Getting Back Up Podcast: Finding Life After Death
Getting Back Up Podcast: Finding Life After Death
Podcast Description
Two fathers. Two stories of loss. One mission to get back up.Real conversations with two men learning to navigate life, raise children, and find love again…after loss.Hosted by Jamal Jones and David McClain, Getting Back Up: Life after Death is a real, raw, and often humorous podcast about what comes after the unthinkable—losing a partner, facing grief, and finding your way through it. As two widowers, now devoted girl dads (and one remarried man), Jamal and David create space for honest conversations around healing, identity, and starting over. Getting knocked down is part of life. Getting back up is how we live.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of loss, healing, and fatherhood, discussing topics such as coping with widowhood, the role of love in moving forward, and the importance of brotherhood. Episodes like Life With Her explore the legacy of their late wives, while Where Are We Now? reflects on their progression in life after loss, offering listeners emotional support and practical insights.
Two fathers. Two stories of loss. One mission to get back up.
Real conversations with two men learning to navigate life, raise children, and find love again…after loss.
Hosted by Jamal Jones and David McClain, Getting Back Up: Life after Death is a real, raw, and often humorous podcast about what comes after the unthinkable—losing a partner, facing grief, and finding your way through it. As two widowers, now devoted girl dads (and one remarried man), Jamal and David create space for honest conversations around healing, identity, and starting over.
Getting knocked down is part of life. Getting back up is how we live.
Episode 50: What Happened When We Put Widowers in a Room Together | Widower Reset
What happens when you put a group of widowers in a room and give them permission to stop being strong for a weekend?
Jamal and David created the Widower Reset because 49 episodes of conversations about grief and life after loss had made one thing clear: men needed more than a podcast. They needed a place to be honest, vulnerable, understood, and connected without having to explain what it means to lose a wife.
In this 50th episode of Getting Back Up, they reflect on what actually happened when the first Widower Reset brought men together. From the first dinner to the conversations that went far deeper than expected, they talk about grief, friendship, vulnerability, dating, rebuilding life after loss, and the unexpected power of simply being around people who understand.
They also share what surprised them, what they would change, and the biggest lessons they took home.
The Reset wasn't about fixing grief. It was about discovering that you don't have to carry it alone.
The next Widower Reset is planned for March. Stay connected with Getting Back Up for details.
Getting Back Up: Finding Life After Deathis a podcast that explores the raw, unfiltered reality of surviving profound personal loss—and finding a way forward. The idea for the podcast was born after David and Jamal met in 2023. Both widowers, who had lost their wives to cancer, quickly found a deep connection through multiple conversations about pain, perseverance, and parenthood. They realized that while men often bond over music, sports, or TV, they rarely speak candidly about loss or emotional recovery. Getting Back Up was created to change that narrative—blending the everyday with the existential in a format that’s as relatable as it is real.
Getting knocked down is part of life. Getting back up is how we live.
Hosts: David McClain & Jamal Jones
Executive Director: Marlon Jackson
Editing: Marlon Jackson
Music:
Grenada, ”Treasure”
McDonald, Otis, ”Phife for Life”, otismusic.com
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