Life's Just Getting Started

Life's Just Getting Started brings you stories from the heart of Three Pillars. In our fifth episode, travel back in time to a Vietnam hospital in 1967 with Bill, a Chaplain stationed there with the U.S. Army. Tune in to hear this Seattle native share how he was drawn to the seminary in California, and later called to join the Army, serve active duty in Vietnam, take a job in Pittsburgh, and ultimately land in Wisconsin. (Two separate times at Three Pillars, but who's counting!) 

“I could live at Three Pillars for forty years!” Catherine, the youngest and one of the newest residents at Three Pillars’ Village on the Square, loves many things about the campus. The picturesque, natural setting, activities galore… and being a short walk away from her mom, Dorothy, who just turned 101! Catherine might not be sold on Wisconsin winters, but she is sold on the sense of community. Tune in as this dog-loving, cribbage-playing, cornhole-enthusiast shares her story and why she proactively moved from California to the lifestyle she’s been looking forward to in Lake Country.

John and Carol were college sweethearts who went their separate ways after graduation. 55 years later, after living full and fulfilling chapters of their own and having zero contact with each other, they reunited when John knocked on Carol’s door in Arizona. Love, marriage, and moving to Three Pillars’ Village on the Square followed. Join our hosts, Josh and Kelsey, and hear about their incredible and unexpected love story on the third episode of Life's Just Getting Started.

2026 will be a year to remember at Three Pillars, with Rachel Wiesner at the helm of many new amenities opening. As Three Pillars' Executive Director of Hospitality, Rachel joins our hosts, Josh Van Den Berg and Kelsey Pangborn, to share her story and talk about what’s coming up. Tune in to learn how she got her start in the hospitality industry in Las Vegas and what led her to what she's working on now at The Fields at Three Pillars.

Get started with us in our inaugural episode! Three Pillars’ president and CEO, Mark Strautman, joined by Marilyn Nelsen, an independent living resident at Village on the Square, sit down with our hosts Josh Van Den Berg and Kelsey Pangborn to talk about all things Three Pillars. Diving into our community, who we are, and what we do, they share stories from several joyful years here and look ahead to many more.