Magnificent Midlife

Liz O’Donnell is the founder of Working Daughter, a global community for women balancing eldercare and career. She’s the award-winning author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living, which is a brilliant book. She’s a longtime marketing executive who’s become a recognized expert on caregiving and in 2020, she created National Working Daughter’s Day. We talk about: - Why Liz wrote the book, Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Earning A Living - The importance of moving from resentment to acceptance - The power of unconditional love and showing up - Why Liz focused on daughters in her book - Why it’s helpful to look forward to the time when you’re no longer caring (even though that means your parents are not there anymore) - Flexibility and the cost of being flexible - How the Covid-19 pandemic put everything in perspective - Living through the caregiving - How workplaces can help carers - The expectation that it will always be the daught