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The Bestie Breakdown

S2 EP 23: Breaking Down Adoption Part 1

The Bestie Breakdown

The Bestie Breakdown

Kids & Family

3.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Grab your tissues! Your heart is about to break in the very best of ways! This week on The Bestie Breakdown, we are breaking down ADOPTION! This is Part 1 of MANY adoption podcast episodes and, once you listen, you will understand why! Erika and Shay are sharing their reasons for adoption, the process, the timeline, the highs and lows, and the emotions of it all! Shay climbs on so many important soapboxes and Erika is emotional in ways that only adoption can make her feel.

You don't have to be called to adopt to learn something from this podcast episode. You can support adoption, adoptees, people who adopt, the foster care system, etc in so many ways, and we are talking about it all! We hope you walk away with a little more knowledge of adoption and the system, and maybe even a little tug on your heart to see if adoption is right for you. Adoption might come from brokenness, but it truly is the most amazing and impactful process you can imagine.

And, as always, Random Reader Questions! Ranging from favorite places to eat in the Dallas area, food we won't eat at all, first cars, Harry Potter, and more!

If you love us, please follow us on Instagram @thebestiebreakdown, if you have reader questions, please email us at thebestiebreakdown@gmail.com and we love positive reviews!  Please listen, love us and give us a great rating!

https://mixandmatchmama.com/posts/adoption/

https://www.alittlebitofeverythingblog.com/search/label/Adoption

https://cafo.org/orphansunday/

https://joetgarcias.com/

https://javiers.net/

https://www.micocina.com/

The Bestie Breakdown is brought to you by Shay Shull of the Mix and Match Mama blog and Erika Slaughter of A Little Bit of Everything.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Hey. Look at us with our haze again. Of course we're using haze. Oh, air

0:18.3

cups. So excited about today's episode. Oh, this was such a true, a real, a raw look

0:25.4

at Shae and I's hearts on adoption. Maybe I just spoiled it. Sorry. No, I was just going

0:31.1

to say spoiled. Spoiler alert. We blubber through a big part of it. Yes. You might want

0:37.1

to grab your tissues if you're a cryer who cries when you hear other people cry because

0:42.6

you know, it touched us. Yeah. If you have kids that are adopted, if you're considering

0:48.8

it, thinking about it, praying about it, you love people in your family or community

0:53.1

that have adopted kids, or you know nothing about it. And just want to hear two moms

0:58.9

with hearts for adoption. Like this episode is for everybody is what I'm trying to say.

1:03.7

Yes. So in this episode, we break down adoption and my non-emotional self-cries. And just

1:13.7

one reminder before we get to today's episode next week is the Bestie Book Club number

1:18.1

two. So you still have one more week to finish reading our book. It's a really good one.

1:24.0

You should all, if you haven't started, you need to start reading it. You will have

1:27.9

it finished by this time next week because it's that good. The girls in the stilt's house

1:32.9

is the book. So you still have time. Join us so you can listen along next week. Okay.

1:37.9

I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. Bye. Hey everyone. I'm Erica and I'm Shae. And

1:45.9

we're two Bestie moms breaking down topics each week here on our podcast. We cover everything

1:50.9

from pop culture to travel, motherhood, organization, fitness, fashion, food, and so much more.

1:56.4

We're two best friends just chatting about life and we're so excited you're here.

2:00.4

Hey everybody, Shae. We started with Hay again. I don't know another way to say it. We start

2:11.1

out with okay or we're Texans. We should start with howdy. Yeah. Hey y'all. Again, that's

2:18.8

another hey, another form of hey. Okay. Okay. I have a fun little game for us to start. Oh,

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