Zara is a parenting journalist and a mom of twins whose work explores the questions, pressures, and expectations shaping family life.
She brings a journalist’s curiosity and a mother’s perspective to conversations about identity, careers, relationships, and the work of caring for a family.
She asks the questions that help move a conversation beyond familiar advice and into what life actually feels like.
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ZARA HANAWALT
We're in the middle, too
We’re Dr. Anita Chandra and Zara Hanawalt, hosts of The Millennial Sandwich—a podcast about raising kids, watching our parents age, and navigating our own changing lives.
We started this podcast because the conversations we were having kept overlapping. Parenting wasn’t just about our kids. Work wasn’t just about ambition. And our parents getting older brought questions we hadn’t expected to be asking yet.
We wanted somewhere to talk about how these parts of life affect each other—and to ask the questions we knew other people were carrying, too.
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DR. ANITA CHANDRA
150 S Arizona Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85225
Anita is a board-certified geriatrician, a mom of two, and someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how we care for one another.
She brings a physician’s perspective on aging and family caregiving, along with her own experiences of motherhood, loss, and changing priorities.
She wants families to feel more prepared for their parents getting older—and more comfortable having the conversations that come with it.
