How We Value Care Work in America

Care work is the labor essential to life. But two-thirds of caregiving goes uncompensated. What do we miss when we don’t value care work and how does this affect care workers? If we multiplied all the hours spent in a year on unpaid caregiving in America by the local minimum wage, it would be worth one trillion dollars. Yet none of it is accounted for in the official measures of the nation's economic health or productivity. And the vast majority is done by women. Meanwhile, the paid care sector has a critical shortage of daycare staff, home health aides and certified nursing assistants. America is in a care work crisis.

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Part 1: What About Our Culture is Holding Us Back?

Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He helps organizations vertically develop their leaders primarily through a focus on mindsets. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets: The Key to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership and The Elevated Leader: Leveling Up Your Leadership Through Vertical Development. He is also a leadership professor at the College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.

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Ether 6-11: Part 2

Dr. BJ Allen continues to analyze the role of prophets in a civilization’s stability and the power of faith, hope, and charity amidst trials.

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Learning to Calm the Storm Inside

In this episode, Heather sits down with coach Brooke Oniki to explore the ins and outs of parenting adult children. Brooke shares her expertise in helping women navigate the transition from having children at home to building meaningful relationships with adult children. Together, they discuss the importance of shifting one’s mindset from trying to control outcomes to supporting and loving children unconditionally, regardless of their life choices. Brooke emphasizes the power of embracing the journey, letting go of expectations, and finding peace amidst uncertainty. They explore how seeing the goodness in your children and walking the road with them can lead to deeper, more fulfilling connections.  

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The Power of Commitment

In today’s episode of Latter Day Life Coaches, Heather Rackham sits down with Kamden Hainsworth, an ADHD life and mindset coach, to talk about the power of commitment. Whether it’s in relationships, religion, or life’s everyday choices, Kamden shares deep insights on how commitment can shape our purpose and drive true life satisfaction. Together, they explore the challenges of decision fatigue, the fear of commitment, and offer practical tools to move forward with confidence, especially for those with ADHD.

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Complete Happiness and Toxic Positivity

If being happy was as simple as making a few low-effort changes in your daily routine--like the way you organize your calendar, or how you use your free time, would you do it? Author, professor, and speaker Hank Smith breaks down habits that create lasting happiness and joy, as well the three levels of happiness, and some misconceptions that can get in the way of finding happiness. Lisa and Hank discuss modern psychology and how to push past toxic positivity to real, lasting mindset shifts that stick.

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