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Young, Queer and Suddenly Dad: Billie Oh's Unexpected Foster to Adopt Journey
Jan. 7, 2025

Young, Queer and Suddenly Dad: Billie Oh's Unexpected Foster to Adopt…

I found my way to Billie Oh via a beautiful article in the Huffington Post about their experience with Single Foster Dad Adoption . Billie began the foster journey with no intention of adopting, but life had other plans. No s...

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Using Your Sphere of Influence with actress Jen Lilley
Dec. 14, 2024

Using Your Sphere of Influence with actress Jen Lilley

Days of Our Lives and Hallmark Channel star Jen Lilley is a foster-to-adopt mom and philanthropist who donates tons of her time, money and energy to championing the cause of foster youth. In this episode she takes time out of...

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Quick Season 1 Update
May 7, 2024

Quick Season 1 Update

Just a quick message of thanks and gratitude for supporting the show and an update on what's next. We're currently working on a Season 2. I am also finishing up an offering that I hope to have out in early summer: Two new boo...

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Unconditional Love: A teacher adopts her student
April 2, 2024

Unconditional Love: A teacher adopts her student

I couldn't think of a better way to close out Season One than by sharing Stacey and Demi's unique story. It begins when Stacey was a new teacher in her first job. Demi was a pre-teen with a challenging family life. At school ...

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Safe Surrenders, Inspiration, Resilience and Commitment
March 26, 2024

Safe Surrenders, Inspiration, Resilience and Commitment

This is a very special episode because it features our first nanny, Morgan, who we met when she first arrived in LA from the East Coast. Morgan found out about foster care and foster-to-adopt through working for us and decide...

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Transracial adoption & co-parenting through divorce
March 19, 2024

Transracial adoption & co-parenting through divorce

This episode tells the story of Amy and Tiger, two creatives who "met old" and wanted to start a family. With money constraints, they found their way to foster-to-adopt, and after an arduous fostering process, were able to ad...

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Single dad fosters many before finding forever
March 12, 2024

Single dad fosters many before finding forever

Jay Shindell found fostering by "accident". The single dad was only originally going to do emergency placements but soon after welcoming the first baby into his home, he was in love and wanted to adopt. He survived multiple p...

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Reunification & depression lead to magic
March 5, 2024

Reunification & depression lead to magic

Jesse and Hope have been foster family advocates for years, helping others to navigate the foster-to-adopt journey, after adopting two children of their own through the Los Angeles foster care system. Indeed, they also helped...

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Ups and downs interfacing with challenging system
Feb. 27, 2024

Ups and downs interfacing with challenging system

Kira Cook always knew she wanted to adopt. She decided to foster-to-adopt soon after having a biological child. In this episode she details the difficult reunification of her first foster daughter and how she subsequently fou...

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Two dads adopt an older child through foster care
Feb. 20, 2024

Two dads adopt an older child through foster care

Ted and Carlos adopted Daniel when he was eight through the foster care system. His parental rights had already been terminated and he'd been through multiple failed placements before arriving in their home. On this special e...

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Infertility and Loss led to foster-to-adopt, the best decision ever.
Feb. 6, 2024

Infertility and Loss led to foster-to-adopt, the best decision ever.

In part two of my initial two "mini-sodes" to kick off this podcast, I interview my husband and best friend, Joe Fulginiti. Joe and I already knew we hit the lottery with our relationship. When we began to struggle with ferti...

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Facing fears and finding forever through foster-to-adopt
Feb. 5, 2024

Facing fears and finding forever through foster-to-adopt

In this inaugural episode, I introduce who I am, why I decided to start the show and how my family came to foster-to-adopt. I give a brief background on my career as an actor and then a voice actor and audiobook narrator as w...

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From Foster to Forever - Trailer
Feb. 1, 2024

From Foster to Forever - Trailer

This is the trailer for the brand new "From Foster to Forever" podcast. Season One features interviews with a variety of folks who have successfully navigated the foster-to-adopt journey and arrived at forever. Topics discuss...

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