You are dope! Podcast
Join Sharif, founder of LifeCoachATL and Co-Host Taylor Colbert, to explore personal growth topics in a forum that is designed to have a positive impact on peoples lives and remind everyone: “You are dope.” This podcast will touch on a variety of subjects to have thought provoking conversation, educate and have some fun while doing it. Your host, Sharif, is a gentle giant with a big heart specializing in helping people enhance their lives as a certified Life Coach. Sharif will also welcome guests and highlight people who are doing dope things and who are being of service. This can include, other life coaches, mental health experts, stylists, designers, marketers, singers, dancers, rappers… Any individual that is doing dope things and making a difference in the world. I want to make sure I give people their roses while they can still smell them
You are dope! Podcast
Life After Losing Parents: What’s the New Normal When There’s No One Above You Anymore?
Life doesn’t prepare you for what happens after your parents are gone.
In this episode, Kenny, Taylor, and I have a raw, vulnerable conversation about life after losing parents, and what it means to redefine “normal” when there’s no one left above you anymore.
For me, it’s the reality of having no parents and no grandparents left. For them, it’s navigating life knowing that safety net doesn’t exist the way it once did. We talk about the quiet moments no one warns you about: the grief that shows up randomly, the weight of becoming the elder, the responsibility that shifts without asking, and the question so many people are afraid to say out loud—now what?
This isn’t a clinical conversation about grief. It’s real life. We talk about love, loss, legacy, fear, gratitude, and how death changes the way you see time, family, and yourself.
If you’ve lost a parent.
If you’ve lost both parents.
If you’re trying to figure out who you are after loss.
Or if you’re living in that strange in-between space where nothing feels the same anymore...
This conversation is for you.
Not enough people talk honestly about death. We are.