On Adoption and Mental Health: An Interview with Dannie Lynn Fountain

In this week’s episode, listen to Dannie Lynn Fountain’s adoption story and how it affected her mental health and wealth. Dannie is a passionate storyteller, marketing strategist at Google, strategic businesswoman, author, doctoral student, and debt-free millennial. She shares her experience of being adopted as a teenager and her grounding techniques when she’s feeling the uncertainty and anxiety caused by the loss of her original family. She also discusses how she deals with anxious attachment and being estranged from a family member and why that can actually be okay. Lastly, Dannie talks about re-inventing her life and how she paid off all her debt.

“When you lose your original family system, you lose sort of the first anchor that you’re given. You feel like you’re floating, untethered and you don’t have a connection point holding you to one space and it can cause you to float away from whatever dreams, goals, ambitions that you might have had.” - Dannie Lynn Fountain

 

Timestamps

3:00 - Dannie’s adoption story and its effect on her mental health and personal finance
6:00 - What it’s like to be adopted at her teenage years and her experience with her new family
8:17 - How Dannie deals with the longing, uncertainty, and anxiety caused by the adoption
11:28 - Dannie’s ongoing therapy and how she’s dealing with anxious attachment
15:00 - How Dannie reconnected with her siblings after more than a decade of no communication
18:20 - Why it’s okay to be estranged with a family member and how Dannie handles and talks about it with other people
21:44 - On re-inventing her life and paying off all her debt plus Dannie’s tips for paying off debt
24:31 - Dannie’s final advice for people dealing with adoption or family estrangement and getting out of debt

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