Beyond The Dollar - Deep and Honest Conversations On How Money Affects Your Well-Being
Host Sarah Li-Cain wants to make money more approachable by having frank and honest conversations. Each episode, her and her guests candidly discuss a topic at the intersection of money and life. It becomes a space where wins, failures, happiness, shame and everything in between gets its turn. Come learn about how topics like financial independence, frugality, budgeting and other major life transitions and events affect your money.
Beyond The Dollar - Deep and Honest Conversations On How Money Affects Your Well-Being
Adopting Through the Foster Care System With Melissa Becker
Melissa Becker talks about her experience adopting four children - two from the foster care system and two through private agencies. She chats about how much she spent in total (we’re talking about tens of thousands of dollars just on lawyers fees alone), her mental health during that time, and what she’s most thankful for throughout the whole process.
What You Hear in This Episode:
- Why Melissa decided to adopt
- Why Melissa had to go to court after adopting her first child, and what it cost her
- What went through Melissa’s mind when she had to deal with mountains of paperwork
- Her thoughts on private adoption agencies and why she went that route even though she would rather adopt through the foster care system
- Why she started looking into grants and the frustrating process when asking for money
- What it felt like to meet her children for the first time
- What Melissa would say to some who is interested in adoption
Resources:
- Email Melissa about adoption at resolvemedlegal@msn.com (mention you heard her on this podcast!)
- Gift of Adoption
- Adopting From Foster Care: Clarifying The Misconceptions To Build A Loving Home
- Understanding trauma
- How to Adopt: State Adoption Info
*theme music by Donovan Dorrance