Most of us freeze up around the topic of suicide because we don't know what to say. Jay Laughrey and Charlotte Maya, who each lost someone to suicide, walk through the practical stuff everyone should know: what to say to someone who is struggling, how to ask directly, what actually helps a grieving family, and why 988 belongs in your phone.

Xerxes Nabong has been a wealth advisor since 2005. Then his dad died at 58, and the why behind the work changed. In this episode of Success, Rewritten, he talks about what it means to plan for the life, not just the retirement, and how that shift reshaped the way he runs his firm and his family.

When Jenny Dempsey lost her dad, then her job, then got rejected by 400 employers, she didn't find her way forward on a trend feed or a job board. She found it in a friend's basement, in the shape of a junky table. This episode is a conversation about grief, layoffs, and how redefining success sometimes starts in the most unexpected places.

Grief coach Shelby Forsythia says the second biggest loss after any major life event isn't the death or the divorce -- it's the friendships. In Episode 5 of Success, Rewritten, she breaks down why words matter more than flowers, and shares the three phrases from her new book that actually help grievers feel less alone.