Episode 237: Foster Care & Baseball (w/ Emily Cole)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
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Foster care and baseball. On the surface, these two things don’t sound related at all, but my guest this week would beg to differ.
Emily Cole is the co-owner with her husband, Jesse, of the Savannah Bananas, a baseball team based in Savannah, Georgia. Their vision is to make baseball fun, put fans first, and always entertain.
In addition to owning and operating a baseball team, Emily and Jesse are also biological, foster, and adoptive parents. They even use their baseball platform to further impact the foster care community through their nonprofit, Bananas Foster. Emily is passionate about helping the foster care community by celebrating and advocating for those involved.
In this episode, you’ll hear how baseball and foster care collide in Emily’s life, a vision for the future of foster care, how vital it is to have your village established as a foster parent, and so much more!
Get links to resources and key takeaways in the show notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/emily-cole-237/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.9 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I just preach from the very beginning, please get your village set up, get them prepared. |
| 0:10.8 | They don't have to be ready to be a foster parent themselves, but they're going to need to know what you will need from them. |
| 0:16.9 | And whether it's before your first placement or after your 10th, if you can have people rally |
| 0:22.0 | alongside of you, I believe your success rate is going to be through the roof compared to |
| 0:27.0 | if you don't have those people. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:35.1 | of foster care. |
| 0:36.6 | With every episode, our goal is to help you |
| 0:39.2 | better understand the foster care community. We want to bring you hope and encouragement |
| 0:44.2 | in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, |
| 0:50.1 | and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more about TFI, |
| 0:56.2 | catch up on past episodes, |
| 0:58.0 | read engaging articles or partner with us on mission |
| 1:01.3 | with a gift of any amount, |
| 1:03.8 | head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:07.6 | We are in this together. |
| 1:09.8 | Thank you for listening and engaging with us. |
| 1:12.6 | We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:15.9 | Okay, it is time. |
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