Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 30 : The Generational Cycle of Foster Care – Meet Ellie
Cat (Therapist) & Jack (Fostermom) talk to Ellie (a former foster youth) who has recently reunified with her son who was removed from her care and placed in foster care. Ellie had to overcome so many obstacles, including addiction, domestic violence, raising a son with special needs (autism), and...
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Season 4 Episode 22 : CAP Crisis – Accused to Attorney – Part 2
When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse - when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury - their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school and become…
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Season 4 Episode 21 : CAP Crisis – Accused to Attorney – Part 1
When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse - when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury - their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school and become…
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Season 4 Episode 20 : CAP Crisis – Megan’s Story
Megan and her husband, from Washington, experienced medical kidnapping when their son's RSV turned into a nightmare. One trip to the ER when he was struggling with a cold and suddenly he was being intubated, which went awry, and then coded in a helicopter en route to a children's hospital and had...
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Season 4 Episode 18 : Crisis in Georgia – The Timms Story – Keep Knocking
Carrie and Brady Timms are the parents of 2 year old Jameson. He started experiencing some concerning symptoms in his first months of life that had his parents bringing him to the doctor and the hospital trying to figure out. He would have discolorations appear on his body and then disappear....
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Season 4 Episode 17 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 3
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn't work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 16 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 2
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn't work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 15 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 1
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn't work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 14 : Hernandez Family Update – VICTORY
We have an update for you regarding the Hernandez Family. An unexpected turn of events at a court hearing which was just supposed to age a review this week - resulted in the girls moving to family members (pending the resolution of the criminal charges) and Georgia DFCS closing the case against…
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Season 4 Episode 13 : Haitian Adoption – BezzNees
Jack & Cat got a chance to chat with Richi from Tiktok about his post on the trending tok "Why do white people adopt black children?" We learned about his adoption from Haiti, along with his older biological brother (who may soon be younger). We chatted about his experience as a black man with...
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Season 4 Episode 11 : CAP Crisis – Tasha’s Story – Part 3
Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the...
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Season 4 Episode 10 : CAP Crisis – Tasha’s Story – Part 2
Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the...
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Season 4 Episode 9 : CAP Crisis – Tasha’s Story – Part 1
Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the...
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Season 4 Episode 6 : Crisis in Georgia – The Whiting-Clarke Story
Jack & Christy chat with Shelby, A mom in Georgia who has similar story of medical abuse of power. Shelby is one of dozens of moms in Georgia who had her child removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the child having diseases explaining the injuries. The...
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Season 4 Episode 5 : Crisis in Georgia – The Hernandez Story Continued
Jack & Christy continue their chat with Jennifer, A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to...
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The Hernandez Story – Consequences & Lawsuits
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. We chat about the consequences of child abuse pediatricians doubling down even in the face of diagnoses explaining injuries - and the consequence of that is the destruction of a family - versus the slap on the wrist they may...
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The Hernandez Story – Coparenting & Breastfeeding
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency who trained her to coparent had great concerns when she tried to coparent, and also how the agency would take Taki's breastmilk and dispose of it without giving it to her child or informing her...
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The Hernandez Story – Input from A Supervising Therapist
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how a therapist supervising Matt Hernandez visits exclaimed that he is a perfect parent and she has no concerns for him. She also found it odd that noone told her any issues to watch for with Matt, despite him...
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The Hernandez Story – The Lies
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency would force Matt to lie about why Taki was not present at visits to the girls, and how the agency lied in court about vetting relatives and fictive kin for placement.
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Season 4 Episode 4 : Crisis in Georgia – The Hernandez Story
Jack & Christy chat with Jennifer. A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to CHOA and within...
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Season 3 Episode 22 : A Comeback Story with Jackie Polk
Mac & Jack chat with Jackie Polk, a reunified sober mom about her turning her whole life around from a story of domestic violence captivity and substance abuse to a reunified mom helping other moms with her story of resilience and overcoming some of the biggest obstacles of life. Jackie has come...
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Season 3 Episode 21 : Going Bananas for Foster Families with Emily Cole
Jack & Nichole hang out with Emily Cole, the owner of the Savannah Bananas to chat about baseball, kids, fostering, and their new organization Bananas Foster. Follow them on Instagram for The Savannah Bananas and Bananas Foster and watch their videos on YouTube here.
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Season 3 Episode 19 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 4
Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the Do No Harm Podcast, but we...
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Season 3 Episode 18 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 3
Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the Do No Harm Podcast, but we...
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Season 3 Episode 17 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 2
[TW: ORIGINAL AUDIO FROM A CHILD REMOVAL] Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Many of us heard about…
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Season 3 Episode 16 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 1
[TW: ORIGINAL AUDIO FROM A CHILD REMOVAL] Cat & Jack chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a "better safe than sorry" attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the...
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Season 3 Episode 14 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 4
Jack & Cat are back to discuss more about the abuse and neglect of Natalia Grace
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Season 3 Episode 13 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 3
Jack & Cat are back to discuss more about the abuse and neglect of Natalia Grace
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Season 3 Episode 11 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 1
Cat & Jack discuss the curious case of Natalia Grace, We discuss how the docuseries on Netflix addresses the situation as well as how a careful examination of facts and documents paints a very particular story of both the adoption, abuse, and abandonment of an orphan from Ukraine. Please be…
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Season 3 Episode 10 : Abuse of Power in Foster Care – BOLDFAM
Cat & Jack chat with Deric from Boldfam - the viral social sensation who has recently undergone an interaction with CPS in Texas due to an abuse call from a doctor.
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Season 3 Episode 6 : Adoption
Jack, Nichole, & special guest Coryn discuss the various avenues of adoption, including: international adoption; domestic private adoption, foster care waiting child adoption, or adoption of a foster child who was unable to be reunified.
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Season 2 Episode 12 : Sisco’s Adoption after 70+ Foster Placements
Nichole & Jack chat with nichole's teen son Sisco about his time in foster care group homes after 4+ years and 70+ foster homes.
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Season 2 Episode 11 : Lucas and Looking on the Bright Side in Foster Care
TW: Child Abuse in foster care Jack & Nichole & Jack Jr, chat with Nichole's son Lucas who discusses being abused in foster care, and shares his sweet optimism and resilience.
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Season 2 Episode 1 : Meet The Hosts… Again
Now that we have dragged a couple special hosts into our equation and are starting a new season - we are excited to spend some time letting you get to know all of us a little better.
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Season 1 Episode 16 : Sibling Reunification & Nichole’s Wild Foster Care Ride
Jack & Cat sit with Nichole who has had one wild ride through successfully adopting three siblings despite enormous adversity. She has had to remain quiet throughout the media reports over the past year, due to the confidentiality requirements of foster parents and those involved with these…
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Season 1 Episode 10 : Fostering Through A Crisis
Jack & Cat sit and chat with a fostermom who has an interesting story about her life flipping upside down as a foster parent.
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Season 1 Episode 6 : A Foster Care Success Story
Jack, Cat, & Mac discuss the journey Mac took to become successful at changing her life and repairing her family.
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