A journey through foster care and homelessness, interrogating the true meanings of resilience, ambition, and success – Emi Nietfeld

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 [email protected]. As always, thank you for listening! 🎥 Watch the full video episodes on YouTube! Head over to Comfort Cases on YouTube to catch every inspiring conversation: 👉 youtube.com/@comfortcases Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.