The Sandwich Generation

Young men bet everything on marriage and family life. How can they help each other make good on their commitments? Guest Tony Minopoli is the Chief and Chief Investment Officer of the Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors manages the risks for the Knights of Columbus - who in turn help families manage their own. Tony shares his expectations for the 2021 economy and how he advises his own family to prepare for it.

Honoring your father and mother can take many forms.  Dcn. Fred Everett of St. Matthew’s Cathedral talks about his family’s heartwarming and challenging experience of having his mother move in with him for the final years of her life.

This show is a must if you are taking care of elderly and disabled loved ones. Becky Zaseck, President and CEO, April Pierce, Director of Care Management and Options Counseling for the Area Agency on Aging, and Angel Baginske, Director of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Services of Northern Indiana share with us the many services available to the elderly and disabled, as well as opportunities for volunteering one’s time, talent and treasure in our community.

If we do not create our own plan for disability, someone else’s plan will be used instead. As much as that may be disagreeable for us, it will be worse for those around us. Learn how to control the things you can control, so others don’t have to do it for you. Also learn how our legal system works to provide missing pieces in a person’s life.

What do we do - when everything that needs to get done – is done? Celebrate the season by being more playful with your loved ones! There are few things more important in life. Play can be an effective way to bring the generations closer together.

When our money changes, our life changes too – for better or worse. John and David Niswonger, a father and son financial advisory team at Council Oak Raymond James in South Bend provide helpful advice for giving and receiving inheritances in the most beneficial way.

Historian Fr. Bill share insights into telling histories accurately and winsomely. We discuss two of his recent books “American Priest – Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.” and “Telling Stories that Matter – Memoirs and Essays of Fr. Marvin O’Connell”.  We also discuss the role of family stories in the development of our identity, as well tips on how to tell them! We also discuss the importance of telling the truth in a community.

Michael Shade, Chief Executive Officer of the Catholic Community Foundation of Northeast Indiana, discusses the many opportunities for contributing to the Divine Economy within the diocese through the Catholic Community Foundation. We also discuss the role institutions play in the lives of Catholic families.

Your aging parent might not actually come out and say they need help. But they may be leaving clues, nonethless. Learn what signs to look for and what they may mean.

Prof. Janet Smith put her academic career on hold to help her mother during her declining years. Learn what this great teacher of life and its beginning stages learned about its end.