Cariad Lloyd: Talking About Grief Changed My Life
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Cariad Lloyd never set out to become the voice of modern grief, but after losing her father at just fifteen, the silence around death stayed with her. In this episode of Full Disclosure, James O’Brien speaks with the actor, comedian and creator of Griefcast podcast about how turning her personal loss into public conversation has transformed both her life and others'.
Together they explore the tension between comedy and sorrow, the strange rituals of mourning, and why so many of us feel unequipped to talk about death. Cariad shares the moments that shaped her, the people she’s never forgotten, and how the making of her book You Are Not Alone helped her say what so many struggle to find words for.
Poignant, funny, and gently radical, Cariad reflects on love, loss, and learning to hold space for the chaos of being human.
Find out more about Cariad Lloyd’s children’s book, Where Did She Go?: A heartfelt story to help children understand loss here
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| 1:14.6 | Hello and welcome to full disclosure. |
| 1:20.6 | A podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than we would ever get on the radio. |
| 1:22.6 | And Carriad Lloyd is here. |
| 1:29.7 | It strikes me that you are or were, well, you will always be a podcast pioneer. You were doing this long before it was cool. |
| 1:44.4 | Yeah, 2016 is when I started the Grievecast and it definitely wasn't a cool thing to do. The landscape was very much comedians and, you know, people like Helen Zaltzman who were sort of leading the charge but it was a very niche, |
| 1:45.6 | odd thing to do and comedians were doing it because it was like oh, well you can be funny and muck around then people might come to your gig. Yeah. Like it's not a fit, it's a side thing to get people to come to gigs. And yeah, now look at us in this amazing studio. So, nuts. |
| 1:40.9 | Did anyone say to you, it'll never catch on this podcast business? |
| 1:44.4 | No, I think they were like, um, now look at us in this amazing studio it's nuts did anyone say to you it'll never catch on this podcast |
| 2:02.6 | business no I think they were like |
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