Episode #12 Bethany Baldwin
Bethany has a Bachelor of Art Degree in Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art & Design. She provides products, services and education for an art filled life through her business, Artful Interiors, LLC. She is in love with her husband and five children, two of whom are adopted and have unique physical, emotional and behavioral challenges. She hopes to be a catalyst for foster care reform, post-adoptive support and funding for children’s mental health programs.
Today Bethany and I talk about howshe and her husband have turned their farmhouse, barn and property into a placefor gathering and how they host parties that intentionally bring peopletogether.
Bethany shares her story ofadopting her two youngest children. Shetells us about the process, her shame around the title “foster parent” and howher adoptive children began their lives. She tells us even though being in her family has put them on a differentpath, their brains and bodies are still partially stuck on the path of theirbiological parents due to the neglect they experienced. They both suffer from several disorders, but Bethanyexplains how they’re able to move forward as family despite these hardthings.
Later on in our conversation we talkabout how she helped me take my vision for this podcast and make it reality asshe was preparing to teach a course on entrepreneurship. She’s also my photographer and the designerof my logo.
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Connectwith Bethany
On Facebook at Home Sweet Homestead (farmhouse parties, produce and products) and Artful Interiors (photography, logos and interior decorating) or on her YouTube channel Home Sweet Homestead 560 (art classes)
Bethany’sFavorite 5
Group exercise classes – Zumba