Welcome to Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions!
Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions
Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Tran…
There's a moment where your life splits in two. Before the diagnosis. Before the loss. Before the divorce, the burnout, the caregiving role, or the sudden change you never saw coming. And then after. Most conversations about grief, trauma, and resilience focus on how to move forward. But the deeper question so many people quietly live with after a lifequake: Who am I now? Something Shifted is a documentary-style podcast about identity after interruption. The psychological and emotional reconstruction that happens after major life changes reshape the person you thought you were. Each episode tells a deeply human story of someone navigating grief and healing, rebuilding identity after loss, recovering from trauma, finding purpose after hardship, or learning how to start over in life they never expected to be living. Because sometimes the hardest part of a sudden life change isn't the event itself. It's becoming someone new afterward. Hosted by South African broadcaster Sean Loots, Something Shifted blends immersive storytelling with reflective narration to explore what happens when identity changes through crisis, caregiving, diagnosis, parenting, survival, and loss. At the center of the show is the idea of the Lifequake: the moments that interrupt the expected path of a life and force a person into identity transformation. These are stories about emotional resilience, meaning after hardship, and finding yourself again after everything changed. If you're navigating life transitions, coping with loss, or trying to understand who you became after a major life change — this show is for you. Episode Topics Include: Identity Reconstruction, Trauma Recovery, Life Transitions, Starting Over In Life, Grief And Healing, Meaning After Loss, Losing a Dream, Emotional Resilience, Caregiving Burnout, Special Needs Parenting, Finding Yourself Again, Life After Diagnosis, Creative Burnout
Oct. 23, 2024

Get Ready For All Of The Feels

Get Ready For All Of The Feels
Get Ready For All Of The Feels
Something Shifted | Stories of Identity, Loss and Life Transitions
Get Ready For All Of The Feels

Join me for the new season of Something Shifted, the podcast that asks some of South Africa’s most interesting people to share how significant life shifts, perceived as devastating, can lead to profound personal transformation and empowerment.

Something Shifted with Sean Loots leans into the joy and discomfort of unexpected change, and tries to answer the question of what it takes to bounce back.

Something changes your life today. How will it shift your life tomorrow?
What does it take to conquer the new path?

Listen to heartfelt conversations every other week and become part of a community that believes in the power of possibility!

Get ready for all of the feels. Season three starts November 2024.

About Something Shifted

Something Shifted is a documentary-style, narrative podcast about identity after interruption. It tells stories of life before and after pivotal moments of change, where familiar structures fall away and new ways of being slowly emerge. Hosted by South African broadcaster Sean Loots, the podcast explores grief, resilience, transformation, and the lived experience of becoming someone different after life changes unexpectedly.

These are stories of life after interruption, told with honesty, detail, and emotional depth.

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Explore more narrative stories of identity, resilience, and life transition wherever you listen to podcasts. Listen to Something Shifted: The Soundtrack on Spotify

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Hey, how are you? Look, you're probably tempted
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entirely true, is it? It's more likely that
things are complicated. Yeah, tell me about

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it. No, seriously, you can tell me about it.
Something Shifted is a podcast that asks people

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to lean into the joy and discomfort of unexpected
complications. Like surviving a life-threatening

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illness, or competing at the highest level of
sport just two years after becoming a mom for

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the first time. What does it take to truly connect
with yourself and break free of generational

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trauma? And what does it take to raise a child
with a profound disability, Sean? Yeah, it's

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complicated. Join me, Sean Lewis, on the new
season of Something Shifted, the podcast that

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asks some of South Africa's most interesting
people to share how significant life shifts

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perceived as devastating can lead to profound
personal transformation and empowerment. Something

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Shifted leans into the joy and discomfort of
unexpected change and tries to answer the question

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of what it takes to bounce back, what it takes
to conquer a new path. If something changes

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your life today, how will it shift your life
tomorrow? Listen to Heartfelt Conversations

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every other week and become part of a community
that believes in the power of possibility.

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Find us online at some But right now... Go ahead
and follow Something Shifted on Apple podcasts

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or Spotify and prepare for season three, starting
November 2024. I think you're going to like

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it here. My name is Sean. Welcome to Something
Shifted.

Send Sean a voice message