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151 - "Junior"
Season 8 Episode 151
Dirk, from Phoenix, Arizona, was raised as a Hispanic person and his documentation said he was Hispanic, but the world saw him differently. And DNA d…
4 years, 7 months ago
150 - So Many Things Tie Together
Season 8 Episode 150
Joe is from Assonet, Massachusetts, just south of Boston. He shares his pride for being an adopted person, the challenge to make his way through his …
4 years, 7 months ago
2020 NAAM - Male Adoptee Voices
Season 8 Episode 149
November is National Adoption Awareness Month (#NAAM), a time to bring awareness to all of the issues that adoption brings to adoptees, families form…
4 years, 8 months ago
148 - Being More Positive Is Huge In My Life
Season 8 Episode 148
Ben, from Fannystelle, Manitoba Canada, had an extremely rough start in his first home with his biological family. He was abused at the hand of his s…
4 years, 8 months ago
146 - You Were Who I Always Needed
Season 8 Episode 146
Michelle, from Ohio.
She talks about the challenge of her childhood, craving a connection, but having the one she shared with her Dad snuffed out.
He…
4 years, 8 months ago
145 - Tommy Davidson, Living In Color - What's Funny About Me
Season 8 Episode 145
Comedian television and film actor, and all around entertainer. Tommy Davidson has seen it all. He launched his comedy career in the Washington DC ar…
4 years, 9 months ago
144 – Gullah Girl
Season 8 Episode 144
Brandi, who called me from myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is an inquisitive person adopted in to a family with a history of scholars, which is rare fo…
4 years, 9 months ago
143 - He Really Stepped Up
Season 8 Episode 143
When Susan, from Irving, Texas, found her natural mother, she learned she was conceived in transit when two young lives collided, then never saw one …
4 years, 9 months ago
141 - That Wasn't The Real Me
Season 8 Episode 141
Gloria called me from Texas where she grew up with Mexican parents. In younger days she tried to find the ways she looked like her family. In adultho…
4 years, 9 months ago
140 - I Wanted To Be My True Self
Season 8 Episode 140
Darryl, from Australia, admits he had a challenging childhood from his relationship with his adoptive father, to their family's need to move around a…
4 years, 10 months ago