Joëlle: Curiosity & Discovery
Meet Joëlle: donor conceived, student, and activist from the Netherlands! Raised in a two mom household, Joëlle was always curious about her donor, who she eventually met and is now neighbors with! Li...
10 Feb 20221h 1min
Freya: Donor Conceived & Recipient Mom
Meet Freya: an English mom to a donor conceived child and is donor conceived herself. Listen as we discuss growing up with two moms, Freya and her wife's process of having their own child via donor sp...
3 Feb 20221h 2min
Peter: Author & Advocate
Meet Peter: grandfather, best selling author, and advocate for the rights of the donor conceived. After discovering that he was donor conceived in 1995, Peter set out to learn everything he could abou...
27 Jan 20221h
Jonathan: on Being “50% a Stranger”
Meet Jonathan: a donor conceived person who discovered the truth about his identity through a commercial DNA test in his 40's. Listen as we discuss this life-altering news, his relationships with his ...
20 Jan 202254min
Danny: Secrecy, Identity, & Shame
Meet Danny: a donor conceived person and co-host of The Best Life Podcast. Born in California in the early 80s, Danny found out her parents used donor sperm at age 13 when her dad casually revealed th...
13 Jan 202253min
Morgan: 50 Young Half-Siblings
Meet Morgan: a 26-year-old donor conceived person raised by two moms. A few years ago, Morgan's understanding of her donor and her family changed when she discovered that her bio-father donated sperm ...
6 Jan 20221h 8min
The Case of the Missing Vials
Kaleigh investigates a misunderstanding with California Cryobank in 2001 that led to the birth of a much younger half-sister in 2008. She also gets into the technical aspects of sperm donation and fin...
30 Des 202127min
A Conversation with My Sperm Donor
7 years after discovering her sperm donor's identity through a spontaneous Google search, Kaleigh and Donor 5182 sit down to talk about his decision to donate sperm, telling his family, receiving 15-y...
16 Des 202148min
