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Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever
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Jun 17, 2026
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Living With Regret and Raising Awareness
At 29:55 · chapter starts 28:18
Jay asks what Emilie was wrestling with during those 8 months before she could accept that drowning was what took Trigg. She describes the process as pure replay: going back through every decision, every moment, every thing that could have been different. Acceptance, she says, may never fully come — because it feels so cruel, so preventable, so unnecessary. But she has arrived at a point of acknowledging it and committing to doing better. And the most concrete expression of that is her determination to spread awareness about drowning prevention — because drowning is the leading cause of death in children under 3, and it is preventable.
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