Fostering Minds

Fostering Minds Fostering Minds is an organization w/ a goal to close the educational gap for Foster Youth in Albany

Rest is not a reward. It’s a right.
09/16/2026

Rest is not a reward. It’s a right.

Find your voice again.
09/15/2026

Find your voice again.

Healing looks different than people expect.
09/14/2026

Healing looks different than people expect.

Being needed isn’t the same as being valued.
09/13/2026

Being needed isn’t the same as being valued.

Pilots who lose sight of the ground on long flights report disorientation and anxiety. Not because they are undertrained...
08/21/2026

Pilots who lose sight of the ground on long flights report disorientation and anxiety. Not because they are undertrained. Because the mind was not built to function without a stable reference point.
Now think about a young person moving through placement after placement, school after school, with no steady ground under them.
That disorientation is not a character flaw. It is what happens to any mind when the ground keeps shifting.
Day four is up now. Link in bio.

We keep asking young people to be more independent when the research keeps telling us the opposite is true.Persistence h...
08/17/2026

We keep asking young people to be more independent when the research keeps telling us the opposite is true.
Persistence has never been a solo act. It is negotiated every day through relationships, caseworkers, mentors, professors, the people who show up and the people who do not.
The self sufficiency that once saved you can quietly become the ceiling that limits you, if you never learn how to receive help.
This is day two of a new series on Power in the Pivot™, breaking down why we need to stop building programs for an imaginary independent individual who was never real.

Naming a problem is not the same as solving it.I have sat with directors who watched students defy everything their file...
08/13/2026

Naming a problem is not the same as solving it.
I have sat with directors who watched students defy everything their file predicted. The file said risk. The outcome said something else.
That gap is where the real work lives.
Real change never comes from one big cause. It comes from small moments stacking up. A relationship. A decision. A person who showed up at the right time.
This is why I built the 3P Advantage™ the way I did. Prime, Pivot, Prepare are not a checklist. They are a way of working with how change actually happens.
New fifteen day series just started on Power in the Pivot™. Link in bio.

Write Yourself a Permission SlipGentle exercise today.Write yourself a permission slip.What have you been waiting for so...
07/29/2026

Write Yourself a Permission Slip

Gentle exercise today.
Write yourself a permission slip.
What have you been waiting for someone to allow? Rest. A boundary. A dream. Grace for a mistake. The right to want something.
Now give it to yourself, in writing. I give myself permission to.

A lot of us are stuck waiting for an authority who is never going to show up and hand us the go ahead. At some point, you become the adult who signs the slip.
You are allowed.

What does your permission slip say? Share it below if you are willing. Someone else needs to see they are allowed too.

More in Power in the Pivot. Link in bio.

A Chapter You Never ReadSome of the most important work you do, you will never see finished.You will be a chapter in som...
07/28/2026

A Chapter You Never Read

Some of the most important work you do, you will never see finished.
You will be a chapter in someone’s story that you never get to read. A word you said. A moment you showed up. A kindness you forgot by dinner that they will carry for thirty years.
You do not always get the ending. You rarely get the thank you.
That is not a reason to give less. It is a reason to give carefully, because you never know which small moment becomes someone’s turning point.
Write your chapters well. Even the ones you will never read.
Whose story are you quietly writing right now?
Save this. Then go be someone’s good chapter.

More in Power in the Pivot. Link in bio.

The First Paycheck That HeldThere was a season when things finally got steady for me. A little stability. Ground that di...
07/26/2026

The First Paycheck That Held

There was a season when things finally got steady for me. A little stability. Ground that did not move.

And strangely, I did not trust it.
When you are raised on chaos, calm can feel suspicious. You keep waiting for the floor to drop, because it always had before. You almost sabotage the good thing because peace feels unfamiliar.

If that is you, hear this. You are allowed to have stability. You do not have to brace forever. It takes time to believe the ground will hold, and that is okay.

Let the good season be good. You earned the exhale.

Save this if calm still feels foreign to you.
More in Power in the Pivot. Link in bio

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