“Don’t Let Your Past Struggles Define Your Future”

In this emotionally moving episode of Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast, host Michael D. Davis-Thomas sits down with the resilient and inspiring Tashala Webster, a foster care alumna, adoptee, advocate, and nursing student, to discuss her journey of overcoming adversity, trauma, and obstacles to create a brighter future.

Tashala shares her powerful life story, beginning with being removed from her biological mother’s care at the age of five due to mental health challenges and navigating through 12 foster homes in Flint, Michigan, where she experienced instability and abuse. Her path to resilience included facing the challenges of being an older foster youth, enduring a chaotic adoption at 16, and eventually running away and becoming homeless at 19.