Latest Adultadoptee Podcast Episodes
Svetlana Sandoval
Adoptees On - April 26, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings280 | Svetlana Sandoval We’re back, and I’m sick again, and my voice is only going to be like this for the intro because luckily I was healthy when I interviewed this week’s guest, Svetlana Sandoval. Svetlana is an international adoptee, adopted from Russia at about six months old. We talk abo...
Reshma McClintock
Adoptees On - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings279 | Reshma McClintock Oh it is such a delight to get to share this interview with you. Reshma McClintock, the producer and subject of the film Calcutta is My Mother is back with us today. Reshma is a transracial adoptee from Calcutta, India, and this incredible film documents her return to C...
Adrian Wills
Adoptees On - March 29, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings278 | Adrian Wills Today’s guest is fellow Canadian, award-winning director and filmmaker, Adrian Wills. Adrian has a brand new documentary out called A Quiet Girl where get to follow his journey of a public search for his birth mother, and experience every new discovery along with him. Today ...
John Gallaher, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - March 15, 2024 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings277 | John Gallaher, Ph.D. You’re in for a treat today, we have award-winning poet John Gallaher with us! John’s newest poetry collection, My Life in Brutalist Architecture releases this month and it’s his first collection focused in on his experience as an adopted person. Even though he was a...
Sanjay Pulver
Adoptees On - February 23, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings276 | Sanjay Pulver Today’s guest is Sanjay Pulver, an Indian adoptee who has become an outspoken adoptee advocate in recent years. We talk about the complexities of being adopted from an orphanage in a country that is not currently safe for him to return to as a queer trans man. We discuss th...
Sara Docan-Morgan, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - February 09, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings275 | Sara Docan-Morgan, Ph.D. Today’s guest is Dr. Sara Docan-Morgan, professor of communication studies and author of the book “In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family”. Sara shares some of her personal story, and then we dig into her qualitative research fr...
A Little Scheduling Update
Adoptees On - February 02, 2024 05:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsIf you'd like to be involved in the new show, you can email adopteesonadoption(at)gmail(dot)com with your skills pitch. Are you an audio producer? Investigative reporter? Narrative podcaster? I'd love to hear what you've got to bring to the table. Follow updates here: https://www.instagram.com...
Julian Washio-Collette
Adoptees On - January 26, 2024 05:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings274 | Julian Washio-Collette Today’s guest is Julian Washio-Collette, a writer and monastic spiritual seeker, whose story includes the rarity of being relinquished and adopted twice. Julian shares what he hears when someone says the term “forever family”, how building community was difficult h...
SunAh Laybourn, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - January 19, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings273 | SunAh Laybourn, Ph.D. We are so excited to welcome professor and sociologist Dr. SunAh Laybourn today! Sunah’s brand new book is called Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants and it is definitely one you’re going to want to add into your collection. Today we talk about ...
James Cagney
Adoptees On - January 12, 2024 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings272 | James Cagney Today’s guest is award-winning poet, James Cagney. Author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, James is known for his absolutely dynamic live poetry readings, and we are honoured with a reading in this very episode! We di...
Healing Series: Ask an Adoptee Therapist with Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC
Adoptees On - December 15, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings271 | Healing Series: Ask an Adoptee Therapist with Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC Today’s episode is our last one before our holiday break. We’ll be back with brand-new weekly episodes on January 12, 2024. We wanted to bring you a Healing Series episode to make sure we all had a little extra sup...
Sara Easterly
Adoptees On - December 08, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings270 | Sara Easterly Sara Easterly is back with us, she’s the author of Searching for Mom and the founder of Adoptee Voices. Today we’re talking about how Sara became friends with an adoptive mother and a birth mother in order to write a book called Adoption Unfiltered. It’s a hard conversation...
Dr. Liz DeBetta
Adoptees On - December 01, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings269 | Dr. Liz DeBetta Today we welcome back Dr. Liz DeBetta, author of Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal: Migrating Toward Wholeness. Liz shares some reunion updates with us, including some very sad news about her sister. We discuss what lead her to choose to remain childfree. And of course, ...
Kimberly McKee, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - November 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings268 | Kimberly McKee, Ph.D. We are so excited to host critical adoption studies scholar, Dr. Kimberly McKee. She’s the author of the impactful book Disrupting Kinship, and her brand new release is Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood. We talk about...
Jessica Hairston
Adoptees On - November 17, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings267 | Jessica Hairston Today our guest is poet Jessica Hairston, author of Power of Our Wombs. Jessica shares her complex origin story, where both of her biological parents were struggling with addiction when she was born, apprehended and adopted soon after. We talk about “the traveling trauma...
Susan Kiyo Ito
Adoptees On - November 10, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings266 | Susan Kiyo Ito Today’s guest is the indomitable Susan Kiyo Ito. She has been writing, advocating, and leading in the adoptee community for decades and we are all the richer for it. Susan’s brand new memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, has just been released and it is fantastic. We talk ab...
Louise and Sarah
Adoptees On - November 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings265 | Louise & Sarah You might know today’s guests and recognize their voices from their podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are here! Today we hear about how their friendship started, they dish about some of the fights they’ve had and how they’ve sustained t...
Healing Series - Adoptee Remembrance Day
Adoptees On - October 27, 2023 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings264 | Healing Series: Adoptee Remembrance Day Adoptee Remembrance Day was first commemorated on October 30, 2020. We’ve done a variety of episodes over the last few years beginning in 2020 with an interview with the founder of Adoptee Remembrance Day, Pamela Karanova. We’ve had listeners submi...
Stefany Valentine - When We Become Ours
Adoptees On - October 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings263 | Stefany Valentine - When We Become Ours Today’s episode is a celebration for When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology which releases on October 24, 2023. The first of its kind, edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, with fifteen adoptee authors is cause for celebration. We’re goin...
Healing Series Difficult Relationships
Adoptees On - October 13, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings262 Healing Series: Difficult Relationships This is a special episode in our healing series where we talk to adoptees who are also therapists. We’re going to call this episode a sort of “tune-up” for anyone who is in a period of estrangement or separation from a close relationship, whether it'...
Lanise Antoine Shelley
Adoptees On - October 06, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings261 | Lanise Antoine Shelley Today’s guest is actor, director, playwright and podcaster, Lanise Antoine Shelley. Lanise shares about being adopted from a Haitian orphanage at age 4 by her single white adoptive mother and how exploring the impact of adoption over the last three years has challe...
Mike Hoyt
Adoptees On - September 29, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings260 Mike Hoyt Today’s guest is Mike Hoyt, a remarkable artist and author of the graphic memoir of Hanabata Days. We discuss his reunion and subsequent reunification process with his first father. Mike also shares how reunification has impacted his own identity and that of his daughters’. Ful...
Welcome Back!
Adoptees On - September 22, 2023 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsWelcome back! Our first episode of Fall 2023 is a sampling of great advice from some of our favourite adoptee therapists about planning a first meeting with biological family, grieving the loss of an adoptive parent, and some relationship topics. Pam Cordano, MFT, Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC, an...
Nicole Chung
Adoptees On - June 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings258 | Nicole Chung We are so thrilled to welcome Nicole Chung back to the podcast. Nicole’s new memoir, A Living Remedy, is a heartbreaking pilgrimage where we walk with her through her grief in losing both of her adoptive parents within a few short years of each other. We talk a lot about gri...
Sarah Myer
Adoptees On - June 16, 2023 12:52 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings257 | Sarah Myer We are so excited to introduce you to Sarah Myer, author of the forthcoming graphic memoir, Monstrous. Today Sarah and I talk about their love of comics, anime, and cosplay and how it lead them to explore their own identity as a Korean adoptee and comic artist. We also talk ab...
Kira Omans
Adoptees On - June 09, 2023 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings256 Kira Omans We are so thrilled to talk with actor, audiobook narrator, and adoptee advocate, Kira Omans today. Kira shares how looking deeply at adoption over the past decade has changed her perspective. We talk about what it’s like to audition as an adoptee and to embody a new character an...
Sarah Audsley
Adoptees On - June 02, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings255 Sarah Audsley We are thrilled to introduce you to Sarah Audsley today! Sarah’s debut poetry collection Landlock X is our June Adoptees On(ly) Book Club pick. Today Sarah shares about how a reunion with genetic family in Korea only opened up more questions for her. We talk about cultural di...
[Healing Series] Adoptee Superpowers
Adoptees On - May 26, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings254 [Healing Series] Adoptee Superpowers Today we are talking with Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker about adoptee superpowers. Don’t worry, we’re not going to express gratitude for a traumatic experience over here, it’s more about understanding what are some common traits we hold and how can we embrac...
Dr. Sam and Sandria - Black to the Beginning
Adoptees On - May 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings253 Dr. Sam and Sandria We are thrilled to bring you two fellow podcasters today! Dr. Samantha Coleman and Sandria Washington are our guests from Black to the Beginning. They share their stories of being friends who just coincidentally found out a few years apart in adulthood that they also we...
Anne Elise
Adoptees On - May 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings252 Anne Elise Today’s guest is our friend, Anne Elise. Anne lives abroad and we talk about some of the intersections she sees between living as an American expat and being an adopted person. Anne shares what it’s like growing up with an adopted brother who was keen to live out the defiant “ac...
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