Welcome to episode forty-eight of Failure is Not the Problem. I’m George A. Milton, AKA “America’s Failure Coach.” I’ve spent the last 30+ years coaching, mentoring, leading, and training audiences around the world on the positive aspects of how to use their failed experiences to become successful. Join me and our guest for the week: Jessie Choling Elliot
Jessie Choling Elliot is an author, coach, and PhD candidate of Developmental Psychology. She specializes in adoption, both as a transracial adoptee and adoptive parent herself, and blends academic research with the lived human experience. She offers an array of counseling and crisis navigation sessions that support both parents and children through the complexities of trauma and identity - offering language to help communicate, and facilitate conversations around experiences that are usually left unspoken. (She will also be starting a webinar in November of 2026! Make sure you stay tuned!)
She recently published her first book called "The Hummingbird Lion" which is a memoir of rupture, reclamation, and the lifelong work of stitching a self together after early separation. Moving between childhood scenes, adult reunions, and the internal landscapes shaped by adoption, and other developmental trauma, The Hummingbird Lion explores identity formation, attachment rupture, cultural dislocation, and the quiet resilience required to rebuild a life from fragments.
Make sure to check out her book, and take a minute to visit her website: thehummingbirdlion.com
You can also find her on tiktok, and instagram.
You are a champion. How do I know? Because you showed up. If you want to be successful, half the battle is showing up. Most of us from a very early age have been conditioned to believe that failure is negative, but that’s simply not true.
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