How to Notice Your Parents' Signs of Aging Before There's a Crisis

It's something nearly every member of the sandwich generation has thought about: What's the best way to talk to young kids — or older kids, or teens — about death, dying, and grief? Certified Child Life Specialist Jessica Correnti is here with practical, actionable tips. Her advice isn't prescriptive; it honors the fact that kids (just like adults!) process heavy things in a variety of ways. But if you've found youself in need of guidance on how to open up these conversations, you...

Season 1 of The Millennial Sandwich is officially wrapped! From the first episode we recorded (which, spoiler alert, has still never been released) to this season 1 recap, we've learned so much, felt so seen, and found ourselves asking..."is this a podcast or a therapy session" over and over again. In this episode, we talk about what we took away from our first season, what you can expect from us down the line, and what we hope to deliver in our second season. But most of all, we just.....

Naaz Nichols is Care.com's Chief Customer Experience Officer. She's also a sandwich generation caregiver — and that lived experience gives her the tools to fully understand what other caregivers truly need. In this episode, Naaz joins us to share the details of Care.com's first ever Sandwich Generation Report. She shares a statistic that may shock you. Naaz also gets deeply personal about her own experiences with sandwich generation caregiving. We discuss: How real-life caregiving makes you b...

Personally and professionally, Hitha Palepu wears a lot of hats. She's a mother of boys (but not a boy mom), a daughter of immigrants, and only child, a pharma CEO, a content creator, an author, a speaker...and that's not even an exhuastive list. It's easy to look at someone like Hitha and wonder how she does it all. But here's the thing: She doesn't. Hitha talks us through how she makes her multi-hyphanted life work...and also, what she doesn't do. Because doing a lot is not the same a...

Care work has value, economically and beyond — yet both our systems and our culture refuse to acknowledge this. Nobody understands this deep devaluation better than Elissa Strauss, who (literally) wrote the book (When You Care) on the true value of care. In this episode, Elissa, Anita & Zara discuss: The longheld idea that motherhood shouldn't "take over" your identityThe interdependency of policy and culture where caregiving is concernedThe biggest misconceptions people have ...