Longevity and Parents with Mangesh Hattikudur: Listen to Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever
This week, we’re sharing the first episode of Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever , a new Kaleidoscope and iHeartPodcasts series hosted by Ma...
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Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel is a documentary podcast about Victoria's Secret...and its many, many secrets. The series investigates the origin story of one of the world’s most iconic brands and its effect o...
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20 of 41 episodesHow To Avoid Scams with Patrick Coughlin
Cybersecurity expert and author of The Dark Side of the Boom Patrick Coughlin joins Vanessa to talk about the scams coming for our parents a...
Boosting Your Brain Health with Dr. Silky Pahlajani
What can you actually do to keep your brain healthy — and what is just wellness noise? Vanessa talks with Dr. Silky Pahlajani of Weill Corne...
Senior Living, and When Does Gen X Move In? With Neil Nagraj and Laura House
Senior care advisor Neil Nagraj and podcaster Laura House join Vanessa to talk about the impossible math of senior housing: when aging in pl...
Revisit: No One Should Live This Long with Comedian Lewis Black
This is an episode where we get mad! Comedian Lewis Black cared for his late elderly parents, who lived to 101 and 104. He talks about som...
Feeling At Peace with Your Life with Joan Lunden
Joan Lunden joins Vanessa to talk about her new memoir, JOAN: Life Beyond the Script , and the moments that forced her off-script: bringing...
The Most Complicated Dad Ever with Jessie Buttafuoco, from The Gratitudeology Podcast
This week, we’re sharing an episode from The Gratitudeology Podcast with Jamie Hess , featuring Jessie Buttafuoco. Jessie opens up about the...
Love, ALS, and Life After Survivor with Jonathan Penner
When Jonathan Penner’s wife Stacy Title was diagnosed with ALS, their life changed with shocking speed. He joins Vanessa to talk about careg...
Using Rankings to Your Advantage with Ben Harder and Liz Pearce
How do you choose a hospital or senior living community when everything feels impossibly high-stakes? Vanessa talks with two U.S. News & Wor...
Parents During the Covid Era with Jill Bialosky
When a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the grieving starts years before the end. In The End Is the Beginning , Jill Bialosky tells...
How to Fix Everything with Julie Kashen
Elder care and childcare costs are rising fast, while wages and support for caregivers lag behind. Longtime care policy advocate Julie Kashe...
Starting a Business in the Care Space with Kim Elliott
Kim Elliott’s caregiving story includes a leukemia diagnosis, a stem cell transplant, and some truly deranged insurance battles. She talks w...
Putting Your Parents on Videotape with Michelle Boyaner
Michelle Boyaner reflects on lives and relationships while sharing insights from her acclaimed film It’s Not a Burden: The Humor and Heartac...
Selena Gomez’s Mommy Issues
In this episode of Infamous , Vanessa and her co-host Natalie Robehmed learn about a wild family drama from The Cut writer Angelina Chapin....
Middle-Aged Lady Things with Anna Holmes
Anna Holmes joins Vanessa to talk about the unnerving overlap between having a parent with dementia and experiencing perimenopause brain fog...
A Presidential Legacy of Care with Josh Carter
Josh Carter, grandson of President Jimmy Carter, grew up in a family where caregiving wasn’t just a value — it was a way of life. He talks w...
Curing Grief with Cody Delistraty
Writer Cody Delistraty joins Vanessa to talk about his book The Grief Cure , a quest narrative through loss, myth, medicine, and modern grie...
How You (Yes, You) Can Live a Long, Healthy Life with Dr. Majid Fotuhi
What if cognitive decline isn’t inevitable? Dr. Majid Fotuhi, author of The Invincible Brain , explains why the brain is more changeable tha...
Your Parents' Finances with Beth Pinsker
Vanessa talks with certified financial planner, MarketWatch columnist, and My Mother’s Money author Beth Pinsker about the maddening reality...
Soap Operas and Aging with Mal Young
Mal Young, the British television producer and writer best known for his work on The Young and the Restless, joins the show to talk about hi...