Nicole & Claude: A Daughter Creating a Legacy

Before Claude became the reason for one of the hardest days of Nicole’s life, he was her dad.

He loved music, hockey, fishing, Halloween, Clint Eastwood, the outdoors, and teaching his children about trees. He was quiet, sensitive, hardworking, and the kind of person who would help someone else even when his own family didn’t have much.

In this episode of 13 Days of Silence: Living in the After, Nicole introduces us to Claude before sharing the phone call that changed everything when she learned her father had died by suicide.

She talks openly about never having the opportunity to see him and say goodbye, the guilt of a phone call she wishes she had made, the questions that followed his death, and the way grief fractured relationships within her family for years.

Nicole also shares something that became central to our conversation: in many ways, she learned more about her father after he died than she knew about him while he was alive.

More than a decade later, Nicole has turned part of her grief into purpose through the Suicide Loss Memorial Foundation, creating connection and meaningful spaces for others affected by suicide loss.

This isn't simply a story about suicide.

It's about Claude.

It's about a daughter continuing to discover and honor her father.

And it's about what Nicole has chosen to build while living in the after.

🎙️ 13 Days of Silence: Living in the After
Hosted by Teri Lyn