Jen Lilley joins us for Episode 61! Lilley brings some good vibes to The Batter's Box as we kick off the holiday season, as her newest film USS Christmas premieres this Saturday at 10/9c on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. In conjunction with the film in which she stars, she's also created a wonderful new initiative titled Operation: Christmas is not Cancelled, benefitting both Toys for Tots and military families. You can find more info online at www.christmasisnotcancelled.com and win the ultimate Christmas for you and your family, all while helping those in need.

This free-flowing conversation was filled with so many laughs, as Lilley and host, Al Malafronte chatted about anything from her days as a soap star on General Hospital and Days of Our Lives to high school rebellion to excessive rice purchases at the beginning of the pandemic. On the baseball front, there's even a brief history lesson on The Curse of the Bambino. Despite everything that's gone on in 2020, Lilley has truly had a banner year as an actress, parent, and even as a musician, having just released her first full solo album Hindsight this fall. Jen Lilley is the good stuff in show business, and that very much shines through in this episode.

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Foster Care Advocate Jen Lilley in Washington, DC

Jen Lilley is an actress known for her roles on Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and numerous roles as a leading lady on the Hallmark Channel and The Lifetime Channel. She is less well known as the daughter of a Judge and the leader of a women and children’s facility. However, we got to know her as a foster care advocate in this episode. 

Jen and her husband Jason Wayne are foster parents, adoptive parents, and biological parents as well.  

Jen has been called to not only help the weakest among us, but she has become an advocate on the national political platform as well and continues to speak before congress on the issue of how to help kids in hard places.

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The lovely Jen Lilley will be featured on the next episode of the podcast. We had the most amazing conversation which includes her efforts for change in the foster care system, adoption advocate, and the lessons that 2020 can teach all of us. Also included is a super fun conversation about operating a wedding cake business out of her parents kitchen! “Days of Our Lives”, Hallmark Channel movies, her new podcast, and her own blended family that includes fostering and adoption are all included. 

Actress and all around wonderful lady Jen Lilley visits Hollywood And Beyond discussing her numerous movies on Hallmark and her role on “Days of Our Lives”, resulting with Jen and I having an in-depth discussion on fostering and adoption. After sharing my experience of being adopted with Jen we go on to have a very important discussion on what is both negative and positive about the current state of fostering. Why is it acceptable for children to be removed from a home under various circumstances only to be put in another home with similar issues or otherwise unhealthy environments? Find out why this is happening and what must be done to change the system in this country, and why her faith helps light her path.

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Actress Jen Lilley shares her journey from being a mentor for Child Help to becoming a foster and adoptive parent. This episode is packed full of information about the foster care system, how to become a foster or help out without fostering, how the pandemic affects children in the system and common misconceptions surrounding foster care. May Is National Foster Care Month!

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Today Jess and Kaycee get to talk to Jen Lilley about her new podcast and her work in foster care!

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Jen Lilley is a truly genuine person in that what you see is what you get. She is one of the most caring and compassionate people I have had the please of ever speaking with and not only that, she practices what she preaches.

Lilley, has been a Foster Mother and has adopted one son, while waiting for the adoption to go through with her second son, along with having a biological daughter with her husband, Jason Wayne.

May is National Foster Care Month, which Lilley is partnering with the foundation Project Orphans to establish a neighborhood here in the U.S. to give orphans and children in foster care safe and loving homes. The organization focuses on permanency and adoption. To raise awareness and money for Project Orphans, Jen is launching on May 1st the #VoicesThatGive contest. It is an opportunity to give creators from virtually all walks of life including singers and actors a chance to win the grand prize of $10,000, a walk-on roll on Hallmark Channel's hit series When Hope Calls and much more.

Lilley also launched her new weekly podcast Fostering Hope, which aims to help normalize and support adoptive families of all types, foster ethical practices, and champion for safe, loving families for the children who need them. In each episode, actress Jen has open, honest, informative, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations with the most influential people in the world for foster care and adoption. Jen aspires to encourage people who are currently fostering children AND inspire more people to begin the deeply rewarding fostering journey.

I caught up with Lilley, who top of all of this had the time to record a 1960s style album to be released in 2020 that was influenced by the girl groups of that era.

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