Leaving A Legacy Episodes

Send me a Text Message Preserving Legacy Through Loss: Matt Jacobson’s Journey with LifeBooks Episode Summary: In this deeply moving episode of Grief to Growth, host Brian Smith speaks with Matt Jacobson, founder of LifeBooks, a platform born from love and a commitment to honoring family legacies. After losing his father while studying abroad, Matt returned to run his family’s mattress store. His experience inspired him to create LifeBooks, an innovative service for families to collaboratively p...

Send me a Text Message Ruthanne Warnick advocates capturing family stories and experiences to connect generations. As a Family Legacy Guide, Ruthanne helps individuals glean the most important stories, experiences, lessons, and words of love and combine them with photos to create a lasting family treasure. She says, “If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture plus the words is priceless.” As some of Ruthanne’s family members passed away, she realized how many family stories died with them...

Send me a Text Message Zander Masser is an occupational therapist, husband, father, musician, and author of the narrative photography book Unburying My Father. Zander's father, Randy, contracted HIV from using contaminated blood products to treat his bleeding disorder and died in 2000 from AIDS-related illnesses. Twenty years later, Zander unburied ten thousand slides from Randy's career as a professional photographer, which prompted him to dig deeper into his father's life. What started as a ph...

Send me a Text Message No one wants to think about death, our own or that of a loved one. But, the reality is death will part all of us eventually. When Jane Duncan Rogers' husband got a terminal diagnosis, she realized it was time to do the pre-death planning, we all put off. After doing this, she realized what a gift it was for them and for her after he passed. Inspired by this, she started Before I Go Solutions which takes the pain and guesswork out of this chore we all know we should do. 🔗 h...