The Loud Quiet - Empty Nest Living
Rick and Clancy have been enjoying life together since the mid 90s, married in 2000. Starting August 2023, they now have two college-aged kiddos and are about to enter a new phase of life. Empty Nest Living. The house is quieter than before...it's a loud quiet, indeed. Join them as they laugh, cry, and yes, probably argue while trying to figure out how to live the empty nest—new adventures and challenges await! Tune in for relatable empty nest stories, navigating the ups and downs of empty nest life, with humor about the empty nest journey. The Loud Quiet - Empty Nest Living.
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Aug. 6, 2026
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 unpacking a dorm room to when to step in on a rough roommate situation. "Help them, but only as much as they want to be helped" comes up early, and it holds up through the rest of the conversation.
Budgeting gets its own segment, including the ten days of DoorDash during a COVID quarantine that no spreadsheet prepared them for.
Rick and Clancy walk through what actually shifts each time, from how much to help unpacking a dorm room to when to step in on a rough roommate situation. "Help them, but only as much as they want to be helped" comes up early, and it holds up through the rest of the conversation.
Budgeting gets its own segment, including the ten days of DoorDash during a COVID quarantine that no spreadsheet prepared them for.
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July 30, 2026
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 navigate launching their kids, and themselves, into whatever comes next. Her focus isn't the packing list. It's the relationship that has to get rebuilt once the packing's done. Hanna's website is a great place to start if any of this sounds familiar: https://www.birdylauncher.com/ Follow her on Instagram at birdylauncher.
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July 23, 2026
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, especially in a breakout session on parenting adult children. Then we capped the weekend off with something completely impulsive that had nothing to do with marriage advice and everything to do with a nineteen dollar ticket. If you want to look into your own love languages, and how they change over time, that's the book we keep comi
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July 16, 2026
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 than any before it. Turns out the empty nest doesn't erase old habits, it just removes the excuse for them. We're still keeping a schedule neither of us actually needs anymore. "We have this productivity addiction that we just can't turn off even when we can." By the end of this one, we're rethinking what a schedule is ev
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July 9, 2026
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 alone brought a procedure Clancy had been putting off for years, a colonoscopy, and more skin checks than either of them expected to need yet. Some of it was elective. Some of it wasn't.Neither of them feels their age, but their test schedules keep suggesting otherwise. That gap between how they feel and what the doctors are asking o
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July 2, 2026
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 joins Rick and Clancy to talk about the three roles inside a marriage, partner, lover, and friend, and how easily one of them gets neglected once kids leave the house. The conversation moves into why couples assume their partner can read their mind, why apologies so often fall flat, and how something as small as the way you say hell