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The best podcasts for Adoptive Parents

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Who am I?

I'm an adoptive mom of an intercountry, transracially adopted 20-year-old son Joey. He had a mental health crisis at age 15 and is still trying to find his path. He and I started Unraveling Adoption podcast, and we both want to help adoptive parents learn skills to be the best advocates they can be for their kids. I wish I had known much more about adoption, relinquishment, and adoption trauma BEFORE my son started to have trouble. So I'm hoping this list of adoption podcasts will be helpful to other adoptive parents. Maybe even parents with young kids. Or parents who are still considering adoption.

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What is my podcast about and/or how does it relate to the playlist topic you chose?

Unraveling Adoption is the podcast my son and I created in August 2021. We strive to create a safe space to delve into adoption's complexities together. We almost always interview adoptees, but occasionally we talk to adoptive parents, birth parents, or adoption professionals.

What is my podcast playlist about?

This podcast playlist will help adoptive parents (or interested community members) all the complexities of adoption, will provide many resources, and will help open up adoptive parents' eyes to adoptees' experiences.

The podcasts I picked and why

1. Adoption Unfiltered

Why this podcast?

This podcast is led by 3 members of the adoption constellation - an adoptee, a birth parents, and an adoptive parent. They provide a respectful and educational space to learn about all sides of adoption.

Adoption Unfiltered

Adoption Unfiltered

Adoption Unfiltered

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Adoption Unfiltered is presented by adoptee Sara Easterly, birth parent Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, and adoptive parent Lori Holden. Collectively, we bring 75 years of lived experience relating to adoption, and we span the Baby Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial generations. We understand the history, challenges, and trends experienced by people living in adoption and the broader adoption constellation, and discuss sensitive and timely issues through the lens of our lived experiences of adoption, and dialogue with others from within the adoption constellation.

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2. Adoption: The Long View Podcast

Why this podcast?

Host Lori Holden is an adoptive mom who educates other adoptive parents about how to be more open with their children's birth families, and how to be the best parents we can be.

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From babyhood to school age, through the teenage years and ultimately adulthood, Adoption: The Long View explores all aspects of the adoption journey with a variety of articulate and thought-provoking guests.

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3. Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

Why this podcast?

Sarah and Louise are both adoptees and are digging into adoption trauma through book reviews and interviews with other adoptees. Insightful and deeply engaging!

Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
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Two adult adoptees, Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Browne, delve into all things adoption - from their perspectives as adult adoptees.
Each season Sarah and Louise recap a chapter from a book centered on adoption and then interview a guest. Sarah and Louise come out of the 'fog' in real-time through Seasons One and Two and are advocating for change in the adoption industry. They want to give voice to all adoptees. Adoptee stories are needed to reframe the narrative around adoption.
Sarah and Louise, two former business partners who had a successful ice cream truck in Los Angeles, team up again - this time in frank and honest conversations about all things adoption from the adoptee perspective. Both were adopted shortly after birth, but they had very different experiences.
These will be intimate conversations, but also fun - because Sarah and Louise know how to lighten things up and have a good time. They also have an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a subject with anyone who crosses their path - so conversations will take many turns.

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4. Pulled By The Root - Amplifying Adoption Issues

Why this podcast?

Another adoptee host, Heidi Marble, is a sensitive soul, excellent interviewer, and strong adoptee advocate.

Pulled By The Root - Amplifying Adoption Issues

Pulled By The Root - Amplifying Adoption Issues

Heidi Marble - Amy Hansen - Elle Klassen - Alysa Zalma MD - Stephanie Pipes - Sean Farley

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My name is Heidi Marble. I am a domestic adoptee/author/speaker born in 1965. I did not realize the depth of pain caused from my own relinquishment until later in life. The loss surrounding adoption is so far reaching it is hard to grasp; the gravity of hurt pulled me to take action. Fueled by our amazing team, Pulled By The Root has become a collective platform that elevates, honors and gives voice to the issues surrounding adoption. Our podcast is a place to listen to an aggregate of conversations. From these varied perspectives we can learn more about the complexities of adoption, healing and trauma. There are over 100 completed interviews to date, so be on the lookout for new episodes. To learn more please check out our website at: https://www.pulledbytheroot.com

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5. Adoptees On

Why this podcast?

Haley Radke is another adoptee who elevates adoptees' voices by creating space for them to share their whole story. This is the first podcast I started to listen to when I "came out of the fog" after Joey's crisis. It was sometimes tough to hear, but the stories of these adoptees were transformative for me and my family.

Adoptees On

Adoptees On

Haley Radke

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The podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience. This is not the usual adoption talk. You will find real, raw, and deep feelings addressed in these interviews. No sugar-coating here! Come and laugh, cry, learn and heal with us. Adult adoptees share stories of search, reunion, and secondary rejection. Adoptees On also curates recommended resources to encourage and educate the adoption community about adoptee issues.

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