308. Suicide Loss and Healing: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Jo Kleinsorge

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What happens when the life you thought was perfect suddenly shatters?

In this week's episode, I sit down with Jo Kleinsorge, who lost her high school sweetheart to suicide two years ago. Their life seemed picture-perfect on the surface - financially stable, healthy kids, world travelers, surrounded by great friends. But in an instant, everything changed.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/308

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 308, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Joe Kleinsorge.
0:10.8	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to.
0:24.7	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:33.5	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:36.5	So I just did my interview with Joe, and I come and then I record the intro later. And I think you're really going to get a lot out of it. It's really cool to me. Joe and I talked about this after we were done, but we had turned the recording off. It's really cool to me to have what feels like a too full circle moment to see how Joe got hope from listening
0:58.2	to someone else's interview on the Widowed Mom podcast, which gave her the inspiration
1:04.3	that she could be happy again and could be okay and then is now on the podcast paying that back. It's like makes me teary
1:13.1	just thinking about it. So cool that I get to be part of the ripple effect of this work. So with that,
1:20.7	I am excited to introduce you to just a powerhouse of a woman who's very honest and vulnerable.
1:26.8	And I hope you'll get so much out of
1:29.1	my interview with Joe. Okay, welcome. Joe, I'm glad to have you. I'm glad to be here. It's weird that we
1:37.0	Yeah, right? Exactly. Yeah. Glad in a very weird way. Yeah. Yeah.
1:47.7	It's kind of surprising sometimes when I'm thinking about, who do I want to have on the podcast?
1:48.7	And then a name pops up.
1:52.1	And I'm like, wait, why have I not had Joe on the podcast yet?
1:54.0	You know, I'm glad we're doing this.
1:54.2	Okay.
1:55.5	So I'm going to shut up.
2:00.2	And I'm going to let you start by just telling the listeners a little bit about yourself, kind of how you got here.
2:02.9	Okay.
2:03.8	Well, my name is Joe, obviously.
2:05.7	I live in Southwest Missouri.
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