Focused Healthy Family Podcast

Gina Grothoff: Occupational Therapist, Family Coach, writer and mom of three Donald Grothoff: Family Coach, Mindset Coach, Speaker, EFT Tapping Practitioner and dad to those same three. This dynamic duo are out each week with a new podcast. Using their 24 years of parenting, life experiences and their challenges with two kids with special needs to give tips to parents everywhere. Gina and Don find themselves in the Sandwich Generation, raising kids and caring for elderly parents, which they do talks, workshops and work with parents. Focused Healthy Family podcast is a light-hearted approach at serious issues and questions parents have today on parenting, forming stronger relationships with their kids, and helping their children grow-all in under 30 minutes. #parenttalk #parenting #parentcommunication #focusedhealthyfamily #co-parenting #singleparents #parents #sandwichgeneration #sandwichgenerationsupport #seniorcaregiversupport #seniorcare #agingparentssupport

#143 Crazy When We Are Late with Jondi Whitis - FHF Podcast 11/21/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips - Holidays Eating Right 11/19/2024

#142 Caregiving Crazy with Mike Collins 11/14/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips - Holidays - Respecting Kids Feelings 11/12/2024

#141 A Stroke of Bad Luck - FHF Podcast 11/07/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips - Holidays Don't rush the kids. 11/05/2024

#139 Communication with Dementia with Teepa Snow 10/31/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips- Getting Kids Involved in the holidays 10/29/2024

#140 Bearment, Heart Attack and Stroke, Oh Mg. 10/24/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips - Holiday Limitations 10/22/2024

#138 The Long Journey to Good-Bye 10/17/2024

FHF Tuesday Tips - Holiday Planning 10/15/2024

#137 Actress and Caregiver - Interview with Tracee Loran - FHF Podcast 10/10/2024

FHF Tues Tips - Holiday Prep 10/08/2024

#136 Our Bodies, Medicine and More 10/03/2024

Replay 12 - FHF Tuesday Tips - Contrast 10/01/2024

#135 Barriers To Better Care - FHF Podcast 09/26/2024

Replay 11 FHF Tues Tips - Positive Direction 09/24/2024

#134 The Art of Juggling - Parenting and Education - FHF Podcast 09/19/2024

Replay 10 FHF Tues Tips - Go inside first 09/17/2024

#133 Kylie Odetta - Singer Interview - FHF Podcast 09/12/2024

Replay 9 FHF Tues Tips - If I lived to be 100 09/10/2024

#132 Raised in a Nursing Home - Interview with Michelle Woodbrey - 2Sisters Speak Podcast 09/05/2024

#132 Raised in a Nursing Home - Interview with Michelle Woodbrey - 2Sisters Speak Podcast Brought up in a nursing home these 2Sisters gained more wisdom than any child could gain in their lifetime. Michelle and Alyson used the wisdom to build a life and career help the senior population. That’s the best way to start their story. Their father was a nursing home administrator, and their mother worked for him as a physical therapist. Michelle and Alyson spent their childhoods going to the nursing home and doing activities with the seniors who lived there. Michelle and her sister did not go to daycare as kids. Michelle Woodbrey and her sister Alyson Powers are the Co-Founders and sisters of 2Sisters Senior Living Advisors. Founded in 2011, 2Sisters Senior Living Advisors is a Massachusetts-based, woman-owned placement, referral and coaching service that specializes in helping families navigate senior living and care options. Michelle and her sister did not go to daycare as kids. They grew up in a nursing home. Michelle talks about learning to walk by helping push wheelchairs while her mom offered physical therapy. She painted ceramics, led exercise classes and helped to set the dining room tables. She continued to volunteer throughout her school years including college. She went on to earn her B.S. from Ithaca College in New York, and a master’s degree from Prescott College in Arizona. She began her career as an activity director opening an assisted living in Colorado. After working in programming and in operations roles, Michelle found her passion for the sales process in guiding families to find the right solution. After hearing countless families say they wish they had moved sooner, she wanted to help families see how the right senior living community could offer them such an improved quality of life. But what really led to the creation of 2Sisters Senior Living Advisors was when her father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Both she and Alyson started to make plans to move back to Massachusetts to support their own aging parents. In states on the west coast where Michelle lived and worked, many families relied upon low-cost or free senior living referral agencies to find the best solutions. In 2009, Michelle accepted a position as the marketing director for a local assisted living and moved back to Massachusetts. She quickly realized there were no referral agencies local to Massachusetts – only those online. Seeing the need and the opportunity, Michelle convinced Alyson to move back to Massachusetts to start 2Sisters Senior Living Advisors. Also, Michelle and Alyson co-host a podcast called 2Sisters Speak: Surviving the Sandwich Generation. Their short and often entertaining episodes for people trying to balance the responsibilities of caring for aging parents while also raising children and trying to maintain their sanity. #caregiving #seniorcaregivers #sandwichgenerationcaregivers #2Sistersspeakpodcast #MichelleWoodbrey #seniorlivingadvisors Find out more: /episode/index/show/focusedhealthyfamily/id/32886632

Replay 8 FHF Tues Tips - Unforgettable Mistakes 09/03/2024

#131 Family Caregiver vs Professional Caregiver - FHF Podcast 08/29/2024

Replay 7 FHF Tues Tips - Mirroring 08/27/2024

#130 Love Is - Interview with Kimberly Lipsky Weidman - FHF Podcast 08/22/2024

Replay 6 FHF Tues Tips - Doing the best affirmations 08/20/2024

#129 Ask The OT - Dealing with Triggering Past 08/15/2024

Replay 5 FHF Tues Tips - Conversation vs. Argument 08/13/2024

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