Rachel and Simon Jay - Complex Families (N297)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Over the last 20 years Rachel and Simon Jay have been parents to many children through fostering and adoption as well as raising their own biological children. In this conversational episode, we listen in as they reflect on their experiences, discuss what they've learnt, and explore the expectations, challenges and delights of being family.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello and welcome to Nomad Podcast. I'm Joy Brooks and here with me is David Benjamin Blower. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello Joy. It's nice to be your shed again. |
| 0:45.9 | Do you realise it's almost exactly a year since the last time you were recording in my counselling cabin, not shed again? |
| 0:53.8 | I'm so sorry. Is it? Yeah. No, it feels like shed again. I'm so sorry. |
| 0:55.6 | Is it? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, no, it feels like a year. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm starting to think, is that the last one I did? |
| 1:00.5 | No, I think you've done things with Nick since then, I'm sure. |
| 1:04.9 | And maybe Anna. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, maybe I have. |
| 1:07.7 | But there we go, yeah. |
| 1:08.7 | It's been a journey around the sun, hasn't it? |
| 1:10.6 | It really has. Yeah, it's been a journey around the sun, hasn't it? It really has. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | This is going to be a conversation episode, yeah, which you recorded. |
| 1:16.5 | Can you tell us a bit about it? |
| 1:18.7 | So Rachel J. and Simon J. |
| 1:22.2 | Are people I've known for, oh, I don't know, five years or so. |
| 1:28.6 | And they're just amazing people doing amazing things. |
| 1:32.3 | They run a small community centre in their neck of the Birmingham Woods. |
| 1:37.3 | But they've been on a really amazing journey to me as an outside observer of fostering people adopting, having children |
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