#12 Bethany Baldwin [Home Sweet Homestead]

Bethany has a Bachelor of Art Degree in Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art & Design. She provides products, services and education for an art filled life through her business, Artful Interiors, LLC. She is in love with her husband and five children, two of whom are adopted and have unique physical, emotional and behavioral challenges. She hopes to be a catalyst for foster care reform, post-adoptive support and funding for children's mental health programs. Today Bethany and I talk about how she and her husband have turned their farmhouse, barn and property into a place for gathering and how they host parties that intentionally bring people together.  Bethany shares her story of adopting her two youngest children.  She tells us about the process, her shame around the title "foster parent" and how her adoptive children began their lives.  She tells us even though being in her family has put them on a different path, their brains and bodies are still partially stuck on the path of their biological parents due to the neglect they experienced.  They both suffer from several disorders, but Bethany explains how they're able to move forward as family despite these hard things.  Later on in our conversation we talk about how she helped me take my vision for this podcast and make it reality as she was preparing to teach a course on entrepreneurship.  She's also my photographer and the designer of my logo.    Mentioned in this episode Home Sweet Homestead Hen Parties Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Reactive Attachment Disorder Oppositional defiance ADD/ADHD Artful Interiors   Connect with Bethany On Facebook at Home Sweet Homestead (farmhouse parties, produce and products) and Artful Interiors (photography, logos and interior decorating) or on her YouTube channel Home Sweet Homestead 560 (art classes)   Bethany's Favorite 5 Netflix Group exercise classes – Zumba Pull on jeans Botox Photoshop   Connect with Girls Talking Life Show Notes for this Episode Instagram Facebook