An Honest Look At What It Means To Be a Caregiver When Your Husband Has Parkinson's with Lois Kelly: Episode #104

While this week’s guest is a fellow marketer and author, this episode falls more under the mindfulness headline than marketing.

Joanne sits down with Lois Kelly, an early digital adapter with a background in marketing. Lois founded one of the first Digital Agencies, co-founded the Rebels at Work movement, and has worked with Fortune 100 companies as a corporate organizational and communications strategist.

But that is not where the focus of their conversation is. Instead, it goes to her new book, Slow Loss, A Memoir of Marriage Undone By Disease.

Lois has written a deeply personal account of her experience as a caregiver to her husband who died after a twelve-year-long illness with Parkinson’s Disease.

As in her book which she writes is “a story of how I broke and opened” this conversation hits on the realities of what it is like to be a caregiver to someone suffering from Parkinson’s, the myriad of emotions the caregiver navigates, the challenges of balancing running a business with being a caregiver as well as how writing, friendship, and mindfulness can help to get one through.

Be forewarned. You will want to read the book yourself when you are done listening!

More about Lois Kelly here

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Learn more about Rebels at Work here.

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Marketing, Mindfulness, and Martinis - an unfiltered look at what’s changing and what’s not - in business and life -  is hosted by Joanne Tombrakos.  Each week Joanne offers a mixture of diverse and real-life conversations with industry leaders navigating the changes in their business and their lives in these challenging and uncertain times and occasional rants from her on timely topics that she just can’t keep quiet about.

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