Kaycee Stanley is the founder of the Reel Hope Project — an organization she and her husband Pete built to change the narrative around foster care and adoption by telling the stories of kids who are waiting. It's a mission that's deeply personal. Kaycee met her son Tez on one of their own video shoots, and today they have four kids spanning from toddlers to a twenty-year-old finding his way in the world.
In part one of this conversation, we talk about what the long season of preparation actually looked like, how to speak identity into your kids in a way that actually lands, and why calling out who God made someone to be sounds different at five than it does at twenty. Kaycee also opens up about some of the hardest parts of adoption — the complexity of biological family relationships and what it looks like to keep bringing something back to the Lord when the next right step keeps changing.
And she leaves us with a phrase that might just reframe your entire season of waiting: intimacy over impact.