143 Caring for older parents with Liz O’Donnell

Magnificent Midlife

Liz O’Donnell is the founder of Working Daughter, a global community for women balancing eldercare and career. She’s the award-winning author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living, which is a brilliant book. She’s a longtime marketing executive who’s become a recognized expert on caregiving and in 2020, she created National Working Daughter’s Day.

We talk about:

- Why Liz wrote the book, Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living

- The importance of moving from resentment to acceptance

- The power of unconditional love and showing up

- Why Liz focused on daughters in her book

- Why it’s helpful to look forward to the time when you’re no longer caring (even though that means your parents are not there anymore)

- Flexibility and the cost of being flexible

- How the Covid-19 pandemic put everything in perspective

- Living through the caregiving

- How workplaces can help carers

- The expectation that it will always be the daughter

- Judging your actions not your thoughts

- Finding alternative solutions to a difficult situation

And more!

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