Podcast Episodes

262 - Un-M-Othered

Season 17 Episode 262

Dr. Liz Debetta spoke to me from Plymouth, Michigan. Growing up, adoption was an open topic until her younger brother's birth changed the family's focus.

A series of bad relationships and feeling los…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

142 - "American Baby", Gabrielle Glaser

Season 8 Episode 142

David, and his birth mother Margaret's story of adoption relinquishment, lives lived apart but close to one another, and their brief emotional reunion is told in the book, "American Baby", written by…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Shadows of the Night

Season 6 Episode 115

DL called me from Manhattan, New York. He talks about his youth in a home with a mother addicted to prescription medications who probably wasn’t fit to adopt. When he moved out at 18, he followed his…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

147 - Please Don't Carry That Weight Anymore

Season 8 Episode 147

Lisa Marie chatted with me via Skype from Lake Garda in the North of Italy.

In her journey you'll hear the impact of a transracial adoptee who grew up in a homogenous world that didn't look like herse…

Published on 3 months ago

135 Something About This Tells Me We're Family

Season 7 Episode 135

Isaac, from Hawaii, talks about himself as a boy who was loved, but struggled to connect with his adoptive parents in certain ways. Having left the island, a chance musical gig put him back on Hawaii…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

129 - Finding Him Has Made The Heartache Non-Existent

Season 7 Episode 129

Tracey called me from Nashville, TN. She was raised in a family with a genetic trait that deeply impacted her middle sister, driving her appreciation for the power of genetic testing. Tracey knows a …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

175 - The Thing I Needed To Forgive Myself

Season 10 Episode 175

Kristen, from Minnesota, was a multi-sport athlete in high school, even competing while pregnant with her daughter. She tells the story of giving birth, placing her daughter, then needing years to ge…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

101 – This Is About Everybody

Season 5 Episode 101

In Debby’s home adoption was an open topic because she was fostered by her grandparents and adopted by their daughter. Unfortunately, she wasn’t welcome as an adoptee by her adopted father and she an…

Published on 4 months ago

106 – Beautiful Truth

Season 5 Episode 106

For Shelby, growing up as a Korean adoptee left her feeling “othered” as she didn’t quite fit into her community. The Korean school her parents tried to raise her in wouldn’t accept her either. She w…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

261 - Born Without A Race

Season 16 Episode 261

 Sean from, Fishers, Indiana, grew up the only person of color in his entire rural town. Yet his ethnicity was hidden from him by his adoptive mother. In Reunion, Sean finally met his birth mother, …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago