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Elizabeth Friedland
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The Single Greatest Choice: For Single Women Exploring Solo Motherhood by Choice (SMBC), Fertility, and Having a Baby on Their Own Through Donor Conception or Adoption
S8E5 One Embryo Is All It Took: Kellyn Nagel's IVF Story as a Single Mother by Choice
What happens when you only get one viable embryo and it’s your only shot at becoming a mom? For Kellyn, her single embryo became the greatest gift of her life.Today’s guest is Kellyn Nagel, a fellow single mother by choice and dedicated attorney who represents children in foster care. Kellyn shares her emotional and financial journey through fertility as a single woman: from egg freezing after a low AMH diagnosis to IVF with frozen eggs, and ultimately to the birth of her daughter, Kellyn’s story is one of trust, resilience, and quiet courage.W...
2025-06-11
1h 14
Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast
56 | The Strange Murder of Miriam Angel by Israel Lipski
In the summer of 1887, Victorian London’s East End, fraught with poverty and unrest, became the setting for a bizarre and senseless true crime. Miriam Angel, an impoverished Jewish immigrant who was six months pregnant, was found poisoned in a locked room, her body lying on the bed. Incredibly, a fellow tenant in the same lodging house, Israel Lipski, was discovered hiding beneath it. The case, with its puzzling lack of motive, divided the public. Lipski’s infamy lingered, with his name even becoming a racial slur—shouted just minutes before Elizabeth Stride’s murder during Jack the Ripper’s reign of t...
2024-12-09
31 min
Barn Banter by Horse Illustrated
Ep24-Learn about liberty with Elizabeth James
Co-hosts Susan Friedland and Horse Illustrated Editor in Chief Holly Caccamise talk to International Liberty Horse Association CEO and co-founder Elizabeth James. Next, they chat with Rachel Navarro, equine intake coordinator at Nevins Farm outside of Boston, Mass. Rachel tells us about this month's ASPCA Right Horse adoptable horses of the month, Muffin and Buggsy, a pair of pony mares that can be rehomed together. For special subscription rates on Horse Illustrated and Young Rider magazines just for podcast listeners, click here.For special subscription rates on Horse Illustrated and Young Rider magazines just for podcast listeners, c...
2024-10-01
51 min
Epictastic Live with Epictastic Joshua
Is His Three Daughters my New Favorite Film of 2024? | Elizabeth Olsen | Netflix | Epictastic Joshua
His Three Daughters was my most excited film of the fall movie season and one of my most excited films of the year due to the praise it has gotten and the director and cast involved and now having seen it, Furiosa might have some competition on the block. In this review, Joshua Drake of Epictastic Joshua gives you his thoughts on His Three Daughters and why it's not just his second favorite film of the year but also talks about the story, the direction and overall how the film affected him. #HisThreeDaughters #ElizabethOlsen #CarrieCoon
2024-09-28
13 min
The Last Thing I Saw
Ep. 267: Venice 2024: Edo Choi on Pavements, Familiar Touch, Mistress Dispeller, plus Joker 2
Ep. 267: Venice 2024: Edo Choi on Pavements, Familiar Touch, Mistress Dispeller, Israel Palestine doc, plus Joker 2 Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. The 81st Venice Film Festival is underway, and I’m podcasting from the Lido about the latest movies to screen. This time I chatted with Edo Choi of the Museum of the Moving Image who is writing up a couple of films for Reverse Shot. Titles discussed include: Pavements (directed by Alex Ross Perry), Familiar Touch (Sarah Friedland), Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo), Israel Palestine on Swedish TV (1958-1989) (Göran Hugo Olsson), and, bef...
2024-09-06
39 min
The Single Greatest Choice: For Single Women Exploring Solo Motherhood by Choice (SMBC), Fertility, and Having a Baby on Their Own Through Donor Conception or Adoption
S6, Ep 8: “Accidental” SMBC through foster to open adoption with Elizabeth Friedland
We discuss more about…..Elizabeth’s journey to fostering and adoption.Balancing professional life with motherhood.The emotional and logistical challenges of fostering.dating and introducing our children to a future partner.Building and relying on a support system.Insights and advice for those considering fostering or adoption.Connect with Elizabeth!Website | Instagram | Instant Mom PodcastCheck out the Central General Store!Website | InstagramLearn more about the SGC Childbirth 101 Class for solo moms! 👩👧👦The Single Greatest Choice is here to support you in every stage of your SMBC journey throu...
2024-06-26
1h 04
Instant Mom
Considering solo motherhood? How to know if it’s right for you!
If you’re considering solo motherhood (or even partnered motherhood!) you may be wondering if you can really swing it by yourself. It’s scary! There are so many things to consider before deciding to be a parent — and especially a solo parent. Tune in as I walk you through a framework to evaluate your decision based on financial, logistical, physical and mental considerations. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2023-08-03
29 min
Instant Mom
ADHD? Now what?
If you’re navigating a new or suspected ADHD diagnosis for your kiddo, let me throw you a life preserver. Navigating an ADHD diagnosis is a little like fumbling around in the dark — so consider this a tiny flashlight to help you figure out which resources and next steps you might want to consider, from one experienced parent to another. NOTE: I forgot to add step 9: obtain a neuropsychological evaluation. This is the gold standard for diagnosing ADHD and catching other related behavioral and learning diagnosis. This day of testing looks like fun and games to kids and provides you with...
2023-07-18
39 min
Barn Banter by Horse Illustrated
Episode 8: Equestrian consignment and Breyer mania
Co-hosts Raquel Lynn and Susan Friedland talk to equestrian consignment business owner Taylor Hall and Breyer collector Elizabeth Orris. Plus, hear about the ASPCA Right Horse adoptable horse of the month, Atlas. Special thanks to our title sponsor, Straight Arrow Products.For special subscription rates on Horse Illustrated and Young Rider magazines just for podcast listeners, click here.
2023-06-20
49 min
Instant Mom
Building the Bio Parent/Foster Parent Relationship
The bio parent, and the foster parent are on the same team. Let’s talk about how you build that team to be strong and powerful! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2023-05-11
39 min
Instant Mom
The Foster Parent’s Manifesto
Foster well requires a unique selflessness and a lens of service. We are not saviors. This isn’t about us. We are not the heroes of the story — or even the main characters. Check out the list of beliefs and values every foster parent should hold true in order to foster well. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2023-04-11
13 min
Instant Mom
Foster Care Influencers: A big YIKES waiting to happen?
Let’s all take a deep breath before we dive into this potentially hot topic of foster care influencers. How do we share our foster parenting experiences without crossing the line into martyrdom, saviorism or outright exploitation? Let’s talk about it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2023-03-15
34 min
Instant Mom
All About Open Adoption and Post-Adoption Contact
Afraid of open adoption? Confused about what it means? Check out this episode to hear all about navigating (and embracing!) an open adoption. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2023-03-14
1h 03
Instant Mom
“I was asked to adopt my foster child. Now what?!”
Navigating how to answer that BIG question: “Would you adopt your foster child?” It’s a big leap — emotionally, financially, physically — from answering the call to foster to saying yes to forever. How to understand if you’re called to foster… or to adopt. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2022-12-30
29 min
Keep Up
Michael Friedland, Sustainable Wood and a Call for Change in Cape Elizabeth
Michael Friedland, Sustainable Wood and a Call for Change in Cape Elizabeth by Cynthia Dill
2022-09-01
24 min
From the Front Porch
Episode 388 || September New Release Rundown
This week on From the Front Porch, The Bookshelf’s Online Sales Manager Erin joins Annie and Olivia for another New Release Rundown. They’re sharing the September releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR list. Don’t forget, if you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, you can enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10 percent off your order. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Annie’s list: On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton The Most L...
2022-09-01
57 min
Instant Mom
The Icky Power Dynamics of Mediation
Mediation happens when a case plan is changed to adoption and the prospective adoptive parent (often time the foster parent) presents a compelling offer to the bio parents in the hopes they’ll voluntarily give up their parental rights. It’s… kind of icky. And an ethical minefield. And filled with all sorts of unfair power dynamics. Learn about our own mediation experience and what I think of it all now. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2022-08-26
31 min
Instant Mom
Foster Care is Not Cheap Adoption
Foster care is designed to preserve a family — not break it up. Let’s talk about why it’s not okay to wish for a case to end in adoption and how foster parents can and should support bio parents. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2022-08-10
29 min
Instant Mom
It’s been a YEAR: Let’s catch up!
Can you believe it’s almost been a year since the last episode? Find out what happened to baby Olivia, how Makel is doing in college, and what’s new with me and Jack. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elizabeth-friedland/message
2022-08-09
35 min
Prospecting Purpose
Mining and the Circular Economy (Alan Young)
CREDITS: Host - Elizabeth Freele, Sympact (https://www.linkedin.com/in/efreele/) Audio Editor - Geoff Bremner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreybremner/)Producer & Editor - Tommy Lee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelee/) Assistant Editor - Emielia Dahl-Sam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emielia-d...) Sponsor - Sympact (https://www.sympact.ca/) CONNECT LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symp... Website: https://www.sympact.ca/ Email: hello@sympact.ca SELECT EPISODE LINKS: Alan Young: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-youn... International Institute for Sust...
2021-10-26
1h 04
Instant Mom
The Story of Olivia: Part 2
Olivia‘s birth mom changed her mind and decided to parent. Hear about how we are handling that and how we’re helping to support the new family through our grief. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2021-09-10
30 min
Instant Mom
The Story of Olivia
Surprise! We adopted again! Learn more about how 3 month old Olivia came into our lives as perhaps our biggest surprise yet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2021-06-10
40 min
What You Should Read
You Should Read: The Happiest Girl in the World (with author Alena Dillon!)
Send us a textHi, Should-Heads! Today, we are so excited to share our conversation with Alena Dillon! Her second novel, The Happiest Girl in the World, was one of Julia's most anticipated books for April and for good reason. It's a ripped-from-the-headlines story that's infuriating and devastating in equal measure. Currently Reading:Julia: Tokyo Ever After (Emiko Jean), What Comes After (JoAnne Tompkins) and The Galaxy and the Ground Within (Becky Chambers)Kelly: In the Event of Contact (Ethel Rohan), The Anthropocene Reviewed (John Green)R...
2021-05-11
51 min
Instant Mom
Big Announcements for 2021!
Instant Mom will be expanding to offer online learning units for prospective and new foster parents! Hear a sneak preview of that latest venture, as well as some teasers about a slightly new format for the Instant Mom podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2021-02-12
10 min
Instant Mom
A heartbreaking setback
It’s been a tough week, and now we’re facing a heartbreaking setback. Parenting a child with behavioral and emotional special needs is brutal — and also the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Let’s all have a cry, shall we? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-11-19
00 min
Instant Mom
It’s Q&A Time!
You asked, I answered. Behavioral challenges, finances, dating, future plans, how to prepare for a placement, and more! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-10-27
00 min
Instant Mom
Kids in Foster Care Don’t Need Socks
It’s a grab bag today! An update on the health scare of our teen, why we won’t use an adoption agency to grow our family, and for the love of God, kids in foster care don’t need your donated socks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-10-09
00 min
Instant Mom
It’s a (Teen) Girl: One Month In
So many people are afraid to foster teenagers — and until roughly 30 days ago, I was one of them. Listen to an update on what I’ve done right and wrong (so far) and how life as a mom of a 3 year old and 17 year old is going. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-09-07
31 min
Instant Mom
It’s a (teenage) girl!
Remember a few weeks ago when I said we were taking a break from fostering? Well, here we are, one week away from an amazing 17 year old girl joining our family. Listen to find out how in the heck that happened. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-08-09
13 min
Instant Mom
Life Updates: Maggie, Our Open Adoption, Safe Families, and Dating
Here’s a little mixed bag of life updates: Maggie’s status, visits with Jack’s birth parents, keep Jack’s little brother for a weekend, becoming a host family with Safe Families and... my love life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-07-28
26 min
Instant Mom
Welcome, Baby Maggie!
The most gorgeous two day old baby girl joined our family over Memorial Day weekend. This multi-part episode navigates what it’s like to say yes to a placement, — from that first phone call from the caseworker to picking her up at the hospital to settling into a new routine together at home. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-05-27
29 min
Instant Mom
My First Placement
Today I’m talking about my very first placement, a gorgeous three month old baby girl. Hear what I did right, what I did wrong, and how being a mom for the first time changed me --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-05-05
35 min
Instant Mom
Fostering During the Pandemic
Well here’s a situation we never thought we’d be in — solo parenting during a lockdown in a pandemic. Tune in for an update on our situation and some Q&A. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-04-12
24 min
Instant Mom
New year, new updates
Find out what happened with the teenage girl we were getting to know, and what’s next for us along our foster care and adoption journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-02-16
25 min
Instant Mom
11 Things I’ve Done Wrong as a Foster Parent
I’ve learned a lot in the past four years of fostering, and I cringe when I think of some of the mistakes I made earlier on in my journey. Let’s talk about what I’ve done wrong — and how you can avoid making the same mistakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-01-26
24 min
Instant Mom
Balancing Career and Solo Motherhood
From a listener submitted question: How do you balance a demanding career with being a solo mom? My answer: Carefully, and sometimes at the cost of my mental, physical, and financial health. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2020-01-11
34 min
Instant Mom
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Teen
Curveball alert! We are in the early stages of getting to know a sweet teenage girl who might eventually join our family. Let’s talk about the harsh realities teens in foster care face when they “age out,” what getting to know a teen in care is like, and how this all might work. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-12-31
27 min
Instant Mom
Q&A: Part One
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers. In this two parter, I’ll answer listener-submitted questions about foster care and adoption. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-12-26
46 min
Instant Mom
Didn’t expect THAT news.
We just found out Jack is going to be a big brother again... and we certainly didn’t expect this news. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-12-12
18 min
Instant Mom
Buying for Baby
Let me fill you in on my secret to buying everything you need for baby: what products to skip, what products you can’t miss, where to save, and where to splurge. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-12-03
43 min
Instant Mom
How to Help a Foster Famly
It takes a village to raise a child in foster care — and to support foster parents who are often (if not always) stressed emotionally, physically, and financially. Let’s talk about meaningful ways you can provide support to the foster family, the foster child, and the birth family. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-11-21
26 min
Instant Mom
Let’s Get Uncomfortable
Adoption only exists because there was significant pain, trauma, loss, and grief. Adoption is beautiful, but it’s not all puppy dogs, unicorns, and rainbows. Let’s talk about the ways that well intentioned adoptive parents can do a disservice to the adoptee and the birth mother — and how we can ensure all sides of that triad are honored thoughtfully. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-11-15
41 min
Instant Mom
Adoption Through Foster Care
Is there such a thing as “foster to adopt?” How much does adoption through foster care cost and is it cheaper than private adoption — and how are they different? How does the whole process work? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-29
41 min
Instant Mom
The One Where I Date
It’s the question I get the more than almost anything else — can you, and how do you, date as a single foster and adoptive mom? Pull up a chair and let’s talk. Also, I cry a decent amount in this episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-22
37 min
Instant Mom
Foster Parenting &Finances
Do you want to be a foster parent but you’re not sure how you can afford it? Are you wondering why there’s a stereotype about foster parents “being in it for the money?” Are you interested in adoption, but the cost of a private adoption has totally terrified you? Today we talk everything money and foster parenting. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-18
26 min
Instant Mom
Ready, set, foster!
Everything you want to know about becoming licensed, preparing for your first placement, and getting that first phone call. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-17
47 min
Instant Mom
Let’s catch up.
New to our story? Been awhile since you’ve checked in? Let’s get caught up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-15
31 min
Instant Mom
Aaaaand we’re back!
Remember that time I started a podcast three years ago and then randomly decided to delete all the episodes? Well, I’m back. And I’m ready to talk all things foster care and adoption again. Let’s do this. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elizabeth-friedland/message
2019-10-15
06 min
Shameless Leadership
Elizabeth Friedland: Single Mom Fostering
Elizabeth Friedland is the Senior Director of Corporate Communications for Appirio, a global tech consultancy. She's spent more than 12 years in the public relations and communications world, working in both Indianapolis, where she currently lives, and New York. Outside the office, Friedland writes, directs, and produces award-winning short films. She is also an advocate for foster care; in addition to being a proud foster mother to five children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2017-09-20
1h 03