Jackie Potter: Blessed through Adoption

In this episode

In this episode I sit down with Jackie Potter for a conversation that is close to my heart, and in honor of National Adoption Month. Jackie and her husband Chad were high school sweethearts who dreamed of starting a family early. Their path began with heartbreak — a late-term miscarriage at twenty weeks, and then a failed adoption when their first birth mother changed her mind after six weeks. But what unfolded next was, in Jackie's words, "a rainbow of all rainbows."

Jackie was adopted herself at age two, so the idea of building a family through adoption never felt foreign to her. She and Chad walked an open adoption journey that ultimately brought them their children, and along the way they've poured into other families too — meeting couples for dinner, moms for coffee, being a listening board for anyone wrestling with the fears and questions that come with adoption. I love that she sees adoption not just as building a family, but as a ministry.

We also get to hear about Jackie the entrepreneur. She and Chad have a heart for restoring old buildings in Tulsa, and that passion grew into J. Potter Collective — a collection of event venues including the vintage Station 13 fire station, the Union Building in the Pearl District, and Pecan Valley. She's raw, she's honest, and she reminds us that you can be a mom, a wife, a friend, and so much more, all at once. Keep going — this one will stay with you.