Welcome to From Foster to Forever: Inspiring Foster & Adoption Stories!

Episodes

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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 fertility challenges, health issues and carrying a pregnancy, we wondered if we could just be happy being child-free. We did a lot of soul-searching and figured out we still wanted kids. That set us off on a quest for how to do that. We researched many different avenues for star...
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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 well as my relationship with my husband and our surprise struggles to have children. I go on to detail how the intentional building of our forever family unfolded over the past decade. I share other options we explored for starting a family, such as IVF, "straight adoption" ...
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 discussed include how to handle the ups and downs, dealing with loss, transracial adoption, co-parenting through a divorce, same-sex parenting, being an older parent, adopting an older child, and signs and synchronicities, among many other things. The show is hosted by award-winn...