Todd "TJ" Keitz Founder of My Care Friends

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Todd "TJ" Keitz as guest to the show.

Todd has been a lifelong social good evangelist! He has woven community engagement and social impact into his life since he was a teenager volunteering in senior living centers.

Over decades, he has created inter-generational programs to build bridges within families and communities, volunteered as a “hugger” for Special Olympics, developed business curriculum for high schools, taught in inner-city schools for Junior Achievement, been a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters, and worked in the healthcare industry – consulting with major employers, hospital systems, pharmaceutical companies, and other entities. Further, he’s also proud of the work he did consulting in the 2000s with the South Korean government related to technology companies.

Through all of this, Todd became even more driven to translate his personal ethos on a much larger scale within his professional life. In 2012, he co-founded and served as CEO of Stock4Good, to make the process infinity easier for individuals to donate stock of publicly held companies to 501(c)3 organizations. In 2018, he relocated to Florida to become primary caregiver and patient advocate for his mom and dad – each with life threatening diseases.

During those experiences, Todd saw first-hand the many challenges all caregivers and patient advocates face. That led him to create My Care Friends, a unique, new website for caregivers and patient advocates to connect and support each other.

Additionally, Todd currently serves on the National Advisory Council of the American Association of Caregiving Youth, which brings greater awareness to the needs of over 5.4 million caregiving youth in the U.S. He also sits on the board of SayAh! - a nonprofit focused on improving health literacy across the U.S.

About My Care Friends:

My Care Friends TM was born out of caregiving and advocacy experiences that the founder/CEO, Todd Keitz, has had throughout his life. This started at nine years old for his uncle and continued 20 years later for his sister after a horrific car accident. Over the following decade, he helped his mom care/advocate for his grandparents before they passed, and since 2018 he has been primary caregiver and advocate for her and his dad who have been battling life threatening diseases.

Considering the depth of all that, combined with Todd’s business experiences over decades in and with the healthcare industry, it’s apparent where the passion and mission for My Care Friends comes from!

That mission is two-fold:

1) To enable caregivers and patient advocates to meaningfully and easily connect in a safe online community, with others in similar roles – so they are “seen”, “heard” and “understood.” Whether communicating about a caregiving, patient advocacy, or personal interest topic, My Care Friends provides many ways for community members to Connect. Share. Support.TM

2) To provide online and offline educational programs and resources, which puts forth robust and relevant content that gives caregivers and patient advocates information and tools to be more knowledgeable, confident, and effective in their roles.

My Care Friends encourages all caregivers, patients advocates, loved ones and patients themselves to create a FREE account at www.mycarefriends.com to Connect. Share. Support. each other and to stay informed about offline programming!

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0:00.0	Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions
0:06.7	on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local.
0:26.6	Hello, and local. Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for
0:29.6	taking time out to be with us today.
0:31.6	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here
0:36.6	at all home care matters,
0:42.7	something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, I am honored to welcome a remarkable guest and friend, Todd T.J. Keats, the founder of MyCare Friends. Welcome, Todd. How are you
0:52.2	today? I'm doing great. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me, Lance. It's our pleasure. Our pleasure, Todd. How are you today? I'm doing great. Yeah. Thanks so much for having me, Lance.
0:56.0	It's our pleasure. Our pleasure, Todd. So I introduced you as the founder slash creator of my care friends.
1:02.4	For our viewers and listeners, why don't you take a moment and just explain what my care friends is all about.
1:08.8	Yeah, sure. So my care friends was born out of the experiences I've had with most recently my parents
1:16.9	since 2018, both fight life-threatening diseases and previous experience I've had with my uncle,
1:24.6	my sister, and my grandparents. It's a community, an online community, number one,
1:31.5	for connecting caregivers and advocates,
1:34.8	where caregivers and patient advocates can go on,
1:37.7	connect with each other, share, and support each other.
1:41.2	The other part of it is that it is a community that is also has an offline presence
1:48.3	where we're creating programming that will help advocates, caregivers, also families,
1:56.0	better understand the health care system in the U.S. and be able to help each other.
2:01.8	Right. And was that all based off of your personal experience with your parents?
2:08.4	Let's call that was the catalyst for my care friends. I have been, over decades, I've worked
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