Podcasts, radio and television
Media appearances
Mindy Corporon speaks regularly about leading a team through loss, what to say to someone who is grieving, and the kindness movement her family built after her father and her son were murdered in a 2014 hate crime.
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For interviews, podcast bookings, and press requests, email Support@MindyCorporon.com.
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WNYC’s The Takeaway · Majority 54 · KCUR 89.3 · Kansas City PBS · BYUradio · The Kansas City Star · Grief is a Sneaky Bitch · Grieving Out Loud · Open to Hope
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Featured conversations
Beyond the Loss: Life and Identity After a Child Dies
Episode 19: Grief Leadership: How Loss Shapes Leaders, Teams, and Families
Dr. Sharon Spano talks with Mindy about Grief Leadership as a discipline: what the grieving brain does at work, how long reentry takes, and the words a leader can use.
Are We Good?
She Lost Her Family to Hate. Now She Teaches Leaders How to Heal
Jim Bennett talks with Mindy about the crisis plan most companies think they have, why a leader cannot fix grief, and who belongs on a response team.
Enterprise.ing
Episode 57: Managing Grief in the Workplace
Alana Muller talks with Mindy about wearing the CEO hat and the griever hat at once, the head-and-heart conversation, and building a personal board of directors.
Grief is a Sneaky Bitch
Season 3, Episode 2: Healing a Shattered Soul
Lisa Keefauver talks with Mindy about her earliest grief memories, going back to work in a fog, and the women who ran her household in two-hour shifts.
The Life Shift Podcast
Season 2, Episode 104: Courage Beyond Hate: From Tragic Loss to Inspiring Change
Matt Gilhooly talks with Mindy about the moment that split her life in two, the conversation that eased years of guilt, and holding happy and sad at once.
Media Appearances by Mindy Corporon
Interviews and features from 2015 to today.
2026
- Beyond the Loss: Life and Identity After a Child Dies
Dr. Sharon Spano talks with Mindy about Grief Leadership as a discipline: what the grieving brain does at work, how long reentry takes, and the words a leader can use.
- Let Me Know if You Need a Podcast
Mindy on what to do when a coworker is grieving: send the paper products, show up again at month six, and treat kindness as a skill you practice.
2025
- Grieving Out Loud
Bereaved parent to bereaved parent: how one household grieved three different ways, the guilt she carried, and how she built a life beyond her own story.
- Small Changes Big Shifts
With SevenDays executive director Kelly Murphy on what the kindness campaign has reached, and the new partnership that joins the two campaigns.
- Are We Good?
Jim Bennett talks with Mindy about the crisis plan most companies think they have, why a leader cannot fix grief, and who belongs on a response team.
- The Corporate Couch: Work Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Her most career-focused conversation: the vision board, cheerleading for the Chiefs, running a wealth management firm, and what she would do differently as a founder.
- Small Changes Big Shifts
Mindy and student leader Maeve Riley on the ripple stories behind SevenDays and the small tactics of kindness, like using a stranger's first name.
2024
- Lift the Spirit: A DEMDACO Podcast
A walk through the values behind SevenDays and the wave of strangers' kindness that let her family's home breathe again.
- Healing Hate
A Kansas City PBS documentary on the decade after the 2014 attack and the community that answered it with kindness.
- Up To Date
Kansas City's NPR station previews SevenDays' tenth-anniversary week of kindness events.
- Small Changes Big ShiftsSeason 11, Episode 467: Make a Ripple, Change the World
On speaking out after another Kansas hate crime, the unexpected gifts that followed, and her family's decision to keep living.
- Shining Brightly
Recorded at the ten-year mark, days after the Chiefs parade shooting: breathing as the first act after catastrophe, and rebuilding as a mosaic.
- The Dana & Parks Podcast
Mindy joins KMBZ the week of the Chiefs parade shooting on how a city grieves together.
- What Came Next
The fullest telling of her life before and after 2014: an Oklahoma childhood, earlier losses, and the therapy and faith that carried her.
- The Life Shift Podcast
Matt Gilhooly talks with Mindy about the moment that split her life in two, the conversation that eased years of guilt, and holding happy and sad at once.
- Enterprise.ing
Alana Muller talks with Mindy about wearing the CEO hat and the griever hat at once, the head-and-heart conversation, and building a personal board of directors.
- Life in Transition
On the transition she chose in 2018: leaving her firm and Kansas for her family's healing, and admitting she had lost her people.
2023
- Rounding the BasesEpisode 840: Changing the World with Kindness, with Jake Goldman
With Jake Goldman, the bullied teenager who launched SevenDays' youth board and came back as a director. Mentorship, full circle.
2022
- Open to Hope
One answer for employers in under two minutes: ask about capacity instead of feelings, engage early, and acknowledge, acknowledge, acknowledge.
- Open to Hope
A short introduction to Healing a Shattered Soul and why the title is in the present tense.
- Her Story Speaks
For a women's storytelling audience: portraits of her dad and Reat, an answer for listeners whose faith is shifting, and why the word faith left the foundation's name.
- KC Cares Online
Nonprofit shop talk: what she would do differently starting a foundation in the middle of grief, and planning her own succession.
- Open to Hope
A panel of bereaved mothers: finding hope at the vigil, channeling grief toward what took your person, and a family ritual on the road.
- Banking on KC
Kelly Scanlon talks with Mindy about understanding over tolerance, the billboard that asked a hard question, and how to get out of your bubble.
- Rounding the Bases
The serial entrepreneur episode: the Nashville song that turned a corner, SevenDays' move into K-12 kindness curriculum, and the miss she admits to.
- The Vital Side
Trauma recovery through three channels, the script for using a colleague's name, and becoming a hundred percent of something new.
2021
- The Authentic Spiritual Journey
A year-in-review panel: writing a book in a year, ending her own podcast to protect her capacity, and what came next.
- Open to Hope
For bereaved parents: the moment she first saw how shattered she was, and helping a grieving teenager through the hard dates.
- Better ConversationsHealing Through Courageous Kindness
An hour-long conversation on grief, faith, and courageous kindness.
- Grief is a Sneaky Bitch
Lisa Keefauver talks with Mindy about her earliest grief memories, going back to work in a fog, and the women who ran her household in two-hour shifts.
- Bill Martinez Live
A short radio interview on speaking to teenagers the night of the murders and how laughter came back into the house.
- The Lisa Show
BYUradio's Lisa Valentine Clark talks with Mindy about the memoir and the courageous kindness that carried her family.
- The Encouragement Engineering Podcast
Bob Brumm talks with Mindy about anger at God, forgiveness she chose without noticing, journaling, and a family grieving in different ways.
- Second WindOne Sunday Afternoon Changed Her Life Forever
On the Sunday afternoon that changed everything, and what she built from it.
- The Business & Pleasure of Flowers
For florists and funeral professionals: how to serve a raw, grieving customer, why the industry should follow up at month three and six, and the phrases to retire.
- GoalChatEpisode 213: Resilience, with Howard Brown and Mindy Corporon
A goal-setting panel that treats resilience as a muscle: small steps, journaling, curating your circle, and sleep.
- KMBC 9 Storytellers
KMBC's author feature on becoming a writer: the rejection that forced a rewrite, publication day, and a week of yellow butterflies.
- Conversations with the Author
A reading from the vigil-night chapter, then a conversation on guilt, scheduled grief time that saved a marriage, and students living with lockdown drills.
- Conversations with the Author
Pastor Adam Hamilton and Mindy on why the shooting was not God's will, what God's voice sounds like, and the mosque vigil.
- Conversations with the Author
The helpers' handbook: announce and do instead of asking, calendar the three- and six-month marks, and return to work by capacity.
- Conversations with the Author
Bill Tammeus and Mindy on the physical side of grief, the concrete help that mattered, and the rewrite that made the memoir work.
- KC Cares Online
Nonprofit mechanics: how the foundation began, advice for grieving founders, and faith reframed as trust with room for everyone.
- The Locher Room
An anniversary-week special on ritual: how the family gets through April 13 and how to calendar help for the six-month mark after any loss.
- Star Opinion Live
The Star's opinion team talks with Mindy after the Atlanta and Boulder shootings about white supremacy, her own reckoning with bias, and choosing to live inside grief.
- The Authentic Spiritual Journey
Hearing the call to leave the corporate world, a test for toxic people, and how social media replaced our grieving rituals.
- The Locher Room
A long-form portrait of who Reat and her dad were, how her father's driving saved her life, and the signs behind the memoir.
2020
- Faith in KC
KSHB's Faith in KC series: grief, anger, and what an active faith can look like.
- Jaws of Justice
An hour on what victims' families face afterward: victim advocates, the power of the victim impact statement, and why the family never says the shooter's name.
- The Dana & Parks Podcast
Mindy on the do's and don'ts of supporting someone who is grieving, in the first weeks of the pandemic.
- Mornings with Bryan Truta
A Give Back Friday segment on SevenDays' first virtual year.
- Small Changes Big Shifts
Her first visit to the show, on helping children through trauma. Only an excerpt survives online.
- The RadioDana DiariesDiary Entry 6: Real Grief, Real Healing
Dana Wright talks with Mindy about her own podcast, Real Grief, Real Healing.
2019
- The Radiate Wellness PodcastRadiate Kindness with Mindy Corporon
How Faith Always Wins and SevenDays got their names, and what reformed extremists taught her about how lonely teenagers get recruited.
- In a World with Real Media
Brad Burrow traces her career from waitress to wealth-management CEO, with forgiveness defined as releasing the anger and rare candor on staying married after losing a child.
- The Radiate Wellness Podcast
With Lisa Cooper, her Workplace Healing co-founder: the fullest version of the workplace playbook, from the capacity check to the never-say list.
- KC Cares OnlineEpisode 329: Kansas City's Nonprofit Voice, with Jill Anderson
A foundation overview around its three pillars, and why two victims' families invited reformed white supremacists to SevenDays.
- Mornings with Bryan Truta
A Give Back Friday segment on the SevenDays youth competition.
2018
- The Takeaway
WNYC's national panel after the Tree of Life shooting: the letter she wrote to the synagogue and blunt counsel for the Pittsburgh families.
- Majority 54
Jason Kander talks with Mindy about what reformed white supremacists taught her, how belonging recruits lonely teenagers, and social media's part in it.
- The Dana & Parks Podcast
A SevenDays preview on KMBZ.
- KC Cares OnlineEpisode 282: SevenDays / Faith Always Wins Foundation
A preview of that year's SevenDays with the LaManno family: themed days, interfaith scheduling, and the blood drive.
2017
- The Jonathan Wier ShowMindy Corporon Talks Seven Days Events
Three years on: milestone grief around prom and graduation, reading condolence cards each morning, and grieving through your own skills.
- KC Cares OnlineSevenDays segment
An early SevenDays segment.
- The Lift PodcastMindy Corporon and SevenDays
A SevenDays conversation from the campaign's early years.
2016
- Ruckus
Mike Shanin interviews Mindy, then president of SevenDays, on creating a ripple of positive change two years after the attack.
2015
- KCUR 89.3
The one-year feature on how a family of three was learning to function, and the call to be louder with the good than with the evil.