I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time.

Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.

Hey podcast listeners, I want to introduce you to Owns New Original Podcast. It's called Trials to Triumphs. Just love that title.

It's hosted by Netflix star producer and content creator Ashley Blaine, Featherson Jenkins. Here's what's great. Ashley is going to be talking to all kinds of people to learn how they use their setbacks to fuel their dreams.

She wants to look behind the perfect picture that we see on social media and get to the truth about the trials and triumphs that shape everybody's lives.

So I hope you check out Trials to Triumphs available anywhere you listen to podcasts.

This is Ashley Blaine, Featherson Jenkins and I want to thank you Oprah for that beautiful introduction. I also want to thank you for letting me slide into your podcast today.

We wanted to give you a preview of my new podcast called Trials to Triumphs because I love to hear stories about the peaks and valleys of people's lives.

There's so much to learn from them and I've picked guests that really inspire me.

Recently, I had a powerful conversation with actress Sonico Martin Green. You know her from five seasons on the Walking Dead and is Captain Michael Burnham on Star Trek Discovery.

But in real life, she is one of the most remarkable people. In this episode, we talked about how she managed her deep grief after losing both her parents just one day apart.

I think her story will leave you comforted, inspired, and a little wiser on how to handle grief because we're all going to experience it if we haven't already.

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Hey all and welcome to Trials to Triumphs. I'm Ashley Blaine Featherson Jenkins, but you can call me ABFJ. This week, I'm sitting with the brilliant and beautiful Sonico Martin Green and we're talking about grief.

Greeth is a greedy beast. You could be having a good day, the first one in a while, and then it will just shut you down or make you blow up.

Back in 2015, I booked my very first pilot for what I thought would be a new hour long drama hit. At this point in my life, this was the biggest achievement of my career and I hung every hat in my closet on it.

Not a good idea. Don't recommend this at all, by the way. I had not one doubt that the show we get picked up by the network and, well, it didn't. And when I found out, I had a panic attack.

I was so distraught and heartbroken and went through what I've described as a grieving process for what could have been.

Everything I'd imagined would follow the dream career, the fabulous life. I mourned things that I never even had. But after chatting with Sonico, I realized that there are levels to grief.

At its core, it's life altering, ground shaking. Greeth changes who you are on a cellular level.

Sonico was soaring through multiverses as the first black woman to be captain on Star Trek, when her life on Earth drastically changed. Her father passed away and a day later, so did her mother.

She talks to me about how she is working to process the unimaginable every day.

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