Coming Clean About Caregiving
Coming Clean About Caregiving is the raw, honest, and unfiltered guide to surviving life in the caregiving trenches. Hosted by veteran medical and business journalist Julie Peck (Medscape, Business Insider), this show strips away the polite clichés to talk about what caregiving is actually like.
Julie cared for her mother for six agonizing, beautiful, and overwhelming years until her death in 2022. Through that journey, she learned a lifetime of hard lessons—most of them too late to help. This podcast is the resource she wishes she’d had.
Each week, Julie brings together frontline family caregivers, top-tier clinicians, and elder care experts to share actionable advice, debunk hospice myths, and solve daily care logistics. From navigating medical data and building a care team to fighting caregiver burnout and handling the heavy weight of caregiver guilt, Coming Clean About Caregiving delivers the practical tools and validation you need to survive today.
We use a little humor, a lot of truth, and zero judgment to make the hardest job in the world just a little bit easier. Because you shouldn't have to figure it out alone.
Episodes
10 episodes
Flourishing with Alzheimer’s: Finding Joy & Humor with Carlos Olivas III
"An Alzheimer’s diagnosis doesn’t erase someone’s personality or their capacity for joy." This week on Coming Clean About Caregiving, I’m sitting down with Carlos Olivas III. You might recognize Carlos and his father, Carlo...
How to Keep Both Your Faith and Your Sense of Humor While Being a 3-Time Caregiver: Practical Advocacy, Dementia Care, and Finding Joy with Debbie DeMoss Compton
How do you navigate the overwhelming demands of caregiving while holding onto your peace, your humor, and yourself? In this episode of Coming Clean About Caregiving, we welcome nationally recognized caregiver advocate, speaker, interna...
Special rebroadcast of our first episode with Charlene Lam of Curating Grief
At Coming Clean About Caregiving, our goal is to provide family caregivers with the information that even the most well-meaning clinicians sometimes forget to convey—so that you'll have an easier time in all phases of your caregiving journey. I...
Special rebroadcast of our in-demand second episode with Rebecca Feinglos of Grieve Leave
I'm Julie Peck, and my guest this episode is Rebecca Feinglos. Rebecca runs the resource-packed website Grieve Leave (https://grieveleave.com), and she also has a podcast herself called Grief'd Up. We disc...
Nicole Kidman Did It, Too: What End-of-Life Doulas Really Do with Omni Kitts Ferrara
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about "death doulas" lately—especially after Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman announced she trained to become one! But if you think end-of-life care is a dreary, somber topic, think again.This week, we are jo...
Battling Caregiver Burnout: How to Ask for Help (and Actually Get It) with Dr. Katherine Schafer
Let’s be honest: if one more person tells you to "just take a nice warm bath" to fix your caregiving exhaustion, you'll be having visions of boiling them in oil. Burnout is real, it’s heavy, and no amount of scented candles are going to solve i...
The Truth About Palliative Care: What Every Family Caregiver Needs to Know
What exactly is palliative care—and why do so many people misunderstand it?In this episode of Coming Clean About Caregiving, I sit down with palliative care physician and medical educator Dr. Lindsey Ulin to separate fact...
Translating Medicine: How Caregivers and Doctors Can Work Together
Navigating a loved one’s hospitalization can feel like stepping into a foreign country where everyone speaks a different language. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Adjoa Boateng-Evans of Duke Health and Duke University School of Medicine t...
Navigating Grief at Work with Grieve Leave's Rebecca Feinglos
I'm Julie Peck, and my guest this episode is Rebecca Feinglos. Rebecca runs the resource-packed website Grieve Leave (https://grieveleave.com), and she also has a podcast herself called Grief'd Up. We disc...
Curating Grief: What to Do With the Belongings Left Behind with Charlene Lam
At Coming Clean About Caregiving, our goal is to provide family caregivers with the information that even the most well-meaning clinicians sometimes forget to convey—so that you'll have an easier time in all phases of your caregiving journey. I...