Episode 36: Your Grief Journey: A Marathon Not a Sprint

A wife that passed away from cancer, a career in transition, and a young daughter to raise on your own … how do you not just move forward but thrive despite this hand you have been dealt?

In this interview we discuss this scenario with AJ Coleman, who lived it and documented his experience as the author of the book “Keep Those Feet Moving: A Widower’s 8-Step Guide to Coping with Grief and Thriving Against All Odds”.

We discuss AJ’s grief journey, from losing his wife Cory to brain cancer when she was just 33 and the trials he faced not just in the grief, but now as a single parent to his daughter Zoey, managing his career as a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) and fraud examiner (CFE), and so much more.

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Growth Evangelist / Growth through Grief Founder

Tom Pisello is a widower and the father of two daughters. Tom lost his wife Judy in 2017 after her ten year battle with cancer.

Tom founded the Growth through Grief site, resources and ministry to help share his personal experiences to grow through the grieving process, and to share with others to help in his own and other’s healing process. Through this process, Tom gained his sobriety, lost 60 pounds, gained a growth mindset and rekindled lost faith, now sharing these hard-earned lessons and the lessons of other widowers and experts with you.

Prior to creating Growth through Grief, Tom was a successful serial-entrepreneur, analyst, speaker, and author of the business books Evolved Selling and The Frugalnomics Survival Guide. He was well known as “The ROI Guy”, founder of Alinean and Interpose, a Managing VP of analyst firm Gartner, Chief Evangelist for Mediafly and founder of the Evolved Selling Institute and host to the popular sales and marketing podcast – Evolved Selling