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 books:From Foster to F

Unconditional Love: A teacher adopts her student

Apr 2nd, 2024 1h 10m

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 she was "always in

Safe Surrenders, Inspiration, Resilience and Commitment

Mar 26th, 2024 58m 44s

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 decided it was something

Transracial adoption & co-parenting through divorce

Mar 19th, 2024 53m 27s

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 adopt their daughter.

Single dad fosters many before finding forever

Mar 12th, 2024 55m 6s

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 placements, supporti

Reunification & depression lead to magic

Mar 5th, 2024 56m 11s

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 my husband and I w

Ups and downs interfacing with challenging system

Feb 27th, 2024 49m 35s

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 found the child that w

Two dads adopt an older child through foster care

Feb 20th, 2024 57m 13s

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 episode, we get to h

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

Feb 6th, 2024 34m 19s

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, he

Facing fears and finding forever through foster-to-adopt

Feb 5th, 2024 26m 42s

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 relations

Trailer

From Foster to Forever - Trailer

Feb 1st, 2024 1m

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 h