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Speaker 2: A managing attorney at the law firm of Falida Cordog,

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Speaker 2: she is an adoption attorney and foster care advocate. Her

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Speaker 2: firm specializes in adoption law and family law. After witnessing

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Speaker 2: unsettling incidents involving children, she believed that she could best

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Speaker 2: serve the children of Georgia by becoming an attorney. Please

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Speaker 2: welcome to Money Making Conversations Master Class. Attorney Felita Cordog, How.

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Speaker 3: You doing wonderful? Thank you for having me first.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot to say. What age were you inspired

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Speaker 2: by this? You know, say that that motivated you to

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Speaker 2: be an attorney?

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Speaker 3: I actually at a very young age in my teens. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I kind of took the senior group though I didn't

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Speaker 3: start law school until my early thirties.

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Speaker 1: They congratulations, atleast you followed your dream. This is your dream,

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Speaker 1: right dream? Okay? Why was the delay in pursuing law?

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Speaker 3: Just life, other things happening. I had a child unplanned,

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Speaker 3: but became blessed in my life, got married, became a homemaker,

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Speaker 3: and then after all that, I decided it was time

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Speaker 3: for me to get started doing what I really wanted

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 1: That's inspirational, don't you believe?

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Speaker 3: I think it is because a lot of.

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Speaker 2: People are sitting at home right now questioning what they

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Speaker 2: want to do with their lives, and they're, like I said,

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Speaker 2: pumping the brakes on. What they should be doing is

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Speaker 2: putting their foot on the gas and planning an option

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Speaker 2: to be successful. Before we get into your background and

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Speaker 2: an adoption, law and foster care, being an advocate in

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Speaker 2: those areas, what enabled you to get in the direction,

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Speaker 2: get back on the saddle, in the saddle to pursue

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Speaker 2: this degree in law in your thirties.

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Speaker 3: Well, I, like a lot of people, I have a

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Speaker 3: story and I wanted to turn that story of pain.

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Speaker 3: It became my passion. When I was very young, my

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Speaker 3: brother and I we were really small, and my mom

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Speaker 3: died from domestic violence, so we were pretty much poor.

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Speaker 3: Friend my mom was deceased and my dad gone to prison,

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Speaker 3: and I was very fortunate and very blessed that we

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Speaker 3: didn't have to go into the foster care system because

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Speaker 3: we had family to take care of us. My mother's

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Speaker 3: brother became our legal guardian, he and his wife, and

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Speaker 3: my mother's sister, and my mother parents, my return of

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Speaker 3: grandparents helped raised us. But as I got older, I

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Speaker 3: learned that that wasn't the case for everyone. That a

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Speaker 3: lot of children did end up in foster care because

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Speaker 3: they didn't have that family or suitable family to take

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Speaker 3: care of them. And so becoming an adoption attorney and

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Speaker 3: a foster care advocate it was just my way of

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Speaker 3: showing my gratitude to God and to my family. And

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Speaker 3: so I said, well, you know, since everybody isn't able

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Speaker 3: to have that support system, I can do something to

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Speaker 3: help bring awareness to these children that are in foster care.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to attorney Felita Corna.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what is the difference between adoption and foster care.

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Speaker 3: So of course, adoption is a legal situation where you

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Speaker 3: become the permanent parents of a child. It's permanent as

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Speaker 3: opposed to foster care, which is a temporary situation because

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Speaker 3: when a child comes into foster care, the primary goal

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Speaker 3: is to reunite that child with his biological affairs. Oh okay,

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Speaker 3: so that's the goal. So it's permits, it's it can

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Speaker 3: turn into permiten, that's not the initial goal, okay, but

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Speaker 3: there are sometimes when that that that doesn't happen.

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Speaker 2: So then sure a child is taken out of a

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Speaker 2: environment that's not safe, right, okay, and move to another

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Speaker 2: environment that they feel will give you a better opportunity

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Speaker 3: To live successful lives. And and you know, like you say,

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Speaker 3: the first thing is to ensure their safety, their physical safety, okay,

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Speaker 3: like I said, it's supposed to be permanent, but of

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Speaker 2: Right now, when you look at yourself, you know, I

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Speaker 2: said you had a support system.

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Speaker 1: That enabled you to live a normal life.

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Speaker 2: What is the life of a child at an adoption facility.

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Speaker 3: So of course that that can vary with a child.

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Speaker 1: And let's just talk about the state of Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so where so where they are so falter care.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple of different ways that a child is

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Speaker 3: placed with a foster family, right okay, Okay, So they

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Speaker 2: Which means that that's a family that already has foster.

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Speaker 3: be a single individual, and it could be a married couple. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: So they are placed in that in that like a

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Speaker 2: Well, let's let's talk about the whole situation where you

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Speaker 2: kind of when you talk about caring for a child

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Speaker 2: in that permanent environment versus the temporary environment. I know

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Speaker 2: some friends, I have some friends who have lived successful lives,

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Speaker 2: but they are very lots of stereotypes about what after child.

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Speaker 2: And you have organizations out there like Big Brothers, Big

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Speaker 1: Where do you come in?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I come in And that's a that's a

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Speaker 3: great point which you made about the stereotypes of what

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Speaker 3: I address that first?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: So? Yeah, so children come in too. First of all,

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Speaker 3: I've worked with children who parents passed away mom mom

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Speaker 3: there where the pair went into the prison system. There

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Speaker 3: twelve years, and there is no other caretaker to care

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Speaker 3: some of them are physically abused. Some of them have

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Speaker 3: but they've been elected. Mom is on drugs. She's leaving

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Speaker 3: and then of course that also leads the education of electors.

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Speaker 3: Most of the time they're not going into school, and

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Speaker 3: but you know, they they like to smoke marijuana. They

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Speaker 3: to care for these kids, they state is not gonna

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Speaker 3: look at them as a suitable and as a suitable

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Speaker 3: that's one of the biggest myths too, is that all

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Speaker 3: children in foster care have been abused and they all

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Speaker 3: have emotional problems of mental help. Can we get rid

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Speaker 3: of that stereotype educating like you're doing now, when we

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Speaker 3: have people who come in and talk about actually children

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Speaker 3: and then you know, and not just me as an

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Speaker 3: case workers, people who have been a foster, foster parent

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Speaker 3: or adoptive parents. Uh So that's how we do it.

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Speaker 3: We educate, we talk about it, and we let people

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Speaker 3: see the face of foster care.

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Speaker 1: Now, this is very emotional.

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Speaker 2: This has to be a very emotional role that you've

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Speaker 2: taken on, responsibility, you've taken on. How do you handle

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Speaker 2: that because it's the first of all, the word foster

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Speaker 2: care and the word adoption doesn't signify happiness. Okay, but

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Speaker 2: you trying to get these young kids in a happy environment.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's the end game for your emotion.

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Speaker 3: Huh right, it's the endgame. It's I look at it

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Speaker 3: that I have, like you know, when I have uh finalized,

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Speaker 3: I do all types of adoptions. I do private adoptions,

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Speaker 3: I do step pair of adoptions, I do grand pair

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Speaker 3: types of adoptions, but I am a foster care advoct

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Speaker 3: because I love advocating for children of Falster care to

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Speaker 3: help them find the adoption families because we walk at

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Speaker 3: the end of the day, we want kids out of

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Speaker 3: falster care. Absolutely, we don't want them age out of

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Speaker 2: So that's a whole the matter, Chris, for you before

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Speaker 2: we're going to further the are if someone takes on

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Speaker 2: a child in foster care, are they given any funds?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah yeah in the state of Georgia, yeah, they

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Speaker 3: are given stipends to help take care of those kids

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Speaker 3: in foster care. And a lot of the kids in

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Speaker 3: falster adoption not not adoption once because once the adoption

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Speaker 3: as if that was your biological child. But while they're

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Speaker 3: in foster care, they can they can't get subsidies, and

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Speaker 3: they and most of the kids also qualify for Medicaid

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Speaker 3: while they're in foster care as well. Okay, cool, so

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Speaker 3: so but to answer finish your other point about being emotional,

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Speaker 3: it can be. No. One of the times that I

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Speaker 3: get most emotional is that when I do an adoption

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Speaker 3: and there are some falster kids that have come out

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Speaker 3: of foster care, they found there forever families. That's beautiful,

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Speaker 3: but it may be that they have still have a

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Speaker 3: sibling in falster care because usually when children they're part

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Speaker 3: of a sibling group. If one is in foster care,

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Speaker 3: nine times out of ten, the other siblings are in

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Speaker 3: you know, just happy because you know this child has

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Speaker 3: filed or sometimes sibling groups, they found there forever family,

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Speaker 3: but they still got a sibling left in foster care.

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Speaker 3: So that's the part that really gets to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard.

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Speaker 2: But there are different types of adoption, right, Let's not

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Speaker 2: let's just say adoption is adoption. Explain us a different

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, like I say, there are adoptions are usually I mean,

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Speaker 2: right a cause, Yeah, and November is National Adopt Month?

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Speaker 1: Yes, why is that significance for you?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So so let's talk about how how this all

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