Podcast Episodes

Lisa Joyner

Season 7 Episode 10

🧩 In this episode of Missing Pieces, Don sits down with television host, journalist, adoptee, and adoptive mother Lisa Joyner. Lisa shares the story …

3 hours ago

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Relative Strangers

Season 7 Episode 9

🧩 Relative Strangers

This week on Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with writer Laura Jenkins, whose essay appears in the new anthology Relative St…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Analog Rick

Season 7 Episode 8

🧩 Analog Rick

In 1992, Rick set out to find his birth mother’s family without DNA tests, without Ancestry, without 23andMe, without Facebook, and with…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Veronica From The Other Side

Season 7 Episode 7

Veronica From The Other Side

In this episode of Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with Veronica, who discovered in middle age that her father had t…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Christina’s Truth - LIVE

Season 7 Episode 6

🧩 Christina’s Truth - LIVE 🎙️

On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we hear Christina’s incredible story — the questions, the search, the emotions, an…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Jamilia - Out of Anonymity

Season 7 Episode 5

🧩 Jamilia - Out of Anonymity 

Years ago, I did an episode called The Moment of Truth —
a collection of stories about that exact instant when denial dis…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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3 Sisters United

Season 7 Episode 4

🧩 3 Sisters United

On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we tell the story of June — raised in Canada by her grandparents, growing up with questions i…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Tonia - Dirty John's First Wife

Season 7 Episode 3

🎙️ Tonia – Dirty John’s First Wife

Today on Missing Pieces, I’m joined by Tonia Bales, the first wife of John Meehan, also known as Dirty John. 🧬 At o…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Amanda From Texas

Season 7 Episode 2

🎙️ Missing Pieces explores the stories of people who’ve discovered—or are still searching for—their "missing pieces".

In this episode, Don talks with …

6 months ago

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A Christmas Check-In With Don

Season 7 Episode 1

🎄✨ Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, everyone! ✨🎄

This is a very special episode. I take a moment to share a few things happening in my own life—and o…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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