Latest Episodes

Southern Nights

On today's episode, Patricia Knight Meyer and I talk black market babies, the power of genetic mirroring and the magic of Glen Campbell. Join us!A baby-scoop era black-market "adoptee," Patricia was sold along a curb ou...

September 23, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 18 • 34:54

Beds Are Burning

Join Shane Bouel and I as we delve into searching, societal resistance to our search and piecing together our new identity.  Shane Bouel, an Australian adoptee, is a compelling voice shedding light on the intricate journey ...

September 23, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 19 • 29:52

Love Is All Around

 Amy Lokken and I delve into the challenges of being a transracial Minnesota adoptee, the openness of 1970s hippies and the fiery spirit of Betty Jean Lifton. Join us!Amy Lokken is a biracial, transracial ad...

September 23, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 17 • 44:15

Take The Money And Run

Emma Stevens and I discuss being the adoptee chameleon, secondary rejection and scanning strangers' faces wondering if they might be family. Join us!  Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and ha...

September 23, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 15 • 40:44

Please Mr. Postman

Anna Fienbork was adopted as an infant after five days at the hospital. The fact of being adopted was part of her life from early on. The emotional wounds of this early trauma of separation eventually lead her to doing emotional and spiritual w...

September 23, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 20 • 42:42

Fan Mail

I appreciated Shane's articulation of the unseen journey which is often so hard to verbalize. Thank you for sharing and thanks for this podcast. All episodes I have listened to have been awesome and similar threads to my own adoption story in each one. Best wishes to you and all the participants.

Charlotte, North Carolina