Emma Heming Willis On Bruce Willis's Diagnosis, Protecting Your Brain Health, & What Every Family Needs To Know About Caregiving

The Bossticks

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Education, Business

4.4 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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#980: Join us as we sit down with Emma Heming Willis – author, advocate, and dedicated voice for caregivers and families affected by frontotemporal dementia (FTD). A wife, mother of two, and stepmother of three, Emma is the Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer of Make Time Wellness, a company focused on empowering women through brain health education and support. In this episode, Emma opens up about her husband Bruce Willis's FTD diagnosis and shares the realities of being a caregiver. She discusses the emotional, mental, and physical challenges that come with caregiving, breaks down common misconceptions surrounding FTD, highlights the importance of brain health awareness and early education, and reveals the lessons, tools, and support systems that have helped her navigate this journey. Emma also shares how she transformed personal adversity into purpose-driven advocacy, offering hope, guidance, and community for families facing similar challenges. This is an honest, powerful conversation about resilience, caregiving, brain health, and finding strength through connection.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostic.
0:07.8	Together, they are the Bostics.
0:14.3	This episode is giving you the blueprint on caregiving and all things brain health.
0:19.8	We invited Emma Heming Willis on the show to talk
0:22.9	about cognitive wellness, essential brain health tools, and she even opened up about her own
0:28.4	caregiving journey with her husband, Bruce. Emma is a wife, a mother of two, a stepmother of three,
0:34.1	and she is an author and a care partner. She is so vulnerable on this episode, which is very
0:40.3	personal. And I just commend her for coming on the show and being so candid. Emma, welcome to the
0:47.2	Bostics. One of the things that I find fascinating about you, Emma, is that a lot of people go through something really hard and then they
0:56.4	wait till they're through it to talk about it. And what's so cool about your whole thing is that
1:03.0	you're kind of showing us in real time what it's like. I guess so. I actually never really
1:09.0	thought about that. I think it's been a coping mechanism for me, being able to have an experience and also be able to share it at the same time.
1:20.1	Yeah.
1:20.4	You know, like not gatekeeping what I have learned, what I know, and being able to share it with another caregiver who, you know,
1:30.0	might not have access, time, resources.
1:34.5	It's really important to be able to, for me to pay it forward, to pass on the information
1:40.2	because caregivers are so unsupported.
1:42.6	We're so unsupported. And that's what, you know,
1:46.4	prompted that book that I wrote. What was the thing that that sort of pushed you to put this
1:53.1	all out there? Would you remember like a moment? Was it an epiphany or was it just a slow build?
1:57.5	You know, there was so much time that was spent in isolation. Yeah. Being really quiet about it,
2:04.2	not having a community, not feeling safe to be able to talk about it to anyone, not even a doctor.
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