Dave, The Caregiver's Caregiver

Philip W. Smith was born in Cumberland, Maryland in 1945. He has published several fiction and non-fiction books. As an international finance expert, he has worked with the banking sectors in thirteen countries. More than 13,000 have attended his seminars in the last forty years. Phil has been described as sensitive, kind, intelligent, well educated, quick witted, and well read. He has travelled to 57 countries and lived in more than a dozen countries while trying to understand their cultures. His legacy is helping people, especially small business, who can grow and create employment for others. The companies he has helped now employ more than 3,000 people. With a quick temper for incompetence and ignorant people, he is also self- critical of himself. He is obsessive in his quest to be the best in everything he does!

From Orphan from Section 8 Chester to PA to corporate accountant. Andre Henry, published author and entrepreneur.Founder of DreamAgain Company that utilize the system tools to help rebuild devalued communities. DreamAgainTheLegacy.com

Janet studied philosophy, economics, and writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, completing postdoctoral work in gender and religious studies at Brown University. She is a Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University. Jonathan studied perception, music, and psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California-Berkeley. Currently, he is the William A. Kern Professor in the School of Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. He writes a lot about branding, identity, photography, visual communication.   Janet and Jonathan are a creative team – writing, teaching, and collecting vinyl records together for over 25 years. They lived for a number of years in Sweden and England, and have lectured together in Thailand, China, and New Zealand among other places. Their enthusiasm for modern design, retro aesthetics, and travel found expression i

Are you an "Energy Sponge"  (an empathic, highly sensitive person who absorbs negative energy as a sponge absorbs water?) Are you unduly affected by negative vibrations around you, while the draining energies of those who need your help suck you dry? By the end of the day, do you feel that all you can do is collapse?  Well, best-selling and award-winning author of Earth Energy Meditations. Susan Shumsky, will empower you to defeat those energy-draining symptoms and allow you to get an immediate energy-injection. Are you unduly affected by negative vibrations around you, while the draining energies of those who need your help suck you dry? By the end of the day, do you feel that all you can do is collapse? Well, best-selling and award-winning author OF EARTH ENERGY MEDITATIONS. Susan Shumsky, will empower you to defeat those energy-draining symptoms and allow you to get an immediate energy-injection.

Emily Thiroux Threatt is an author and lecturer with extensive personal experience in the grieving process. She has created a unique program called “Writing Your Way Through Grief” to help others through the grieving process. She holds a master’s degree in English with a concentration in writing and taught writing and composition at the college and university level for over 30 years. Thiroux Threatt conducts workshops, speaking engagements, and retreats on transforming from loss to joy on the mainland of the United States and on Maui, Hawaii.

Americans spend $8,895 annually on healthcare, the third highest amount in the world, yet our health ranks worse than residents of 33 other nations, according to a new report by 24/7 Wall St. We die younger and experience more illness than people in other rich nations. Veteran holistic physician and international lecturer Dr. Bradley Nelson, among global luminaries featured in the documentary E-Motion,  Veteran holistic physician Dr. Bradley Nelson (D.C., ret.) is one of the world’s foremost experts on natural methods of achieving wellness. He has trained thousands of certified practitioners worldwide to help people overcome physical and emotional discomfort by releasing their emotional baggage. His best-selling book "The Emotion Code" provides step-by-step instructions for working with the body's energy healing power. A newly revised and expanded edition of "The Emotion Code" is now available from St. Martin's Press. For more information and a free Emotion Code Starter Kit, visit DiscoverHealing.com

Everything is Easier When You Are Organized.  SORT and Succeed: Organizing with Systems to Make Caregi;ving Easier.  a mom of two children and company owner with employees. Although my daily life doesn’t revolve around caregiving, I’m keenly aware that “The disability community is the only minority group that anyone can join at any time.” (from https://TheArc.org) Everyone needs help at some point or another. I believe that everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to share.

In her 25+ year career as a community counselor and regional director of senior care facilities, Lisa has helped thousands of families find the best care options for their loved ones. As a trainer, adviser and public speaker, SHE has dedicated her career to teaching people the skills to effectively manage brain disease. Join Dave Nassaney, The Caregiver's caregiver, as he interviews this expert on the field of Dementias and Alzheimer's

FOR ALL YOU CAREGIVERS WHO out there who WANT THE CAREER YOU’VE BEEN DREAMING ABOUT,  Mustafa Ammar is the founder and CEO of The Passion MBA, a global coaching company. He is also a life coach who coached hundreds of professionals around the world to find their dream careers and build their dream businesses. Mustafa is the author of the upcoming book “The Passion Project”- Build The Career You Were Born to Have & Find Your Life Purpose.

We all go through different life-changing experiences and milestones, from graduation to the death of a loved one, and many more. The one constant, says Erin Snyder, is our need to have the ability to adapt to change. Erin is a seminar leader for Landmark — a personal and professional growth, training, and development company that's had more than 3 million people use its programs to cause breakthroughs in their personal lives and their communities

.ROZ JONES is a compassionate, innovative health care industry leader. HER goal is to make a healthy difference in the lives of men, women, and children. Through her extensive medical experience,ROZ  realized an urgent need for quality health care in her area. In 2009, SHE put her experience to work, opening “Jacksonville's Best Caregivers,” a home health care agency providing 1 on 1 service to clients and specializes care to the needs of each patient. She provides short and long-term in-home health care to Northeast Florida.

Author and educator Ann S Woodbury has a Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Child Relationships and is an advisor to medical professionals who are still learning about Myotonic Dystrophy. As a mother of 4 children (now adults) diagnosed with Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) I was often dealing with excessive self-doubt and overwhelm. As I’ve learned to understand DM it has increased my awareness of others in society that also have cognitive disorders.

Karen Warner Schueler is the author of The Sudden Caregiver: A Roadmap for Resilient Caregiving, which she wrote after caring for her late husband, Joel Kurtzman. Karen became a sudden caregiver when Joel was diagnosed out of the blue with Stage IV cancer. In her book, she draws upon her own experience, the experience of other caregivers, and her Master’s degree in Positive Psychology to offer the informal, unpaid, caregiver, guidance, resilience, and a roadmap – a rational approach to planning what is, essentially, unplannable. Karen’s caregiver web site, TheSuddenCaregiver.com, is an online platform to help connect caregivers with resources, information, and with each other. Karen also runs a caregiver support group for the digital community, Secure Seniors, an-invitation-only platform designed exclusively for seniors to improve their health and well-being through meaningful social connection.

New First-of-its-kind Platform to Address Consumer Needs for Information about Brain Health, Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, March 31, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s will officially launch BrainGuide, a first-of-its-kind platform to address consumer needs for information about brain health, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s Disease, with a press briefing call at 11:00 am EDT. This official launch follows the exclusive platform preview broadcast on ABC News’ Good Morning America on Friday, March 26. With BrainGuide, millions of Americans who worry about memory or brain health will now have a powerful platform to help them find their way to helpful resources and a path forward. This new resource includes a confidential memory questionnaire — taken over the phone or online in English or Spanish – followed by tailored education and resources based on the answers provided. The memory questionnaire can be self-administered or taken by a caregiver.

After over twenty years in business including owning her own marketing communications company for 14 years with clients in the U.S., Europe and South America, Margaret Combs moved on to work for a large corporation in the cable industry. She was then asked to run a development organization (CTAM) for the cable tv and telecommunications industries. After a number of years in Washington with CTAM, she served as President of a cable television network and later, after a move to Florida for her husband’s health, she ran an intellectual property and manufacturing company. In 2017 she retired to focus on learning everything she could about PTSD after the suicide death of a dear friend, a military physician. After his funeral she began to write, using all she had learned in her studies of that incurable illness, PTSD that afflicted so many of our post 9/11 war military. Her latest book, The Journey from Hope to Healing weaves the five key factors for learning to live comfortably and cope with PTSD. A mother and gran

Dr. George Viney is a psychotherapist, poet, magician, storyteller, speaker, and author of the forthcoming books: The Fathering Thread & The Protecting Veil, and The Wedding of Eros and Psyche. He has been providing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has served under-privileged youth/families for 20 years as a therapist and clinical supervisor in public mental health. He has a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and B.S. Degree from Northwestern University in Theater. His creative calling is to care for the psyche and attend to its logos, or speech, through a poetic and mythological consciousness, dreams, and meaningful synchronicities that appear in our lives. Dr. George Viney has been a noted speaker on psychological imagination and theory. As a magician/storyteller, he provides programs and workshops on the meaning of fairy tales and myths. He has been on daytimes soaps and is a member of the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood.

Marjory Wildcraft, Founder of The Grow Network - Author of “The Grow System: An Essential Guide for Modern Self-sufficiency From Growing Food to Making Medicine” published by Penguin Random House, featured by National Geographic as an expert is off-grid living, hosted Mother Earth News Online Homesteading Summit, selected by Authority Magazine as a Women Leader in Wellness, focus of award winning Reuters Sustainability Media contest, nationwide PBS campaign teaching people to grow half of their own food in their backyards, and on the cover of Masters of Health Magazine for Earth Day

Hypnosis For Caregivers Tim Shurr, MA, has advanced degrees in Psychology and is a Multi-Award Winning Hypnotist. He facilitated over 15,000 individual coaching sessions and hundreds of group training experiences over the last 32 years and discovered how to quickly help people eliminate anxiety and self-sabotage. He’s the author of 6 books including his bestseller, One Belief Away! Tim's approach is so effective, he's been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX News, and the TEDx stage. He's also host of the popular, How To Be Mesmerizing podcast.

In this humorous self-help book, award-winning journalist and attorney Ellen Pober Rittberg serves as a guide and cheerleader to family members who undertake to care for their elderly parents. Sharing the stresses and satisfactions when caring for her aging mother, Rittberg uses comical chapter headings such as: • Be The Alpha Dog • Boundaries? Huh? Your Aging Parent Has None • Your Parent May Develop Sticky Fingers • JEOPARDY! (why elderly parents need their favorite show even when they can't answer any of the questions)  Rittberg shares with readers the life-changing, humbling and deeply rewarding benefits of caring for elderly parents and knows a good belly laugh is the best stress reliever.

The 4 Habits of HOPE, Susan Zimmerman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She’s the author of six books. Her recently released book is Rays of Hope: Lighting the Way in Life’s Transitions and Losses. Today she’ll share with us the four habits of HOPE and how to recognize phases of grief when you’re in a difficult life transition, and caregiving can certainly be difficult.