Love Doesn't Pay The Bills
By Two Squared Media Productions
In Love Doesn't Pay the Bills, we explore the role of family caregivers in the modern United States through personal stories and interviews with leaders. Care work is vital to all other aspects of life, yet often under-resourced. Caregivers cannot house and feed ourselves or provide for our own medical needs based on our love for our family members alone: access to income matters. We also have the same needs as other workers for regular time off, to participate in social life and recreation, and for ongoing education and new opportunities over time. email Lisa: [email protected]
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Latest episode
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Susan Reinhard LDPTB 032025 final
What is the care provided by family caregivers financially worth? We discuss the value of unpaid care in America, how this value is beginning to be recognized or properly supported and what listeners can do to help make sure it is. "Susan C.... -
We Need to Keep Medicaid Strong for care recipients and families: with Guest Nicole Jorwic
With recent threats to https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/politics/medicaid-proposed-cuts-what-matters/index.htmlfunding, we discuss why Medicaid is important to care in the United States, what it is and what cutting funds might mean. - “More than 72... -
We Built a Fabulous Care Team Around Us: With guest Mike George
Mike George helps families rewrite their caregiving story – from one of sacrifice and exhaustion to one of joy, strength and resilience. A family caregiver himself for 3 decades, Mike intimately understands the burdens of supporting the primary care.… -
Microdoses of Self Care for Family Caregivers: With Guest Dr. Merle Griff
Dr. Merle Griff is the author of the author of... -
A Systemic Failure to Invest in the Care Workforce: With Guest Joe Macbeth
The Chief Executive Officer and President of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP), Joe Macbeth joins us to talk about the labor pool for these employees. Joe's experience in the field of intellectual and developmental... -
This Real Person Needs Real Supports: With Guest Calli Ross
Calli Ross returns to the show to discuss a bill currently making it's way through the Oregon state legislature. Named for her son, Tensy's law will make good on the legislative intent behind OR SB91 passed in 2023. SB91 created a waiver for... -
Grab a Little Kindness for Ourselves: With Guest Susanne White
Susanne cared for her mother and her father simultaneously. Out of that experience grew Susanne's service to other family caregivers: Caregiverwarrior.com and the book Self Care for Caregivers. She shares wisdom from her intense caregiving. She... -
Looking at Care From Both Sides Now: With Guest Becky Curran Kekula
Our guest today is Becky Curran Kekula. Becky is a disability inclusion advocade. She is a speaker and movie industry equity and inclusion expert. Her experiences of both achrondoplasia, which is a form of drawfism, and medical motherhood give... -
Replay of Fully Fund Care: with guest Calli Ross
This episode was originally published on March 7, 2023. The Guest this week is Calli Ross who is a family caregiver and leader in the movement in Oregon to allow parents to be paid for providing extraordinary care to their minor children with... -
These Are All Normal Feelings: With Guest Lynne Abaté-Johnson
Lynne Abaté-Johnson joins Lisa to discuss the breadth and complexity of our human feelings as caregivers, particularly at the holidays. We reflect on the paradox that embracing difficult emotions can bring more ability to adjust to them, live with.…
