First Year Of Grief Club with Addison Brasil

Episode Summary

Ian chats with a best-selling author, grief and emotional fitness speaker, and podcast guest, Addison Brasil. Addison and Ian shared a wonderful conversation about the journey of The Grief Club and the valuable lessons Addison learned from his experiences.

Don’t miss:

• Addison’s experiences that have built him into the successful person he is today.
• Learning about the safety mechanism that stops you from going into a space that is not going to be helpful.
• Understanding the perspective that certain elements of a healthy amount of guilt can also be a beautiful example of a human’s compassion and empathy.
• Acknowledging the different possibilities in your life and working on yourself rather than going into a deeper hole.

About The Guest:

Addison Brasil

Addison Brasil had no intention of becoming a disruptor in the mental health and grief space. While pursuing his dream of creating stories that connect people, events in his life forced Addison to focus his full attention on surviving trauma, compounded grief, and the various outcomes of finding himself as an LGTBQ-identifying male. Through news coverage, podcasts, social media, and speaking events Addison has reached millions of people.

Addison shows up in the world as an active, committed grief and emotional fitness advocate after landing just to the left of death three times in his 20s: losing his brother to a brain tumor, finding his father after suicide, and surviving a fatal accident that killed a dear friend and left him relearning to walk. He attributes his ability to not only survive but thrive with PTSD and compounded grief to the presence and proliferation of community and connections in his life.

Addison co-founded and served as Head of Brand Impact for tethr, a worldwide men’s mental health and well-being platform focused on the power of peer support. The start-up earned esteem when accelerated as a 500 Global (formerly 500 Start-Ups) portfolio company in San Francisco during the pandemic. His advocacy efforts and promotion of mental health and grief action have garnered global media acknowledgment in the New York Times and The Washington Post, and on Healthline, TMZ, and Fox News. Addison is currently writing a memoir and speaking about grief.

Addison has found meaning and purpose in building supportive communities and conscious brands in response to the losses he has faced. Following his younger brother’s terminal diagnosis, he co-founded the Team Brother Bear Foundation in 2008. The organization continues to aid children and families affected by brain tumors in memory of Austin Brasil.

Addison is Co-Producer and Executive Producer of the award-winning short film The Great Artist starring Matthew Postlethwaite, Emmy Nominee Rain Valdez, Benjamin Patterson, and Marimar Vega. Directed by Cannes Gold Lion Winner Indrani, the film will screen at the American Pavillion at Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

Addison is regularly invited as a speaker at events and as a guest for podcasts worldwide to share his story as a lived experience expert. Addison’s written work as a contributor has been featured in Los Angeles Magazine, Never Alone Blog, Chip Conley’s Wisdom Well, Daddy’s Digest, and more.

You can find Addison on social media: @addisonbrasil and at www.addisonbrasil.com

About the Host:

Ian Hawkins is the Founder and Host of The Grief Code. Dealing with grief firsthand with the passing of his father back in 2005 planted the seed in Ian to discover what personal freedom and legacy truly are. This experience was the start of his journey to healing the unresolved and unknown grief that was negatively impacting every area of his life. Leaning into his own intuition led him to leave corporate and follow his purpose of creating connections for himself and others.

The Grief Code is a divinely guided process that enables every living person to uncover their unresolved and unknown grief and dramatically change their lives and the lives of those they love. Thousands of people have now moved from loss to light following this exact process.

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