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 36: Finding Passion & Purpose Again
There comes a moment in the journey where survival isn’t the question anymore… it’s now what?
In this episode, Jamal and David dive into one of the hardest transitions after loss—moving from just getting through the day to actually building a life again. They explore what it means to rediscover purpose when the life you once knew no longer exists, and why so many widowers and widows feel stuck between honoring the past and wanting more from the future.
Through personal reflection and real talk, they unpack how purpose doesn’t disappear—it gets disrupted. From finding small sparks of passion to rebuilding identity through action, community, and discipline, this episode offers a grounded path forward. If you’ve been asking yourself who you are now and what comes next… this conversation is for you.
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