As an adoptive parent, this podcast has provided so much quality advice, comfort and reassurance. Highly recommend to adoptive families and close friends.

I love the mailbag episodes! They are so full of practical help.

They are constantly bringing listeners crucial content for where we are in the trenches. Consistently encouraging and full of helpful resources. It’s been a life-savor in this difficult season on our journey!

This podcast is not afraid to tackle tough subjects surrounding adoption! Please listen and learn.

I learned a lot about the benefits of cooking and eating together! Thank you so much! Blessings 🙏🏼♥️

Lisa and Melissa are always bringing loads of value to their listeners. Even though we’ve been on our foster and adoptive journey for about tens years, I still have much to learn, and this podcast is a great place to do it. Thanks!

Thanks for all the tips and encouragement!

I found this podcast by searching Dr. Karyn Purvis’s name. Her TBRI videos have helped my husband and me with parenting challenges. We adopted our son 3 1/2 years ago and we are navigating some challenging behaviors and feeling exhausted lately. Thankful to have found someone who relates and who has helpful information for where we are! I just purchased the audio book, “The Connected Parent”. Thank you for sharing your story! It’s truly a blessing to have found this!

I’m currently in the adoption process and have really appreciated this podcast! The conversations are always balanced with truth, hard facts, and HOPE. I’m never left feeling discouraged, but rather encouraged. The hosts have gone through some really challenging times and their honesty and transparency is so helpful. Thank you!!!

I’m an mom-bio, adoptive & foster. I’m constantly seeking out help for my adopted kids. Melissa and Lisa have amazing tips and information and the best part-support. I finish each episode feeling understood, not like a failure (validated that this is hard work), and with some new tools to use/consider for my family. Thank you ladies!!

Every episode from Lisa and Melissa is full of grace and encouragement. I don’t know where I would be as an adoptive mom without their advice.

Very informative to help parents navigate the adoption process and help understand all the people involved.

There are so many awesome episodes. I’ve been working my way back from #109 as I just started listening but jumped way back to episode #23 when it was referenced in another episode, to hear Lisa’s birth mom story. It really hit home for me as my kiddos are all adopted from foster care and their first moms didn’t choose adoption for their kids. And my kiddos wish their first moms would have made better life choices but these podcast have really opened my eyes to so much!!! Thank you!

Thankful for this podcast!! The wisdom is so needed walking wherever you are in the foster and adoption process. I’m grateful for the truth and love they pass along!! The guests are super helpful too!! Thank you

This pod cast has been so beneficial to my life for so many reasons. I am a bio mom and fist and adoptive mom. The encouragement and resources this pod cast provides is so valuable. I truly don’t know what I would have done without it. Thank you for all you do and keep it up, we need you both!

For anyone who has adopted or is considering adoption this is a great resource and wealth of knowledge. So proud of you ladies for sharing your story.

As a Dad of 3 through adoption, I love this podcast because the topics covered help us work through issues we deal with or may deal with. Highly recommended!

I absolutely love listening to your podcast! It brings my husband and I hope & courage. We’re adopting a little girl from China and currently due to Covid-19 travel is suspended. We love the stories and hearing your adoptive children on the podcast as well. Looking forward to listening more. Adoption has made our dream of becoming parents come true. Thank you.

I so appreciate the practical advice, real life experience, encouragement and reminder we are not alone.....always pointing us back to Jesus 💗

I love this podcast! The topics that are covered are wide ranging and so full of the real life issues of the adoption world. This podcast is unique as it discusses topics from so many perspectives. I love that Melissa and Lisa are so real and honest. There are so many times I have laughed or cried as they share something they went through and it’s the exact same feelings or situation that I was having. But above all, it let me have hope that I was not alone when we were in a very hard place in our adoption journey.

Every time I listen to Lisa and Melissa, I feel like they are sitting in my living room having coffee with me. Very personable and have amazing guests for all things adoption. I listen to this religiously after we adopted our eight year old and I seriously couldn’t learn fast enough! So thankful for their wisdom, experience, and most of all their hearts for The brokenness and beauty that adoption holds.

I’ve been listening to this podcast for more than a year now - and have learned so much from Lisa and Melissa. I look forward to new episodes and have not been disappointed yet. They have a wonderful rapport with each other and keep me engaged by providing relevant content. Bring a parent is a difficult task - and being an adoptive parent brings more complexity to the mix. Following The Adoption Connection and engaging in their group The Village has helped me find other moms who are also struggling and determined to do what’s right for their children and themselves. While Lisa and Melissa are both Christians and I am not, I find their references to their faith to be helpful at times and never overbearing. They remind me that it’s important to have a center and some guiding principles to help steer me in the direction of self care and wholeness.

And not only that, I don’t feel like the world’s worst mom when my adopted kiddos and I struggle. Lots of great advice and encouragement here 💜

This podcast is so helpful and encouraging for parents of adopted children. The content reminds you to be constantly working on your relationship with your kids. I love it!

What a great podcast! Love all the help and information that it provides for us foster and adoptive parents. A must list to if you are or are thinking of becoming a foster or adoptive parent. Thanks for all your help.

Adoption can be full of challenges. Lisa and Melissa are such an encouragement to adoptive families. I enjoy listening to their podcast and highly recommend it.

I’ve loved listening to this podcast from episode 1 to 100! There is always a ton or great information and encouragement here. Lisa and Melissa are learned and inspiring and fun to listen to. I fee like these two are on my team!

So authentic and helpful for families walking along the road of foster care and adoption!

The foster/adoptive community can often feel isolated in their journey. Lisa and Melissa provide real life experience, wisdom and practical tools to better equip the incredible parents in the foster/adoption world!

I am a parent of 3 kids and also in waiting to become a foster/adoptive parent. I discovered this podcast a few months ago and have binge listened to all the episodes. I have learned so much and feel like Melissa and Lisa have become dear friends of mine. Definitely worth checking out this podcast.

Thank you for being a safe space for hard discussions that are common in adoptive families. I’ve been in this world for 10 years and still learn something new every week!

I am impressed with the topics and content. I’m sure I’ll listen again and again to catch all the insights.

Cannot say enough about the way this podcast helps provide insight AND practical advice. It’s not just storytelling- it is truly about how to handle situations based in a trauma-informed mindset.

This is my favorite adoption podcast. Lisa and Melissa are totally encouraging and relatable. I really appreciate their transparency and true heart to encourage foster and adoptive parents. They have a great variety of guests and topics as well. If you have a adoption question, chances are they will answer it for you!

As an adoptive mother this podcast is both refreshment for my heart and equipping for my life. Lisa and Melissa are honest, humble and relatable. They share from their wealth of experience covering all members of the triad’s perspective which I find very valuable. They bring on guest speakers with relevant insights on topics that are part of our daily life. I have also done parenting consultation with them one-on-one and the counsel I received made an immediate impact on some of the behaviors we were struggling with and brought greater peace to our home and our hearts. Love this podcast and the women who host it!

As a first-time mom and someone who is interested in adopting in the future, I am SO grateful to have found this podcast! Very informative, REAL, and relatable for parents in general! Serious topics in a relaxed dialogue!

If you are looking to adopt or are still on the fence about exploring the world of adoption, this podcast is for you! Very great content - exactly what I was looking for!

This is by far my favorite adoption podcast and I even host one! Thank you for all your help and insight, raising children from trauma is no joke and this podcast has helped us so much!

Such and insightful, honest and informative interview with Derek. Impressive guy. Thank you!

I left this review on the adoption connections Facebook page and felt I should here to encourage adoptive families to benefit from the wisdom Lisa and Melissa have. Parenting children is difficult... and wonderful! Parenting children who have had difficult pasts is extra hard AND EXTRA wonderful!! Walking through it with others makes the journey easier! I’m a mom of 8. Adoptive mom of 5. I have a good support system. But Melissa and Lisa have been HUGE comforts, teachers and encouragers. I appreciate their sacrifice of time and energy to share their lives with us. Someday I hope to physically meet them, but I feel I know them already through their individual blogs- the Corkboard and One Thankful Mom- and now through their podcast. Listen, learn and take courage to do the next right thing God places in your day today. And mom’s all know that could be a huge surprise 🤪 😃😃

The Adoption Connection podcast has been helpful to me as a foster/adoptive mom. They cover a variety of issues and offer resource ideas as well.

I love how they share so many ideas, books and authors to support those in adoption.

I look forward to this podcast every week. I feel like I’m having coffee with friends who get it. I always leave encouraged and empowered.

I am a dad of an adopted daughter and my wife and I are also looking foster. The podcast says it is for moms but as a dad, I find the insights and information to be extremely beneficial. A suggestion, maybe brand it to adoptive and fostering parents.

Love, love, love these ladies and their ministry. Thank you Melissa and Lisa for serving our community.

Thanks ladies for speaking truth! These situations are hard and overwhelming. I appreciate the truth and kindness spoken over me and to me! Hugs to you ladies!!!

I love the practical tips and hopeful interviews of this podcast!

What I love the most about the adoption connection is the diverse perspectives given. I appreciate the candor of both Melissa and Lisa. Their guest speak on a variety of topics related to adoption. As an adoptive mom this podcast provides community for me. Thank you!!

“Success is obedience to God.” Best line ever. It was said by Lisa during the mentor moment in episode 25. The entire episode was fabulous but that one line will stay with me for a long time!

I have been following the blogs and just today started listening to the podcast. It summed up exactly where I am at and I finally felt that all hope isn’t lost. I wish I had starting listening sooner. They get what it’s like to be an adoptive/foster parent.