Marcy Bursac | Adoptive Mom & Foster Care Adoption Advocate
The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast
🎙 The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast shares honest conversations about foster care adoption. Hosted by Marcy Bursac, adoptive mom of siblings, author, and foster care adoption advocate, this show features adoptive parents, adoptees, adults who aged out of foster care, child welfare professionals, and allies from workplaces, schools, and faith communities. Each episode offers the kind of candid conversation prospective adoptive parents often wish they could have—the same conversations that once happened in my living room before the pandemic.🔗 FosterCareAdoption.org
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Marcy Bursac | Adoptive Mom & Foster Care Adoption Advocate
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Jun 23, 2026
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Episodes
Meet Amber - Adoptive Mom (of a sibling pair!) 10.06.2021 26:19
Amber is in Texas and is the adoptive mom of a sibling pair. She also gifts my book The Forgotten Adoption Option to potential adoptive families in her area. Get ideas and insights about foster care adoption in this episode.
Meet Sherry Hursey - Creator, Co-Writer and Star of “Lilly’s Light: The Movie 28.05.2021 38:38
By celebrating current and retired foster parents and spreading awareness about the need for more foster families, Marcy and Sherry hope to inspire prospective foster parents to take the next steps in caring for children in need. Sherry Hursey (Lilly) is an award-winning actress, vocalist, writer and producer whose face and voice are very familiar to television, radio and film audiences worldwide....
Meet Nathan - Foster Dad (for 16 years!) to Teens and Young Adults 18.05.2021 34:20
Nathan shares about his experience being family to teens and young adults. He has been a foster parent for 16 years.
Meet Big Brother & Little Sister - My Adopted Sibling Pair 07.05.2021 33:22
A special Mother's Day episode with my children - Big Brother & Little Sister.
Meet Natalie - Adoptive Mom (who adopted her first 2 placements!) 27.04.2021 23:01
For Natalie and her husband, adoption was their Plan A. She shares lessons learned and emotions experienced.
Meet Robin & Dave - Adoptive Parents (of older boys!) 13.04.2021 34:07
Meet Robin & Dave. A couple who has opened their homes, changed family trees, and started a nonprofit to teach other families how to do that same.
Meet Alice - Adoptive Mom (and one of my mentors!) 30.03.2021 28:41
Alice is a decade-long foster and adoptive mom. Listen as she shares insights on parenting children as a single mom.
Meet Grandpa Bob - Adoptive Grandparent (and my dad!) 09.03.2021 22:13
Adoption impacts immediate and extended family. I'm excited to introduce you to my dad who shares his experience with my family's foster care adoption journey.Â
Meet Rita Soronen - Foster Care Adoption Advocate 16.02.2021 36:43
Learn about the opportunity to adopt and advocate for children through the foster care system from Rita Soronen, President & CEO of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
Meet Hunter - An Adopted Child (who is now an adult!) 02.02.2021 27:22
Hunter shares his personal story of being in foster care for 6 years and then being adopted by a family that spent many of those years with him.Â
Meet Jane - Adoptive Mom (when her son was 6-years-old!) 18.01.2021 19:00
Jane is a caring coworker who adopted a son when he was 6-years-old. She didn’t feel finished parenting after raising three biological children. Hear how “love can be a noun, a verb, and a decision” when it comes to foster care adoption.Â
Meet Robin - Adoptive Mom (of a teenager!) 06.01.2021 30:58
"It is the best thing and the hardest thing she's ever done." Robin of Exodus Fitness Retreats shares how she went from "mentor" to "mother" overnight.
Meet Jennifer - Adoptive Mom (and fellow author!) 17.12.2020 26:49
This episode is about a 3 month-old baby girl who met her forever family on Christmas Eve. Adoptive Mom, Jennifer Elwood is the Author of Counting Up to Christmas: 24 Gifts from the Gospel of Luke. Her book is available in full-color paperback and Kindle formats. We met through the FlourishWriters Community. Â To learn more on becoming a Respite Provider Google "foster carerespite provider + [your...
Meet Nathan - Adoptive Dad (who also happens to be my husband!) 04.12.2020 23:41
This has the feeling of a private conversation in our home. Learn from an adoptive dad who went from zero to two kids overnight. Learn common reservations for pursuing adoption and get a peek inside the real-life journey of the foster care adoption process.
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