Caregiver Dave Podcast

Living Between Miracle and Despair—Medicine and Miracle, and how they intertwine, David Chotka

Dr. David Chotka is the founder and director of Spirit-Equip Ministries—a organisation designed to help you grow your spiritual disciplines one small step at a tim His latest book, Healing Prayer is God’s Idea, (co-written with Rev. Dr. Maxie Dunnam) became a #1 best-selling Amazon title

Is ”BUSY” a Four Letter Word? Psychology Today Writer, Michelle Tennant

Michelle Tennant Nicholson has been called a “five-star publicist” by Good Morning America producer Mable Chan. As co-owner and Chief Creative Officer of Wasabi Publicity Inc., she represents global nonprofits, causes, and people who make a difference.

“We believe conversations change everything,” says Michelle. “The stories we consume consume us. Right now, our entire marketing industry is based on fear and stimulating the need to fix ourselves. It fuels our consumerism. We believe we can elevate this conversation and tell stories for the good of humankind. Imagine a world where people share positive stories they’ve heard on the news cycle this morning. What if our stories stimulated our sense of security and safety? According to the latest brain science research, that contributes to optimal life experience. That’s why I get out of bed each morning. How about you?”

Beat the Burnout Blues --Two simple steps to effectively navigate burnout: Melane Mullings

Melane is A cancer survivor, former Registered Nurse, a successful entrepreneur, Business Management Consultant and now author. While working as an RN, she suffered an extreme case of burnout.

After navigating the experience and coming to an understanding of her purpose, she started what grew to be a sustainably successful, impactful, purpose-driven business, then sold it after 13 years of operation.

 Melane is now sharing her unconventional strategies to success in her book: 'Lemonade! Squeeze Your Challenging Life Experiences Into a Successful Business', and through her consulting practice, Aere Management Consulting.

Her book and consultancy grant her the opportunity to help struggling entrepreneurs and business owners build a solid foundation for their ventures, and achieve purpose-driven, impactful, sustainable success, and the truly abundant life.

 

How, Hope, Love, and Joy Found Us Deep in a Maze Called Alzheimers,Carlen Maddux

Carlen Maddux is an experienced journalist. He wrote for the nationally recognized St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) before founding (in 1984), editing, and publishing for 26 years a business magazine for the Tampa Bay, FL region. He’s also written A Path Revealed: How, Hope, Love, and Joy Found Us Deep in a Maze Called Alzheimer’s. Today Carlen is a sought-after author, speaker, and blogger sharing the hard-won experience arising from his family’s experience.

Overcoming Role Reversal & Putting Mom in a Facility, Author, Rosie Mankes

ROSIE MANKES, is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a heartwarming memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie’s recovery from these major challenges inspired her to become a life coach, in order to help people pull through significant adversity and life challenges. Rosie is a resident of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband. She is the mother of two grown sons.

Overcoming Role Reversal & Putting Mom in a Facility, Author, Rosie Mankes

ROSIE MANKES, is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a heartwarming memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie’s recovery from these major challenges inspired her to become a life coach, in order to help people pull through significant adversity and life challenges. Rosie is a resident of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband. She is the mother of two grown sons.

Caregiver Student Loan Debt Solutions, Daphne Vanessa & Shamil Rodriguez

Daphné Vanessa and Shamil Rodriguez are Co-Founders of StartNoo.com, an online platform dedicated to reducing $1Trillion Dollars in student loan debt by providing a unique way for people to pay off student loans.

Daphné Vanessa began handling her father’s medical care in her early 20s. By the time she had a child, she found herself living the Sandwich Generation life caring for both the Silent Generation and Generation Alpha, while still maintaining a career and social enterprise.

Caregivers, Retirement is Just around the Corner. Gail McDonald & Marilyn Bushy

Americans are retiring – in greater numbers and at a faster pace. According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who retired in 2020 was twice that of 2019. Compared to previous generations, they are more likely to bring to their Next Chapters more passion, more talent, and more energy than generations that came before them. It is for this group of people and their younger cohorts, that Gail McDonald and Marilyn Bushey have written Retirement Your Way: The No-Stress Roadmap for Designing Your Next Chapter and Loving Your Future. McDonald and Bushey have dubbed them Retirement Rebels—people who are searching for a more fulfilling path to their future in which they reinvent retirement. You can thrive – not just survive – in your Next Chapter. "In a nutshell, our book is about questioning the assumptions that many of us hold about retirement and expanding the possibilities that we envision," McDonald says.

How to Age without FEAR, Ronald K. Kaiser

For 5 decades, Ron Kaiser, Ph.D. has helped individuals of all ages to be their best versions of themselves. While continuing to serve as Director of Psychology at the world famous Jefferson Headache Center as well as Clinical Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Dr. Ron has become the “Go To” person for advice on enhancing longevity through the adaptation of a mindset and lifestyle that he lives as well as teaches. He has created the concepts of Goal-Achieving Psychology (GAP). The Type P Personality, and REJUVENAGING®. His latest book, “REJUVENAGING®: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm,” has been an Amazon Best Seller as well as winning three book awards. His TEDx Talk, “Aging Enthusiastically to Make the World a Better Place” has been viewed over 175,000 times, and his weekly podcast has posted over 115 episodes. Dr Ron has been interviewed on numerous radio shows and podcasts. His website Is www.TheMentalHealthGym.com He is proudest of the success of his 51-year marriage and the fact that his children and grandchildren include him in their lives. Dr. Ron and his wife, Libby, make their home in Philadelphia.

The Art of Sales & Negotiation to Better Your Loved Ones Life. Deb Brown Maher

Deb Brown Maher is a sales coach, author and speaker with a passion to eliminate the negative stereotype of sales by teaching people how to sell from a position of integrity. Deb shares her methods in her book and video training course called “Sell Like Jesus: 7 Characteristics of Christ for Ethical Sales”.

But what Deb teaches isn’t just for sales. She also works with pastors, coaches, hospice workers, parents, family and friends who must get “buy-in” to accomplish specific outcomes. She is the POA for her 95-year-old mother and has to constantly negotiate with workers at the 24-hour nursing care facility where her mom lives now.

Today Deb is going to share her caregiver insights as well as some selling skills that have helped her get the best possible outcomes for her mom under difficult circumstances.