Behind the Curtain: Honest Conversations about Foster Care and Adoption

About Behind the Curtain: Honest Conversations about Foster Care and Adoption

Each episode will feature a conversation between host Rebecca Harvin and foster/adoptive caregivers or members of the community who support foster care and adoption.

Publisher

Rebecca Harvin

Category

kids & family

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Nov 2024

Latest episode

30 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

58 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jun 2026

   What Happens When We Stop Asking How To Survive And Start Asking How To Thrive in Foster Care and Adoption

   What if survival isn’t the goal—or even the best question? Rebecca opens the door to a different pursuit: building a sustainable home life in foster care and adoption by asking how to thrive when nothing else changes. Through a raw, unedited monologue, she traces the arc from a stacked season of yeses, a hospital-heavy year, and the first real brush with caregiver burnout to a set of clear, livable practices that steady the family’s pace. We unpack sustainability where it actually counts: in...

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   A Conversation about Attachment for Adoptive Parents with Stacey Cales, LCSW

   A lot of adoptive and foster parents are handed an impossible goal: your family should look seamless, your child should feel “forever” the moment adoption is finalized, and your bond should eventually feel just like biology. When that does not happen, it can leave you spiraling between overcontrol and despair. Rebecca Harvin sits down with Stacy Cales, LCSW, a former foster parent, adoptive mom, and licensed clinical social worker known in Jacksonville for helping families untangle attachment...

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   The Foster Dad Perspective with Corey McKinney

   Fostering can sound like a noble idea until it’s your front door, your kids, your routines, and your fear of what you can’t control. That’s why this conversation matters. We’re joined by Corey McKinney, a foster dad, author, and longtime mentor, to talk honestly about the “silent” part of the foster care community: dads who want to protect their families but also feel the pull to help kids who have nowhere safe to land. Corey shares what it looked like to resist foster parenting for nearly t...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

90

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

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