Fostering The People is a podcast about fostering growth within yourself, regardless of the foundation you started with. Every episode is a real conversation about resilience, writing the rest of your story, and moving forward, including honest, practical knowledge-sharing on the foster care system for those whose foundation started there.
Alana Collins is a former foster youth turned MBA graduate, originally from St. Louis and now calling Alexandria, Virginia home. She's the host of Fostering the People, a podcast that encourages you to foster growth within yourself, regardless of the foundation you started with.
Having spent nine years in foster care and aging out of the system, Alana knows first-hand how vital community, information, and the right support are to helping youth build a life beyond the system. That's the heart behind everything she does: creating the roadmap she wishes she'd had.
She's also the founder of Raising Gains Advisors, where she helps nonprofits and community organizations secure the funding to tackle the issues impacting the youth she cares about most because good missions deserve the resources to survive.
