The Funding Love Adoption Podcast with Mal + Kate

Listen in as Mal + Kate chat with Tori Hope Peterson about her story, foster care reform, and what you can do to help.
Tori's bio: Tori Hope Petersen (named Mrs. Universe in 2021; Track and Field All-American) is a former foster youth who is letting her Abba be known. She is passionate about foster care reform, adoption advocacy, vulnerable populations, and seeing the love of God change people's lives! Tori speaks across the nation sharing her powerful story, but her favorite form of art and communication is writing. Tori and her husband, Jacob, have the three sweetest kids: a biological son and daughter, Leyonder and Ezzeri, and an adopted adult son, Sar. Follow her on Instagram, Facebook, her website, and find her new book, Fostered, available nationwide wherever books are sold.

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Listen in as Mal + Kate chat about Funding Love's next big thing, the Funding Love Gala! They also discuss what is happening at Funding Love during National Adoption Month, including upcoming podcast guests that you won't want to miss.
Check out info about the Gala, or the Triple G (IYKYK), available sponsorships, or limited-time ticket sales here.

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Mal + Kate chat with author Michelle Thorne about her adoption-centric book series.
Michelle's bio: Michelle Thorne believes in the power of vulnerability and the beauty of brokenness. Art heals her soul, and sports are her happy place. A birth mom of 22+ years, she spends her days advocating for (birth) mothers and fighting to make adoption and foster care child-centered. Michelle has written several non-fiction books about various topics in adoption and enjoys doing life with her family. Her third installment of the BOTH/AND series, BOTH CLEAVING AND CLEAVING, was released on April 25, 2022. It's about a birth mom in an open adoption who fights for women like herself and family permanency.
You can read the first chapter of all of Michelle's books at https://michelle-thorne.com/additionalwork
To get in contact with Michelle, email her at [email protected].

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Mal + Kate chat with Cristina Recio, someone outside the adoption community, to answer questions about adoption.
Cristina is a wife, mom, travel agent, and fellow podcaster!

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The Funding Love Book Club Crew are back to discuss book three of 2024, To Have and Not To Hold by Lorri Antosz Benson.
To Have and Not to Hold is the poignant account of Lorri's momentous decision to give her daughter for adoption, the resulting heartache, and later, the unexpected joy of reconnecting with her daughter and her daughter's adoptive mother. With agonizing yet heartwarming honesty, Lorri offers a profound look at a deep connection of two mothers that is born with the cry of a newborn daughter. What begins as a fragile, tenuous link develops into something dreams and miracles are made of—relationships that go to the soul, are meant to be, and are devoid of fear and possessiveness. To Have and Not to Hold holds much inspiration for any adoptive parent, adoptee, or first/birthparent, but it's a story that anyone will find impossible to put down.
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