Listen Now: Squeezed with Yvette Nicole Brown

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Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re dropping in your feed to tell you about a new Lemonada show, Squeezed with Yvette Nicole Brown. Whether we’re young or old, part of the sandwich generation or child-free, care is universal. In this seven-part series, actress and caregiver Yvette Nicole Brown looks at caregiving over the course of a lifetime, exploring the lives of everyday people, spotlighting the daily dramas, hardships and joys of caregiving across America. So many of us are caught up in the challenges of providing care and love across generations, all while juggling the demands of work and family, navigating a system that wasn’t designed with care and love in mind.

You’re about to hear a clip from the first episode, where Yvette Nicole Brown talks to Stephanie Wittels Wachs, co-founder of Lemonada Media, a mom of two, and a primary caregiver for her dad, who has Parkinson's. On the surface, Stephanie manages her kids’ extracurriculars, visits to her dad's care facility, work meetings, hikes with her husband, and never ending grocery store trips. But on the inside, she’s sinking into quicksand.

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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:14.0	and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's newest podcast, Squeezed. You're about to our clip of the first episode of this show.
0:17.0	Caregiving in America is hard work and it's universal.
0:20.0	At some point in our lives, we will all need care or provide it.
0:24.0	Actor and producer Yvette Nicole Brown knows this firsthand as she is the primary caregiver
0:29.0	for her dad Omar who has Alzheimer's.
0:31.0	He's a big part of why she's hosting squeezed in the first place.
0:35.3	Each week she will meet with caregivers across the country who are navigating the
0:38.9	caregiving journey at every stage of life and learn about their stories and all of the hard and joyful moments that come with this work.
0:46.0	After you hear the clip, search for Squeezed on your podcast app to hear the rest of the episode. You can also find a link in the episode description to take you there.
0:55.0	So, Parkinson's is a...
1:01.0	Mother-F-E'er. Same with dementia, baby. Mother Farr.
1:03.0	Same with dementia baby.
1:05.0	Same with dementia.
1:06.0	Oh my God.
1:08.0	It is.
1:10.0	I hate it. Stephanie Whittle's Wax is a well-known name around here.
1:18.0	Steph co-founded Liminata Media and hosts the popular show Last Day
1:22.0	about all the sad stuff that brings us together.
1:25.2	She's also a mom of two and one of the primary caregivers to her dad Ellison who has Parkinson's.
1:32.0	Caregiving is, no surprises here, hard work, and it's universal.
1:37.0	At some point in each one of our lives, we're going to need care.
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