Empowered to Connect Podcast

Booking Overview

Interview-led parenting and adoption programming focused on attachment-rich, trauma-informed, healing-centered family relationships, with external guests including adoptee authors and parenting voices. Credible pitches include adoption advocates, adult adoptees with substantive expertise, child- and family-development professionals, and authors of evidence-informed parenting books; booking difficulty is medium because the show combines accessible lived-experience conversations with established subject-matter voices.

Metrics

Episodes: 264

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 10.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@empoweredtoconnect.org

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Host

Jesse Farris - Co-host focused on attachment-informed, healing-centered parenting and family relationships.

Tona Ottinger - Co-host focused on attachment-informed, healing-centered parenting and family relationships.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Adoption advocates, adult adoptees, parenting educators, and professionals or authors with substantive expertise in attachment-rich, trauma-informed family relationships.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Recognized advocacy or professional expertise in adoption or parenting, Meaningful lived experience related to adoption or family relationships

Recent Guest Discussions

Tona Ottinger - Moving From Conflict And Competition Toward Connection, Responding To Challenging Child Behavior, And Slowing Down During Parenting Conflicts.

Mo Ottinger - Moving From Conflict And Competition Toward Connection, Responding To Challenging Child Behavior, And Slowing Down During Parenting Conflicts.

Rhonda M. Roorda - Transracial Adoption, Adoptee Identity, Belonging, Cultural Connection, Trauma, Accountability, And Repair.

Nick Ferris - Consequences, Loving Limits, Parental Power, Mistakes, And Connection-centered Parenting.

Recent Topics

Adoption, Parenting, Attachment, Trauma, Family

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Empowered to Connect Podcast

[E246] You're Not the Hero of Their Story, & That's the Point: A Conversation about Open Adoption with Annie Iverson

September 08, 2026

What does open adoption actually mean, and what happens when fear gets in the way of staying connected? Annie Iverson, adoptive mom of four and creator of Write It & Remember It, joins us to talk honestly about openness, boundaries, and the small, sustainable habits that keep birth family connections alive. Episode Bullets Openness lives on a spectrum, from a card a few times a year to regular visits. There's no single "right" version of it. Three common misconceptions about open adop...

[E245] The Science and Heart of Bedtime with Allison Ezell

August 25, 2026

If bedtime in your house feels like a nightly negotiation, or you're the one lying in the dark at 2 a.m. wondering why nothing seems to work, this conversation is for you. Pediatric sleep consultant Allison Ezell spent years stuck between a sleep doctor telling her to sleep train and a TBRI therapist affirming the trauma-informed parenting she knew her son needed, unable to find anyone who could bridge the two. She eventually became the person she needed, and she's bringing that hard-won wisd...

[E244] Redefining the Parent Report Card with Nicole Barlow

August 11, 2026

What if the parent report card you've been grading yourself on this whole time was never actually yours to fill out? Episode summary bullets: Nicole Barlow, longtime foster and adoptive mom and one of our Cultivate Connection facilitators, shares how she went from feeling like a "rockstar" foster parent to realizing she was in way over her head. Why the peer-to-peer model at the heart of Cultivate Connection matters: none of us are exempt from putting these tools into practice in our own ...

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