Latest Adultadoptee Podcast Episodes
Kara Bos
Adoptees On - September 23, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings222 | Kara Bos Kara Bos is one of the first adoptees to ever successfully win a paternity lawsuit in South Korea. Kara’s biological father was compelled by the courts to take a DNA test confirming his genetic connection to Kara which in turn allowed her to be added to the family registry as hi...
Haley Does DNA Testing
Adoptees On - June 24, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings221 | Haley Does DNA Testing In the final episode before our summer break, guest host Lisette Austin interviews Haley Radke! We are talking all about DNA testing: what made Haley finally take the plunge, which companies she chose to use, and about all the surprise feelings that came up. Haley ...
Christina Romo
Adoptees On - June 17, 2022 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings220 | Christina Romo Today guest host Lisette Austin speaks with Christina Romo, creator of the blog called Diary of a Not-So-Angry Asian Adoptee. Christina shares about her career path in the adoption world and how she has finally found a position that she feels aligns with her personal work ...
The Flourish Experience
Adoptees On - June 10, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings219 | The Flourish Experience Today we are talking about The Flourish Experience. You’re going to hear from multiple people who participated in a year-long group focused in on adoptee community through writing and sharing together weekly. I hope what you hear is that connecting deeply with o...
Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills
Adoptees On - June 03, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings218 | Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills We are honoured to have the brilliant Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills return to Adoptees On today. We talk about what reunion has looked like in the time since she’s published her award-winning memoir, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., including the practical “how-tos...
Lisa Bird-Wilson
Adoptees On - May 27, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings217 | Lisa Bird-Wilson I am thrilled to introduce you to today’s guest, Lisa Bird-Wilson, the author of the phenomenal novel, Probably Ruby. We talk about what it means to be Indigenous and adopted into a white family and how she has now spent decades exploring her Metis identity. Lisa shares ...
Annalisa Toccara
Adoptees On - May 13, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings216 | Annalisa Toccara Today guest host Lisette Austin speaks with Annalisa Toccara, the co-founder of the UK organization, Adoptee Futures. Annalisa shares about the complexities of her relationship with her adoptive family, and her experience coming “out of the fog.” Lisette and Annalisa als...
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Adoptees On - April 29, 2022 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsThe podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience. This is not the usual adoption talk. You will find real, raw, and deep feelings addressed in these interviews. No sugar-coating here! Come and laugh, cry, learn and heal with us. Adult adoptees share stories of search, reunion, and seco...
Lee Herrick
Adoptees On - April 22, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings215 | Lee Herrick Today’s guest is the exceptional poet Lee Herrick. If you haven’t read any of Lee’s work, today is the day to make a purchase at your favourite bookstore! Lee is a Korean adoptee and shares how he found out later in life he was born in a completely different city than he was ...
Sunny Reed
Adoptees On - April 15, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings214 | Sunny Reed We are thrilled to talk with Sunny Reed while she’s right in the midst of her Ph.D. program developing a new transformational framework for transnational adoption. We believe her focus on connecting critical adoption research studies with existing child-focused and child-cente...
Kendra Mylnechuk Potter
Adoptees On - April 08, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings213 | Kendra Mylnechuk Potter Guest host Lisette Austin speaks with Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, actor, yoga teacher, Native adoptee, and subject of the documentary, Daughter of Lost Bird. Kendra shares her powerful adoption and reunion story, about navigating identity issues while claiming her cu...
Mary Anna King
Adoptees On - April 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings212 | Mary Anna King Today the author of our April Adoptees On(ly) book club pick, B______s is with us! Mary Anna King was one of our very first podcast guests almost six years ago on season one. We discuss the challenges of being a kinship adoptee, the things that are often overlooked (like e...
Sullivan Summer
Adoptees On - March 25, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings211 | Sullivan Summer Today’s guest is the brilliant Sullivan Summer! Growing up as a black transracial adoptee with white adoptive parents, Sullivan was actively discouraged from identifying as black by her adoptive mother. She shares about her recent decision to change her full name as a sig...
Stephanie Drenka
Adoptees On - March 18, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratings210 | Stephanie Drenka Today’s guest is the incredible Stephanie Drenka, and we say incredible because she saw the need for an online platform for underrepresented communities and went ahead and built VISIBLE magazine in one night. Stephanie talks about her shifting view of adoption over time,...
Dr. Hollee McGinnis
Adoptees On - March 11, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratings209 | Dr. Hollee McGinnis The indomitable Dr. Hollee McGinnis is on the podcast today! Many of you have definitely heard of Hollee and her immense contributions to the adoptee community both academically as a scholar and as a community builder which includes starting the adoptee-centric organi...
208 Iana
Adoptees On - March 04, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsGuest host Lisette Austin interviews her close lifelong friend Iana, who helped Lisette find her birth father using genetic genealogy. Iana shares her adoption and reunion story, and what led her to “come out of the fog” and begin exploring adoptee issues. She also shares what led her to become ...
207 Lisette Austin
Adoptees On - February 25, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we’re talking with Lisette Austin, who is going to have a very special role here at Adoptees On, but we won’t spoil exactly what that is, yet. Lisette is an award-winning podcaster, passionate about travel, and also happens to be one of Haley’s good friends. We discuss what it’s meant for ...
206 Mike Trupiano
Adoptees On - February 18, 2022 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we are honoured to introduce you to Mike Trupiano. Mike shares about his painful childhood, marred by violence and a feeling of being fully unwanted. We talk about adoptee healing, about searching for his biological family, which included a literal doorstop visit where he dressed up as a ...
205 Melissa Guida-Richards
Adoptees On - February 11, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we are joined by Melissa Guida-Richards, author of What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices. Melissa is a late discovery adoptee, accidentally finding out at age 19 that she was adopted. She shares with us ho...
204 Jan Beatty
Adoptees On - February 04, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday I’m talking with Jan Beatty, poet, professor, and the author of the recently released memoir, American Bastard. We talk about how Jan wants to disrupt the traditional narrative, what she calls the “whitewashed” view of adoption. What happens when you publicly name your hockey-famous biolog...
203 Lisa Olivera, MFT
Adoptees On - January 28, 2022 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsI’m honoured to introduce you to Lisa Olivera today, one of my favourite therapists to follow on Instagram. Her gentle and compassionate presence feels like just what we need in this time. The title of Lisa’s new book, Already Enough: A Path to Self Acceptance, is the perfect description of the ...
202 Leah Cooper
Adoptees On - January 21, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday Leah Cooper shares how listening to hours and hours and hours of adoptees, birth families, and adoptive parents sharing their stories lead her to what she calls her “volcano of grief”. Leah was a part of a team that created a play called In My Heart: The Adoption Play Project, which has be...
201 Haley Radke
Adoptees On - January 14, 2022 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsFree preview Patreon episode with all the details of our 2022 Book Club: Adoptees On(ly) Book Club 2022 Announcements Check out our Adoptees On(ly) Book Club picks to add to your TBR pile: https://www.adopteeson.com/bookclub Join our private community: https://www.adopteeson.com/community ...
200 [Healing Series] Celebrations
Adoptees On - December 10, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we are talking about celebrations with Pam Cordano, MFT because we are celebrating 200 episodes of the Adoptees On Podcast! Pam and Haley talk about how celebrations can often feel scary for us as adopted people because feeling joy or happiness can be disorienting (upper limit problem anyo...
199 Brian Stanton
Adoptees On - December 03, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we welcome back to Adoptees On, Brian Stanton. Brian shares with us how the pandemic morphed his script for a play into his fantastic new film @GhostKingdom. We talk about how relationships can shift for us as adopted people: building relationships with people we may believe are genetic re...
198 Andrea Ross
Adoptees On - November 26, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsI’m thrilled to bring you today’s guest, Andrea Ross, author of Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness. Andrea shares how a health crisis lead her outdoors, and how a decade of spending time in the wilderness brought her a feeling of groundedness. We discuss the loneliness that...
197 Donna and Sara
Adoptees On - November 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we’re back in the spirituality series and we are taking a look at cults and high-demand groups. My guests have both been impacted by cults and they have a theory that adopted people may be more susceptible to these types of groups. Donna and Sara have extensively researched cults since the...
196 Jack Dermody
Adoptees On - November 12, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsToday we welcome Jack Dermody to the podcast. We talk about family secrets in adoption and the impact it has on all the parties when they are revealed. Jack also gets personal and tells us what happens when you start closely examining your adoptee experience in your seventies. We talk about fami...
195 [Estrangement Series] Ellianna Javed
Adoptees On - November 05, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsWe are revisiting the topic of estrangement today. Earlier in 2021 we did several episodes that examined estrangement and what made some of us decide to break contact with our adoptive families. When I was producing that series I always wanted to have an episode where we could talk about what it...
194 Adoptee Remembrance Day
Adoptees On - October 29, 2021 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 328 ratingsAdoptee Remembrance Day is commemorated annually on October 30th. This episode has a collection of recordings that listeners have submitted to the show on what Adoptee Remembrance Day means to them. Haley also shares a way you can show up for fellow adoptees during November, using #DearAdoptees....
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