Getting Back Up Podcast: Finding Life After Death

About Getting Back Up Podcast: Finding Life After Death

Two fathers. Two stories of loss. One mission to get back up. Real conversations with two men learning to navigate life, raise children, and find love again…after loss. Hosted by Jamal Jones and David McClain, Getting Back Up: Life after Death is a real, raw, and often humorous podcast about what comes after the unthinkable—losing a partner, facing grief, and finding your way through it. As two widowers, now devoted girl dads (and one remarried man), Jamal and David create space for honest conversations around healing, identity, and starting over. Getting knocked down is part of life. Getting back up is how we live.

Publisher

Jamal Jones & David McClain

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   50: What Happened When We Put Widowers in a Room Together | Widower Reset

   Send us Fan Mail Episode 50: What Happened When We Put Widowers in a Room Together | Widower Reset What happens when you put a group of widowers in a room and give them permission to stop being strong for a weekend? Jamal and David created the Widower Reset because 49 episodes of conversations about grief and life after loss had made one thing clear: men needed more than a podcast. They needed a place to be honest, vulnerable, understood, and connected without having to explain what it means ...

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   49: Dad, I Need to Talk to Mom

   Send us Fan Mail Episode 49: Dad, I Need to Talk to Mom Sometimes there are moments in raising children when you can almost hear the words: “I really wish Mom was here for this.” For a widowed father, those moments can be especially difficult—because sometimes your child needs the parent who isn't there, and you have to figure out how to show up anyway. In this deeply personal episode, Jamal and David talk about the conversations that can leave a father feeling completely out of his depth. Fr...

3. 

   8 Sept 2026

   48: Nobody Knows What to Do With the Empty Chair

   Send us Fan Mail Episode 48: Nobody Knows What to Do With the Empty Chair When your spouse dies, your family doesn't simply become the same family minus one person. The entire family changes. In this episode, Jamal and David explore the roles their wives occupied that became even more visible after they were gone. Mother. Wife. Daughter. Sister. Friend. Family connector. Tradition keeper. The person who remembered the birthdays, managed certain conversations with the kids, maintained relation...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32