From Addiction to Advocacy: Lara Love Hardin's Journey of Redemption

May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, and we’re kicking it off with one of our most powerful episodes yet.

This week on Fostering Change, host Rob Scheer is joined by special guest co-host Jennifer Perry, Executive Director of the Children’s Action Network and Co-Founder of FosterMore. Jennifer’s tireless advocacy has brought national attention to the urgent needs of the 108,000+ children in U.S. foster care currently waiting for adoptive families.

Together, they sit down with Lara Love Hardin, author of The Many Lives of Mama Love—a 2024 Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller. In this profoundly moving conversation, Lara shares her remarkable journey through opioid addiction, incarceration, the devastating loss of her children, and how she fought her way back to rebuild her life.

This episode is a raw and inspiring look at:

The transformative power of storytelling

The realities of addiction, incarceration, and recovery

The broken pieces of the foster care system—and how we can fix them

The power of second chances and redemption

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📚 About Lara Love Hardin:

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📖 Buy The Many Lives of Mama Love: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-many-lives-of-mama-love-a-memoir-of-lying-stealing-writing-and-healing-lara-love-hardin/19897569 or wherever you buy books

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