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Why Family Experience Is Key to Your College Student's Success with William & Mary's Heather Deere E153
Your student isn't the only one at college who has someone in their corner, you might too, if you know who to call. Heather Deere spends her days on the other end of ...
How a Conference Sparked New Empty Nest Community Ideas E152
A solo move-in for Teagan and a podcasting conference happened back to back this month, and together they got Rick and Clancy thinking bigger than they have in a while...
What's A Death Doula? Empty Nesters find out with Jill McClennen E151
Rick and Clancy started rewriting their wills this year, and that's what led them to Jill McClennen, a death doula, who says you don't have to be dying to use one. "I...
Are Calendars Busy?...or Full?...in the Empty Nest E150
Busy, or full? Rick and Clancy started using that second word on purpose this episode, and it changes how the whole conversation flows. Rick names a trap he's been stu...
Moving Kids Into College? What These Empty Nesters Learned E149
Move-in day never quite goes the way you expect, even after doing it more than once. Rick and Clancy walk through what actually shifts each time, from how much to help...
Launching kids AND preparing empty nest parents the right way with Hanna Bankier E148
How is the nest empty if you're still living in it? That question from Hanna Bankier is why we brought her on this week. Hanna runs Birdie Launcher, helping parents na...
Empty nest marriage tune up and a bucket list band E147
We went into a marriage conference this weekend thinking we didn't really need it. Decades of marriage will do that to you. That assumption got proven wrong fast, espe...
Empty Nester summer isn't summering E146
We set an alarm for five forty this week. After a night out. Nobody made us do that. We keep saying we have more freedom than ever, so why does this summer feel busier...
Empty Nesters Talk Medical Procedures...some necessary, some elective E145
Rick and Clancy are both mid-recovery and mid-appointment season, and this one gets into what that's actually like in our fifties.Between the two of them, this year al...
Communicating better as empty nesters with Rebecca Mullen E144
Communication breaks down in the same few places for almost every couple. This episode is about finding those places before they turn into a fight. Rebecca Mullen join...
World Cup Mania With The Empty Nesters E143
The stadium they've seen a hundred times looks completely different through a stranger's eyes. Rick and Clancy talk World Cup fever in Dallas, from Rick's first match ...
Empty Nesters Argue E142
Three years into running a podcast together, Rick and Clancy are together constantly. That didn't stop them from arguing about cottage cheese, a dinner reservation in ...
Traveling With Adult Kids In The Empty Nest E141
Rick and Clancy just got back from ten days in Spain with both kids. This episode is about what family travel actually looks like when the kids are adults. The shared ...
An Unexpected Employment Idea for Empty Nesters with Michelle Puccinelli E140
Almost sixty percent of Michelle Puccinelli's virtual assistant students are empty nesters. She didn't design it that way. They just kept showing up.Michelle runs Virt...
10 Travel Points For Empty Nesters Greatest Hits E139
10 Travel Tips...This is a Greatest Hits episode. It originally aired as Episode 87 in May 2025 and we're bringing it back because the tips hold up.Ten travel tips fro...
When Home Doesn’t Feel like Home...Empty Nest Kids Return E138
Every summer, the kid who comes home is not the kid who left. And the house they're coming back to isn't the one they remember either. Rick and Clancy have navigated t...
From Raising Kids to Rebuilding Connection - A guest appearance on The Pastor’s Studio with Paul Basden E137
This episode is a flip. Rick and Clancy are in the guest seat, interviewed by Paul Basden, their pastor of nearly 20 years. He knows their kids. He knows their story. ...
Foster Care, A Full Life and an Empty Nest Second Chance at Love with Lisa Guzman E136
Lisa Guzman didn't come to the empty nest the usual way. She came through foster care, homelessness at 17, building a life from scratch, 25 years as a wife and mother,...
Empty Nester Tips To Get Ready For Graduation - E135
Graduation week has a way of swallowing you whole if you let it. Rick and Clancy have been through it and they're headed into it again. The logistics are real. Multipl...
Podcasts These Empty Nesters Love - E134
Rick and Clancy listen to a lot of podcasts. In this episode they run through their current favorites, from Bravo recaps to business professors to flight attendants sp...