She Lost Her Son. Then She Built This. | Erica Brinker

Every episode of At the Brink begins with someone else’s story. This one is different. This is the story behind the show.Erica Brinker lost her four-month-old son Luca to SIDS in December 2015. In the aftermath, the people closest to her went quiet. Friends stopped calling. Her own mother never said Luca’s name, afraid it would ruin a good day. And Erica, who had spent her career performing capability in boardrooms and on stages, found herself in a kind of silence she’d never experienced.So she did something unexpected. She threw a party. Every year on the anniversary of his death, she asked people to do a good deed in Luca’s name and bring canned goods for a food pantry. She launched a blog called Inspired by Luca. She started building a platform for honesty in a world that kept looking away.In this conversation, Erica talks about who she was before Luca, what grief actually felt like, the five-year infertility journey that followed, the birth of her son Sayers, and why she walked away from a decades-long corporate career to create At the Brink.Interviewed by executive producer Sara Glassman.Follow At the Brink: @atthebrinkmediaFollow Erica: Instagram @official.erica.brinker | LinkedIn: Erica Brinkerwww.atthebrinkmedia.com | [email protected] you go:At the Brink is a premium podcast hosted by Erica Brinker featuring raw, intimate conversations about defining moments — the question at the show's core: was there a moment when your story split into a before and after?New episodes every Wednesday.Website: www.atthebrinkmedia.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @at.the.brink.mediaExecutive producer | Sara Glassman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.