The Millennial Sandwich

Is This a Podcast or a Therapy Session? Our Season 1 Recap & Finale

Season 1 of The Millennial Sandwich is officially wrapped!  From the first episode we recorded (which, spoiler alert, has still never been released) to this season 1 rec

The Most Surprising Stat About the Sandwich Generation with Care.com's Naaz Nichols

Naaz Nichols is Care.com's Chief Customer Experience Officer. She's also a sandwich generation caregiver — and that lived experience gives her the tools to full

How to Notice Your Parents' Signs of Aging Before There's a Crisis

If you're a millennial, there's a good chance you've noticed some changes in how your parents function. Maybe they're moving differently, or they&apos

The Myth of 'Doing it All' with Multi-Hyphenate Hitha Palepu

Personally and professionally, Hitha Palepu wears a lot of hats. She's a mother of boys (but not a boy mom), a daughter of immigrants, and only child, a pharma CEO,

Why is Everyone Still Treating Care Like it's Worthless? with Elissa Strauss

Care work has value, economically and beyond — yet both our systems and our culture refuse to acknowledge this.  Nobody understands this deep devaluation better than Eli

What Will the Midlife Crisis Look Like for Millennial Women?

Millennials are preparing for their midlife era...and it's bringing up a lot of questions.  For example... Does every generation feel this way at this age?Why do w

Young Caregiving & Alzheimer's with Jessica C. Guthrie

Jessica C. Guthrie was your typical ambitious millennial. She had it all figured out: The big dreams, the Ivy League education, the clear path to the top. And then, when

Anxiety, Avoidance & Anticipatory Grief with Claire Bidwell Smith

Grief doesn't always follow the five stages that have become a fixture in cultural conversations about loss. The reality? Grief can show up in a costume...and it doe

Undoing Generational Patterns Without Losing Your Parents With Dr. Mona Amin

One of the hallmarks of millennial parenting? Knowing so much (maybe...too much?) about raising kids, yet constantly feeling undermined by the people who raised you.  Ev

Radical Honesty, Ragebait Content & Cycle Breaking with Libby Ward

As a content creator and author of Honest Motherhood: Losing My Mind and Finding Myself, Libby Ward built her platform on radical honesty. In this conversation, she deliv

How We Realized We Were in the Sandwich Generation

There's no formal introduction to the sandwich generation. Chances are, you've been in it for longer than you realize — at least if your sandwich generation sto

Is Marriage Supposed to be Hard? Partnership as Parents with Eli Weinstein

Having kids is going to change your relationship — that's inevitable. But that doesn't mean your partnership is doomed after you have kids. Eli Weinstein, LCSW

Are Millennials Financially Doomed? With Financial Advisor Bonnie Mangold

It's not in your head: Millennials really are fighting an uphill battle when it comes to finances.  We're navigating astronomical childcare costs, an unstable

The Content-ification of Caregiving, 'Yesteryear' & 'Rugrats'

Anita and Zara discuss the evolution of media representation of caregiving. From 'Leave it Beaver' and other depictions of 1950's suburbia, to the social m

Everything You Think You Know About the Mental Load is Wrong with Leah Ruppanner

Leah Ruppanner, a sociologist and the author of Drained, joins Anita and Zara to discUss the complexities of mental load. In this conversation, Leah debunks common misco

Surprise, We're in the Sandwich Generation (and You Probably Are Too)

What happens when a journalist who covers parenting and a physician who cares for older adults enter the sandwich generation? If Zara Hanawalt and Dr. Anita Chandra'

Guilt, Friendship and The Baby-Sitters-Club Series with Saumya Dave

Saumya Dave, psychiatrist, author, and mental health advocate joins Anita and Zara to discuss the complex emotions of guilt, the importance of authentic friendships, and

What Does it Mean to be a Good Daughter? with Dr. Allison Alford

Dr. Allison Alford, PhD, a researcher and the author of Good Daughtering, joins Anita and Zara to discuss the concept of daughtering, its emotional labor, and its signifi