Emilie Kiser
American social media content creator and mother whose son Trigg died after a drowning accident in 2025
Emilie Kiser (American social media content creator and mother whose son Trigg died after a drowning accident in 2025) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Drowning prevention and pool safety, Death of a child, Social media and self-presentation.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Drowning prevention and pool safety
Kiser recommends specific safety measures including pool sensors, door alarms and automatic closers on sliding doors.
“Make sure that you have a sensor in your pool. Make sure that you have door alarms”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 58:58
Kiser argues that because no parent can watch a child constantly, families need layered barriers that buy time if something happens.
“Make sure that you have every other barrier so that, God forbid, something happens, you're able to act”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 56:33
Kiser urges parents with pools and young children to install a pool fence, saying she regrets choosing a net instead.
“please if you have a pool and you have a young child get a pool fence I know there's other options I was there I chose Annette I regret it”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 55:17
Kiser states that drowning is the leading cause of death among young children and says it is not discussed enough.
“drowning is the leading cause of death in children three and under”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 30:01
Kiser says there is no larger meaning to Trigg's death and that it happened because the family did not take certain precautions.
“At the end of the day, it happened because there were precautions that we didn't take”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 14:48
Death of a child
Kiser says telling bereaved parents their child is in a better place or that it was meant to happen is hurtful, since Trigg's death was preventable.
“anything in the realm of he's in a better place or this is just what was supposed to happen because it wasn't”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 54:01
Kiser says a final promise to Trigg that she would care for his brother Teddy has kept her going.
“I made a promise to Trigg right before we lost him that I was going to take care of Teddy”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 41:29
Social media and self-presentation
Kiser argues that social media content never represents a person's full reality because it is always curated.
“Social media shouldn't be anyone's representation of anything because at the end of the day, it's always, even if you share the good, the bad, the hard, it's what you're choosing to share”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 39:25
Kiser says she no longer shares her younger son or images of Trigg online.
“I don't share my younger son anymore. I have a strict boundary of I don't share Trig anymore”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 5:15
Grief
Kiser describes judging her days on two scales: the intensity of her grief and her ability to manage it.
“Your grief is on a scale of one to 10, and then your level of managing it is on a scale of one to 10”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 36:46
Kiser argues that grief has no finish line and remains with a person for life.
“It's never ending. Your grief is going to be with you for the rest of your life”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 18:47
Psychotherapy
Kiser says the grief care farm's professionals were there not to heal her but to give her tools, teaching her the pain would only become more manageable.
“They're not there to heal you. Nothing's going to be able to heal you. They're there so that they can teach you the best tools”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 33:47
Marriage and long-term partnership
Kiser advises that grieving partners should not try to balance each other's emotions but let each other feel them and be present.
“And it's not each other's job to balance it out. Your job is to let your partner feel what they need to feel”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 47:46
Forgiveness
Kiser says her anger at her husband shifted to empathy once she recognized the accident could just as easily have happened while she was in charge.
“This could have just as easily happened to me. This could have just as easily been me and Brady's position”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 45:28
Media intrusion and privacy
Kiser recounts that in the early days the family stayed inside because of people filming, helicopters and news crews at their home.
“we weren't even leaving our house because we had people driving by, taking videos, helicopters going over our house”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 23:33
Kübler-Ross model
Kiser relays Joanne Cacciatore's view that the stages of grief were designed for people facing their own end of life, not for parents who lost a child.
“that's designed for elderly people who are at the end of life, of the stages of accepting that your life is going to end”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty: Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her Forever (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 21:20
Appearances
Emilie Kiser EXCLUSIVE: The Loss That Changed Her ForeverOn Purpose with Jay Shetty · Jun 17, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
Emilie Kiser tells Jay Shetty about losing her son Trigg in a pool accident, living with grief publicly, her marriage, and pool safety.
Often appears with
- Jay Shetty · 1 shared episode