Welcome to our first episode of Fostering Change’s “Best of Season 5”. Today, we revisit Rob’s interview with Mark Daley, author of SAFE: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family. We knew right away that this interview would be in our “Best of” series, and we think you’ll agree. So whether this is your first, second or third time listening to this interview, please enjoy!

Today, on Fostering Change, Comfort Cases’ founder Rob Scheer has an enlightening conversation with Mark Daley, author of SAFE: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family. The book offers a deeply personal window into what happens when the universal longing for family crashes up against the unique madness and bureaucracy of a child protection system that often fails to consider the needs of the most vulnerable parties of all—the children themselves.

You will hear Rob share that he believes that SAFE is an important resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about, or is actively participating in our foster care system. You will hear Rob and Mark discuss how having a community of support all around you is so important. In fact, finding community is “Step Number 1!” - be that community family, church, neighbors or others who can support you as you work to juggle this new lifestyle.

Mark shares some important tips for new foster parents, including:

• Go in with your eyes open. Do your homework.
• Don’t rush to judgment on the families of the child/children you’ve brought into your home. You likely do not know the “whole story.” Be empathetic.
• Speak up and be “the voice” for your child/children

To purchase SAFE, please visit your local independent bookstore or purchase online on sites including:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Bookshop.org

You can follow Mark on Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markdaley00/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markdaley00

Our next “Best of” episode will air July 2nd. Stay tuned!

You can always catch up on previous episodes of Fostering Change by visiting www.comfortcases.org/podcast or your favorite podcast outlets.

If you have any comments, questions, or guest suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Please write to us at info@comfortcases.org.

As always, thank you for listening!

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Welcome to the Final Episode of Season 5. Thank you for joining us on this journey - whether you’re a new listener or if you’ve been with us all five seasons.

Season 6 will debut in September, but following today’s episode, we will air some of our favorite episodes from the past season once again bi-weekly. So stay tuned!

And for our final episode of the season, we wanted to go out on a HIGH NOTE, and couldn’t have looked any further than today’s guest, Rob Scheer’s good friend, Sarah Fraser.

Many first became aware of Sarah’s talents when she was the co-host of Hot 95.5’s “The Kane Show” in Washington, DC and then on DC’s 107.3’s “Sarah, Ty, and Mel”. She was also an entertainment contributor for FOX 5 in DC for 13 years!

But DC couldn’t hold a talent like her, and she recently moved to the Bright Lights of Los Angeles, and is the host of “The Sarah Fraser Show,” one of the top-trending pop culture podcasts in the country. (More than 15 MILLION downloads!) Sarah covers reality TV, interviews unique guests and talks about her own fun life. She has so much more going on, we highly recommend you follow her on social media (links below) to keep up-to-date!

Sarah is also looking to become a foster parent. She and Rob have a lively discussion about the hoops many need to go through to become a foster parent - and Rob also offers a possible solution to Sarah that she hadn’t considered before. (You’ll have to listen to the end for this!)

What a terrific way to end the season.

A reminder that our first “Best of” episode will air Tuesday, June 18. And then episodes will air on alternate Tuesdays until the start of Season 6.

Thank you again for being such supportive listeners!

Follow Sarah here!

Facebook

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Twitter/X

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TikTok

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Our next episode will be the start of our “Best of Season 5”. The first “Best of” will post on Tuesday, June 18. We’ll then stay on our schedule of alternate weeks until Season 6 debuts in September.

You can always catch up on previous episodes of all 5 seasons of Fostering Change by visiting www.comfortcases.org/podcast or your favorite podcast outlets.

If you have any comments, questions, or guest suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Please write to us at info@comfortcases.org.

As always, thank you for listening!

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Welcome to the final episode of Fostering Change for National Foster Care Awareness Month. We hope you have done something meaningful to help our youth, the fantastic people who work in social services, our teachers… and yourself. This is the month they “give us,” but as Rob often shares, “when you invest in a child, you invest in YOUR future… because they are the leaders of tomorrow.”

We end this month with a very special guest: Emi Nietfeld. Emi is the author of an amazing book that we highly recommend you purchase right now: Acceptance. In her memoir, Emi shares how she did something that only 3% of youth in foster care do: she went to college—and not just any college, but Harvard!

As a homeless teenager writing college essays in her rusty Toyota Corolla, Emi Nietfeld was convinced that the Ivy League was the only escape from her dysfunctional childhood. But upward mobility required crafting the perfect resilience narrative. She had to prove that she was an “overcomer,” made stronger by all that she had endured.

In her interview with Rob, Emi shares the life lessons she’s learned, particularly of challenging our ideas of what it means to overcome - and find contentment on your own terms.

To learn more about Emi and her memoir, please visit https://www.eminietfeld.com/

You can also find and follow Emi on social media:

Substack:

https://eminietfeld.substack.com/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/eminietfeld/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emi-nietfeld

Twitter/X

https://twitter.com/eminietfeld

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/eminietfeld

TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/@eminietfeld

Our next episode is our final episode of Season 5 and will air June 4.

Throughout the rest of the Summer, we will be sharing some of our favorite episodes of Season 5. Stay tuned!

You can always catch up on previous episodes of all 5 seasons of Fostering Change by visiting www.comfortcases.org/podcast or your favorite podcast outlets.

If you have any comments, questions, or guest suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Please write to us at info@comfortcases.org.

As always, thank you for listening!

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