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Dovetail®

Dovetail® was born from a desire to streamline the logistics of caregiving. Whether it's young children or caring for an elderly relative or friend, managing "the stuff" drags on our time, attention, and ability to enjoy our time together.

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128. Becky Selbie on Mums Who Look Like They’re Coping but Feel Like They’re Failing

Becky Selbie is a London-based psychotherapist who specialises in motherhood and maternal mental health — and she has a gift for taking the frameworks she uses in her therapy room and translating them into language that actually lands in everyday life.

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127. Day Raves, Dinner Parties & Polymer Clay: Katie Schlott’s Experiment in Authentic Networking

Katie Schlott spent 20 years in innovation — running experiments, iterating, testing what works.

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126. I Got a Call from Kenya: Adoption, NICU, Newborn Care & Building the Modern Village with Kristin Smith of Well Supported Family

Kristin Smith has spent 20 years helping new families survive the hardest weeks of their lives.

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125. This Pain Ends with Us: Breaking the Burnout Loop for the Next Generation Using Notice and Do with Sam Kelly

Sam Kelly was making a Saturday morning to-do list for her kids on a Friday night when it hit her.

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124. Nobody’s Getting a Medal: Motherhood, Mental Health & Letting Go of the Performance with Amanda Timonere

Amanda Timonere spent a decade at the top of the clinical world — chief clinical officer of a multi-state mental health and substance use treatment center — before becoming a mom and realizing she wanted to do something different.

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123. "So I Made One": Betsy Cornwell on Single Parenthood, Writing & the Old Knitting Factory

Betsy Cornwell saw a gap — artist residencies she qualified for but couldn’t access as a single parent — and instead of waiting for someone else to fill it, she built something herself.

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122. "Just Quit. We'll Figure It Out." Leaving corporate to build something of her own with Laura Navaquin

Laura Navaquin spent nearly 20 years in corporate America before one Wednesday meeting pushed her over the edge.

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THIS MOTHER’S DAY, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT FATHERS

It’s not a secret: the memes of the measure of a “good dad” vs.

121. Death Doesn't Happen Like It Does in the Movies with Death Doula Jade Adgate

Everyone dies.

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120. I Didn't Lose Myself in Motherhood. I Never Found Myself Before It with Libby Ward. April roundtable with Erin Holland.

Libby Ward built one of the internet’s most recognizable platforms for honest motherhood, and she did it by saying the things most moms were too afraid to say out loud.

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What the "difficult" patient really means

What I learned from every patient who came with a 'good luck' attached

119. The Mental Load Nobody Names: Reparenting Yourself While Raising Someone Else with Michelle Gibson

What does it mean to break a cycle when you’re still inside it?

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The Eldest Daughter is Not a Care Plan

Dropping everything in one person's lap is a recipe for disaster, for her and the rest of the family

You Don’t Have to Be Strong: Rethinking Grief at Work & at Home with Sarah Kagan

What happens when two of the biggest life transitions collide at exactly the same time?

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Kitchen Tables and Zoom Calls, the 100 conversations that shaped Dovetail

And the thing every caregiver said that the healthcare system still isn't tracking.

What Occupational Therapists See That No One Else Does

How 14 years of home visits taught me to read the room and why that changes everything about how I think about care.

117. When Life Hands You Everything at Once: Navigating Grief, Love, and New Beginnings with Caroline Benefield

In this episode, host Ashley Blackington sits down with Caroline Benefield—digital marketer, stepparent, and someone who found herself living a decade of life in 18 months.

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Care infrastructure doesn't have to start from scratch- the pieces are already there.

Let's start creating the connections to support family caregivers

116. Redefining Ambition, Identity, and Success in Life’s Transitions, a Roundtable with Dr. Anne Welsh and Ben Katt

This episode encourages embracing the messy middle, shedding old identities, taking small intentional steps, and cultivating a growth mindset as we navigate life's many transitions, personally and in parenting.

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115. Live Fully, Die Ready: Why End-of-Life Planning Is the Ultimate Act of Love with Niki Weiss

In this episode, host Ashley sits down with Nikki Weiss- digital thanatologist, project manager, and founder of Endevo, for a candid, eye-opening conversation about the intersection of caregiving, death planning, and our increasingly digital lives.

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