Welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast, where we believe that no matter what you've gone

through in life, God is inviting you to partner with Him to take back your story.

On this podcast, we have inspiring conversations with people who are doing just that.

And now, your hosts, Davey Blackburn and Aubrey Samson.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Nothing Is Wasted Podcast. I'm Aubrey.

And I'm Davey and we're so excited that you're joining us today because we're starting

a brand new series. And I'm super excited about this because it happens to apply to my own

personal story. And you know, Aubrey, to be honest with you, when we started the Nothing

Is Wasted Podcast, we weren't really sure how it was going to evolve and what was going

to happen. I knew that I had a few different people that I wanted to talk to who were widows

and widowers because that's my story. And I kind of thought that that's probably what

we would do is help people in that particular area of grief. And then it just evolved into

a lot of different pain points. This is the first time we're doing a series specifically

on widowhood. Can you believe that? No, I'm actually really surprised by that. Yeah, it

surprises me that this is the very first time this, especially just because of your story,

too. And this is such a pain point for so many people. So I'm so glad we are going for

this. Yeah, we've realized over the past few years just how many widows and widowers

that we encounter. And just, you know, again, the lack of resources that are there, the

lack of community that is there. And so we thought, man, it'd be really great to compile

a list of interviews and some resources. One, if you're listening to this and that's

not your story, this is a great resource to share to someone, you know, in your life

who, you know, is walked through something like this. I can't tell you how many times

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