Latest Addicted Podcast Episodes
Let Art Heal Your Heart with Catherine Just
Addicted to Love - April 16, 2024 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn this episode, Aleah interviews Los Angeles-based artist, photographer, and intuitive seer Catherine Just. Learn about Catherine’s transformative journey from battling substance addiction at a young age to finding solace and expression through art. Catherine shares heartfelt stories of resil...
The Last Hug
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - October 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsThis is a unique one off episode. It is a conversation with 3 other dads and authors who wrote their story of grief in the book The Last Hug. You can purchase the book Here
Child Welfare from a Case worker and Therapist with Avni Panchal
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - June 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAvni Panchal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has her own private practice in the Bay Area. In addition to therapy services, she provides training to social workers in the field, teaches at San Francisco State University and is the Clinical Advisor for Kaya. She continues to faci...
Life After Trauma with Phillip Harter
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - May 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI have never told this story in public and I have not told everything that is here, probably ever. I have always felt a pulling to the children and families who are or have been involved in this system, or have suffered in the darkness of our world. I’m going to include a bio that is taken ...
Supporting the Supporters with Nikki Hertzler
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - May 16, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNikki Hertzler resides in northern Nevada. She and her husband have lived in several states before settling with their three children in Nevada. Nikki is an elementary teacher and as a speaker, she speaks on the importance of early childhood development as well as on foster care. Her family e...
Autistic Me with Christopher Scott Wyatt
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - May 09, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDr. Christopher Scott Wyatt is an autistic self-advocate and father of two neurodiverse daughters. He earned a doctorate while researching online education for students with autism spectrum disorders. His experiences living with physical and neurological differences shape his parenting. Wyatt co...
Your Trauma is NOT My Trauma with Maccabee Griffin
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - April 11, 2023 23:33 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsImagine the stage is set, the lights are dimmed, and the audience is waiting with bated breath. This is where my journey began - in the theater. I spent over two decades honing my craft, perfecting my skills, and pouring my heart and soul into every performance. But in 2005, I knew it was t...
Complex Trauma with Andrea Hanson
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - March 28, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAndrea has worked with clients across the globe who are seeking a deep recalibration from a state of trauma response to a state of self-love, creativity, wholeness, and flow. Andrea has dedicated years training to become highly specialized and effective in artfully blending a mosaic of tec...
Walking Out of The Sex Trafficking Industry with Hannah Spanke
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - March 21, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHannah is a passionate advocate for authentic happiness, and sustainable healthy relationships, starting with the one we have with ourselves. She is a Licensed Authentic Tantra Practitioner, Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, and Relationship & Life Coach specializing in helping individuals be...
Growing Through Unhealthy Adoption with Michelle McGough
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - March 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsMichelle McGough is an adoptee and individual who survived the foster care system as an infant. After being placed with a family she endured constant abuse until she reached adulthood. Left with only the coping mechanisms she developed to survive, she entered the military followed by the private...
Foster and Adoptive Mom Angie Grandt
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - February 21, 2023 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI am a mom of 2 very different children – in regard to their biology, their needs, their attachment, their experiences. I have worked in the special education field for more than 2 decades intimately hearing, seeing, and feeling parents struggle to connect with their children who have devel...
Interracial Adoption with Zachary Daniel
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - February 14, 2023 06:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsZachary Daniel is a Midwest native. He comes to Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey to discuss how his adoption experience shaped himself and his family. He graduated with a degree in Nuclear Medicine but eventually founded his own investment firm Digital Edge Wealth Management. He draws his en...
Heal Thrive Dream with Karen Robinson, LCSW
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - December 27, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsKaren Robinson, MSW, ACSW, LCSW Trauma Recovery Expert I'm a licensed therapist with 24 years of clinical experience specializing in trauma recovery, anxiety, and depression. I provide holistic care to create transformation and healing for trauma survivors. https://www.Karenrobinson360...
Foster Care to Prison to Redemption with Steven Snook
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - December 20, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFoster care is truly an unparalleled experience. This is our journey as a foster and adoptive family that has seen and experienced a lot! We want to share our joy and heartbreak with the world to inspire others to join in our mission of providing strength to the weakest among us. We are sharing...
Digital Detox with Molly DeFrank
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - December 12, 2022 12:09 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI’m a former politico-turned stay-at-home mom. I married my college sweetheart and a week later began working for an actor-turned-Governator. After a few years, I put that life on hold to raise several amazing tiny people. I assumed stay-at-home mom life would prove easier than the fast pace a...
Advocating for Foster Youth with Shalamar Parrish
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - December 06, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFoster care is truly an unparalleled experience. This is our journey as a foster and adoptive family that has seen and experienced a lot! We want to share our joy and heartbreak with the world to inspire others to join in our mission of providing strength to the weakest among us. We are sharing...
A Place to all Home with David Ambroz
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - November 29, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDavid Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate. President Obama recognized him as an American Champion of Change. He currently serves as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon, coordinating with non-profits and community leaders for social good. Previously h...
A Foster Care Journey with Darren and Theresa Carter
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - November 21, 2022 23:34 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDarren W Carter and Theresa Carter join us in this episode to talk about their lives, struggles, and joys through the lens of being foster parents. They are both strong parents and business owners located in Cleveland, Ohio. We talked all about bio kids, adopted kids, foster kids, and godchild...
Understanding Attachment in Foster Care with Sarah Salisott
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - November 08, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFoster care is truly an unparalleled experience. This is our journey as a foster and adoptive family that has seen and experienced a lot! We want to share our joy and heartbreak with the world to inspire others to join in our mission of providing strength to the weakest among us. We are sharing...
Faith Finds Hope Through Adoption with Faith Ehiozuwa Rebroadcast
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - November 01, 2022 22:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFoster care is truly an unparalleled experience. This is our journey as a foster and adoptive family that has seen and experienced a lot! We want to share our joy and heartbreak with the world to inspire others to join in our mission of providing strength to the weakest among us. We are sharing...
From Foster Kid to a Helping Hero with Patty Waters
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - October 25, 2022 23:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsPatty Waters enjoys bringing people, ideas, and inspiration together and hopes to form a dialogue that shares a unique perspective from an adopted teenager. Patty and her 3 siblings were adopted by the Waters family at the age of 13 and grew up in Austin, Texas. Patty and her siblings were in th...
A Memoir of Courage and Hope with Carmen Maria Navarro
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - October 18, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsCarmen María is a stepmom of four, a biological mom of two, and a foster mom of a few children who she loves, sometimes at a distance. With her memoir, Fostering: A Memoir of Courage and Hope, she endeavors to bring awareness to the issues surrounding the foster care system and share her passion...
TBI In Foster Care and Adoption with Dr Jen Blanchette
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - October 11, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI help brain injury survivors find the tools and support they need to LIVE again. I have over 10 years of training and experience in brain injury therapy and neuropsychological testing. My superpower is curiosity, out-of-the-box thinking, and a huge heart for people who are trying to rebuild the...
Kyle Maurer's Adoption Story
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - October 04, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsKyle is a father of 6 kids through adoption and we dive into his story today. Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey Find All Our Links Here https://linktr.ee/fostercarenation Merch! http://tee.pub/lic/RwiARsuuDHs Call the Voicemail Line 413-foster 3 (413) 367-8373 Foster Care 10...
Traveling Different with Dawn Barclay
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - September 27, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsDawn M. Barclay is an award-winning author who has spent a career working in different aspects of the travel industry. She started as an agent with her parents’ firms, Barclay Travel Ltd and Barclay International Group Short-Term Apartment Rentals, and then branched out into travel trade reporti...
The Resilience Room with Eileen Devine
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - September 20, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsEileen Devine, LCSW lives in Portland, Oregon, and has over twenty years of clinical experience. She is also the mother of a teenager with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, a serious brain-based disability that has challenging behavioral symptoms. She believes that when we understand the way a ch...
Sex Trafficking with Stephanie Olson
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - September 13, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsStephanie Olson is a speaker, an author, and the Chief Executive Officer of The Set Me Free Project, a prevention education organization on human trafficking, social media safety, and healthy relationships. Stephanie has a mission to share that each person has an intrinsic value that cannot b...
Finding Help Thru Therapy and Coaching with Carlos Laack LMFT
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - September 06, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsCarlos Laack is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the State of California. Mr. Laack provides psychotherapy specializing in anxiety, depression, travel mental health, and trauma. He has a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from National University and has been practicing for mo...
Ugandan Street Kid to Foster Dad with Peter Mutabazi
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - August 30, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsI am Peter Mutabazi. And this is my story. As a child in Uganda, I grew up with shelter, food and clothing scarcity. But more than that, I grew up with safety scarcity. I feared for my life from a father who threatened me, and frequently called me “garbage” and “useless.” Parents ar...
The Foster Care Freakshow with Tess Scott
Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey - August 23, 2022 07:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsTess Scott is a bio-mom, foster mom, and an adoptive mom. You can check out her book and website below! Tess' book https://tessscott.com/ Foster Care: An Unparalleled Journey Find All Our Links Here https://linktr.ee/fostercarenation Merch! http://tee.pub/lic/RwiARsuuDHs ...