Dec 27, 2025
I sat down with Ken and Mary Sue Grein knowing their story would be heavy. I didn’t expect it to steady me the way it did.
They were just 22 years old when their son Jacob was born with severe medical complications. Within days, doctors told them he wouldn’t live long and encouraged them to let him die. Ken and...
Dec 22, 2025
There’s a particular look that crosses someone’s face when they realize they’ve just been understood.
I’ve seen it on a bus driver from Kenya after I spoke a few
words of Swahili.
I’ve seen it on a CNA from Ghana caring for my wife in a hospital
room. I watched a hospital housekeeper from Haiti light up...
Dec 14, 2025
Caregiving is relentless. The needs don’t pause, the stress doesn’t politely wait, and the temptation to put ourselves last feels almost virtuous. But in this episode of Hope for the Caregiver, I push back on a lie many of us live with: that our health is expendable.
Joined by my longtime friend and health coach
Dec 8, 2025
Alzheimer’s often reveals itself around the holiday table, when families see one another more closely than usual. My guest this week, author and longtime caregiver Carol Steinberg, knows that experience well. Her father was diagnosed decades ago, long before the disease was widely understood, and the journey reshaped...
Nov 19, 2025
I opened the show with Balaam, the original for-profit prophet. He was not the last one. We still have plenty today with nice suits, studio lighting, and partner plans “…if you act now!”
Balaam took the job, hopped on his donkey, and headed out. God blocked the road. The donkey saw it. Balaam did not. After a...
