Shameless Leadership

322: Tiffany Bluhm: International Adoption, Birth Rejection, and Systemic Racism


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Tiffany Bluhm wants every woman to recognize, embrace, and pursue the big dreams and beauty born inside of them. The author, blogger, speaker, teacher, podcast host, wife, and mother shares her personal stories of self-value and self-doubt, international adoption, entrepreneurship, marriage, heartbreak, motherhood, and more with an ever-growing audience now numbering in the hundreds of thousands. In addition to reaching readers via her own blog, Tiffany shares her disarmingly perceptive, honest, and frequently funny writing on other popular outlets including ScaryMommy.com, Deeply Rooted Magazine, and more. As co-host of the Why Tho podcast and an in-demand speaker, Tiffany also leads key conversations about modern faith, contemporary women, culture, and so much more. She has penned two books: the acclaimed Bible study Never Alone, released in February 2018, and her newly released book, SHE DREAMS: LIVE THE LIFE YOU WERE CREATED FOR, Tiffany lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and is a Shameless Mom to her 4 and 8-year-old sons.

Listen in to hear Tiffany share:

  • Her story of being born in an orphanage in Dehli India and adopted by a white family at age 2
  • Her experience of being unlike everyone around her from the time she was born because of her birth story and her skin color
  • How rejection at age 21 reopened her birth rejection trauma
  • The suicide rate and mental health struggles are 8 times greater in adoptees
  • Why her decision to adopt internationally had nothing to do with her experience of being adopted
  • How she has faced discrimination as an East Indian woman, especially since 9/11
  • How she is talking to her kids about systemic racism and walking her black son through his own awareness of discrimination at a young age
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    Get Tiffany’s Book: She Dreams

    Watch Tiffany’s Women To Watch Talk: Youtube

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