The Anna Jinja Show
The Anna Jinja show focuses on the stories, issues, and questions connected to adoption and foster care experiences.
The host is an international adoptee with biological roots in Korea and adopted roots in the United States. As you can imagine, her journey and experiences as a transracial adoptee are multifaceted. Her experiences have been with the pain of discrimination and rejection as well as the joys of self-discovery and learning to embrace all aspects of her identity.
Along the way, she has discovered that she is not alone. We’re all – in some ways – adopted into or out of homes, cultures, communities, and relationships as we grow and evolve. This show illuminates the theme of adoption, in all ways, in our lives. And how those experiences create who we are and who we are yet to be.
Her hope is that through engaging with the guests and creative content, we are welcomed home in this world, cradled in the belief that we belong, that we are worthy, and that we are loved.
So stay tuned, and you may discover your own adoption story.
The Anna Jinja Show
Bob Pohl & Patrick Part 1
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What does it truly mean to say YES to love?
On this deeply moving episode of The Anna Jinja Show, host Anna Jinja sits down with two extraordinary men — Bob Pohl, adoptive father and husband to author Susan Strong, and Patrick, the birth father of their daughter Caitlin. Together they pull back the curtain on what open adoption really looks like from the inside — and it is nothing short of transformative.
Bob describes how saying yes to open adoption didn't just change his family — it changed him as a person. It taught him to look left when he'd always looked right. To ask questions he didn't know he was missing. To live a more vulnerable, more intentional life.
And Patrick? He was 17 when this journey began. Today, he and Caitlin have a beautiful, close relationship — while openly crediting Bob as her dad. His story will stop you in your tracks.
This episode is a powerful reminder that love is not a finite resource. It's generative. It grows.
This conversation was made possible because of Susan Strong's memoir One Yes at a Time: How Open Adoption Transformed Our Family, and a previous interview with Susan: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2185315/episodes/16127994-susan-strong-goth-dad