35: Our Adoption Journey
Rise Together Podcast
Dave Hollis
4.6 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Today on Rise Together we’re talking about something we’ve never discussed in detail with our audience, the incredible and emotionally-trying journey we took to adoption. In what ended up being 5 long years of our lives, we navigated both international and domestic adoption, becoming foster parents, and the complicated waters of state and national child-care agencies, all in the name of completing our family. It resulted in some of the toughest seasons of our lives but also the sweetest moments and we are so blessed to be able to share this story with you.
If you’re interested in learning more about adoption or foster care, find as many people in your community who can share their story. Follow folks on social who share theirs like some of our IG favorites: @elsielarson, @thisgatherednest, @theluckyfewofficial and @adopttogether.
National Angels (https://www.nationalangels.org) is an organization that walks alongside children in the foster care system, as well as their caretakers, by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building and mentorship.
We mentioned Jen Hatmaker’s book Interrupted (https://amzn.to/2BW6sSv), it landed at a time to encourage our jumping into awesome interruption. Our friend Heather Avis also writes the story of being called into adoption in her book The Lucky Few (https://amzn.to/2BY5EfT).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey honey, I have a new book coming out. |
| 0:01.8 | I've read it. It made me cry at the end. I was so proud of your work. |
| 0:05.2 | Would you say that it's at least as good as Girl Wash Your Face? |
| 0:09.9 | I would not say that it's at least as good, because I think it is better. |
| 0:12.8 | Come on. |
| 0:14.4 | I cried in part because I imagined Noah Hollis, our daughter, knowing one day that the woman who wrote |
| 0:20.4 | that book and changed the way that she thinks about how a woman can or can't be in the world lives in |
| 0:25.9 | her house and is her mother. Babe. |
| 0:29.2 | So if you are curious what the book is all about, you can go on to basically anywhere |
| 0:33.2 | books are sold. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, targetwallmart.com, and check out the description. |
| 0:39.1 | But the intention here was this is for the dreamers. This is for the hustlers, for the goalsetters, |
| 0:45.0 | for anybody who wants to achieve something and is curious about the steps that you need to take. |
| 0:51.7 | And also how you can, as a woman, chase down a dream without shame. |
| 0:58.0 | If you like the sweet, sweet voice of that Rachel Hollis who was just speaking two seconds ago, |
| 1:02.9 | she does the audio narration unaudible and that's available for preorder right this second. |
| 1:09.7 | Hi guys, I'm Rachel Hollis. And I'm Dave Hollis. And we're married. |
| 1:14.0 | For like 14 years. And together for 16. We have kids. Four kids. Which is like a thousand kids. |
| 1:19.9 | We've also been foster parents to four kids as well. We're running a business together. |
| 1:23.7 | We do a lot of things. That is a lot of things. But we feel like it's possible. We know it's possible |
| 1:29.2 | to have an exceptional relationship regardless of the stresses you have in your life. |
| 1:33.7 | That's why we decided to do a podcast together. It's called Rise Together. |
| 1:37.3 | So if you want some tips and tricks on how we kind of get through all the things. |
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