A Season of Caring Podcast

Send us Fan Mail No Regrets: Hope for Your Caregiving Season – Part 1 Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, take some time to discuss Rayna’s book available June 1, 2021 at all major retailers.  When considering types of care, explore all your options.  Think, “What else could this look like?” You must be willing to ask people for support. It is important to find medical profess...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, take some time to reflect on Rayna’s caregiving journey with both of her parents who had Alzheimer’s.  She also shares details on her book. When memory is a concern, it is natural to think of the worst possible outcome. Alzheimer’s impacts people differently and is not just memory problems.  Mom struggled with:  Visual proce...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, reflect on last week’s interview with Adrienne Glusman.  Adrienne shared her experience as a young caregiver and how she now supports other Millennials in their caregiving season.  Additional thoughts: Regardless of age, we usually do not think about being a caregiver. Sharing your story can be a support and help to other ca...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Adrienne Glusman.  Adrienne is a professional speaker, ambassador, and advocate on the topic of Millennial Caregiving.  She provides support to others through sharing her firsthand experience caring for her mother, Hetty, who passed away in 2020 after a 10-year battle with Parkinson’s/Multiple Systems Atrophy. She shares the following...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, reflect on last week’s interview with Victoria Lowell. Victoria shared information regarding finances and their impact during the caregiving season. Additional thoughts: When retiring early to care for a loved one, you need to consider lost wages.  Also, the lost opportunity to contribute to social security and personal reti...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Victoria Lowell.  Victoria is a financial advisor, entrepreneur, podcaster, and motivational speaker. She is also the author of “Empower Your Worth: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Self-worth and Net-worth.”  Several years ago, she left Wall Street and followed her passion for helping women assert themselves financially.  She shares the...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, reflect on last week’s interview with Elizabeth Miller. Elizabeth, The Happy Healthy Caregiver, has a heart for caregivers and supports them through her many passions. She shares with others what she learned during her caregiving journey with both her parents and her brother. Additional thoughts: Apply “happy and healthy” to...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Elizabeth Miller.  Elizabeth is a busy wife, mom, full-time employee, caregiver, and consultant.  She helps other family caregivers through her consulting service, podcast, book, and support group.  She is the author of ‘Just for You: A Daily Self-Care Journal’.  She shares how to integrate self-care and other insights: Integration -...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, revisit last week’s interview with Stacy Johnston.  Stacy is full of energy and has lots going on in her busy life including caring for her mother and step-father.  Rayna and Karen discuss how to ensure a busy life doesn't lead to an empty cup.  Additional thoughts discussed: Remember to balance caregiver needs WITH the...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Stacey Johnston.  Stacey has a varied background owning and operating a dance studio for 30 years and spending 11 years serving as a family services specialist.  She is now a coach, consultant, speaker, trainer, and podcaster.  Stacey is a caregiver for her mother and stepfather.  She shares the following insights from her caregiving...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, discuss ways to support family caregivers as they revisit last week’s interview with Drew Brenner.  While Drew cared for his mother, he was unable to find the resources he was seeking.  As a result, he set out on a mission to create an organization to provide to other family caregivers what he felt was missing.  Additional t...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Drew Brenner.  Drew is the founder of the Kansas Caregiver Network, an organization that links caregivers with the support and resources they need.  His ideas for this group grew from his personal caregiving experience with his mother.  Unfortunately, between the time of this recording in late 2020 and today, she passed away.  This ep...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, revisit last week’s interview with Aaron Blight who shared his insights from his personal family caregiving experience as well as his professional expertise in helping other caregivers and caregiver organizations.  Additional thoughts discussed: Although you cannot always prepare for the caregiving season, you can choose how...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Dr. Aaron Blight.  Dr. Blight is the author of “When Caregiving Calls: Guidance as You Care for a Parent, Spouse, or Aging Relative.”  He is also the founder of a consulting firm dedicated to those who care for the aging population.  In addition to his professional knowledge and expertise, he draws from his firsthand experience as a f...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, PCC, co-host, reflect on last week’s interview with Catherine Hodder, Esq. who shared her estate planning expertise. Additional insights discussed: By first completing your estate planning, you can frame the conversation by sharing your experience vs. just telling your parents what to do. It is important to know that the person selected t...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Catherine Hodder Esq. Catherine is an attorney and author of the bestseller, “Estate Planning for the Sandwich Generation: How to Help Your Parents and Protect Your Kids”.  She began her law practice in banking, but after helping care for her dad and seeing how estate planning helped her family, she switched her focus when she went ba...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, cohost, reflect on last week’s interview with Carlos Olivas III who shared his experience as the primary caregiver for his father.  Additional insights discussed: Take a minute to check out the Caring Quiz to find out exactly what kind of caring style you have. During the caregiving season, you will need to let go of some things you thoug...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Carlos Olivas III.  Carlos lived in Southern California where he was working a great job in live events doing production and design while raising his daughter.  Life took a turn five years ago when he made the decision to move back to his childhood home to care for his father. As a result of his experience, he has developed a passion...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, and Karen Weaver, cohost, reflect on the interview with April McCollum.  April shared her creative ideas for self-care and dealing with grief.  One specific suggestion included the adult coloring book she authored.  Additional insights discussed: Having a tangible item in front of you brings the opportunity to think about grief and can help you move throug...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Rayna Neises, your host, interviews April McCallum.  April focuses her passion for communication and creativity on writing, art, and advocacy projects.  She has authored several inspirational coloring books for adults, one of which is titled “Reflections of Love: Coloring Book Therapy for Grief and Loss”.  The following insights are shared: We need moments when we can b...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, ACC, host, introduces her new cohost, Karen Weave, and they reflect on 2020 and what is to come for 2021. Welcome, Karen!  She is currently in a caregiving season helping both her dad and her husband.  Listen to Karen’s story in last week’s reposted interview which was the #1 downloaded installment in 2020 for the A Season of Caring Podcast. 2020 helped us to evaluat...

Send us Fan Mail Encore Episode: #1 listened to podcast in 2020.  Rayna Neises, A Season of Caring Podcast Host, interviews Karen Weaver, PCC coach, author, and caregiver.  Karen will also become A Season of Caring Podcast Cohost in 2021. During their discussion, Karen shares about her 25+ years of being a caregiver: Faith is extremely important to her journey. Everyone has their own capacity.  Th...

Send us Fan Mail The #2 Top Listened to Episode in 2020 is Caregiving: The Hardest Right Thing Rayna Neises, your host, interviews Diane Clark.  She has served in various positions with the church for over 20 years where she has honed her gifts of serving and administration. She especially loves her roles as wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, but counts serving as a caregiver as one of her gre...

Send us Fan Mail Rayna Neises, your host, interviews Kinsey Oglesby. Kinsey is a coach, speaker, blogger, and writer who seeks to help women heal after trauma.  After a five-year journey with her mother, she adds an experienced caregiver to this impressive list of talents.  And, although unexpectedly, her caregiving journey provided her the opportunity to heal from her own childhood trauma and dev...

Send us Fan Mail Encore Episode Rayna Neises, your host interviews Nancy Miller, Caregiver Survivor, and Grief Recovery Specialist.  Grief is an everyday part of a caring season.  Nancy and Rayna discuss:  what was most surprising to her about grief in the process of caring for her parents.  the intensity of the grief the grief process was not a clean as the stages implied the grief is different w...