Every loss changes the shape of the life around it. Some losses are announced with funerals and flowers. Others happen quietly, without ceremony, and nobody thinks to ask how you are doing.

In this episode of The Original Self Podcast, Evet DeCota is joined by her brother Stefan DeCota for an honest and deeply personal conversation about grief, identity, and who we become when someone or something we love is gone. Stefan is a strategic business advisor with twenty-five years of experience inside large startups and data companies, but what he brings to this conversation has nothing to do with business. It has everything to do with having loved deeply, lost significantly, and still standing.

Together, they explore five dimensions of loss that rarely get the attention they deserve. The grief of losing a friendship that ends without a con ...