March 23, 2020

#230: Set Free with Alison Storm

49 minutes

Waiting well through the adoption process, working towards financial freedom for your family and battling comparison as a parent of a child with delays are just a few of the topics we hit on today with my guest Alison Storm. She talks to us about her season of waiting and her distaste for the phrase “it happens in God’s time”. Alison saw child slavery first hand on a trip and it started a fire in her to change her parenting to battle entitlement. She founded an organization that can get your kids involved and feeling empowered too!

Alison Storm calls the south home and began her career as a television reporter working in newsrooms around the country. Alison was a part of HIS Morning Crew which airs on HIS Radio across the Carolinas and coastal Georgia, serves as the features editor of Belle magazine and facilitates Financial Peace University at her church. In 2018 she founded Crowdsourcing Kids, an organization that taps into the entrepreneurial spirits of young people to fund wells in India and support children rescued from slavery. Alison and her husband Tim have two little world changers, Sammy and Phani.

WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:

Alison’s experience with Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University

being married to an Italian immigrant

why Alison chose to adopt and the long process of finding her daughter

how she has learned how to have grace for herself while raising a son with medical needs

what she learned in retrospect from the adoption process

Alison’s struggle with choosing her comfort over her children’s needs

how being debt-free allowed her to not to return to work after the adoption

how Alison’s work to provide clean water changed her life

how she’s helping kids in America spread hope in India

advice for listeners who may have something on their heart, but are afraid to begin the work

LINKS MENTIONED:

Are You Humble Enough to Be Carefree? All God’s Children Financial Peace University Set Free Alliance Crowdsourcing Kids

CONNECT WITH ALISON:

website | Instagram | facebook

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