#230: Set Free with Alison Storm
Struggle Well School
Emily Thomas
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Waiting well through the adoption process, working towards financial freedom for your family and battling comparison as a parent of a child with delays are just a few of the topics we hit on today with my guest Alison Storm. She talks to us about her season of waiting and her distaste for the phrase “it happens in God’s time”. Alison saw child slavery first hand on a trip and it started a fire in her to change her parenting to battle entitlement. She founded an organization that can get your kids involved and feeling empowered too!
Alison Storm calls the south home and began her career as a television reporter working in newsrooms around the country. Alison was a part of HIS Morning Crew which airs on HIS Radio across the Carolinas and coastal Georgia, serves as the features editor of Belle magazine and facilitates Financial Peace University at her church. In 2018 she founded Crowdsourcing Kids, an organization that taps into the entrepreneurial spirits of young people to fund wells in India and support children rescued from slavery. Alison and her husband Tim have two little world changers, Sammy and Phani.
WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT:-
Alison’s experience with Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University
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being married to an Italian immigrant
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why Alison chose to adopt and the long process of finding her daughter
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how she has learned how to have grace for herself while raising a son with medical needs
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what she learned in retrospect from the adoption process
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Alison’s struggle with choosing her comfort over her children’s needs
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how being debt-free allowed her to not to return to work after the adoption
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how Alison’s work to provide clean water changed her life
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how she’s helping kids in America spread hope in India
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advice for listeners who may have something on their heart, but are afraid to begin the work
Are You Humble Enough to Be Carefree? All God’s Children Financial Peace University Set Free Alliance Crowdsourcing Kids
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| 0:00.0 | Bum, bum, bum. Hey, welcome back ladies. You are listening to the Mom Struggling Well |
| 0:20.3 | Podcast. I continue to be Emily Thomas, and I am excited to come here with you |
| 0:25.6 | week after week. The hope here is that this show will help you love your actual |
| 0:30.2 | life. You will not keep trying to run away from home because you'll realize some really |
| 0:34.4 | great things are going on in the midst of the really kind of not great things |
| 0:38.6 | going on in your house because also I want you to know we all have those. You are not the only one who can |
| 0:46.3 | see marks on your walls and you don't even know what gross thing that is. The paint is |
| 0:52.1 | falling off your cabinets. |
| 0:54.2 | Maybe you have really nice house, |
| 0:55.3 | but I have marks on my walls and paint |
| 0:57.0 | pulling off my cabinets. |
| 0:58.0 | And I just walked by the water heater |
| 1:00.2 | and I could feel on the floor |
| 1:01.9 | that underneath it, the floor underneath the water heater was really hot. |
| 1:05.6 | And last time that happened is because we had a leak in the slab of our house. |
| 1:09.9 | So just as I was walking in to record this, I noticed that I think we might have another giant plumbing problem in our house, |
| 1:19.0 | super-dewper. Just want you to know, you're not alone. You're not alone. I think we have an enemy who likes to lie to us and make us feel like it's just us and I'm here to tell you |
| 1:29.5 | It may be you, but it's me too. So it's at least the two of us okay? |
| 1:35.0 | So I don't know how your week has gone I feel like it's Groundhog's Day like the same |
| 1:40.2 | blasted day over and over and I think I mean the grass is always greener right but |
| 1:45.4 | For everybody who gets paid to stay home I feel jealous I want to be paid to stay home |
| 1:51.6 | I feel like all I'm doing is working. It's not actually true but when I'm not working I'm thinking about it because I'm in a leadership position so |
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