"My second greatest blessing." | grief and healing after losing a parent and finding meaning after loss
2026/06/16 | 30 mins.
Celest Anthony spent four years watching her father disappear - piece by piece, hospital stay by hospital stay - before she said goodbye in 2025.
This is a deeply personal story about anticipatory grief, the slow loss of a parent to chronic illness, and what it means to grieve someone who is still alive. It explores Churg-Strauss syndrome, caregiver identity, and the emotional complexity of standing in a doctor's room asking questions you never thought you'd have to ask.
It's a story about love, faith, and the unexpected gifts that loss can leave behind. This is a story about losing a parent and discovering, slowly, who you are without them. Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify
"Some version of alright, eventually." | Losing a dream
2026/06/02 | 30 mins.
Kojo Baffoe had a dream that shaped much of his life, until it didn’t.
In this story, he reflects on what it means to lose something that once gave your life structure, meaning, and momentum.
This episode explores loss, identity shifts, and the emotional process of letting go when the future you imagined no longer exists. It’s about the quiet aftermath of disappointment, and the slow rebuilding that follows when ambition no longer looks the same.
A story about losing a dream, and learning how to keep going anyway.
Listen to Your Footsteps:
https://kojobaffoe.com/book/
https://kojobaffoe.com/podcast/
www.somethingshifted.co.za
Recorded at Latitude Podcast Studio Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify
"As I walk through the darkness" | Faith and a stillbirth
2026/05/19 | 21 mins.
Marilize De Clercq had prepared for a life she was about to meet. A nursery ready, a name chosen, a future imagined. Then everything changed.
This is a deeply personal story about stillbirth, grief, and the emotional reality of losing a child before birth. It explores pregnancy loss, faith in the face of unimaginable pain, and the question of how to keep walking when nothing feels certain anymore.
A story about grief, love, and finding a way through darkness without staying there.
www.somethingshifted.co.za
Recorded at Latitude Podcast Studio Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify
"You've Always Just Been This Way." | Late autism diagnosis
2026/05/05 | 35 mins.
Jess Hinds became a mother while quietly struggling with overwhelm she couldn’t explain. That was until an autism diagnosis reframed her entire life.
This episode explores late autism diagnosis in adulthood, neurodivergence in mothers, and the grief that can come with finally understanding yourself.
It’s a story about identity discovery, self-compassion, and the moment language finally catches up with lived experience.
www.somethingshifted.co.za
Recorded at Latitude Podcast Studio Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify
"Life without risk is impossible." | Richard Harris on Thai Cave rescue, risk and impossible decisions
2026/04/21 | 28 mins.
Richard “Harry” Harris played a central role in one of the most complex rescue operations in modern history: the 2018 Thai cave rescue.
In this episode, Harry reflects on crisis decision-making, survival psychology, and the impossible choices made deep underground.
It’s a story about risk, responsibility, and what it means to act when every option carries loss. A rare inside look at leadership under pressure and the cost of impossible decisions.
Book: The Art of Risk by Richard Harris
www.somethingshifted.co.za
Recorded at Latitude Podcast Studio Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify
About Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions
About Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions
About Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions
There's a moment where your life splits in two.
Before the diagnosis. Before the loss. Before the divorce, the burnout, the caregiving role, or the sudden change you never saw coming.
And then after.
Most conversations about grief, trauma, and resilience focus on how to move forward. But the deeper question so many people quietly live with after a lifequake: Who am I now?
Something Shifted is a documentary-style podcast about identity after interruption. The psychological and emotional reconstruction that happens after major life changes reshape the person you thought you were. Each episode tells a deeply human story of someone navigating grief and healing, rebuilding identity after loss, recovering from trauma, finding purpose after hardship, or learning how to start over in life they never expected to be living.
Because sometimes the hardest part of a sudden life change isn't the event itself. It's becoming someone new afterward.
Hosted by South African broadcaster Sean Loots, Something Shifted blends immersive storytelling with reflective narration to explore what happens when identity changes through crisis, caregiving, diagnosis, parenting, survival, and loss. At the center of the show is the idea of the Lifequake: the moments that interrupt the expected path of a life and force a person into identity transformation.
These are stories about emotional resilience, meaning after hardship, and finding yourself again after everything changed.
If you're navigating life transitions, coping with loss, or trying to understand who you became after a major life change — this show is for you.
Episode Topics Include: Identity Reconstruction, Trauma Recovery, Life Transitions, Starting Over In Life, Grief And Healing, Meaning After Loss, Losing a Dream, Emotional Resilience, Caregiving Burnout, Special Needs Parenting, Finding Yourself Again, Life After Diagnosis, Creative Burnout
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