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PODCAST

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact

Erika Hernandez

Purpose, Not Pity: After the Impact is a podcast about rebuilding your life after loss, heartbreak, identity shifts, and unexpected change.Hosted by Erika Hernandez, this show explores what happens when grief, divorce, career pivots, or major life disruption reshape who you are. It’s not about replaying the pain. It’s about understanding your identity after loss and learning how to move forward with intention.If you’re navigating grief, starting over, rebuilding confidence after a setback, or trying

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00:17:22

Who Are You Without the Role? Identity, Loss, and the...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2026/04/07

Most of us don't question the structure holding our identity together, until it's gone. In episode 2, Erika gets honest about what happens after the loss you planned for turns into the disorientation you didn't see coming. The job. The relationship. The version of yourself that existed before the hardest thing you survived.This episode is about the invisible architecture we build our sense of self on, routines, roles, rhythms, and what shows up when that architecture disappears. Not just sadness

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00:14:43

When Life Hits Again: Job Loss & Starting Over

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2026/03/17

What do you do when life hits you again — right after you thought you had finally found your footing?Two days after the Season 1 finale aired, Erika's position was eliminated. In this episode, she opens Season 2 with the unfiltered truth about sudden job loss, financial uncertainty, and what rebuilding actually looks like when the ground starts shifting again.If you are navigating job loss, starting over after a setback, or rebuilding your life while managing grief, this conversation is for

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00:01:30

Recalibrating After Impact: Finding Stability |...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2026/03/17

No one is coming to hand you the stability you've been waiting for. That is not a harsh truth, it is a freeing one.Season 2 of Purpose, Not Pity: After the Impact is an honest look at what recalibration actually feels like. Not the performed version. The gritty, daily work of finding your footing while the ground is still moving beneath you.This season covers identity after loss, rebuilding after setbacks, and what intentional living looks like when the clarity is incomplete and the guarantees are

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10:41

Becoming the Woman I Don’t Recognize Yet

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2026/01/12

If Season One began with a letter to the boy who inspired this podcast, it ends with a letter to the woman I’m becoming, the version of me I haven’t met yet. This isn’t a story about grief, although grief lives inside it. It’s about becoming. About rebuilding. About starting again when life doesn’t go to plan. About the strange, soft, terrifying process of growing into a self you no longer recognize, but secretly hope will save you. If you’ve ever looked at your life and wondered, “Who ...

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20:06

Why the Holidays Feel Different After Loss (And Why...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/12/23

In this deeply reflective episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika explores the quiet, often unspoken emotional space that many people find themselves in during the holidays after loss, heartbreak, or major life change. Not the kind of grief that demands attention. Not the kind of healing that looks inspirational. But the kind that shows up as restraint, reflection, and not knowing how to explain what you feel. Erika opens up about how the holidays have shifted for her over the years, from childho...

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13:53

Not Everything Is Mine to Carry: A Healing Lesson on...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/12/13

In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika reflects on a recent real-life moment that revealed how much she’s changed, not through what she did, but through what she no longer felt the need to carry. Through honest storytelling and reflection, she explores the difference between accountability and emotional labor, and how healing teaches us to stop absorbing blame, guilt, and anxiety that don’t belong to us. If you’ve ever felt responsible for keeping the peace, carrying emotional weight tha...

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14:39

I Didn’t Lose Him, I Was Being Prepared

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/11/25

In this deeply personal and unexpected episode, Erika shares the moment that stopped her in her tracks, a simple family photo on Facebook that opened a door to a truth she never fully acknowledged until now. What begins as an ordinary dinner with a friend turns into a powerful reflection on marriage, pressure, parenthood, old wounds, and the kind of healing that reveals itself years later. Erika opens up about the choices she made at twenty, the weight of expectation, the realities of a young...

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14:36

What If Everything You’ve Been Through Is Preparing...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/11/11

This episode explores the possibility that not all hardship is punishment, some of it is preparation. Inspired by a conversation on Angie Martinez IRL with Joe Budden reflecting on Kobe Bryant, Erika asks a powerful question: What if everything you survived didn’t shape you for pain… but for purpose, peace, and blessings you haven’t met yet? We talk about becoming emotionally ready for the life we want, understanding divine timing, releasing armor, and stepping into a season where stre...

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5:50

The Call That Broke Me Today

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/11/08

A FaceTime call from my bonus son, Malachi, flipped my whole day. What started as a normal check-in turned into him admitting something he never says out loud… that since my son Jovan passed, he hasn’t been able to find that kind of connection again. And he feels lonely. In this bonus episode, I’m sharing the real, unfiltered moment grief showed up out of nowhere and shifted everything. This is about the loneliness we don’t talk about enough, the connections we can’t replace, and the way grie...

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15:28

The Anger I Didn’t Expect After Losing My Son

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/10/28

Most people expect anger after loss to look loud and obvious. But what if your anger is quiet? What if it lives in your body, in long silences, in questions you can’t say out loud? In this “halfway” episode of Purpose, Not Pity (Episode 7), Erika Hernandez dives into the anger that doesn’t look like anger. She talks about the invisible rage after losing a child, being angry at God, herself, the justice system, and even the person accused in his death. She shares how she masked her pain, turn...

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13:19

When the Life You Planned Falls Apart

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/10/14

When life doesn’t go as planned, it’s not just your dreams that disappear, it’s the version of yourself you thought you’d always be. In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika Hernandez shares what it feels like to stand in the wreckage of the life you once imagined and realize nothing looks the way you thought it would. From divorce and career setbacks to infertility, addiction, and loss, this episode is about what happens when the picture shatters, and how to find yourself again in w...

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16:16

The Friendships That Survive After Loss and the Ones...

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/09/27

When life breaks you open through loss, heartbreak, or tragedy, it is not just the person you lose. It is the friendships you thought would last forever. Some friends vanish. Some go silent. And sometimes, it is you who has to walk away. In this raw episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika Hernandez shares what nobody talks about: the disappointment of friends who never show up, the shock of realizing who actually stays, and the loneliness of trying to rebuild your circle after everything changes....

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13:27

When Grief and Your Menstrual Cycle Collide

Purpose, not Pity: After the Impact ·

2025/09/16

What happens when grief collides with your menstrual cycle? In this episode of Purpose, Not Pity, Erika opens up about a deeply personal experience: a week of nonstop tears that felt like a setback in her healing journey, until she realized her period had arrived. Grief already weighs heavy, but hormonal shifts during PMS and perimenopause can amplify sadness, irritability, fatigue, and brain fog. Erika shares how living with rheumatoid arthritis made the symptoms even harder to untangle, why...

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