Teri Hart is changing the conversation around caregiving with her eye-opening podcast The Hart of It All. With practical resources, moving personal stories, and insightful conversations about the many different facets of caregiving, The Hart of It All is a must-listen for anyone looking to broach this often taboo conversation with a loved one. 

The beloved media personality and entertainment reporter launched the podcast in October 2025, just over a year after her father passed away. When he got sick at the end of 2023, Hart suddenly became immersed in the caregiving experience. Even with the advantages of a flexible work schedule and her mother’s experience as a retired nurse, she found herself struggling with the demands of it all. 

“I was looking around and thinking, why is this so hard? Why is this so opaque? I have every privilege known to anybody that you can imagine, including my really capable mom, who is a medical professional, and I was still struggling with this, I’m still finding it really difficult,” Hart says. “I was really frustrated, and I felt like there has to be a better way.”

Hart was determined to lend her skills from her 30-year broadcasting career to something she was passionate about, something that wasn’t being widely discussed, something that would make a difference in the lives of her listeners. For her, that was caregiving. And from there, The Hart of It All was born.

The podcast covers a wide range of topics that fall under the umbrella of caregiving. As Hart tells us, there’s never a shortage—from long-term care homes to senior scams, to wills and powers of attorney, to episodes dedicated to caring for loved ones with Parkinson’s, dementia, and Alzheimer’s. With every episode, her goal is to share information and resources that caregivers can actually use.

“We try to be really tangible and really practical in what people might need in their lives as they’re entering into their caregiving or care-receiving years,” she says. “My dream is that this becomes an information hub for folks.”

Her guests have ranged from doctors to lawyers to dieticians to event planners. She recently sat down with the showrunner of The Pitt, and has also featured public figures like Marci Ien and Gerry Dee, who share their own caregiving experiences. Hart tells us that she approaches the podcast as a learning opportunity. 

“I’m inviting experts on the podcast that I want to legitimately ask questions that I do not know the answers to,” she says. “I am learning along with our listeners, because I want to make my life easier, and I want to plan for the future that is inevitable.”

That’s the thing about caregiving. There are exceptions, of course, but it’s something that will affect most of us one day—even if we don’t want to think about it. The demographics of Hart’s podcast skew towards older millennials and Gen Xers, but also includes older listeners, who Hart suspects are parents or grandparents looking to broach these topics with their kids. 

“We’re all going to be in this at one point or another, if we’re lucky enough. That is the thing that I want to remind people. We want seniors in our life. We want people who need our help, who need our care,” Hart says. “So let’s start asking questions when people are still well, and let’s start making a plan, and those years will go so much more smoothly when we have some kind of groundwork with the people we love.”

Hart also tells us her podcast skews heavily towards women. It’s no surprise—more than half of women over 15 in Canada are caregivers of some kind. Women are also more likely than men to experience negative impacts from caregiving, such as exhaustion or anxiety. For Hart, social media has been an incredibly powerful tool in shining a light on women’s issues—in addition to caregiving, she’s also been outspoken about fertility and menopause on her platforms. 

“Women have a voice in a way that we’ve never had a voice before,” Hart says. “Women are not having it anymore. They’re saying no—this is taking up my time, my space, my energy. We are going to talk about it.”

Hart is still very much immersed in the entertainment world—she’s currently the face of Super Channel and often appears as a guest on CBC’s Commotion. When we spoke, she had just interviewed the cast of The Testaments. With The Hart of It All, she’s enjoying the change of pace, and the opportunity to embrace longer interviews, rather than the rapid-fire pace of red carpets or press junkets. But no matter the focus, she still relies on her inner storyteller.

“I went from interviewing Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney to talking about aging in place,” Hart says. “The baseline is still the same. What’s the story you want to tell? What’s the story I want to tell about aging in place or finances as you age, or The Testaments?”

Another joy of The Hart of It All has been the community of listeners that has formed around the show. Seven months in, Hart tells us she still regularly receives DMs and emails from listeners thanking her for the podcast, and sharing their own caregiving experiences. 

“They’re telling me because they want to be seen. They want people to understand what this is like for them, how difficult it can be, how rewarding it can be,” Hart says. “So I know that we’re doing the right thing by putting stories out there, by pulling back the curtain on this stage of life that so many of us will experience.”

New episodes of The Hart of It All drop every Tuesday—listen wherever you get your podcasts.