Episode 11: What it Feels Like to Be in Foster Care, from an Adult Who’s Been There
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Argo is a pastor’s wife and mom of two who grew up in foster care. Her firsthand account of the emotions and struggles that face children in foster care on a regular basis will help you understand how critical every effort to help those in the foster care community is and how showing and sharing the love of Jesus will make a difference in every life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Forgotten Podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:14.8 | You know, I was heartbroken, but I was just like, here we go again, you know. |
| 0:20.6 | This, I am, I was tired at, you know, it's eight years old. |
| 0:26.3 | You know, I was just exhausted from life, I think, and I just was, you know, ready to just, |
| 0:35.2 | I wanted things to get better, and I didn't know when they would be able to. |
| 0:42.2 | Hey, it's Jamie K. Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. We're in every episode I get to |
| 0:47.7 | interview members of the foster care community. And today I am going to bring you a very |
| 0:52.7 | special episode. |
| 0:56.8 | I get to talk to Nicole Argo. |
| 0:59.0 | Nicole grew up in foster care. |
| 1:01.7 | She entered foster care as a seven-year-old girl. |
| 1:04.4 | Her and her younger brother were removed from her home. |
| 1:08.7 | And Nicole shares with us openly and honestly about her journey. |
| 1:13.5 | We do talk about some real issues here. And so if you have young children, you might want to preview this episode before you just let them listen along. |
| 1:19.0 | Nicole is married to Jason and together they have two children. She is a wedding and portrait |
| 1:23.6 | photography and Jason, her husband, is a pastor. Nicole is passionate to share what |
| 1:28.6 | Jesus has done in her life and she longs for people to know that their identity belongs in Christ. |
| 1:34.4 | I'm going to ask her about her story, about what it was like before she entered foster care, |
| 1:39.5 | about how you process all of this as a young girl. This is a real eye-opening episode. If you are just |
| 1:45.9 | learning about foster care, if you've known about foster care, but to hear it from the |
| 1:49.9 | perspective of one who's walked through it, it's hard. It's hard to listen. It's hard to hear, |
| 1:55.6 | but it's worth it. Nicole shares very personally in this episode about her journey into foster care and through foster care. |
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