Who is Brian D Smith and what is his contribution to understanding the afterlife?

I’m Brian D. Smith—grief guide, life coach, certified grief educator, and host of the Grief 2 Growth podcast. My daughter Shayna passed suddenly at 15 in 2015, and that loss pushed my lifelong fear-and-fascination with death into a mission to help others.

My contribution to afterlife understanding is twofold:

• I approach it with an engineer’s mind and a father’s heart—diving into evidence (NDEs, mediumship, consciousness research) while staying grounded in lived grief.
• Through talks like the Beyond the Veil Summit, my podcast, and my writing at grief2growth.com, I help people see death as a transition, not an ending, and use grief as fuel for growth rather than a life sentence of pain.

What drew you to ask about the afterlife today?