Latest Transracial 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.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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! ...
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...
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...
Eli Harwood (aka Attachment Nerd) on Adoption, Attachment and How to Heal
Adopted Feels - February 14, 2024 01:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsCheck out Eli's Instagram account Attachment Nerd, and her new book Securely Attached: Transform Your Attachment Patterns into Loving, Lasting Romantic Relationships (A Guided Journal). And connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, or via our website!
Where the hell have Hana & Ryan been? Awkward musings on failure, transitions, & big life choices
Adopted Feels - February 14, 2024 01:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsFor more information about the Korean adoptee 2024 gathering in Sydney hosted by the Korean Adoptees in Australia Network, visit kaian.org.au
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...