About Unparented
Unparented is a podcast about life after losing a parent.
It exists for people who are carrying that loss quietly, whether it happened recently or long ago, and are still figuring out how it lives alongside everything else life asks of them.
These conversations don’t aim to fix grief or explain it away. They make room for honesty, reflection, and the reality that loss doesn’t end. It changes shape. It comes with us.
I’m a husband and a dad to two young daughters. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I’m still learning how loss shapes faith, identity, and the way we show up for the people we love.
My story is unparented, but not unloved. And I’m still becoming the man I was created to be.
Why I made this
I lost my dad when I was fifteen. By seventeen, I was on my own. When my mom died at twenty-six, it deepened a story already shaped by absence.
What I struggled to find afterward wasn’t information or advice. It was language. Conversations that didn’t rush grief, soften it, or try to turn it into something useful.
I created Unparented to make space for those conversations. Not to offer answers, but to sit honestly with what it means to keep living when the people who shaped you are no longer here.