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  • Are You Ready for Season 6???

    Alright Guys, who’s ready for season six of the adoptive mom podcast? I know I am! Ready to know when it’s coming? NEXT WEEK! That’s right, one week from right this very second, you will have a brand spanking new episode of AMP in your podcast feed and I hope you are so super pumped because I am like doing cartwheels over here.


    Let me tell you what you can expect from this season, cause y’all know I have almost all of the episodes already recorded and on deck for you. This season, we are going to be chatting with bloggers and influencers, authors, CEOs, social workers, birth moms, counselors, and, maybe a celebrity or two! Not to mention lots and lots of adoptive mamas doing the very best Kingdom work by saying yes to Jesus, standing in the gap for the least of these, and raising the actual future of this world. It’s jam packed with goodness and I can’t wait to get it to your ears starting when was that again? Oh yeah! Next week! 


    So let me tell you guys about some updates happening over here.


    First off, let’s talk about Patreon. Now I know, this is a fancy word that you may have never heard of, but it is actually spelled phonetically and way less scary and intimidating than it sounds. Patreon is simply a service that allows me, the creator to get premium content to you, the listener in an easy-for-everyone way. So when I first launched, I did what a lot of creators do with patreon and I threw a bunch of stuff out there and saw what stuck. I had multiple tiers, or levels of support, different types of content, etc. But, over the break, I took a survey, evaluated the situation, and made some changes, so here is a quick explanation of the new patreon:


    First, there is the $5 per month level: This will get you a 5-day Bible study guide each and every week, even in between seasons of the main show. It also gets you a special bonus episode that I record each and every week to follow up on the topic from the main show.


    Next, there is the $7 per month level. This gets you the Bible Study, the bonus show, PLUS: a monthly Q&A with me and a guest, fun and hilarious bonus interviews with every guest from the main show, you’ll get the Monday episodes in your feed a week early, and you will get a whole brand new show called America’s Mom! What is America’s Mom, you ask? Well let me and America’s Mom herself tell you about it!


    AMERICA’S MOM TRAILER


    So obviously I am super psyched about that, and if you are already a $7 supporter, or AMP Best Friend, you already have the first two episodes of America’s Mom in your Patreon feed! So head to Patreon.com/theadoptivemom and sign up to gecho premium content now.


    Before I sign off for today, I want to mention something that’s going to be coming up later this year with The Adoptive Mom, and that is a Small Group initiative. If you follow me or the podcast on social media, you have probably seen me posting about AMP Groups in specific areas of the country. That is because we are testing the group structure in just a few locations for season 6 and getting ready to launch it to the masses, that’s you! In the summer. I will have more information to come later in the season, but if you’ve been wanting more adoption community and support not just in audio form, but also in-person, I’m going want to talk to you about AMP Groups!


    Ok guys, I am so excited to connect with you over the next season of the podcast and to share with y’all about everything going on with The Adoptive Mom as a company, and I will talk to you next week!


    13 min
  • AMP Plus - "Jesus was Adopted"
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    As an adoptive parent, I have come to know that for something as beautiful and restorative as adoption to happen, something else has to be broken and wrecked first. Someone has to lose their child in order for someone else to adopt them. That’s what God was trying to tell me that night. He had to lose His perfect Son to the sinful world so that we could be adopted by Him and be saved. Christmas IS magical, but first it had to be devastating. It was the night that Jesus became separated from God and made “lower than the angels for a time” (Hebrews 2:9). It was the night that changed everything.
    For us, Christmas is when we praise God for sending His Son to save us from our own sinful nature, and for God, it’s the night His heart was broken so that we could be made whole. I wept that night and several times since at the thought of sending my precious newborn baby boy away from my safety to die. That’s when it changed for me. I began to see Christmas with eyes better attuned to its magnitude and complete holiness.
    Oh Holy Night, the stars were brightly shining. It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth.
    Long lay the world, in sin and ever pining, till He appeared, and the soul felt its worth.
    17 min
  • S5:E78 Full Circle - Adrian Collins
    Interview with Adrian Collins about her journey from birth mom to bio mom to adoptive mom to re-adoptive mom.A s a birth mom and adoptive mom, she writes and speak about the complexities of adoption and making peace with choices that bring heartache. She is both brave and blemished, learning to accept her imperfections and live each day to the fullest! She loves to read and travel and drink coffee.
    52 min
  • S5E77: AMP Plus|Can't Adopt? Here's What You CAN Do - Alex Fittin (Me!)
    Every week over on Patreon, I do a bonus show for Team AMP - the AMAZING listeners and supporters who choose to invest their cash money in helping to produce the podcast starting at just $5 a month. Today, I wanted to give all of you guys a preview of what these shows are like! They are always a deep-dive on the topic discussed in the regular show, and always chock-full of research, practical tips, and my heart for the issue. They usually run about 10 minutes long and go along with the Bible Study Guide for the week that Team AMP receives every Monday morning.
    In this AMP Plus episode, we’re deep-diving five different ways that support systems can offer help and assistance to adoptive families.
    24 min

About The Adoptive Mom

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The Adoptive Mom Podcast is a show for mamas (and dads) in the trenches of adoption, those considering and walking toward adoption, and the tribes that support us through this wild ride.