Self-Care While Letting Go with Leeza Gibbons
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Leeza Gibbons, the Emmy-winning television host and health advocate, joins the show to talk about her parents. She shares heartfelt stories about their influence, resilience, and love, and reflects on how their lessons continue to guide her both personally and professionally. Check out her work at Leeza's Care Connection.
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| 0:00.0 | So here's something no one tells you when your parent gets old. |
| 0:10.0 | All the things you loved about them and all the things that drove you crazy about them, |
| 0:15.0 | and all the things they said at Thanksgiving dinner, and all the things that were left unsaid at Thanksgiving dinner and drove you crazy because |
| 0:22.8 | they were left unsaid, that all just gets bigger and bigger in your mind and in your life, |
| 0:30.2 | the older they get. If you understand what I'm talking about, you've found yourself in the life |
| 0:36.3 | stage that no one talks about. |
| 0:38.9 | It's the, oh shit, the parent that I pretended I outgrew and that I maybe moved halfway across |
| 0:46.5 | the country from now needs a parent. And you may wish that you were not the person that had to be |
| 0:53.6 | that parent, but you are. |
| 0:56.1 | I'll be honest, when this happened to me, I was not ready to clear everything off the buffet of my life |
| 1:03.0 | and put my parents right at the center of it, like in the spot where you put the entree when you're having the dinner party. |
| 1:09.6 | Like I did, when I spent a whole work day looking for this magical Papa Bear chair that Wayfair has, |
| 1:16.7 | that sort of like lifts you up, springs you up, so you don't have to get up yourself. |
| 1:23.1 | Who knew someone made that chair? |
| 1:26.9 | It was just another thing that had to get done. |
| 1:30.6 | And the night, after looking for that chair all day, |
| 1:33.6 | I did my regular work because parenting a parent may be a full-time job, |
| 1:38.4 | but it's just a job you do while you have to do your job too, |
| 1:42.5 | and possibly take care of kids and grocery shopping |
| 1:46.0 | and try to find some time to maybe once in a while get a manicure. |
| 1:53.0 | And I know I am not the only person having this experience. |
| 2:01.1 | This is so your parents are old, and I'm Vanessa Rigoriades. |
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