
From the Primal Wound to the Paternal Wound
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, filmmaker Rebecca Autumn Sansom joins Jay to share the story behind her acclaimed documentary, Reckoning with the Primal Wound, and the winding path that led her...
11 Aug 46min

I Broke Into an Adoption Agency to Find My Name
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, we sit down with an author and adoptee who turned a decades-long search for her birth family into three deeply personal books. Adopted in Denver in the early 196...
28 Jul 36min

A Regifted DNA Kit Uncovered My Birth Parents
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, we meet a California adoptee who grew up knowing she was adopted but never imagined how her story would unfold. After decades of quiet curiosity, a chance moment...
14 Jul 43min

Five Years No Answers Then A DNA Match Appeared
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, Jay sits down with Linda Burleson, a woman who spent over five years searching for the identity of her birth father after learning at age sixty-plus that the man...
16 Jun 32min

My Birth Father's Family Ghosted Us — So I'm Speaking Out
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, Jay and co-host Misty Gillis introduce Carla Salvatierra, a 29-year-old woman born in Los Angeles County who has spent years searching for the truth about her bi...
31 Mai 32min

Maria Leonard Olsen's Shocking DNA Discovery
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, attorney, author, and TEDx speaker Maria Leonard Olsen shares the shocking DNA discovery that changed her identity forever. After taking a 23andMe test, Maria le...
19 Mai 36min

I Lost My Adoptive Parents Young — Then Jay Found My Birth Mother
In this episode of Finding Family DNA, we follow Porsha Jones’ powerful journey from loss to reconnection. Adopted at birth and later losing both of her adoptive parents as a teenager, Porsha grew up ...
5 Mai 30min



















