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from Marc Messinger
If your audience is navigating grief, caregiving, reinvention, or major life transitions, I'd be honored to join the conversation. Most people don't need more theories — they need lived experience, honesty, and a clear way forward. That's the heart of every conversation I have.
I'm available for: Podcast interviews. Grief group discussions. Caregiver panels. Church and community presentations. Workshops on purpose, resilience, and rebuilding. Conversations about the emotional side of life pillars. Navigating widowhood and the fog that follows. Request
Episode 1: When Life Breaks You
I recorded a podcast episode called "When Life Breaks You."
Episode 2: The Four Life Pillars
You may have come across it on mylifetransitionsguide.com, or it may have been shared quietly by a friend, a church, a counselor, a social worker, or a chaplain — someone who thought, “Marc might get you. Take a listen.”
Episode 3: Survival Stability Significance
I’m Marc Messinger, and today we’re going to talk about Survival, Stability, and Significance — and why where you are matters.
Episode 4: The Compass: How to Take Your Next Step
Hello, and thank you for tuning in to Episode 4, the final installment of The Compass: How to Take Your Next Step. I’m Marc Messinger.
Your Compass: A Simple Guide forLife’s Turning Points
Life changes — sometimes by choice, sometimes without warning. Maybe you’ve started a new chapter, changed careers, retired, helped a loved one, or simply realized your map no longer matches the territory.
When You Forget to Put Yourself On The List.
There's a moment every caregiver reaches — though most never dare to say it out loud — when you realize you've disappeared from your own life.
How to do Hospice Right
Most people don't talk about hospice until they're already drowning — in decisions, in exhaustion, in fear they can't even name.
Kathryn’s Caring Bridge Entry/Story
A famous person once said it takes a village to raise a cancer patient..or something like that. Well, Kathryn and I have NO idea how we could have lived or done everything that needs to be done to keep the Casa De Messinger family from crashing like the Hindenburg over the past 22 months, especially the past 3 weeks.