Podcast Episodes

Don: For This Adoptee, Finding His Roots Led to Peace

Episode 5

Like many people who went through the foster care system, Don Anderson was really curious about his roots. He started doing some research and realized his biological aunt on his mother’s side was liv…

Published on 4 months ago

Alejandra: For This Adoptee, Spirituality Was the Answer

Episode 4

Alejandra was adopted at five years old into a Mexican-American family. She had never sought her family of origin, but when they arrived unexpectedly, her inner strength was tested, and her spiritual…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Jacqueline: For This Adoptee, Acceptance Brought Compassion

Episode 3

Jacqueline, now 63 and living in Cape Town, South Africa, was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962, following a relationship between her English-born biological mother, a professional actress on contract …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sariah: An Adoptee from China Seeks Identity

Season 11 Episode 2

Sariah is a Chinese Adoptee adopted by a White American Mormon family and recently left the Mormon faith to find herself and to find her birth family. 

Trigger warning: This episode includes discussio…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Carol: A Lifelong Search and DNA Changed this Adoptee’s Life

Episode 1

Carol was born in Washington, DC, relinquished at birth in 1960, subsequently adopted in 1961 by a family who had adopted another daughter the year before.
She began her reunion in 2017 by finding out…

Published on 5 months ago

Cameron Lee Small: The Adoptee's Journey: Season 10 Finale

Episode 12

Cameron Lee Small, MS, LPCC, is a licensed clinical counselor, transracial adoptee, and mental health advocate based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born in Korea and was relinquished into foster c…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Sandi: The Journey to Rediscovering Family and Self in Panama

Episode 11

Sandi Morgan Caesar is a transnational adoptee. She was born Cristina Rodriguez in Panamá to a 14-year-old girl who parented her for most of her 1st year. Ultimately, she was placed for adoption by h…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Carol: For This Adoptee, Early Searching Led to Present-Day Understanding

Episode 10

Carol Hoeksema was born at the Salvation Army Evangeline Home for unwed mothers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1957, where she stayed the first 13 days of her life before going to an unknown foster fa…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Stephen: A Chance Viewing Led to a Search for Identity

Episode 9

Born in 1963, Stephen Payne was five weeks old when his parents adopted him through the Volunteers of America. He grew up an only child in a loving family. At age three, he overheard his parents disc…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Mary: How a Search Angel and DNA Changed This Adoptee’s Life

Episode 8

Mary, a seventh-generation Tennessean born in Memphis in 1986, was adopted and raised in Jackson, Tennessee, by a supportive family who encouraged her search for her biological relatives. In 2007, sh…

Published on 6 months ago