Episode 173: I See You—From Rejection to Redemption (w/ Shyann Skelton)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast! In this episode, I have the opportunity to talk with Shyann Skelton. Shyann came from a broken home where she did not know her biological father. After her mother’s death, she was adopted by her grandmother, but experienced deep pain through loss, bullying, and hardships as she was rejected by family for being biracial.
Shyann’s story begins with odds that were stacked against her, but she has taken those experiences and used them for good! As an adult, Shyann is a foster mom to teen girls and soon will be working with a nonprofit whose goal is to fill the gap while children are waiting for foster homes.
Thank you for listening to her story!
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. I love looking back on that around Mother's Day. Like even in her life of struggles and pain, she would always, even though she probably felt like she's not the best mother, like she would always think about me. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better |
| 0:35.5 | understand the foster care community. We want to bring you |
| 0:38.8 | hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, |
| 0:44.8 | vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more |
| 0:50.6 | about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us |
| 0:56.2 | on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this |
| 1:04.4 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:14.9 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:25.7 | Well, Cheyenne, thank you so much for coming on the show today. I've really been looking forward to hearing your story and your perspective, |
| 1:29.1 | not only as an adoptee who was raised by your grandma, your grandmother, but as a foster |
| 1:34.6 | mom of teen girls as well. So you've had a lot of hats that you have worn. And I recently saw, |
| 1:42.7 | so this is what we're going to start, is I recently learned about your |
| 1:45.6 | birth story. And would you be willing to share some of that with us? Absolutely. So I was born |
| 1:52.3 | into a broken family situation. My biological mother was actually homeless and a prostitute when I was conceived. So I have no |
| 2:05.1 | idea who my father is. And so while I was, while she was pregnant with me, she was on the streets, |
| 2:11.5 | homeless, doing God knows what while I was in her body. And when I was born, there was absolutely nothing wrong |
| 2:19.3 | with me. So it's just so evident and clear all of Psalms 139, how the Lord makes us fearfully |
| 2:26.3 | and wonderfully made. And me being healthy and just fine just makes no sense to the life that she was |
| 2:32.9 | living. But my grandmother, of course, my mom wasn't able to take care of me. |
| 2:38.3 | So my grandmother adopted me. |
| 2:40.9 | And she was currently married at the time. |
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