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Stay Planted: Life, Faith, & Adoption

Join cousins Lo and Em as they dig deep into what it means to stay planted in faith during the beautiful, messy, and often unpredictable adoption journey.

Podcast · By Lo and Em · American English · Official site

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Sep 2, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    When Adoption Doesn’t Go the Way You Thought It Would with Nellya Canfield (opens the original)

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    What happens when the adoption process you trusted begins to unravel? In this episode of Stay Planted , Lauren and Em sit down with Nellya Canfield, a mom, advocate, and founder of Long Arm Malawi, to talk about her incredible journey through international adoption—and what happened when she began to realize that not everything she was being told was adding up. Nellya’s story hits especially close to home for Lauren because they share a very similar experience involving the adoption agency Child

  2. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    Learning to Live in Today When You’re Waiting for Tomorrow (opens the original)

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    Summer has been full over here — Y2K parties, family camp, camping trips, the Oregon Coast, a suspected shark encounter (spoiler: it was a sunfish), and a few very passionate laundry opinions. But underneath all the stories and laughs, we found ourselves talking about something much deeper: what it looks like to surrender the future and actually live in the day God has given us. Em shares how she’s been learning to stop looking at the entire calendar and instead ask, “What does today have?” Laur

  3. Episode · Jul 9, 2026

    Catching Up After a Hiatus (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Stay Planted, Lo and Em catch up after a two-month hiatus. They share what they have been up to over the last two months with funny stories in tow. Then Lauren shares her update on their adoption. Not a big update, but an update nonetheless. She continues to share about what she is learning about God and her relationship with Jesus through this season that she calls a wilderness. We are excited to be back!

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