In this episode of Ghosted, Jack shares his story of losing his fiancé just three months after their engagement on Christmas Eve. We are releasing this conversation during the holidays because grief does not pause when the world feels festive, and for many people this season can be one of the hardest.

Jack opens up about what it means to mourn not only the person you loved, but also the life you were building together. We talk about how he began posting on social media as a way to process his grief and connect with others, and why it can sometimes feel harder to be fully honest with family and friends, not because they do not care, but because you do not want to feel like a burden.

He shares what it has been like learning to feel excited about building a new life, what dating looks like after loss, and the lesson his late husband left him with, to live in the moment. Jack also reflects on the deep relationship he continues to have with his fiancé’s family, the stability that support has given him during this time, and his hope to one day create a fund to help others navigating grief.

This conversation is about love, loss, and choosing to keep living, even when life looks nothing like you imagined.

In this week’s episode of Ghosted, Carl Radke opens up about the life and loss of his brother, Curtis, who died of a drug overdose on August 10, 2020. In a conversation that is honest, vulnerable, and deeply human, Carl reflects on the realities of loving someone battling addiction, the stigma, the fear, the frustration, and the fierce, complicated love that never goes away.

Carl shares what it was like growing up alongside Curtis’s early struggles, the toll it took on their family, and the resentment that built as he watched addiction pull his brother further away. He speaks candidly about his own relationship with substances, the shame he carried, and the moment he finally confronted his truth, all shaped by the grief that followed Curtis’s death.

We talk about grieving in public, the pressure to appear strong, and the moments that broke him, from the phone call that changed his life to returning home and facing the urge to numb everything.

Curtis’s memory fuels Carl’s purpose today: breaking generational cycles, choosing honesty over perfection, and using his story to help others. Together, we explore grief that is layered with anger, love, guilt, and pride, and the ongoing work of rebuilding yourself after loss.

This is an episode about brothers, about addiction as a disease, about the complexity of grief, and about the legacy Curtis left behind: resilience, heart, and the reminder that telling the truth, even when it is hard, is its own kind of healing.

In this week's episode, Dani — a big sister whose life has been shaped, expanded, and brightened by her brother Jacob, who died at 24. Jacob was pure creativity: theater kid, writer, and artist. He was sick as a teenager but lived his 24 years with a magic and energy that everyone around him still feels.

In this conversation, Dani shares the hilarious and heartbreaking pieces of grief — like the shows Jacob never got to see (Wicked, and Mormon Wives), the wedding he won’t physically attend, and the way he would absolutely roast her for being on a grief podcast.

We talk about how grief sneaks into every room, and how the hardest part is when people write Jacob out of the stories. Dani says her duty as a big sister is to keep his memory alive — because his biggest fear was being irrelevant or forgotten.

It’s emotional, funny, grounded, and full of the kind of love only siblings understand.