Season 2, Episode 28: Mallorie Webb

Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Mallorie Webb. Mallorie was born in Canton, GA and was raised between Atlanta, GA and Woodstock, GA by divorced parents. She had a blended family through divorce and remarriages. She has lived on her own since she was 17 years old (after asking her mother to sign emancipation papers behind her father's back). She worked since she was 14 years old, either at fast food restaurants or on the horse farm where her dad owned a horse boarding business. She graduated high school in 1996, and although she attempted college three times over the course of her adult life, it never happened because: MATH. She left home for Athens, OH on a whim and lived and worked there for a few months. She moved back to Atlanta where she met her husband at a steak house where she was traveling all over the east coast as a corporate trainer. They moved to Washington DC area to further his career in 2002. This is where she entered the real estate/land development/construction/home design industry. She worked for a developer and builder. Once they adopted a child, she decided to stay home. It wasn't enough for her so she co-founded a non-profit community. Her life centered around raising her son and helping transitional families.

In 2014, after her son started kindergarten, she and her husband decided they wanted to move home and they were able to move home in June 2015 after her husband found a job. Her husband is a restaurateur and enjoys golf and sailing. Mallorie is mom to one handsome little boy and she enjoys backpacking, camping, survivalist shows, practical jokes, and ultimately learning new things: plant identification, insect identification, smoking meats, DIY projects, etc. The most important thing to her in life is relationships. Her personal mantra is "find your tribe, blood or not, you have one and they need you as much as you need them."

Here is an article Mallorie wrote about adopting her son:

http://www.chicagonow.com/portrait-of-an-adoption/2013/11/i-want-you-to-meet-your-parents/

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