Episode 54: Parenting Disciplining Styles, Rating Top 2022 Baby Names

Episode 53: A Special Visitor for Christmas, Inspire Implant, & Panks

Episode 52: Reading Reviews + Tips For a New Caseworker

Episode 51: It's Ari's Adoption Day!!!

In this episode, Joel and I give a typical, off-balance life update regarding our adopted son, our foster daughter, and our lives as newly South Dakotans.

Episode 50: Poop Stuff, Moving to Mexico? Life update as a South Dakotan

Episode 49: Welcome to the Black Hills, South Dakota! + TPR Trial

Episode 48: Hola from Tulum!

Episode 47: Alex and Amy After Dark

Episode 46: TikTok Live Podcast, Joel Tries a Ponytail, Christmas, Random Updates

Corey Taylor

Episode 45: Life Update w/One of Our Favorite Foster Dads, Corey Taylor!

A podcast community focused on supporting and discussing foster care, adoption and ALL things parenting - even the sticky stuff. Hosted by Alex Ellis.

This is by far the BEST podcast I have found for those of us who are managing or have managed the system of adopting through foster care and fostering. You guys lay it out-call it out and I feel like I’m sitting on the couch having a conversation with you...it’s refreshing! Plus...you have the best radio voices!! Thank you!!

Awesome-please keep it up!

Very good listen. Host is easy to listen to. She provides a fun show while remaining enlightening.

Comical and Enlightening

Barely Braided: A Disorderly Parenting Podcast

Alex Ellis

Join us for a Q &amp; A session where we've collected questions from our Instagram page and answered some of the most commonly discussed questions surrounding foster care and adoption.

Episode 2: So you wanna be a foster parent? Q & A with Alex Ellis

This week, we're taking a dive into all requirements necessary to complete the foster care homestudy through Tennessee DCS prior to becoming approved foster parents. Big thanks to Reuben Andrews as this weeks editor. Also, take a drink (beverage of your choosing) every time you hear the word “basically” or “however” during this episode.

Episode 3: The Foster Care Homestudy Process In Depth with Alex Ellis

In this short bonus episode, we discuss all that happened during our recent adoption day! Big thanks to this weeks editor, Reuben Andrews.

Episode 5: Adoption Day!

In this impromptu, casual episode, join me in discussing the things that are really irritating to me these days (long Starbucks orders, bad drivers and unclear packaging just to name a few), as well as a few things that I'm really loving.

Episode 6: Really Irritating Things, Holiday Chats

Joel Ellis

On this episode, we discuss a huge DCS fail that recently hit the news, our frustration with foster care continuing education, our upcoming adoption (this week!!!) and Joel plays "Guess the Baby Product". Big thanks to this weeks editor, Reuben Andrews.

Episode 4: Guess the Baby Product, DCS Nashville Fails Big Time and Saturday Chats with Joel Ellis

Barbara Goodman

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Barbara Goodman. This amazing mama was adopted as a child and tells her story of adoption, infertility, pregnancy loss and foster parenting.

Episode 7: Interview on Adoption, Infertility, Pregnancy Loss & Foster Parenting w/Guest Barbara Goodman

In this episode, I recap recent events like the Nashville/Mid-TN tornado and the Evelyn Boswell case. I also tell the story about DCS threatening to put our foster family on a PIP (personal improvement plan), as well as discuss our current foster daughter placement.

Episode 8: Nashville/Mid-TN Tornado, Our Current Foster Placement, We're being put on a PIP!, Continuing Education for Foster Parents

Hannah Nelson

I recently had the honor of interviewing Hannah Nelson. She graciously shares her story about being emancipated at 16, infertility and IVF, and being a foster parent.

Episode 15: Emancipation, Infertility/IVF & Foster Care with guest Hannah Nelson

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Stacy Roof, the mama of a treatment foster care home. She explains the difference between treatment foster care vs. traditional foster care, and tells her story as both a bio and foster mama.

Episode 14: Interview with Treatment Foster Care Mama Stacy Roof

Lydia Gerber

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing the beautiful Lydia Gerber, a bio mama, NICU mama and a (fairly) new foster mama from the Minnesota/North Dakota area. She shares her journey about infant loss and entering the fostercare world.

Episode 13: Pregnancy, Infant Loss and New Foster Parent Life w/Lydia Gerber

In this episode, Joel and I have a casual chat about our foster daughter, our adopted son and what's going on this week!

Episode 12: Foster Daughter Updates, (Not Funny) Jokes & Weeknight Chats w/Joel Ellis

Corey Taylor was an absolute pleasure to speak with. He talks about his journey becoming an approved foster dad at only 22 years old, his current placement, and his experience on this crazy rollercoaster.

Episode 11: Interview with 22 Year Old, Single Foster Dad Corey Taylor

In this episode, Joel and I sit down for a casual chat about what's going on in our world right now. Big thanks to Reuben Andrews for editing this weeks episode!

Episode 10: Parenting During COVID, Isolation, Foster Update, Kentucky Bourbon & Random Chats w/Joel Ellis

Anne Austin

This episode is jam-packed with information about DCS/private/independent/agency adoptions in Tennessee. I had the honor of interviewing the lovely Anne Austin, who provided loads of information based on her decades of expertise.

Episode 9: Interview with Adoption Attorney Anne Austin - Expert in DCS/Private Adoptions, Adoption Assistance, Juvenile Law, TPR

Welcome to Episode 1! Joined by my husband and co-host, Joel, we skim over our journey in foster care and adoption.

Episode 1: Our Foster Care & Adoption Story with Co-Host Joel Ellis

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