Adoptees On

261 | Lanise Antoine Shelley Today's guest is actor, director, playwright and podcaster, Lanise Antoine Shelley. Lanise shares about being adopted from a Haitian orphanage at age 4 by her single white...

6 Okt 202350min

260 Mike Hoyt Today's guest is Mike Hoyt, a remarkable artist and author of the graphic memoir of Hanabata Days. We discuss his reunion and subsequent reunification process with his first father. Mike...

29 Sep 202354min

Welcome back! Our first episode of Fall 2023 is a sampling of great advice from some of our favourite adoptee therapists about planning a first meeting with biological family, grieving the loss of an ...

22 Sep 202326min

258 | Nicole Chung We are so thrilled to welcome Nicole Chung back to the podcast. Nicole's new memoir, A Living Remedy, is a heartbreaking pilgrimage where we walk with her through her grief in losin...

23 Juni 20231h 4min

257 | Sarah Myer We are so excited to introduce you to Sarah Myer, author of the forthcoming graphic memoir, Monstrous. Today Sarah and I talk about their love of comics, anime, and cosplay and how it...

16 Juni 202347min

256 Kira Omans We are so thrilled to talk with actor, audiobook narrator, and adoptee advocate, Kira Omans today. Kira shares how looking deeply at adoption over the past decade has changed her perspe...

9 Juni 202359min

255 Sarah Audsley We are thrilled to introduce you to Sarah Audsley today! Sarah's debut poetry collection Landlock X is our June Adoptees On(ly) Book Club pick. Today Sarah shares about how a reunion...

2 Juni 202350min

254 [Healing Series] Adoptee Superpowers Today we are talking with Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker about adoptee superpowers. Don't worry, we're not going to express gratitude for a traumatic experience over...

26 Maj 202338min