272 | James Cagney Todays guest is award-winning poet, James Cagney. Author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness, James is known for his absolutel

271 | Healing Series: Ask an Adoptee Therapist with Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC Todays episode is our last one before our holiday break. Well be back with brand-new weekly episodes on January 12, 20

270 | Sara Easterly Sara Easterly is back with us, shes the author of Searching for Mom and the founder of Adoptee Voices. Today were talking about how Sara became friends with an adoptive mother an

269 | Dr. Liz DeBetta Today we welcome back Dr. Liz DeBetta, author of Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal: Migrating Toward Wholeness. Liz shares some reunion updates with us, including some very sad

268 | Kimberly McKee, Ph.D. We are so excited to host critical adoption studies scholar, Dr. Kimberly McKee. Shes the author of the impactful book Disrupting Kinship, and her brand new release is Ado

267 | Jessica Hairston Today our guest is poet Jessica Hairston, author of Power of Our Wombs. Jessica shares her complex origin story, where both of her biological parents were struggling with addict

266 | Susan Kiyo Ito Todays guest is the indomitable Susan Kiyo Ito. She has been writing, advocating, and leading in the adoptee community for decades and we are all the richer for it. Susans brand

265 | Louise & Sarah You might know todays guests and recognize their voices from their podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. Louise Browne and Sarah Reinhardt are here! Today we hear about how their

264 | Healing Series: Adoptee Remembrance Day Adoptee Remembrance Day was first commemorated on October 30, 2020. Weve done a variety of episodes over the last few years beginning in 2020 with an int

263 | Stefany Valentine - When We Become Ours Todays episode is a celebration for When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology which releases on October 24, 2023. The first of its kind, edited by Shan