She Lost Her Son. Then She Built This. | Erica Brinker

At the Brink with Erica Brinker · May 27, 2026 · 37m

Every episode of At the Brink begins with someone else’s story. This one is different. This is the story behind the show.

Erica Brinker lost her four-month-old son Luca to SIDS in December 2015. In the aftermath, the people closest to her went quiet. Friends stopped calling. Her own mother never said Luca’s name, afraid it would ruin a good day. And Erica, who had spent her career performing capability in boardrooms and on stages, found herself in a kind of silence she’d never experienced.

So she did something unexpected. She threw a party. Every year on the anniversary of his death, she…