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Fostering the Love: An Adoption Adventure | Rock Your Kindness Podcast

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Rock Your Kindness highlights extraordinary stories of everyday people experiencing life-changing kindness. Whether it's a random act, saves a life, or helps you be kinder to yourself, these stories will increase empathy, compassion, and hope. You never know how your kindness can change the trajectory of your life or the life of another.

Rock Your Kindness is hosted by Tracey Ferrin. Tracey is a mother, wife, best-selling author, and TikTok superstar. She is often called a "breath of fresh air" by those who know and meet her. She is a mom of 4 and has been married to the love of her life for 18 years. Together, they call Texas home.

In this episode, Tracey and Kerri chat about infertility and how adoption became Kerri and her Husband Jonny’s adventure. They discuss how to become foster care certified, how others can get involved with the foster care system even without fostering, why they chose adoption in the end, how their story made their marriage stronger, and much more!

“We will foster love for the rest of our lives.”

Show Notes: 

  • [0:00] Welcome back to Rock Your Kindness Podcast, hosted by Tracey Ferrin
  • [0:43] Introduction to the episode with guest Kerri 
  • [1:42] Let's tune in to the story Kerri shared with Love What Matters
  • [4:13] “God was pulling us in a different direction”
  • [4:45] Question: Was it hard to make the leap from having your own child to adoption? Or a hard reality to come to?
  • [7:21] Question: Why adoption? What opened that door? How did you get there? 
  • [7:47] Adoption Consultants
  • [11:16] Venturing into becoming foster care certification
  • [12:50] Question: Are the processes different between foster care and adoption?
  • [14:34] Easing into parenting
  • [16:48] “I finally felt like I was doing what I was made to do. I was finally able to be a mom. A mom who could raise her son.”
  • [16:59] Question: Tell me about Jonathan?
  • [20:57] Question: What was it that you learned that just broke your guys' hearts about foster care?
  • [23:08] “We had three kids in our home who didn't look alike, but were best friends and knew they were family.”
  • [26:26] Fast forward to Jan. 2020.. Gaining Illa 
  • [30:29] Question: Would you say that this whole experience going through the foster care system has made your marriage stronger?
  • [31:34] “Foster care is only here because people get in bad places and can't take care of their children. These kids are not ours to start, but we will honor their biological families and show them where they come from. We will foster love for the rest of their lives.”
  • [34:10] Question: What are you hoping that others will take away from hearing your story on foster care?
  • [34:41] Question: What other ways can you support the foster care system?
  • [36:31] Becoming by Brooklyn
  • [37:21] Thanks for listening to this episode of Rock Your Kindness. If you know someone this story might resonate with, send them a link to this episode. Also tag me Tracey Ferrin on Instagram at @Traceyferrin and let me know what part of this story resonated with you the most. The best way to help support this show is to rate, review and subscribe. :) Until next time.. Rock Your Kindness

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