Latest Adultadoptee Podcast Episodes
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...
Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC
Adoptees On - May 05, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings251 Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC Full Show Notes Here This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Nothing stated on it, either by its hosts or any guests, is to be construed as psychological, medical or legal advice. Please seek out professionals in those fields if you need t...
[Healing Series] Pet Loss and Grief
Adoptees On - April 28, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings250 | [Healing Series] Pet Loss and Grief If you’ve been around the show for a while, you may remember that almost exactly one year ago Haley said goodbye to her dog, Lucy. We had so many people reach out during that time who had also lost a pet companion and so we started this conversation as...
Angela Tucker
Adoptees On - April 21, 2023 04:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings249 Angela Tucker Today’s guest is Angela Tucker, one of the most well-known adopted people in our community, subject of the documentary Closure, now turned author of You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption. Angela shares about her time as a caseworker in pr...
Jeff Nyhuis and Amy Geller, LCSW
Adoptees On - April 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings248 Jeff Nyhuis & Amy Geller, LCSW If you are someone who is looking to have a relationship but have struggled to connect with past partners, or you are feeling misunderstood in your current relationship whenever you start talking about adoption, I think this conversation will be extremely hel...
Katie Bozek, Ph.D., LMFT
Adoptees On - April 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings247 | Katie Bozek, Ph.D., LMFT Today’s guest is Dr. Katie Bozek, a therapist and the Executive Director of KAAN, the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network. We talk about the complexity of what being asked for our story brings. Katie shares how the birth of her first child was what s...
Dorothy Ellen Palmer
Adoptees On - March 31, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings246 Dorothy Ellen Palmer Today’s guest is author and accessibility consultant Dorothy Ellen Palmer. Dorothy is a fellow Canadian adoptee whose story has some remarkable coincidences. We talk about the indescribable lure back to the places of our biological ancestors, why mainstream adoption hu...
Mary Gauthier
Adoptees On - March 24, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings245 Mary Gauthier What can we say about today’s guest? She is an iconic songwriter, Grammy-nominated folk artist, and outspoken adoptee advocate, Mary Gauthier. Mary’s first book Saved By A Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting is a nurturing exploration of how sharing our stories can...
Deanna Shrodes
Adoptees On - March 17, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings244 Deanna Shrodes, D.Min. We are back with part two of our interview with Dr. Deanna Shrodes. Last week Deanna shared with us how her father Gus Nicholas was found in May 2022 at the age of 92 after a first cousin DNA match. Deanna was his only daughter and they had several precious months to...
Deanna Shrodes
Adoptees On - March 10, 2023 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings243 Deanna Shrodes, D.Min. Our guest is Dr. Deanna Shrodes, a minister and well-known writer of the Adoptee Restoration blog and multiple books. Back in 2019 Deanna and I discussed the challenges of searching for her father and coming up with false leads and dead ends for years. Well today, sh...
Andie Coston, LCSWA
Adoptees On - March 03, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings242 Andie Coston, LCSWA Today we are talking about something that may feel triggering to many of us. Indeed, both me and my guest had a hard time at different points during this conversation. We are talking with an adoptee who is also an adoptive parent. Andie Coston, LCSWA, is here, and we’re t...
Kirsta Bowman
Adoptees On - February 24, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings241 Kirsta Bowman Today’s guest is Kirsta Bowman, also known as Karpoozy to much of the internet. Kirsta is an adoptee advocate who has alerted millions of TikTok viewers about unethical adoption rehoming practices. She shares some of her personal search reunion story with us today, and we cha...
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - February 17, 2023 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings240 Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. Today’s guest is Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a public health biologist and climate crisis expert. Sandra shares some of her personal story with us, and then the importance of knowing the interactions of both our biology and our adoptive environments on our health. As ...
Adoptees Only Book Club with Rebecca Carroll
Adoptees On - February 10, 2023 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings239 Adoptees On(ly) Book Club We’re inviting you to join our Adoptees On(ly) Book Club discussion today! Sullivan Summer interviews Rebecca Carroll, author of Surviving the White Gaze, at a live Zoom event with fellow adoptees. This was recorded in October of 2022. Like Rebecca, Sullivan is ...
Lora K. Joy (Part2)
Adoptees On - February 03, 2023 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings238 | Lora K. Joy returns to the podcast today to share about the process of legally changing her name and being adopted back by her biological mother. We talk about all the healing work and therapy she's persisted in to find acceptance of herself and about how it feels to own the truth around h...
[Healing Series] Attachment
Adoptees On - January 27, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings237 | [Healing Series] Identity Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC returns to discuss a model of attachment that is so helpful for adopted people to consider. Instead of attachment styles being seen as a spectrum, Marta teaches us about the Nested Model and understanding the layers of complexity that...
Shannon Gibney
Adoptees On - January 20, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsShannon Gibney, an award-winning author of multiple books, and her brand new release, The Girl I Am, Was, & Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, returns to the podcast! Today Shannon shares some of her reunion story with us, how her long-time friends supported her through...
JaeRan Kim Ph.D.
Adoptees On - January 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings235 | Happy 2023! What a way for us to begin the new year! One of the people we most highly esteem in the adoptee community is here, JaeRan Kim Ph.D.. JaeRan is an adoptee scholar, community leader, and author of the prolific blog, Harlow’s Monkey. Today she shares some of her personal story and...
[Healing Series] Positive Racial Identity
Adoptees On - December 16, 2022 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings234 | [Healing Series] Positive Racial Identity Abby Hasberry, LMFT-A join us to talk about the importance of adult adoptees developing a positive racial identity. We can’t develop that as children (nor as adults) when racial mirrors and cultural experiences are nonexistent. Abby shares some t...
Patrick Armstrong
Adoptees On - December 09, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings233 | Patrick Armstrong We are so excited to welcome Patrick Armstrong to the podcast! Patrick is a fellow adoptee community builder and today he shares his experiences growing up as a Korean adoptee in all-white spaces. He’s moved from rejecting his Asian identity, to a period of reclamation ...
[Healing Series] Identity
Adoptees On - December 02, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings232 | [Healing Series] Identity We’re excited to have Marta Sierra, LMHC back on the podcast, one of our favourite adoptee therapists! Today Marta talks with us about identity development as adult adoptees. We talk through some of the ways adoption trauma can mean delayed development, and that...
One Million
Adoptees On - November 25, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsThank you to each one of you who has listened to an episode of Adoptees On! Each adoptee who listens is an integral part of our community, and we are feeling especially grateful for you making this possible today. Haley Radke and Carrie Cahill Mulligan are celebrating 1,000,000 downloads of th...
Marcy Axness, Ph.D.
Adoptees On - November 18, 2022 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings230 | Marcy Axness, Ph.D. Today we are excited to welcome Marcy Axness, Ph.D.. This episode is a mix of a history lesson about adoptee activism and the psychological impacts of infant and mother separation. Marcy has her Ph.D. in Early Human Development, and brings a unique expertise and lens ...
Tiffany Henness
Adoptees On - November 11, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings229 | Tiffany Henness Today we get to introduce you to our friend, Tiffany Henness. Tiffany shares her story of growing up in an open adoption, and how it isn’t the panacea that many hold it up to be. We discuss how she came to explore race, adoption, and faith and what shifted her perspective...
Grace Kelly
Adoptees On - November 04, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings228 | Grace Kelly We have to admit this is the first featured guest we’ve had on the show who is not adopted. We are excited to introduce you to Grace Kelly, who has successfully had her adoption reversed in Australia and now works to help other Australians annul their adoptions. We discuss th...
Adoptee Remembrance Day
Adoptees On - October 28, 2022 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings227 | Adoptee Remembrance Day Adoptee Remembrance Day is commemorated annually on October 30th. It is a day to remember our adoptee friends who have died by suicide. On this day we also acknowledge the adopted people who are without citizenship in the very country they were taken to as infants...
Harrison Mooney
Adoptees On - October 21, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings226 | Harrison Mooney Today we are so honoured to introduce you to Harrison Mooney, author of the incredible new memoir, Invisible Boy, where he exposes the trauma of transracial adoption. Harrison shares with us why family preservation is so important to him, and how he was able to reconnect ...
Ethan Ferkiss
Adoptees On - October 14, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings225 | Ethan Ferkiss Today we are joined by Ethan Ferkiss to share his heartwarming reunion story. Expecting rejection or indifference, Ethan wasn’t prepared for his search to end in what he calls the “jackpot scenario: a full-scale welcome”. But as you can guess, navigating new relationships w...
[Healing Series] I Will Not Abandon Myself
Adoptees On - October 07, 2022 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings224 | [Healing Series] I Will Not Abandon Myself Janet Nordine, MS, LMFT, RPT-S is back to talk about adoptee self-worth. So many of us tell ourselves the story over and over of, “there must be something wrong with me because I wasn’t worth keeping”. Janet talks us through a new phrase we can ...
Tony Corsentino
Adoptees On - September 30, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings223 | Tony Corsentino We are honoured to introduce you to Tony Corsentino today! As a philosophy professor turned public librarian, Tony walks us through some of the best strategies he’s used to challenge the traditional adoption narrative. He also teaches us the differences between privacy an...
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