My youth pastor shares his thoughts on Discipline & Mindset

This is the rare adoptee/father convo that doesn’t center beginnings or endings — it sits in the silence of the middle. Where trust isn’t broken but also not whole. When everyone’s figuring it out but no one’s saying it out loud. It’s not about trauma — it’s about distance, identity, and who you become when things aren’t dramatic… just hard in slow motion.

What happens when you sit down with the man who’s helped guide UMHB students’ careers for over two decades? In this bonus installment of The Mesh Career Series, Wilson chops it up with Don Owen — Director of Career Services, community leader, and award-winning career coach.

From banking to business development, city commissions to alumni boards, Don has worn more hats than most people can name. Together, they dive into:

• The funniest (and worst) career advice he’s ever heard

• What’s changed most in résumés, students, and job markets since 2001

• How community involvement shaped his leadership journey

• A head-to-head Career Draft game where they pick the skills that matter most for the future

It’s wisdom with humor, career talk without the cliché — and a reminder that the real flex is building a life of impact.

This episode brings the world into the real work of mothering an adopted child — especially one who comes with a full history, personality, and pain. It explores the tension between wanting to nurture and needing to earn trust. Between protection and control. Between grief and growth. This is what adoptive love looks like when it’s honest.

She’s done healthcare, wellness, consulting — and now she’s got your school looking like a Nike ad

To show the world what it actually means to parent a child who didn’t start with you. This episode dismantles the fairytale, but still finds the beauty in the effort, the grief, the rebuilding. It’s for everyone who thinks adoption ends when the papers are signed.

To explore the unseen emotional labor and silent expectations between adopted kids and adoptive moms. What happens when a mom loves hard, but the kid still feels unmet? What does it take to actually feel mothered — and not just managed?

This is for every adoptive mom wondering, “Am I enough?” and every adoptee trying to say, “I needed something different.”

I'm gonna let you find out lol

Born in a Liberian war zone. Raised by one of America’s most recognized Christian families. Now a husband, father, speaker, and author — Jackson TerKeurst joins Adopt-ology to talk about identity, legacy, and the messy grace of adoption. From village life to the suburbs, from trauma to faith, he opens up about honoring his roots, raising his own kids with cultural pride, and why he believes the only way forward… is back.

This Woman used to scare me fr lol.