Helping your kids through stormy seas is difficult at any age. Listen to how we discovered our new role co-captain as we assisted Teagan while she navigated through a difficult situation while she’s 1600 miles away from us. Text of the week is between the two kids-very entertaining! #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptynest #Parentingjourney #Reinventingourselves #Newchapterinlife #Emptynestchallenges #Findingpurpose #R...

Filming On location! Coming to you from our travels to Arizona in some of the most beautiful parts of the world. We want to share the natural beauty and our experiences that we enjoyed as parents and empty nesters. Travel in the off season IS AWESOME! Reliving the college life with our kiddos is fun and exhausting at the same time.

One last Parents’ Weekend for Tanner…and the first for Teagan. We are so excited to see our kiddos that we left six weeks ago… Listen as we talk about what our expectations are with one place we know very well and one that we are just learning. We love seeing Tanner’s friends and families. Now we add to this as we are looking forward to meeting Teagan’s new group. How will relationships be different? Text of the week…another fun one from Tanner

Ch Ch Ch Changes. We talk with Aeryn and JP Shiffer about bold choices as they enter the empty nest. Selling a house. buying land to build on. And a job change? And they’re only a few weeks into the empty nest! It was our daughters’ friendship that brought us together and created a lot of living life together over the last four years. So how does the connection stay in place between us and the Shiffers? Listen to some of our adventures together and how they…and their kids…are handlin...

We all carry ideas of what we think stages of life should be or what we want them to be. Listen as we touch on some realistic and unrealistic expectations of the empty nest life. Why can’t we go to Belize on a Wednesday? What’s the S word that everyone thinks about but doesn’t want to talk about? It’s a fun chat delving deeper into our thoughts and Teagan gets the text of the week.

Hear from our first ever guests, Ward and Ashley, as they talk about their experiences as empty nesters of an only child. Listen as Ashley shares her sober journey and the challenges to maintain that through the summer that completely changed her life. We also get a special text of the week from their son. Ashley’s sobriety journey podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YjuPci30XaqNZcDSeTmRA?si=v7VYcqH-QVCGGNY9psSRbw #sobriety #sobrietyjourney #onlychild #alcoholism #relationships #m...

Alzheimer's sucks! Our goal is to be transparent with the good times and the bad. Alzheimer’s sucks and we never expected it to affect our immediate family. Listen as Rick gets raw discussing the transition our family has had to go through since his mom was diagnosed 3 1/2 years ago. There will still be laughs, the kid text of the week and a blooper or two. #Alzheimer #austin #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNesters #EmptyNesting #Lifeafterkidsleave #Transitiontoanemptyn...

We experienced our first week/weekend as empty nesters. What is routine? How have things stayed the same? How are they different? Where did we spend our first empty nester Saturday and which one of us had a drink named after them? Join our journey in Episode 3 as we recap the new routine and fun we’ve had...and the “text of the week” from Teagan.

We’re back from Arizona where we have left behind our two most precious items. How many blue bags fit in one car? How many Targets and Walmarts did we visit? What did the Jersey Mike’s guy tell Teagan about Tucson? In Episode 2, listen to the highs and lows of move in weekend and the “text of the week” from Tanner.

When you're less than 7 days from taking your last kid to college, you start to wonder what the empty nest life will be. What are weekends like now? How do we live, not as parents, but as a couple? Who will cry first? Well...we certainly don't know in episode 1...but we're gonna find out. Join Rick and Clancy as we realize that we have a lot to learn about being empty nesters.