{"podcast":{"title":"From Foster to Forever","slug":"from-foster-to-forever-6781182","podcast_index_feed_id":6781182,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/from-foster-to-forever/","website_url":"https://www.fromfoster2forever.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/c59e6602-0030-4ccd-9c75-05cc29d4bd24/FFtF1500-2.jpg","author":"Rachel Fulginiti","episode_count":45,"summary":"There are many ways to build your family. Fostering-to-adopt is not the easiest, but it's a beautiful and profoundly impactful thing to do. Join Rachel Fulginiti, creative multi-hyphenate and two-time foster to adopt mom, as she shares her own story and the stories of others who have successfully navigated the foster care system and created their forever families through adoption. We explore the complex journey, touching on subjects like welcoming newborns or older children into your home, resiliency through loss and heartbreak, transracial adoption, special needs, co-parenting through a divorce, and more. We also amplify the voices of adult adoptees, who can teach us so much through their lived experience. If you've ever considered fostering and/or adoption, experienced it first-hand, or are simply curious to learn more, this show is for you.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-foster-to-forever-6781182"},"episode":{"title":"Adopting an Older Child with TEDx Speaker Hilary Crowley","slug":"adopting-an-older-child-with-tedx-speaker-hilary-crowley","published_at":"2025-12-16T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-foster-to-forever-6781182/adopting-an-older-child-with-tedx-speaker-hilary-crowley","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-foster-to-forever-6781182","url":"https://www.fromfoster2forever.com/","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b75d3791-dfd3-4476-a692-cef5aa8225b3.mp3","summary":"In this powerful and heart-opening conversation, I sit down with Hilary Crowley — foster-to-adopt mom, holistic health practitioner, energy healer, TEDx speaker, and author of The Power of Energy Medicine . Hilary shares the extraordinary story of how she followed intuition, courage, and connection all the way to her son — and the unexpected lessons she learned along the way. From discovering the importance of foster-care support groups before certification, to navigating shutdowns, attachment, sibling dynamics, and biological family relationships, Hilary offers deep insight into what it really means to love, advocate, and parent a child who has survived instability and trauma. We also explore the intersection of intuition and fostering, how to recognize an intuitive “yes,” and why older-child adoption is a powerful — and often overlooked — pathway to building a family. This episode is full of wisdom, warmth, and practical guidance for anyone considering fostering or adoption, anyone parenting a child with trauma, or anyone wanting to better understand the emotional landscape of the foster-to-adopt journey. In This Episode, We Discuss: ✨ The Power of Support Groups: Why attending a foster-care support group before certification can completely shift your journey. How Hilary built trust with resource workers just by showing up. ✨ The Foster-to-Adopt Origin Story Hilary’s longing for a second child and the friend who unexpectedly opened the door to fostering. Her first experiences learning the “lingo” and navigating parenting classes. ✨ A Moment of Raw Honesty in Training Hilary’s emotional fear response during training — and the life-changing validation she received from a social worker. ✨ Navigating the Needs of Two Children How fostering disrupted her biological son’s…","meta_description":"In this powerful and heart-opening conversation, I sit down with Hilary Crowley — foster-to-adopt mom, holistic health practitioner, energy healer, TEDx s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3572,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/from-foster-to-forever-6781182/episodes/adopting-an-older-child-with-tedx-speaker-hilary-crowley/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/from-foster-to-forever-6781182/adopting-an-older-child-with-tedx-speaker-hilary-crowley.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}