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  • Index Cards & Intention: How Tissa Richards Wrote "Rethinking Resilience"

    Index Cards & Intention: How Tissa Richards Wrote "Rethinking Resilience"
    Nov 8 2025
    Tissa Richards, who helps her grandmother, joined Denise to discuss her latest book, "Rethinking Resilience." They explored Tissa's writing process and the impact of her book, "Rethinking Resilience," which has already received awards and positive reader feedback. The conversation concluded with a discussion about writing practices, including the use of index cards for organization and the importance of maintaining personal writing style, along with experiences in public speaking and technology adoption across generations.

    About Tissa
    Tissa Richards has pioneered innovative approaches that link leadership development directly to organizational resilience, effective communication, and measurable results. Her models have been embraced by global organizations and leadership teams across various industries, transforming the trajectories of Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups alike. Her books, "Rethinking Resilience" and “No Permission Needed” have won multiple awards and are Amazon best-sellers. Tissa guides hundreds of diverse candidates to public and private board positions each year. Learn more at www.tissarichards.com.

    About Caregiving Book Club
    We talk writing, publishing and marketing with family caregivers who write books and with authors who write about caregiving. Reach out to Denise if you'd like to be a guest: https://join.caringourway.com/posts/89992660?utm_source=manual

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    35 min
  • Caregiving Book Club: Meet Bruce McIntyre, Author and Family Caregiver

    Caregiving Book Club: Meet Bruce McIntyre, Author and Family Caregiver
    Sep 27 2025
    Bruce McIntyre joins Denise to talk about writing, his writing process and his next book.Bruce is the author of Receiving Peace, Thrive Anyway, Parkinson Positive, Graceful Transitions and Resilient Life. He serves as the CEO of the Oklahoma Parkinson’s Alliance. Bruce shares his expert guidance and warm humor with thousands of people each year. As a caregiver for his wife since 2004, Bruce understands the world of chronic illness and caregiving.

    To learn more about Bruce, visit https://brucemcintyre.com.

    You can read Denise's Caregiving Comforts published on Mondays here: https://join.caringourway.com/spaces/8525015/feed

    Are you a caregiving book author? Denise would love to have you as a guest on her show. Learn more and tell her about your work: https://join.caringourway.com/posts/89992660?utm_source=manual

    Be sure to join Denise on her online community, CaringOurWay.com.

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    29 min
  • A Conversation with Lacresha Davis

    A Conversation with Lacresha Davis
    Jan 25 2023
    Lacresha Davis, author of "Questions Now or Regrets Later," joins Denise to share the inspiration for her book as well as her process for creating the planner. To connect with Lacresha, visit https://www.notyourtypicalplanner.com.

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    27 min
  • A Conversation with Jennifer O'Brien

    A Conversation with Jennifer O'Brien
    May 25 2022
    Jennifer A. O’Brien, MSOD, joins Denise to discuss how her journal became her book, "The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal.”

    About Jennifer
    Jennifer O’Brien helps people talk about caregiving and end of life. She encourages compassionate, real conversation through her book, The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal, where she shares her story of caregiving through collages and writings.

    After years of caring for people with serious illness as a physician, Jennifer’s husband, Bob Lehmberg, was diagnosed with a stage IV, metastatic cancer. But caregiving for the man who had made a 40-year career of caregiving as a physician was not easy. When Jennifer’s husband was diagnosed and later after he died, she turned to what had brought her comfort for years—art journaling. She documented and depicted the raw, honest, beautiful and exhausting reality of caregiving through collage, tableaus, notes and observations. She included much of the wisdom and perspective she learned from her husband in his years as a physician.

    When the book was just a stack of pages, she took it to a friend who had just been diagnosed with a rare, advanced bladder cancer. After reading the book and knowing his own prognosis, he said, “You need to give this to my wife. She needs to understand what is ahead and feel supported as my caregiver.” After seeing how much that stack of pages helped them in his final months, Jennifer knew that what she had created might help others.

    Having been a practice management consultant and educator to physicians for 30+ years, an executive administrator for two large medical practices, in administration at three major academic medical centers, the wife and now widow of a physician, Jennifer has a unique and thorough understanding of healthcare. Still, with all of this experience, caregiving for her dying husband was both the greatest honor and challenge of her life.

    Now Jennifer works to help caregivers feel supported while caring for others and taking care of themselves. Connect with Jennifer at https://www.hospicedrswidow.com.

    About Denise
    Denise develops and leads training and leadership opportunities to help individuals transform a personal caregiving experience into a volunteer opportunity, a small business or a career change. More than 300 individuals from seven countries have enrolled in Denise’s training programs. Denise began supporting family caregivers in 1990, launching one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996. She sold the community in March 2020 to Ohio’s Hospice. She convened a National Caregiving Conference for four years (2016-2019), hosted a 36-hour Christmas chat for six years and celebrated creative side of family caregivers with an online Caregiving Art Show. Her research shined a light on family caregiver stress, the needs of working family caregivers and the daily challenges faced by family caregivers. She was a 2017 Influencer in Aging. Denise is the author of several books including "Healing Words: Soothing Strategies for Your Caregiving Fatigues," "The Caregiving Years, Navigating the Six Caregiving Stages and the Take Comfort series." Denise also helps her parents, who are 90 and 87. To download a template you can use to write your own caregiving story, visit https://join.caringourway.com/all-courses.

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    35 min
  • A Conversation with Dave Iverson

    A Conversation with Dave Iverson
    Mar 8 2022
    Dave Iverson joins Denise to discuss his book, "Winter Stars: An elderly mother, an aging son, and life’s final journey."

    About Dave
    During his broadcast journalism career, Dave Iverson produced over 20 documentary specials for PBS, including the Frontline film My Father, My Brother and Me (2009), and Capturing Grace (2015). He also hosted local NPR/PBS programs at KQED in San Francisco and served as a special correspondent to the PBS NewsHour.

    Iverson was 56 when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and a few years later he decided to do something he’d never imagined—he moved back home to care for his 95-year-old mother, Adelaide. Winter Stars is the story of the ten-year journey that followed. For anyone who’s considering taking on a caregiving role, Iverson’s memoir offers an intimate, unvarnished portrait of the challenges and changes that lie ahead.

    Connect with Dave at www.daveiversonauthor.com.

    About Denise
    Denise develops and leads training and leadership opportunities to help individuals transform a personal caregiving experience into a volunteer opportunity, a small business or a career change. Denise launched several initiatives to ensure the voice and experiences of family caregiver receive the spotlight they deserve. She launched one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996 and was the first to feature family caregiver blogs. She convened a National Caregiving Conference for four years (2016-2019), hosted a 36-hour Christmas chat for six years and celebrated creative side of family caregivers with an online Caregiving Art Show. Her research shined a light on family caregiver stress, the needs of working family caregivers and the daily challenges faced by family caregivers. She was a 2017 Influencer in Aging. Denise is the author of several books including "Healing Words: Soothing Strategies for Your Caregiving Fatigues," "The Caregiving Years, Navigating the Six Caregiving Stages and the Take Comfort series." Denise also helps her parents, who are 90 and 87. Learn more at https://www.careyearsacademy.com.

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    32 min
  • A Conversation with Katie Powner

    A Conversation with Katie Powner
    Dec 14 2021
    Katie Powner joined Denise to discuss her recently-released book, "A Flicker Light." During their conversation, Katie shared the inspiration for her book, how she organizes her writing and the reason she writes fiction.

    About Katie
    Katie Powner (www.katiepowner.com) is an award-winning author who lives in rural Montana where cows still outnumber people. She is a two-time OCW Cascade Award and ACFW First Impressions Award winner. Katie is a biological and adoptive mother of three and foster mother to many more. She and her husband have been in youth ministry for over a decade.

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    27 min
  • A Conversation with Willetha King Barnette

    A Conversation with Willetha King Barnette
    Oct 14 2021
    Willetha King Barnette joins Denise to discuss her book, The Caregiver’s Secrets. The book is an account of her 20+ year experience as a caregiver to her aging mother framed by powerful statistics and urgent policy issues. It emphasizes both the enormous scope of the demographic challenge facing America and the poignant details of coping with day-to-day caregiving responsibilities. The book aims to “open up” the experience of caregiving, a shadowy corner of family life with huge but largely unrecognized social and economic impacts. The narrative touches on many key challenges and dilemmas facing families and their aging loved ones, including difficult discussions about end of life decisions, the changing nature of medical services delivery, and the mind-numbing bureaucracies that dominate the landscape of an individual’s final years. The Caregiver’s Secrets includes tips and helpful advice for practicing caregivers as well as those who are destined to become caregivers. It spans the general and the particular, connecting the dots within a complex and hidden, but increasingly important sector of American life. For more information, please visit https://www.ifcaregiving.com

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    37 min
  • A Conversation with Norris Roberts

    A Conversation with Norris Roberts
    Sep 30 2021
    Norris Roberts joins Denise to discuss his book series, "The Still Here Series,” which includes “Mama Is Still Here” and “Daddy Is Still Here.” In his books, Norris shares his experiences caring for his parents while also raising his children.

    About Norris
    Norris is an accomplished information technology professional and educator living in the St. Louis area with his beautiful wife, jealous dog, and a very ugly student loan debt. He also is the author of “Technology Planning for School Leaders” published by Lambert Academic Publishing. To learn more and purchase his books, visit https://mamaisstillhere.com.

    Resources
    Norris mentions the six caregiving stages, which you read about here: https://www.careyearsacademy.com/the-caregiving-years/

    We connect with family caregivers who wrote and authors who write caregiving books about their writing process and marketing experiences.
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    33 min
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