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Fostering Voices Podcast
by Foster ArizonaA Foster Arizona podcast featuring Authentic Conversations with Real People talking all things Foster Care and beyond. Hosted by Kim and Brian Vehon.
Copyright: Fostering Voices
Episodes
Episode 152 - Interracial Adoption and Finding Your Identity
42m · PublishedEpisode 152 - Interracial Adoption and Finding Your Identity
Summary: A personal look into an adoptees story involving interracial adoption and her journey to discover her personal identity along the way.
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:52 – Welcome Ann!
1:32 – Ann's Work and Focus
12:00 – A Position of Learning
16:44 – Ann's Journey
24:33 – Wanting Kids to Experience More Individuals Like Themselves
32:00 – Accepting a Child With Hands Open
35:01 – One Takeaway
37:21 – Kids at Risk
38:18 – Links in the Show Notes
41:36 – Connect With Us!
Links:
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/racial_disproportionality.pdf
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/study-finds-extreme-racial-disparities-in-dcs-cases-phoenix-family-says-they-were-stereotyped
Connect With Us!
www.fosterarizona.org
Episode 151: Meet the Vehons
30m · PublishedMeet your new hosts, Kim and Brian Vehon and learn a little bit about the heart behind their why and their vision for the Fostering Voices podcast.
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:25 – Welcome Back In!!
1:43 – Creation of Foster Arizona and Community
21:34 – Our Mission at Foster AZ
27:19 – Thank you!!!
Links:
https://fosterarizona.org/
https://www.aecf.org/blog/child-welfare-and-foster-care-statistics
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/trafficking_caseworkers.pdf
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/poverty-journal/blog/child-welfare-and-the-criminal-system-impact-overlap-potential-solutions/
https://www.samhsa.gov/homelessness-programs-resources/hpr-resources/supporting-teen-mothers
Episode 150: Goodbye from Chris and Jihae
15m · PublishedThank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 149: Interview with an Incredible Single Foster Mama
35m · PublishedThis episode features an interview with an AMAZING foster mama who happens to be single. Lina Bublys thought life would look differently than it does now, but she is still so grateful and so active in blessing those around her, especially her foster babes. We salute all you foster parents out there, but you single foster parents take the cake!
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
8:46 – What's Been Helping Chris This Week?
14:15 – How Lina Came To The Fostering World
18:18 – Examples of Challenges of Fostering Children
24:51 – Examples of Beauty in Fostering
26:09 – Advice for Anyone Thinking About or In Foster Care
32:26 – Good Word of the Day!!!
33:17 – What Has Lina Been Doing For Her Health?
Links:
Lina on IG
Good Word of the Day!!!
Reinvent
- to invent again or anew, especially without knowing that the invention already exists.
- to remake or make over, as in a different form
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 148: Positive Imprints and Taking a Chance on Foster Kids
23m · PublishedWe are so often triggered by negative things that happen, but what about the positive things? This episode features a story of our son and the time we picked up a homeless lady on our way to McDonald's, and how that left a serious impression on his soul. Our call to action - take a chance. Say kind things, do kind things for others. And also, don't discount foster kids as broken and bad. They are not castaways of people who don't want them. They are humans who are able to accomplish great things and to be great. We just need to take a chance on them.
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 147: Interviewing your host, Jihae Watson
23m · PublishedThis episode features an episode with host, Jihae! Join us as Chris grills Jihae on life's highs and lows. And you will even hear what Jihae's favorite physical attribute is of Chris'. It's very appropriate and clean.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:30 – Jihae Describes Growing Up in Her Parent's House
6:44 – What Has Been Your Biggest Challenge In Life?
9:19 – What Helped You Overcome That?
11:12 – What Time Did You Feel Most Fulfilled?
13:36 – What Advice Would You Give To Teenage Jihae?
19:58 – Good Word of the Day!!!
Links:
South Korea
Edmonton, Alberta
Good Word of the Day!!!
Joshua 1:9 NIV
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 146: Interviewing your host, Chris Watson
19m · PublishedThis episode is a quick interview with your host, Chris Watson! Get to know Chris and what drives him to be a WINNER at all times. We hope you enjoy getting to know Chris a little better! Next week will be Chris interviewing Jihae.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:01 – Thank you, SHOWIT!!
4:27 – Story From This Week
5:12 – Showit EDM and Plank Challenge
10:07 – What Makes Chris a Winner?
12:00 – What is a Hard Thing That You Overcame During Childhood?
15:22 – What's One Thing People Do Not Know About Chris?
17:44 – Good Word of the Day!!!
Links:
Spark – A conference for Showit creatives
Chevy's Fresh Mex Restaurant
Good Word of the Day!!!
Romans 12:2 NIV
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 145: Strokes, Bio Families, and Other Highs and Lows as a Family of 9
29m · PublishedIn this episode we share some highs and lows of the last month. Highs include seeing our big kids become amazing big kids. Not without faults and failures, but as young people who are trying to figure out what it looks like to be a loyal, kind person who has integrity. Church camps and cousins are also very high on the list. And in the lows category, Chris' dad had a stroke, Chris and Jihae have been feeling disconnected, and a meet up with a bio family got cancelled at the last minute and basically the wheels fell off for a minute. But we are all trying to weather these storms together, with grace, open communication, and community. So we encourage you to do the same!
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:14 – Thank you, SHOWIT!!
2:19 – Chris's Highs of the Week
9:20 – Jihae's Highs of the Week
11:52 – Chris's Lows of the Week
21:36 – Jihae's Lows of the Week
27:36 – Good Word of the Day!!!
Good Word of the Day!!!
Persevering
James 1:2-4 NIV
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Hebrews 12 NIV
7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 8 If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all.
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 144: Football, Faith, and Purpose
46m · PublishedThis episode features an incredible interview with Ben Malcolmson, author of Walk On: From Pee Wee Dropout to NFL Sidelines: My Unlikely Story of Football, Purpose, and Following an Amazing God. Ben has seen some major lows in his life, starting with having an alcoholic mom, and being thrust into college life a year early. But God was with him every step of the way, and brought him through so many dark days, to so many glorious days. You will learn so much from this former USC football player, and Pete Carrol's right hand man of 10 plus years on the Seattle Seahawks. If you have ever questioned your purpose in life, you will want to listen to this episode!
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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 143: Talk to Your Kids
4m · PublishedThis week we have a less than 5 minute episode! In light of the horrifying events of this last week, we just want to encourage you to talk to your kids about it. Cause they have heard about it. But they should hear about it from you and be able to talk about it with you. Cry together, pray together, and be prepared together. We don’t need to live lives of fear as parents, so let’s definitely make sure we are helping our kids to do the same.
Thank you to our sponsor Showit!!
Listen to Us on Spotify (and leave a review please)!!
Connect with us!
Fostering Voices on Instagram
You can also email us!
We would LOVE it if you would SUBSCRIBE!
AND please 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!
Fostering Voices Podcast has 212 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 114:17:47. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 16th, 2024 08:11.