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Love Doesn't Pay The Bills: Highlighting the Value of Family Caregiving

Love Doesn't Pay The Bills: Highlighting the Value of Family Caregiving

By: Two Squared Media Productions
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In Love Doesn't Pay the Bills, we explore the role of family caregivers in the modern United States through personal stories and interviews with leaders. Care work is vital to all other aspects of life, yet often under-resourced. Caregivers cannot house and feed ourselves or provide for our own medical needs based on our love for our family members alone: access to income matters. We also have the same needs as other workers for regular time off, to participate in social life and recreation, and for ongoing education and new opportunities over time. email Lisa: lisatschudi@twosquaredmediaproductions.com

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Episodes
  • Replay of What If We Really Believed That Care Is A Part of Everyone's Life?: With Guest Emily Kenway

    Replay of What If We Really Believed That Care Is A Part of Everyone's Life?: With Guest Emily Kenway
    Jun 4 2026
    This episode was originally published on June 20, 2023

    We're joined by Emily Kenway, the author of "Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It". "Who cares" is a very loving memoir of Emily's own caregiving experience. It also is a great work of advocacy by imagining the changes that would happen throughout our world if we started from the default assumption that all people will be caregivers at some time in their lives.

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    35 mins
  • Care Stories and Themes: With Guest Kat McGowan

    Care Stories and Themes: With Guest Kat McGowan
    May 28 2026
    Kat McGowan is a journalist whose life was changed by family caregiving. She was a 2024-25 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow, and developed a series for NPR about caregiving and mental health.

    We discuss common themes Kat noticed in her interviews as well as advice to someone ready to tell their own care story in a meaningful way.

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    32 mins
  • The workforce holding our healthcare system together: With Christine Villabona-Kuntz

    The workforce holding our healthcare system together: With Christine Villabona-Kuntz
    May 21 2026
    Christine Villabona-Kuntz joins us to discuss her article in USA Today "I'm one of 48 million unpaid caregivers. Health care collapses without us". Christine is a nurse, and her perspecitve on care changed when she also became the family caregiver to her own mother.

    We discuss the crisis facing family caregivers and people in need of care. There are 43 million family caregivers in the United States: a labor force holding together our healthcare system. What do we have in common? Many of us are exhausted, and in need of real supports that allow us to continue this work feasibly. Christine urges legislative advocacy whenever possible.



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    33 mins
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