Giovanna Ventola Discusses How Kids See Books as a Mirror in their Own Lives

09/20/22 • 21 min

In this week's episode of Fostering Change, Rob Scheer talks with Giovanna Ventola, an entrepreneur and self published children’s book author who lives in Chicago. She wrote the story of her rescue pup, “Waylon’s World” about Waylon’s journey to his forever home with her in the big city. It’s the first children’s book she’s written but she already has plans to add more to the series. Walyon has been the cutest little mascot for kids and he’s a big hit when they do live readings in Chicago.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️ Background on How Giovanna Wrote the Story and a Summary About What It Is.

🖐️ Kids reading books and trying to relate to characters

🖐️ The Book as a Tool to Comfort and Empower Children Going Through Any Type of Change

Purchase “Waylon’s World” here: https://www.readwaylonsworld.com/shop

You can find out more about Giovanna by visiting:

Website: www.readwaylonsworld.com

Instagram: @readwaylonsworld and @giovanna.ventola

TikTok: @readwaylonsworld

Learn more at https://www.comfortcases.org/

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Story Key Notes:

🖐️ Background on How Giovanna Wrote the Story and a Summary About What It Is.

🖐️ Kids reading books and trying to relate to characters

🖐️ The Book as a Tool to Comfort and Empower Children Going Through Any Type of Change

Purchase “Waylon’s World” here: https://www.readwaylonsworld.com/shop

You can find out more about Giovanna by visiting:

Website: www.readwaylonsworld.com

Instagram: @readwaylonsworld and @giovanna.ventola

TikTok: @readwaylonsworld

Learn more at https://www.comfortcases.org/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Empowering children to be caring, confident and resilient: Slumberkins

In this week's episode of Fostering Change, Rob Scheer talks with Callie Christensen and Kelly Oriard. Callie and Kelly are Co-CEOs and Co-Founders of Slumberkins, a direct-to-consumer, e-commerce children's brand on a mission to promote emotional wellness and provide tools to help raise caring, confident and resilient children.

Callie and Kelly started their business with a culmination of more than 20 years of friendship and a shared life passion for promoting early emotional learning. As mothers with backgrounds in family therapy and early education, they identified a need for intentional children's products while on maternity leave together in 2016. Now, they have the privilege of spreading the Slumberkins mission and preparing children to thrive in the modern world. Slumberkins is refreshing the plush toy industry and resonating with parents that find community on social media platforms and seek out modern, new, and intentional products to bring into their homes. The company is at the forefront of brand building online as they expand into children's entertainment by bringing the characters to life in a preschool television series produced by the Jim Henson Company.

Callie has a masters in teaching with endorsements in elementary education and special education and worked as a special education teacher in a therapeutic day treatment school as well as in an elementary school in the Pacific Northwest.

Kelly has a dual master's in marriage and family therapy and school counseling and has worked as a school counselor and family therapist at a K-8 school in Portland, Oregon.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️ Emotional Wellness and Social Emotional Learning

🖐️Callie’s Parents Fostered Children When She Was a Child and Impacted Her and Her Family Greatly

🖐️Callie & Kelly Are Dedicated to Giving Back to the Foster Care Community and Have Been Donating Regularly to Comfort Cases.

You can find out more about Callie and Kelly by visiting:

Website: www.Slumberkins.com

Instagram: instagram.com/slumberkins/

Facebook: facebook.com/slumberkins

YouTube: Slumberkins

Learn more at https://www.comfortcases.org/

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Justin & Alexis Black: How to Foster Kids Beat the Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love

In this week's episode of Fostering Change, Rob Scheer talks with Justin and Alexis Black. They are authors, speakers, business owners and part of the Forbes Next 1000 class of 2021. Together, they’ve published an award-winning, bestselling book titled Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat The Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness and Love that has impacted over 15,000 individuals and families. With ROSE (Rising Over Societal Expectations) Empowerment Group and Redefining Normal, they hope to continue the conversation on healthy relationships, mental health, and healing through speaking engagements, trainings and book clubs.

Story Key Notes:

🖐️ We can go with the flow of what you think would be best for the podcast!

🖐️ We have a youth workbook, upcoming faith workbook in July and children’s book in September

🖐️”We’re pregnant!” (and since the date of this taping... have given birth!)

You can find out more about Justin and Alexis by visiting:

Website: re-definingnormal.com

Instagram: @re.definingnormal

Facebook: redefiningnormalmovement

Tiktok: @re.definingnormal

Learn more at https://www.comfortcases.org/

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