322: Tiffany Bluhm: International Adoption, Birth Rejection, and Systemic Racism

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tiffany Bluhm wants every woman to recognize, embrace, and pursue the big dreams and beauty born inside of them. The author, blogger, speaker, teacher, podcast host, wife, and mother shares her personal stories of self-value and self-doubt, international adoption, entrepreneurship, marriage, heartbreak, motherhood, and more with an ever-growing audience now numbering in the hundreds of thousands. In addition to reaching readers via her own blog, Tiffany shares her disarmingly perceptive, honest, and frequently funny writing on other popular outlets including ScaryMommy.com, Deeply Rooted Magazine, and more. As co-host of the Why Tho podcast and an in-demand speaker, Tiffany also leads key conversations about modern faith, contemporary women, culture, and so much more. She has penned two books: the acclaimed Bible study Never Alone, released in February 2018, and her newly released book, SHE DREAMS: LIVE THE LIFE YOU WERE CREATED FOR, Tiffany lives in Tacoma, Washington, with her husband and is a Shameless Mom to her 4 and 8-year-old sons. Listen in to hear Tiffany share: Her story of being born in an orphanage in Dehli India and adopted by a white family at age 2 Her experience of being unlike everyone around her from the time she was born because of her birth story and her skin color How rejection at age 21 reopened her birth rejection trauma The suicide rate and mental health struggles are 8 times greater in adoptees Why her decision to adopt internationally had nothing to do with her experience of being adopted How she has faced discrimination as an East Indian woman, especially since 9/11 How she is talking to her kids about systemic racism and walking her black son through his own awareness of discrimination at a young age Links Mentioned: Connect with Tiffany: Tiffany Bluhm Tiffany on Facebook: Tiffany Bluhm Tiffany on Instagram: Tiffany Bluhm Tiffany on Twitter: Tiffany Bluhm Get Tiffany’s Book: She Dreams Watch Tiffany’s Women To Watch Talk: Youtube Thank you to our sponsors: Instacart Brumate Betabrand Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 32 with Tiffany Bloom. Show notes for this episode,
0:06.4	including any links mentioned in the episode, as well as any discount codes from our sponsors,
0:10.1	can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 3-22.
0:19.8	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:21.9	I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:23.7	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:29.6	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day.
0:35.8	One of the best things about the Shamedless Mom Academy is our
0:38.1	community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:42.6	shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:49.1	All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
1:03.6	Tiffany Bloom wants every woman to recognize, embrace, and pursue the big dreams and beauty born inside of them. As an author, blogger, speaker, teacher, podcast host, wife
1:09.9	and mother, Tiffany shares her personal stories of self-value
1:13.6	and self-doubt, international adoption, entrepreneurship, marriage, heartbreak, motherhood,
1:19.2	and more with an ever-growing audience now numbering in the hundreds of thousands. In addition to
1:24.8	reaching her readers via her own blog, Tiffany shares her disarmingly perceptive,
1:29.8	honest, and frequently funny writing on other popular outlets such as Scarymommie.com,
1:34.9	deeply rooted magazine, and more. As the co-host of Why, though, podcast, and an in-demand speaker,
1:42.2	Tiffany also leads conversations around modern faith, contemporary women, culture, and so much more.
1:47.9	She has penned two books, the acclaimed Bible study, Never Alone, released in February of 2018,
1:53.7	and her new book, released in February of 2019, She Dreams, Live the Life You Were Created for.
2:00.1	Tiffany lives with her family in Tacoma, Washington,
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