Bad Boys Get Bean Bags
The Dream
Little Everywhere
4.6 • 15.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, host Jane Marie sits down with journalist and author, Fortesa Latifi (rad name), to talk about the unholy marriage of perfect moms and child exploitation…family vlogs.
You can find more from Fortesa Latifi here:
Website: https://www.fortesalatifi.com/
Instagram: @hifortesa
TikTok: @hifortesa
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| 0:33.0 | Was that really the turning point where you really said like, hey, this is something that we can make into an income. This is something that can sustain our family for the future. Was that really the turning point where you really said like, hey, this is something that we can make into an income? |
| 0:38.3 | This is something that can sustain our family for the future. |
| 0:41.3 | Was that in? |
| 0:42.3 | What was the turning point where you really said, like, man, you two, this can really work for us? |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, China definitely helped when we went to go to adopt our son. |
| 0:48.3 | It helped with, I think, bringing a broader fan base to our content, and it helped us kind of start accelerating some growth |
| 0:54.3 | by the house you know different things like that helped kind of definitely was the point where we had |
| 0:58.6 | a super loyal fan base following us and then they were always asking where's the next content |
| 1:02.8 | where's the next piece because we weren't daily at that point we had slowed it down to like |
| 1:06.4 | probably three or four times a week and they were were asking, like, hey, can you see more content? We want to see |
| 1:11.1 | how hugs he's doing. How the family's getting along. And it was like, wow, okay, we have |
| 1:15.6 | something here. And people are really interested in our journey. I'm Jane Marie, and this is the |
| 1:23.9 | dream. That guy you were just listening to, his name is Jim Stauffer. |
| 1:28.7 | He and his wife Micah were once the proud proprietors of one of the Internet's most popular family vlogs. |
| 1:34.3 | He was describing how in 2017 he and Micah announced to their throng of followers that they'd decided to adopt a child from China and proceeded to share every last detail of the process. |
| 1:45.7 | For profit, by selling ads on their YouTube channel, they reached millions and were living |
| 1:51.3 | some version of the self-made American dream. And then things fell apart when they decided |
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