Holding It Together (Kinda)
Holding It Together (Kinda) is for people who look like they have it handled on the outside while knowing damn well it’s messier underneath.
Host Michael Mackniak has honest conversations with caregivers, clinicians, advocates, experts, authors, and people who have learned something worth sharing by actually living through it. We talk about caregiving, mental health, illness, loss, relationships, broken systems, difficult choices, and those moments when you find yourself wondering: What the hell do I do now?
The conversations are direct, curious, occasionally irreverent, and willing to go beyond the polished advice and easy answers.
No pretending everything happens for a reason. No seven easy steps to fixing your life. Just real conversations about the things that happen to us, the choices we make, what we can control, what we can’t—and what comes next.
Because most of us are holding it together.
Kinda.
Holding It Together (Kinda)
Latest Episodes
The Thin Line Between Care And Control
A conservator refuses to sign consent for a pregnancy termination because of personal religious beliefs, so a client’s medical decision gets pushed into probate court. That’s where we start, because it captures the core tension we keep running ...
The Kidz Are Alright (Kinda) with My Kids
The kids are not confused about what they need. They’re tired of performing, tired of being reduced to a checklist, and tired of pretending the pressure isn’t real when the “social mirror” lives in their pockets 24/7.We sit down with fi...
#8 Companion Caregiver Myths, Real Limits
The fastest way to get stuck as a caregiver is to cling to “simple” legal lines that feel protective but turn out to be misleading. We are taking a short midweek pause to unpack a past conversation on caregiver misconceptions and to give you a ...
Nesh Pillay: Be Kind To Little Man
A brain injury can steal your past without touching your personality, and that gap is where so many families get lost. I sit down with Nesh Pillay, known from Amazon Prime’s 50,000 First Dates, to talk about what amnesia and traumatic brain inj...
#7 Companion Caregiver Burnout Is Information
Dementia doesn’t just change memory. It changes family roles, daily math, and the emotional weather in your house. On this midweek unpack, I step back into one of our most downloaded conversations, the Daughter’s Guide to Dementia and Caregiver...
