they found themselves deep in the newborn trenches when Kyle began experiencing severe fatigue. They assumed it was exhaustion from life with a newborn, but after months of searching for answers and countless tests, they learned it was kidney cancer. Laura shares what it was like to become both a new mom to a baby and a caregiver to her husband, holding onto hope and truly believing that Kyle would get better. She also reflects on how this loss echoed another heartbreak in her life, having lost her mother to breast cancer in 2013. We talk about how cancer asks everything of both the patient and the people who love them. The way it stretches your capacity to hope, endure, and keep showing up even when you're terrified of what comes next. This episode is about soulmates, caregiving, and the heartbreak of loving someone enough to believe they'll make it, even when they don't. It's about carrying love forward after loss and finding the courage to keep going. 🤍

Love Greater Than The Diagnosis with Sophie Richards

Don't forget to watch on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/pRurmpSpkdI] In this episode of Grief Witnessed, I sit down with my widow friend Sophie to talk about young love, loss, and choosing love even in the middle of heartbreaking uncertainty. Sophie met Hyrum when they were just 15 years old. As teenagers, they built a friendship and love story that would continue through some of life’s most unexpected turns. While serving a mission for the LDS church, Hyrum received the sudden news that he had stage 4 cancer. Most people would have let fear take over. But Sophie and Hyrum chose love anyway. They got married at 21, just six months after his diagnosis, and spent the next two years building a beautiful life together. Sophie shares about Hyrum’s light, his incredible talent for being positive, and the way he continued choosing joy and connection even while fighting for his life. In December of 2024, Hyrum’s health began to decline. Then in January 2025, they received the devastating news that he likely had only three weeks left to live. On February 22, 2025, Sophie said goodbye to her husband. In this conversation, Sophie shares what it looked like to love someone through terminal illness, to marry someone knowing time might be short, and how love became bigger than the diagnosis they were given. This episode is about courage, young love, grief, and the kind of love that is eternal, even after goodbye. 🤍

Continuing Hailey's Mission with Matt, Widower To AFE

Don't forget to watch on Youtube! [https://youtu.be/VokT_6Kba0s] In this episode of Grief Witnessed, I sit down with Matt Okula to talk about the kind of loss that changes your life in a single moment. Matt and his wife Hailey were together for 13 years. They built a beautiful life filled with love, travel, and years of dreaming about becoming parents together. After walking through infertility, they were overjoyed to finally prepare to welcome their son into the world. Hailey was healthy, happy, and full of excitement going into her C-section. But just moments after Crew was born, everything changed. Hailey tragically passed away from an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare and devastating childbirth complication. In this conversation, Matt shares what it was like to experience both the happiest and worst moment of his life at the exact same time. We talk about sudden loss versus long-term loss, and how different kinds of grief can both be deeply painful in their own ways. Together, we explore the shock of waking up in a completely different life overnight, becoming a parent while grieving your spouse, and learning how to carry love forward after unimaginable heartbreak. If you’ve ever experienced sudden loss, medical trauma, or grief that changed everything in an instant, this conversation will stay with you.