It's Week 2 of Season 4, as Mal + Kate continue in the mission of helping you to navigate the beginning stages of adoption. This week, they share all of the different types of adoption that exist, while sharing about adoption ethics and red flags to look for, not only in agencies + consultants, but in yourself, as well.

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The 2024 Birth Mom Vacation has come to an end, and for this week's BONUS Episode Mal + Kate invite Funding Love's Vacation Director, Sarah Basham, along with all three 2024 Birth Mom Vacation Magic Makers, Audra, Jess, and Sara, to debrief the trip and share their experiences with these incredible women.

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Welcome back to the Funding Love Adoption Podcast with Mal + Kate! 

Season 4 is the launch of a fresh start with a fresh look! Throughout Season 4, you can expect a focus on the PRE-adoption journey. Mal + Kate will be covering topics like home studies, profile books, and choosing open adoption.

This week, they are talking about their own adoption journeys and WHY they chose to build their families through adoption. They also chat about some practical questions to ask yourself, as you considering beginning your own adoption journey, as well.

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A wise man named Walt Disney once said, "Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

THAT is what we want to do at Funding Love: focus on the future and be willing to shift and change when growth is knocking.

On this weeks episode, Mal + Kate announce a break from recoding after over two years of consistent Monday releases. Tune in as they share what's coming next for Funding Love and the Funding Love Podcast.

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The Book Club Crew is back together for PART 2 of "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker.

“Your parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted.”

Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life, usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors. She is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily.

In “You Should Be Grateful,” Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging.

This week, adoptive moms, Mal + Kate, along with adoptee and adoptive mom, Allison Olson, and birth mom, Jessie Mattos, loose all their thoughts on this compelling read in PART 2 of their Book Club discussion.

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The Book Club Crew is back together, and this time they are discussing the book You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker.

“Your parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted.”

Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life, usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors. She is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily.

In “You Should Be Grateful,” Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging.

This week, adoptive moms, Mal + Kate, along with adoptee and adoptive mom, Allison Olson, and birth mom, Jessie Mattos, loose all their thoughts on this compelling read in PART 1 of their Book Club discussion. Tune in next week for PART 2.


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At Funding Love, we create post-adoption experiences that strengthen bonds, build community, and restore people. This week, Mal + Kate talk all about the Funding Love mission and why they feel Walt Disney World is the perfect place to put that mission into motion.

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Do you struggle to talk to your kids about faith? Do you want your children to grow up knowing and loving God, but don't know how to help them to do that?

This week, Mal + Kate talk all about leading children to Jesus with Birds On a Wire Founder and Wire Talk podcast host, Karen Stubbs. Along with her daughter, and Wire Talk co-host, Emily Korosec, Karen shares motherhood wisdom and insight on how to model and teach faith in daily life.

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This week, Mal + Kate welcome Ana Anselma, the co-owner of
of the Social Mind Center.  The Social Mind Center’s Mission is to educate, equip, and empower children and teens with the communication, thinking, and self-management skills to navigate the world independently. Their curriculums focus on social competency, resulting in the development of social skills. Social competence refers to social, emotional, and cognitive skills and behaviors children need for successful social adaptation across environments.

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Does the adoption process seem confusing? Are you feeling the call, but also are afraid of losing time and money, trying to figure out the next steps?

This week, Mal + Kate talk all about the adoption process with guest Lucrece Bundy. Lucrece Bundy is a West African native and has resided in Omaha, Nebraska for over two decades. She has helped hundreds of families successfully adopt children as a Christ-follower and adoption attorney.

She noticed a huge gap in information available to her clients that ended up costing them significantly financially and emotionally. So, in addition to her adoption law practice, she founded an adoption education business that provides in-depth adoption information that cannot be found anywhere else, and saves families thousands of dollars and several years. Step-by-step, her clients go from not knowing where to start in the adoption process to successfully adding a new child to their family faster and more affordably.

Lucrece offers transformative resources that inspire people to not only grow their family through adoption, but to do it with an expectant heart and a joyful spirit.

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