Home After 50™

Who is responsible for dinner in a multi-gen home? And can the same principles work when friends, not family, share a house? Juli continues her October series answering real questions from her community. Erin, who commutes 40 minutes four days a week, asks for help with meal prep, the main pain point in her home with her parents. Mary asks whether the Real Math of Multi-Generational Living applies...

How do you live close enough to help without giving up your privacy? Juli continues her audience questions series, this time straight from her inbox. Roberta wants separate spaces near her married daughter's family. A longtime listener shares why her family's multi-gen move ended after six months, and why she's still glad they tried. And Ellen asks what to do when parents say yes to everything but...

You love the idea of multi-gen living, but what if the work lands on you? Juli continues her series answering real comments from her community. Pam worries the lion's share of the housework will fall on the woman, no matter the generation. Dana asks about home maintenance, contributions, and the long-term care phase most families never plan for. Juli shares practical ways to make a shared home fee...

Juli kicks off season five on an unseasonably warm October day in Massachusetts with a format she plans to return to often this fall: answering the comments and questions that land in her inbox every day. She takes on two of the biggest hesitations families bring to her clarity calls and monthly coffee chats. The first is about siblings, fairness, and inheritance when one adult child buys a home w...

Juli closes out season four before she takes her usual break between seasons, a rhythm she has built in every eight to twelve episodes to rest and come back renewed. This time the break is focused on producing her long awaited Multi-Gen Money Course, alongside a few new brand partnerships and a girls' weekend on Cape Cod to celebrate a close friend's upcoming wedding and move to Ireland. She also...

In this episode, Juli is diving into four real scenarios pulled straight from the live Q&A at her Multi-Gen Financing Workshop, hosted with her lending partner Michael Pankow. Nearly 170 people registered for the live session, and Juli says the Q&A portion is always her favorite part, hearing exactly how families are trying to make multigenerational living work for their unique situation....

In this episode, Juli addresses the part of multigenerational living planning that tends to create the most stress for families, money. She shares that nearly everyone she works with is navigating this for the first time, without prior experience to lean on, which is often where the overwhelm comes from. She then walks through five questions she believes every family should ask when planning a mul...

This week, Juli tackles a topic that touches nearly every family navigating multi-generational living: how to respect an aging parent's right to make their own decisions, even when those decisions cause worry. The conversation was sparked by a comment on one of Juli's social media posts, and it sent her down a research rabbit hole that led to a recently published academic framework she found genui...

This week Juli unpacks a theme she has been exploring all week on social media: the different visions families have for what multi-generational living should actually look like, sparked by a message from a viewer whose in-laws were picturing a completely different home than she was. To make the differences easy to talk about, Juli maps four common multi-gen setups onto four familiar TV families. W...

Juli has been talking about reinvention all season, but this week she turns the lens toward home itself. Fresh off her monthly Multi-Gen Coffee Chat, a free Zoom gathering that drew 17 attendees from eight states, she distills the conversation into five themes every multi-gen family, current or future, will recognize. With more than 10,000 downloads of her Multi-Generational Living Guide and famil...

This week Juli shares a conversation she didn't plan to have. Her friend Autumn Ceniza, a real estate advisor who teaches women how to build wealth and the founder of Meet Coterie, invited Juli to talk about multi-generational living and money. What came out was the most complete version of Juli's family story she has ever told, including a few things she has never shared on the podcast before. Wh...

Juli sits down with designer and renovator Allison Clouser of Clouz Houz for a conversation about the kind of reinvention nobody plans for. Allison spent nearly two decades as a stay-at-home mom, dabbling in design for friends and her own home. Then her husband lost his job right after they moved into their 7,000 square foot dream home, a home Allison had designed from top to bottom. They had to s...

In this solo season opener, Juli catches up with listeners after a longer-than-expected break, shares the experiences that filled those weeks, and introduces the theme she has chosen to carry through every conversation in Season Four: reinvention. This is a short episode, but an honest one. If you have been wondering where Juli went, and what she is building next, this is the one to start with. Wh...

This week's episode is a short one, and that is intentional. I wanted to come straight to you with something I think could genuinely change the conversation your family is having right now. If you have been thinking about creating a multi-generational home but keep getting stuck on the money side of things, this workshop was built for exactly that moment. On May 14th, I am hosting the Multi-Gen Fi...

This episode is one I almost didn't record. It's a true story about someone I know, and it did not have a happy ending. I'm sharing it anyway because I believe it could protect someone you love. In this episode, I walk through a real situation involving a woman I worked with years ago who recently sold her home under circumstances that were far from ideal. She was ill, isolated, and was approached...

When Rhea and her wife Abi could not find a home that worked in Massachusetts’ highly competitive housing markets , they made a different choice. Abi's parents had 1.7 acres, a hill, and an idea. What followed was a brand new ADU built from foundation to staged in 110 days, and a family bond that grew stronger in the process. Juli sat down with her niece Rhea right in the beautiful new kitchen to...

What if everything you thought you knew about retirement was built on an outdated model designed for a life expectancy that no longer exists? That is the question at the center of this conversation, and the answer might surprise you. Gregg Lunceford is a Managing Director and Wealth Advisor at Mesirow Wealth Management with over 33 years of experience in financial services. But what makes him trul...

Juli just returned from speaking at Rise Retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona and she cannot stop thinking about what happened in that room. This episode is her reflection on what it means to step into your leadership, your authority, and your full self at this stage of life. Whether you are navigating multi-generational living, rebuilding your business after your kids leave home, or just trying to get...

In this episode, Juli Ford and Kim Buckner pick up right where they left off - and this time, they get practical. Kim has coached women in business for more than a decade. And in Part Two, she gets into the one thing she sees holding women back almost every single time. Not skills. Not market conditions. Not experience. She names it in the first few minutes - and a lot of women are going to feel s...

In this episode, Juli Ford sits down with her friend and fellow real estate entrepreneur, Kim Buckner, for a conversation that starts warm and gets real fast. Kim is a 17-year real estate veteran, former Team Leader and CEO of one of the largest brokerages in the US, and founder of a private coaching company for realtors and entrepreneurs. She has spent more than a decade coaching women in busines...

For years, the desire has been there. Families wondering if there was a better way to care for aging parents, support adult children, and design a home life that actually worked for everyone. The demand was real, but the barriers, the financing, the zoning, the cultural conversation, kept getting in the way. That is changing. And this year, it is changing fast. In this episode, Juli shares the dat...

In this Season 3 kickoff episode of Home After 50™ , Juli Ford shares what she’s been hearing from families exploring multi-generational living and ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units) as housing solutions. After taking a short break from the podcast, Juli reflects on the questions families are asking right now about financing, planning, and creating homes that support multiple generations. She also sh...

In this short episode, Juli closes out Season 2 of Home After 50™ with reflection, gratitude, and a look ahead to Season 3. After two seasons and 24 conversations about multi-generational living, the Open Nest, caring for aging parents, reinventing life and business after 50, and reimagining what “home” really means, it feels important to pause intentionally before moving into the next season of t...

In this episode of Home After 50 , Juli talks with Chris Lee, CEO and Founder of Backyard ADUs, about how Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are becoming one of the most practical solutions for multi-generational living, aging in place, and starter homes for adult children. Chris shares what families should understand before building a backyard home, including realistic costs, financing options, time...

Thinking about a multi-generational home or adding an ADU but not sure where to start? In this episode, Juli shares why the most important first step isn’t design, permits, or construction - it’s having the right family conversations . Inspired by an email from a 73-year-old listener asking for help getting started with her family’s Multi-Gen Home, Juli walks through how to begin talking about mul...