Introducing So Your Parents Are Old

0:00Hey, TED Held listeners. This week we're sharing something special, a preview of a new podcast show, So Your Parents Are Old, Hosted by journalist Vanessa Gregor. at us. If you've ever felt overwhelmed navigating healthcare for an aging parent or found yourself crying in a storage unit while sorting through decades of stuff, this show is for you. Vanessa talks with friends, experts, and celebrities about the messy, disorienting reality of caring for aging parents, and she doesn't sugarcoat it. We hope you find this show enlightening and inspiring. And if you're curious to hear more, you can find So Your Parents Are Old wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38Let's listen to the trailer.

0:42Campsite Media. So your parents are old and you're looking for some help dealing with that. Well, I'm Vanessa Grigoriadis and I am here to talk. I've been going through it for a while now. My mom, who has dementia, has become the center of my life. Even as I go about my career, raise my kids, pay my mortgage, and buy my daughter a bunch of shockingly expensive costume jewelry. Like, it's made out of yarn and then has some beads on it that spell out sleigh. Why is it$7? So, yes, in the middle of all these just humdrum annoyances of life, there are then a million fires that are burning. Because of my mom.

1:30I do love her, of course. But sometimes it feels like my life is burning to the ground. No one wants to talk about this. Are you freaked out that I'm even talking about this? Don't go! I feel a hell of a lot more sane when I talk to other people who are going through this profound parent-child reversal. Like, who is who now? And that's what this podcast is all about. Each week, I'm going to talk to somebody who has gone through it. Celebrities, comedians, journalists, just great people with life experience. We'll swap stories. We'll commiserate. It just really messed me up in the head. All of it just really was a lot.

2:17We'll conquer the mountains of paperwork. Okay, explain this to me. Because every time somebody says step-up basis to me, my brain just freezes and will not accept learning this. Well, let's talk about step-up basis. Yeah. And we'll give each other the courage to look at our lives and the end of our parents' lives square in the face. I couldn't really express it at the time, but there was a strange sense of relief, like this kind of joy that happened when he finally passed that you don't want to say. Join me and the rest of the sandwich generation as we eat this sandwich filled with crap. Listen to So Your Parents Are Old on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

3:05That was a trailer of So Your Parents Are Old with Vanessa Gregoriadis. You can find the first episode wherever you get your podcasts or click the link in our episode notes.