Caregiver Dave Podcast

Epilepsy: How VNS Therapy Gave My Daughter’s Life Back to Her

Mike Knox is an author, caregiver and father to a child who has drug-resistant epilepsy. Mike’s daughter, Vivien, started having seizures before she turned two and is now six years seizure-free using VNS Therapy, which is a medical device designed to prevent seizures before they start and stop them if they do.

Mike is passionate about ending the stigma surrounding epilepsy and authored a book, “Vivien’s Rain: My Daughter’s Battle with Epilepsy.” Mike continues to spread epilepsy awareness by working to pass a law for police and law enforcement in California to be trained on seizures and seizure first aid.

 

Sexy Meaningful Fun for Caregivers - Author, Beth Leibling

Beth Liebling is a divorced, middle-aged, mother of five children and grandmother. She’s also an Ivy League educated, former board-certified divorce attorney who got tired of breaking people up, so now helps couples stay together. She created Darling Way (https://darlingway.com), a uniquely romantic, elegantly sexy retail boutique in the historic Houston Heights neighborhood. Darling Way is also Beth’s soapbox from which she coaches people (of all ages and backgrounds) and teaches them how to create more intimacy, love and romance in life regardless of their relationship status. In addition to individual and couples coaching, Beth regularly leads workshops, events and presentations for groups across the country, on all things related to mating, dating, sex and relationships. Her Amazon best selling book "Love and Laughter: Sexy (Meaningful) Fun for Everyone!", radio show/podcast “Love and Laughter with Beth” (ESPN Houston/Itunes) and Darling Way YouTube video series, “Beth’s Bed Talks” have garnered her a loyal, national audience. With her intelligent, no holds barred, lighthearted approach to serious topics she has been a wildly popular speaker and radio/television guest.

Caregivers Unite and Get Political Power & Respite, Debbie Peterson

Debbie's new book, The Happiest Corruption: Sleaze, Lies, & Suicide in a California Beach Town This is insider crime history — my account of politicians, government officials, developers, contractors, and cannabis kings who operate a criminal machine that streams through my small county, bankrolled by public funds, campaign donations, and pallet loads of cash generated by the most valuable crop in the nation. As the mayor of a friendly little beach town, my story should be a happy memoir. Instead, it evolved into a sinister citizens-turned-spy suspense epic of bribery, extortion, dark money, and death. How could the beach and vineyard paradise that Oprah called the ‘Happiest City in America’ be riddled with corruption and be legendary with the FBI? I heard whispered stories, sat at board room tables behind closed doors, and had access to people and facts that others do not. In THE HAPPIEST CORRUPTION you will: Journey alongside determined citizens finding government misconduct and learn how you too can spot and fix it. Be inspired by the courage and tenacity of ordinary people who saved their communities and established good government. Know a government con when you see one and know why you know it. Find out how to beat city hall at its worst and be city hall at its best. Most important of all, you will be equipped to make sure your town doesn’t become the next Happiest Corruption in America.

A Wellness Roadmap for the Burnout Caregiver Keith and Kat Demps

Keith Demps, of Orlando, FL, is co-founder of KLD Consulting, which specializes in self-care caregiver wellness. He is co-creator of the D.E.M.P.S. caregiver wellness roadmap. Keith is a nationally certified caregiver by the American Caregiver Association (ACA) and is married to his wife, Dr. Katandria (Kat) L. Demps. Kat Demps is married to her husband, Keith Demps and co-founder of KLD Consulting. She is a multilingual, nationally certified speech-language pathologist, linguist, certified autism specialist, certified public health researcher and certified in the practice of cognitive rehabilitation, ACA advanced national caregiving and assisted living. Kat is founder and director of Dr. Love’s Healthcare®,501(c)3, K&K Services and Dr. Love’s Integrative Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine, PLLC. Keith and Kat share their love and passion for service through cooking, traveling and the Word of God.

Author of Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years, Star Bradbury

Author, Aging Life Care Specialist® and CEO of Senior Living Strategies Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. She has 25 years of experience in the industry and is the founder of Senior Living Strategies and an aging life care expert. She specializes in developing resilient and flexible plans that promote independence and focuses on optimal quality of life for elders.

The Art of Living with the End in Mind: Barbara Becker

Barbara Becker is the award-winning author of Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind. She is an interfaith minister who has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. Barbara has sat at the bedside of hundreds of patients as a hospice volunteer and sees each one as a teacher. More at barbarabecker.com

How to be a Healthy and Happy Caregiver, Juan Williams

Juan Williams has absorbed holistic health protocols all his life. From his early home in Battle Creek Michigan, to the melting pot of Honolulu, Hawaii. As a journalist, Mr. Williams has been exposed to many unique health practices. What has worked for him, is holistic protocols of past generations in his family, and the understanding that what you put in your stomach, is critical to your health.

Mr. Williams has a life education that includes an AS in mechanical engineering from the University of Hawaii, (HCC) and a Bachelors in Interdisciplinary business, from Arizona State University. It’s all of this education Mr. Williams brings. This includes his personal health crisis; as well as the life challenges of others, to promote a total understanding of personal self-help health.

What Caregivers MUST Know Before They Sell a Home. Orli Dundaie

Leverage your home ownership and avoid costly mistakes.

What should you know and no one tells you.about home mortgages.

Orli Dudaie, has more than twenty years of experience in real estate. She is an architect, rehabber, investor, realtor, and mortgage loan officer. She lives in Saint Louis, Missouri, with her husband and son. She wrote a book coming out in the spring; YOUR HOME, YOUR MONEY! Helping current and aspiring homeowners leverage the financial potential of home ownership based on their needs and desires.

Caring for the Caregiver - Marilyn Ababio & Kimberly Habi

Comfort Homesake is a multi-generational, multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of dedicated professionals and community members.has been providing advanced health planning programs for over 19 years. Since 2004, Comfort Homesake has been working in community with families, professionals, healthcare providers, and community members providing engaging and effective culturally relevant programs and services to let people know what they can and cannot expect from the health care system. Our approach is to create space and allow participants to express their beliefs and questions about managing chronic disease, dealing with a serious illness or facing end-of-life. Our training modules include; Serious Illness Conversation Starter; Advance Directive Completion; Soul Injury, Transcendental Beliefs; Shout Loud, Cannabis and Health. Our services include volunteer training, friendly visits, meaning and legacy; and end-of-life vigil called No One Dies Alone. Our Elderhood program and hospital community benefit advocacy have been developed around decreasing the impact of structural racism and health disparities in communities of color.

Join us March 8, 2023, at 6pm PST, on Zoom, meeting # 829 203 03306 for a very special event you won't waqnt to miss!

Author of ”The Gap Between: Loving and Supporting Someone with Alzheimer’s” Mary Moreland

Mary Moreland is the author of the book The Gap Between: Loving and Supporting Someone with Alzheimer’s, which conveys a moving and deeply personal portrait of her family’s journey through the disease. Mary is also a lawyer and has spent the bulk of her 25-year legal career working on transactions outside the United States, principally in Latin America. Mary also has vast experience in ethics and compliance matters, having served as chief compliance officer for two publicly traded international companies