Silver Linings - Advocating for Hope - Silver Lining Conversations Podcast

In this episode of Silver Lining Conversations, we feature Natalie Vecchione, a FASD parent advocate, podcaster, author…..and most importantly a wife and homeschool mom of two. Natalie turned her family’s unique challenges and journey with FASD from career reinventing into a calling when she and her husband began FASD Hope in 2020.

About Natalie Vecchione

Natalie Vecchione is a FASD parent advocate, podcaster, author…..and most importantly a wife and homeschool mom of two. Natalie and her husband, John, built their family through domestic adoption. Their son, who is 19, lives with a FASD (Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder). He graduated from homeschool as a carpentry apprentice, he works part time at a home improvement store & he lives interdependently in his own apartment with 2 roommates. Their daughter is 6 1/2 and they have a much different adoption journey with her, as they are very close with their daughter’s birth family. Natalie turned her family’s unique challenges and journey with FASD from career reinventing into a calling when she and her husband began FASD Hope in 2020.

Natalie has been an FASD podcaster for 2 years. In October 2020, Natalie & John cofounded “FASD Hope” FASD Hope is a podcast, website and a place for awareness, information and inspiration for those people whose lives have been touched by an FASD. The FASD Hope podcast series is through the lens of parents advocates with over 19 years of lived experience. FASD Hope Podcast is available anywhere you find your podcasts.
Natalie’s book “Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities” by Natalie Vecchione and Cindy LaJoy is now on Amazon.

Natalie is Co-Founder and Co-Host of the new podcast “Homeschool Mom Collaborative” (launched June 1, 2022) which celebrates the independent businesses, creatives, entrepreneurs and amazing work of homeschool moms around the globe.

Contact Natalie