What's up, Badi Bees?

I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. Moving on doesn't mean

letting go.

You know, people may die, but our relationships don't.

Or things may end, but their impact or their effect on us are still with us.

Sometimes the things that are the hardest are still written to all we become.

They give us our strength.

They give us our stamina.

They help us pivot when things feel hard. You know,

sometimes people come to me with that job loss you were talking about and they realize they

never wanted to do this thing to begin with. And so we get to sort of pivot together and say,

okay, we have this freedom now. What is it that we want to build? Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic

Bitch. On today's show, we are joined by Gina Mafa, who is a compassionate, licensed,

clinical social worker who specializes in grief, loss, and life transitions. Her approach

blends hope and humor with support utilizing her expertise

in cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-informed care. And today, that's what we're going to

be talking about. So we are going to be talking all about grief, loss, life transitions,

and how to get through it. So Gina, thank you so much for being with us today.

Thank you so much for having me. So before we get started, why don't you give us a little deeper dive into who you are and what you do? Yeah, absolutely. It's always so funny, you know, hearing your bio and I'm like, ooh, that's interesting. I've never heard that one before. or you you know, it's not that it isn't true, but it's more like, oh, wow, it's just funny to hear that about yourself. Yeah, I am a grief and trauma therapist in New York City. I have a private practice. And I work primarily with people going through either really traumatic losses, different types of losses, or life transitions that they're grieving in any given moment. And I just wrote a book that looks at kind of the

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