Latest Adopted Podcast Episodes
Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother
Adapted Podcast - April 26, 2024 12:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsNik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing process and about how he's unlocked feelings about the reunion and his own identity as a transnational adopted person.
Season 7, Episode 16: Yukyeong Kim and Banet
Adapted Podcast - April 12, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsLeader Yukyeong Kim and her group of neighbors and friends in Korea have been quietly and determinedly helping adoptees search for their biological family since 2018. I sit down with Kim to find out more about how the group got started and how their willingness to make a simple phone call has of...
Season 7, Episode 15: JaeHee Chung-Sherman - You Don't Have to Be Resilient
Adapted Podcast - March 29, 2024 18:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsDr. JaeHee Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW, has centered her practice and research on decolonizing adoption and mental health for transracial and international adoptees. A transracial, transnational adoptee herself, Chung-Sherman, 47, has been among the first co-hort of TRIA therapists to do this work....
Author Keri Williams Addresses Reactive Attachment Disorder
20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - March 27, 2024 21:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, I talk with award-winning author and advocate, Keri Williams, about her two-decade journey as a foster and adoptive parent, highlighting the challenges of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Keri shares her personal adoption experiences and the behavioral challenges she faced. S...
Season 7, Episode 14: Leading an Adoptee Organization
Adapted Podcast - March 15, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsMia Quade Kristensen, 46, and Jannie Jung Westermann, 45, are on the board of the 34-year old Danish Korean adoptee organization, Korea Klubben. They will share about their own search and reunion stories, including one of them being in reunion with her Korean family for more than two decades. Th...
160 // Shattered Assumptions Theory & Ginsa!
The Janchi Show - March 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys FINALLY sit down and catch up! We get into the Shattered Assumptions theory, we do a backdoor pilot for an adoptee-dad podcast, and we talk about some books! Later, we try out all three fl...
Season 7, Episode 13: Adoptee Consciousness Model
Adapted Podcast - March 01, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsI talk with Dr. JaeRan Kim and PhD student Grace Newton about the Adoptee Consciousness Model - a framework for understanding adoptee awareness of the impact of adoption. Together with Dr. Susan Branco (not featured), the model is now being discussed and critiqued in academic and adoptee communi...
159 // with Kate Kelly!
The Janchi Show - February 28, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Kate Kelly and talk about coming to consciousness in China and how being a Korean American adoptee with an interracial family can be a lot of work in the identity department! ...
Anxiety Rehab: Emotional Replacement Therapy
Dog Training DisrUPted - UPWARD Dogology - February 28, 2024 00:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsDog anxiety often leads to behaviors that results in frustration for pet parents, leading to surrender or euthanasia. There are a plethora of approaches to address it, so how do you choose the best one for you and your dog? Anxiety is an emotion, not a behavior. It is essential to apply a me...
Author Karen Springs Encourages Parents Who Adopted Children Internationally
20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - February 21, 2024 18:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKaren Springs provides cutting-edge research about how adoptive families wit kids adopted from overseas have progressed. In her new book—THE BACKSEAT OF ADOPTION, she shares How the families she worked with in Europe are currently progressing. Are the children thriving? Are the parents thri...
Season 7 Episode 12: Thomas Haessly and the Imposter Within
Adapted Podcast - February 16, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsThomas Haessly, 40, has felt like an outsider ever since he can remember. Adopted from Korea by a Danish mother and American father to Racine, Wisconsin, Haessly recalls feeling like an imposter within his family, of not quite fitting in, and again as an adult at Korean grocery stores and parent...
158 // The Janchi Show has an existential crisis?!
The Janchi Show - February 07, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutesEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys talk about voyeurism and whether or not we should even have a podcast?! Later, we get into some Basak Chips by CJ (CheilJedang).....does “upcycled” mean these are made of cardboard?! --- ...
Rachel Forbes and the 4Fs (of Survival and Trauma Responses)
Adapted Podcast - February 02, 2024 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsRachel Forbes, LCSW, is a Korean-American adoptee with a psychotherapy practice in Connecticut where she specializes in transracial adoption and trauma-informed care. She is also an educator who speaks about trauma, attachment and healing within the adoption constellation. Forbes, 34, talks abou...
157 // with Cosette (Eisenhauer) Epp!
The Janchi Show - January 31, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Cosette (Eisenhauer) Epp and talk about growing up celebrating her Chinese and adoptee heritage, starting an adoptee blog at Six Flags, and getting married! Later we eat some ...
Adoptee Julie Ryan McGue's Search for Origins
20 THINGS ADOPTION PODCAST with Sherrie Eldridge - January 26, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat could be more exciting than to be an adopted person and find the family that you never knew existed? All Rights Reserved. @sherrieeldridge
156 // Asian American Children's Books
The Janchi Show - January 24, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutesEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about what’s going on with Kids Books these days! --- // Support the Show! Online at janchishow.com / @janchishow Support the show at janchishow.com/support Join our F...
Season 7, Episode 10: Marissa Lichwick and Her Ghosts
Adapted Podcast - January 19, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsMarissa Lichwick, 46, is a Korean adoptee and filmmaker, playwright and actor. She is using her past pain and trauma surrounding her family separation, abuse in the orphanage and in her father and stepmother's home and the haunting loss of a half-sister she's never met in her art, to process the...
155 // Adoption Fantasies with Dr. Kim McKee
The Janchi Show - January 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Dr. Kim McKee and talk about her new book, “Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood.” We go over her new book, living in Korea, and ...
154 // First banquet of 2024 aka we're back, baby!
The Janchi Show - January 10, 2024 13:32 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys kick off 2024 the only way they know how….with a solo! The Banquet Boys catch up with each other post-holiday season, if we had any adoption-related holiday situations, and how we navigate Asian spaces. They...
Season 7, Episode 9: Sara Docan-Morgan and Being In-Reunion
Adapted Podcast - January 05, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsSara Docan-Morgan, PhD, 44, is a Korean adoptee and communications professor in Wisconsin. She's also the youngest child in her Korean biological family, with whom she reunited with many years ago. Her research has focussed on experiences of Korean adoptees and their families, and this mont...
Puppy Training! Can they think "cognitively"?
Dog Training DisrUPted - UPWARD Dogology - December 26, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsI recently took two puppies in off a reserve and here is what I learned! By understating puppy training and braining , we can better understand how different methods are effective at different stages. Meet Jonesy and Jackson, 3 month old puppies who are very different from each other. How are...
Season 7, Episode 8: Mia Haessly is Coexisting with Biological and Adoptive Family
Adapted Podcast - December 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsMia Haessly, 44, is a working mother and adopted Korean-American who has reunited with her Korean biological father. And while introducing her family to him and seeing her children connect with Korea in a way she never had has been meaningful, the reunion has presented new challenges. Besides th...
153 // with Jonathan Bergstrom!
The Janchi Show - December 13, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Jonathan Bergstrom and talk about returning to Korea, what comes after the high of a trip like that, and accepting one’s self as a Korean adoptee. // Meet Jonathan Bergstro...
Season 7, Episode 7: Helen Noh, From Adoption Worker to Critic in South Korea
Adapted Podcast - December 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsHelen Noh, PhD., is retiring next year after four decades working in child welfare in Korea, first as an adoption social worker to now a professor of social work, training generations of students to make an imprint on improving the lives of children and families. Noh, 64, has become a leading ac...
152 // Post-Thanksgiving Chat
The Janchi Show - November 29, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutesEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys talk about Thanksgiving, what it meant to be a part of their respective families growing up, and how adoption colors that perspective. Plus, they talk about what they want to pass on to thei...
Season 7, Episode 5: Robert Holloway and Menzeba Hasati Are Children of an Adoptee
Adapted Podcast - November 24, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsRobert Holloway, 34, and Menzeba Hasati, 40, are siblings who are adult children of a Black Korean adoptee. Their mother is a first-wave adoptee, whose mother was Korean and father an American G.I. She was adopted to Alaska in the 1960s by a Black couple. Her children forged their own identities...
151 // What if...
The Janchi Show - November 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys are back for a solo episode exploring the concept of "What If" scenarios, alternate timelines, and the multiverse in general, from how they approach things like community and religion differently after start...
Season 7, Episode 5: Matthew Rodriguez and Fact Versus Fiction
Adapted Podcast - November 10, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 57 ratingsKorean adoptee Matthew Rodriguez, 43, is trying to make sense of his adoption story. For years, it's been clouded by stories told to him and those he told himself, even if they weren't accurate. It was a means to survive. But Rodriguez, whose adoptive parents are white and Mexican American, has ...
150 // 150 Episodes?!
The Janchi Show - November 08, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutesEpisode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and reflect on 150 episodes and give some love to other adoptee creators! Later, we jump into a crispy potato snack…anyone got any mayonnaise? --- // Support the Show! Online at...
Episode 59: Adoption Matters. Talk About It!
The Essentials for Adoption Attuned Parenting - November 08, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoin adoptive parents and adoption coaches, Susan David and Gayle Swift, as they discuss observing National Adoption Month. As adoptive parents, we probably already think and talk a lot about adoption. And this month, we might even find ourselves sharing on social media smiling, happy photos. ...