Fostering Voices Podcast

Episode 122 features an interview with Ryan Moore, director of Community Partnerships at Ohana. Ohana is an organization here in Arizona that creates safe, faith-based and loving family environments for foster youth and adults with special needs. They strive to create dignified environments through love and family.

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome to our guest, Ryan Moore!

1:29 - Ryan's 2-minute....no, 5-minute(!) Bio

4:45 - How Ryan and His Wife Met

6:19 - What is Ohana and What Do They Do?

14:45 - What Are Some Ways To Support Ohana?

17:57 - What Has Been Ryan's Biggest Surprise in The Foster Care Community?

22:44 - Donations and Sponsors

24:08 - Good Word Of The Day!!

27:08 - Thank You For Listening And Please Check Out Ohanaaz

Let's Connect!

Ohana AZ

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Episode 122 features an interview with Ryan Moore, director of Community Partnerships at Ohana. Ohana is an organization here in Arizona that creates safe, faith-based and loving family environments for foster youth and adults with special needs. They strive to create dignified environments through love and family.

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome to our guest, Ryan Moore!

1:29 - Ryan's 2-minute....no, 5-minute(!) Bio

4:45 - How Ryan and His Wife Met

6:19 - What is Ohana and What Do They Do?

14:45 - What Are Some Ways To Support Ohana?

17:57 - What Has Been Ryan's Biggest Surprise in The Foster Care Community?

22:44 - Donations and Sponsors

24:08 - Good Word Of The Day!!

27:08 - Thank You For Listening And Please Check Out Ohanaaz

Let's Connect!

Ohana AZ

Fostering Voices on Instagram

You can also email us!

AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!

If you want to see how to leave a review, check out this handy little video!

Episode 122 features an interview with Ryan Moore, director of Community Partnerships at Ohana. Ohana is an organization here in Arizona that creates safe, faith-based and loving family environments for foster youth and adults with special needs. They strive to create dignified environments through love and family.

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome to our guest, Ryan Moore!

1:29 - Ryan's 2-minute....no, 5-minute(!) Bio

4:45 - How Ryan and His Wife Met

6:19 - What is Ohana and What Do They Do?

14:45 - What Are Some Ways To Support Ohana?

17:57 - What Has Been Ryan's Biggest Surprise in The Foster Care Community?

22:44 - Donations and Sponsors

24:08 - Good Word Of The Day!!

27:08 - Thank You For Listening And Please Check Out Ohanaaz

Let's Connect!

Ohana AZ

Fostering Voices on Instagram

You can also email us!

AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!

If you want to see how to leave a review, check out this handy little video!

Episode 122 features an interview with Ryan Moore, director of Community Partnerships at Ohana. Ohana is an organization here in Arizona that creates safe, faith-based and loving family environments for foster youth and adults with special needs. They strive to create dignified environments through love and family.

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome to our guest, Ryan Moore!

1:29 - Ryan's 2-minute....no, 5-minute(!) Bio

4:45 - How Ryan and His Wife Met

6:19 - What is Ohana and What Do They Do?

14:45 - What Are Some Ways To Support Ohana?

17:57 - What Has Been Ryan's Biggest Surprise in The Foster Care Community?

22:44 - Donations and Sponsors

24:08 - Good Word Of The Day!!

27:08 - Thank You For Listening And Please Check Out Ohanaaz

Let's Connect!

Ohana AZ

Fostering Voices on Instagram

You can also email us!

AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!

If you want to see how to leave a review, check out this handy little video!

Welcome to Season 8 of Fostering Voices. We are thrilled you are here for this season opening episode. Jihae and Chris talk all about their highs and lows of the summer, including how some of our kids learned to fly - metaphorically and literally.

Welcome to Season 8 of Fostering Voices. We are thrilled you are here for this season opening episode. Jihae and Chris talk all about their highs and lows of the summer, including some fantastic flying Topher that you will not want to miss out on. Also this summer is 100 days of sustained effort, at exercise, or walking, or even yes, flossing!. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome Back!!!

1:50 - Review of the Week!

3:20 - Thank You Sponsors!!

8:04 - Summer Tales and Catching Up

10:01 - Topher Flying Away!!

12:02 - More Summer Tales and Catching Up

19:52 - The Anatomy of Peace

24:31 - Good Word of the Day!

29:18 - Commit to 100 Days

30:38 - 100 Days of Flossing...LET'S GO!!!!!

Links

The Anatomy of Peace - Resolving the Heart of Conflict

Andy our producer's music on Apple Music

Andy our producer's music on Spotify

Showit

Dr Charles and Grace

Bekah and Kevin Tinter

Peter on YouTube

Topher Flying Away!!

Pickleball

Let's Connect!

Fostering Voices on Instagram

You can also email us!

AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!

If you want to see how to leave a review, check out this handy little video!

Welcome to Season 8 of Fostering Voices. We are thrilled you are here for this season opening episode. Jihae and Chris talk all about their highs and lows of the summer, including how some of our kids learned to fly - metaphorically and literally.

Welcome to Season 8 of Fostering Voices. We are thrilled you are here for this season opening episode. Jihae and Chris talk all about their highs and lows of the summer, including some fantastic flying Topher that you will not want to miss out on. Also this summer is 100 days of sustained effort, at exercise, or walking, or even yes, flossing!. We hope you enjoy this episode!

Chapters:

0:00 - Welcome Back!!!

1:50 - Review of the Week!

3:20 - Thank You Sponsors!!

8:04 - Summer Tales and Catching Up

10:01 - Topher Flying Away!!

12:02 - More Summer Tales and Catching Up

19:52 - The Anatomy of Peace

24:31 - Good Word of the Day!

29:18 - Commit to 100 Days

30:38 - 100 Days of Flossing...LET'S GO!!!!!

Links

The Anatomy of Peace - Resolving the Heart of Conflict

Andy our producer's music on Apple Music

Andy our producer's music on Spotify

Showit

Dr Charles and Grace

Bekah and Kevin Tinter

Peter on YouTube

Topher Flying Away!!

Pickleball

Let's Connect!

Fostering Voices on Instagram

You can also email us!

AND we would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on iTunes! This helps others to find our podcast so we can share these voices from the foster care and adoption community with more people!

If you want to see how to leave a review, check out this handy little video!

In the final episode of the season Jihae has a deep, insightful, and powerful conversation with Peter Mutabazi. Peter is a single fostering dad who is an advocate for children. he is incredibly active and terrific on social media. His YouTube channel and IG feed are especially active and terrific. We can't wait for you to hear from Peter and hear his passion and commitment to fostering children.

Chapters:

1:19 - Finding Joy In This Season

1:39 - DECLUTTER!!!!

3:14 - Chris's Beautiful (Sometimes) Yard

7:59 - Reminder: Please Donate to Foster Care Initiative

9:46 - Chick-Fil-A!!!!

10:36 - Introducing Peter Mutabazi - Foster Dad Flipper

23:35 - How Peter Decided to Become a Foster Parent

37:16 - What Have Been The Challenges As An Adopted Dad?

40:42 - Now You Are Known

51:15 - What Is Bringing You Joy?

Links:

From Episode 119 - Foster Care Initiatives

Please consider donating by the end of July!

Peter's Website - Now I Am Known

Peter on YouTube

Peter on IG

Fostering Voices on IG

This week we are interviewing the lovely Hitomi Mewhinney the Director of the Birth Parent Program at Foster Care Initiatives. She shares how she has been partnering with birth moms to walk with them through their journey. It is beautiful work, and you can join them!

This week we are interviewing the lovely Hitomi Mewhinney the Director of the Birth Parent Program at Foster Care Initiatives. She shares how she has been partnering with birth moms to walk with them through their journey. It is beautiful work, and you can join them!

It is easy to discard kindness as just a suggestion, but not something that actually makes a difference. And we beg to differ on that. We think that kindness is a big piece of what is missing in society at large. Don't overthink it. Just be kind. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Listen to understand, not just to respond.

Show Notes:

- Other podcasts we have been on recently:

- The Forgotten Initiative. Our episode isn't out yet, but there are so many beautiful lives to learn from! You will definitely want to subscribe to this podcast!

- The CFC Learning Podcast. This one has YouTube videos as well! And is in 2 parts. You can watch here and listen here!

CFC is Christian Family Care, and they are the agency we got licensed through (and where Jihae works as a foster parent trainer!) Find out more about them at CFCare.org

- Loving God Loving People Podcast. Chris was on this podcast hosted by our bro, Robert Watson! It's the podcast for our church Sun Valley Community Church. Watch it here and listen to it here.

Kindness Matters:

- We mentioned a few books we are reading that talk about being kind, which now takes a lot of bravery and intentionality. Check out Fortitude by Dan Crenshaw and Your Turn by Julie Lythcott-Haims

Good Word of the Day

Back in 2019, Ellen Degeneres was at an NFL game with George Bush. And people lost their minds. You can read this article about it. But Ellen's response was so beautiful, and still so applicable to us today:

"I'm friends with George Bush... In fact, I'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs that I have. But just because I don't agree with someone on everything doesn't mean that I'm not going to be friends with them... When I say, 'be kind to one another,' I don't only mean the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone."

Dear Ellen, Thank you. Let's be kind to everyone my friends.