The Process of Becoming: A conversation with Justin Whitmel Earley
Recorded at CAFO 2025, this episode features author, speaker, and lawyer Justin Whitmel Earley. In this episode we talk about the habits that shape us, the relationships that ground us, and even the ways our physical bodies can teach our souls. This conversation isn’t just about what you do, but about who you’re becoming as you do it.
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Resources and Guests
Feature Resource: Building Trust Together
Building Trust Together is a commitment document with five principles designed to shape how we all collaborate with fellow advocates, families, churches, and organizations. There are 52 versions of the commitment document–a general version and one for every state and the District of Columbia–so you can download the bundle and choose the version that’s right for you.
Start deliberately making these commitments to your partners, building and maintaining trust right from the start.
Justin Whitmel Earley
Justin Whitmel Earley is a lawyer, author and speaker from Richmond, VA.
Most of all, he is a husband to Lauren and a father to his four sons – Whit, Asher, Coulter and Shep. But he also graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English Literature before spending four years in Shanghai, China, teaching and writing. Justin got his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and he now runs his own business law practice under the Earley Business Legal.
Distraction, was published with InterVarsity Press in 2019. He frequently speaks at businesses, churches and conferences on habits, technology and mental health.
His second book, Habits of the Household – Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms, addresses spiritual formation in ordinary family habits, and was published with Zondervan in 2021.
His third book, Made for People – Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship, explores the arts and habits of friendship as spiritual discipline and was published with Zondervan in 2023.
Jason Weber | Host
Jason Weber and his wife, Trisha, have been speaking up on behalf of the marginalized for over 25 years. Jason has written and helped to produce several books and other tools, including Farmer Herman and the Flooding Barn, a 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award finalist and Until There’s More Than Enough. Jason has been a regular columnist for Fostering Families Today magazine and is the host of the More Than Enough Podcast, which highlights the work of national foster care advocates. Jason serves with the Christian Alliance for Orphans and helps lead More Than Enough, a collaborative movement facilitated by the CAFO community. Jason and his family live in Plano, Texas.
