Mastering the Numbers Podcast with Joe Mallo

In this powerful Season 2 premiere of Mastering the Numbers, host Joe Mallo sits down with Kristi Horner, founder and executive director of Courage to Caregivers, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting unpaid family caregivers.

Kristi shares her deeply personal journey from caring for her younger brother through mental illness to launching a movement that now serves caregivers across the U.S. Through innovative peer support, group coaching, suicide prevention, and mindfulness programs, Courage to Caregivers is transforming how we approach caregiver well-being.

Together, Kristi and Joe explore why so many people don’t recognize themselves as caregivers, and why that mindset needs to change. They talk about the importance of self-care as an act of strength, not selfishness, and the challenges of launching and growing a nonprofit during a global pandemic. Kristi also reflects on how caregivers can build resilience, set boundaries, and find balance between personal and professional responsibilities. Finally, she shares the organization’s vision for preventing caregiver burnout and creating stronger, healthier communities.

Here’s the link to the podcast episode.

PodcastKristi HornerOctober 1, 2025Podcast

Our Journey to Hope Podcast with Dave Laton

When we face challenges in life, usually health or age related, among those who are of the greatest value to us are the non-paid, often family caregivers. These dedicated individuals help us to discover, sustain, or regain hope in what for many is the most challenging time of our life.

My guest in this podcast is Kristi Horner. Kristi has been a caregiver herself and is now dedicated to helping caregivers realize they are not alone. She does this by provided a wide range of information and services for non-paid family caregivers. She does so through information and resources on her web site, Youtube channel, and several social media outlets.

I invite you to join me in listening to the passion in her voice as she shares with us her insights into caregiving and hope.

Here’s the link to the podcast episode.

PodcastKristi HornerSeptember 23, 2025Podcast

That's a Hard NO Podcast with Heather Drago - Setting Boundaries as a Caregiver

That’s a Hard No is a podcast about saying no and setting boundaries – without feeling fear, guilt, or FOMO. Hosted by Heather Drago, a busy wife, mom, business owner, and cancer survivor, we talk about everything related to boundaries, and why it can feel so damn scary to set them. We meet all kinds of interesting people from different walks of life with various takes on the subject, and we look at what’s happening in our culture and how it all comes back, sometimes, to simply saying no. New episodes every Tuesday!

Kristi Horner is the Founder and Executive Director for Courage to Caregivers. She is a certified Family Peer Support Specialist and NAMI Ohio Trainer for this program. In 2014, she lost her brother to suicide. She had been one of her brother’s mental illness long-distance caregivers for four years. He lived with depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. As someone who supported someone she loved very much, living with mental illness, she knew there had to be a better way to support mental illness caregivers and the idea for Courage to Caregivers was born! Listen in as she discusses the struggles of caregiving, learning to prioritize yourself, and ways to avoid fatigue and burnout.

Here’s the link to the podcast episode.