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Conversations About Adoption
by Jenn Adoptee
Hi! My name is Jen and I am an adoptee! I searched and found my first family in 2001. My mother had been deceased since 1982. :( Since then I have become very vocal about the flaws in the adoption system. Back in 2016 I got the idea to start a podcast about adoption from the adoptee perspective, but I hade no idea what I was doing so it didn't really get off the ground. I still don't really know what I am doing, but I love talking to adoptees and first parents about their experiences. They are always interesting conversations about adoption, and I hope you like them too. Please subscribe! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosaboutadoption/support
Episodes
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S4 #46 All You Have is Love film update
Fellow adoptee Lisa Elaine Scott reached out to come back to the podcast to give us all an update on her work on the film "All You Have is Love: Demand, Deception, and the Infant Adoption Industry". www.allyouhaveislove.com On June 14th there will be a fundraising event Lisa is hosting through...
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S4 #45 First Mom Katie
Katie is a mother of loss to adoption. When she found out she was pregnant she was doing ok, and a freak accident changed everything in an instant for her and her child. Listen as we discuss her story, her projects, and get to know each other. The Family Preservation Project TFPP on Facebook TFPP...
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S4 #44 Adoptee Brian
**Trigger warning** We do talk about some triggering subjects such as sexual assault and child abuse, please be aware of that in case these subjects will trigger you. I had a delightful conversation with Brian an adoptee I met at the Untangling Our Roots Summit in Kentucky last year. He was the...
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S4 #43 First Mom Lori
Lori is a Jewish first mother who relinquished in the 1990s. Lori is also a speaker and the author of her book 'From Mistakes to Miracles: A Jewish birth mother's story of Redemption, Hope and Healing' You can find links to her social media, books, and articles on her website:...
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S4 #42 Adoptee Cynthia
Cynthia is a mental health clinician with 10 years of experience and a fellow adoptee. We had a great time talking despite a couple interruptions. Our stories are kind of parallel as we are both Gen X but raised by silent generation parents. Parents that teach you to stuff your emotions away, and...
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S4 #41 First Mom Alicia
Please be advised with this episode there is a trigger warning. Alicia talks about domestic violence, rape, child abuse, infant loss, and more. If you are sensitive to these topics, please be advised and practice self-care when listening. She does jump right into it. Alicia was already the mother...
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S4 #40 Adoptee Kristal
Welcome to the 40th episode!!! It's heard to believe! In this episode I speak with Kristal who is also an adoptee. She lives in Canada with her husband and their three children. Her adoptive parents had sons and always wanted a little girl, and when Kristal was born she filled that space in their...
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S4 #39 Adoptee Curt
Curt is a fellow baby scoop adoptee. We had a great time talking, and I enjoyed hearing his story. Here is a little bit about Curt in his own words. Quick bio I was a very spirited youth. I started a family at a very young age. I spent the majority of my life in Virginia. I have two daughters and...
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S4 #38 First mom Jenny
Jenny Trudeau is a mother of loss to adoption, having lost her child through standard coercive industry practices with an agency that was later closed for fraudulent adoptions. Jenny is a 23 year veteran to adoption loss and has studied the industry and its effects on mothers and children for 8...
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S4 #37 Adoptee Brad
Welcome to 2024 and the beginning of season 4! Thank you for your patience while I took a break over the holidays. Hopefully in the coming weeks I will put up episodes with: a first mom starting another family preservation organization, an indigenous adoptee who made a film that should be…
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Happy holidays
Happy holidays from me
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S3 #36 Adoptee Liliana
Liliana is a very valuable voice in indigenous and adoption communities as she has experienced multiple facets of the child-welfare system in the United States. She was adopted from Ecuador to the America into a white adoptive family as a toddler. Her adoptive father was abusive, and she ended up...
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S3 #35 Adoptee Jenny
It's NAAM, which means I ranted a little in the intro to this episode... I did it in one take, so please be gentle. :) This episode features Jenny a domestic infant adoptee born in the USA who immigrated to Germany to live with her husband, and raise their family. She is the eldest of 4 adopted...
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Season 3-#34 Adoptee Rich Part 2
In the last episode I spoke with Rich about his story, and his advocacy work, in this episode we will talk about his creative endeavor, his musical "For the Record(s)" Rich introduced everyone at the summit to this project, and when he played testify, it blew us away. In this episode we listen to...
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S3-#34 Adoptee Rich Part 1
In this conversation I spoke with Rich. He is a fellow baby-scoop adoptee and very involved in advocating for better laws around access to adoption records for adoptees among other things. In this episode we will talk a little about his history, and a lot about adoption in general, as well as…
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S1-#08 Adoptee ~ Ruth
Originally published 12/3/2021 **reposted because I realized I had accidentally uploaded the raw podcast with no intro.** This is a great conversation I had with a fellow baby scoop era adoptee Ruth who I met through TikTok and we had a lot to talk about. This was recorded through zoom and is not...
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S3-#33 ~ Group discussion why adoptees cut contact with adoptive parents Part 2
This is the continuation of of the conversation with adoptees about why they chose to cut or extremely limit contact with their adoptive parents. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosaboutadoption
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S3-#32 ~ Group discussion why adoptees cut contact with adoptive parents Part 1
This conversation was inspired by some conversations happening on TikTok involving a younger adoptive mom who was saying a lot of harmful things to adult adoptees including, that she owns her child. **cringe** Adult adoptees were saying they imagine she has the type of attitude that causes…
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S3-#31 Adoptee ~ Linda a.k.a. Emma
Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner strength and courage to surmount the many struggles she faced. Her traumas were born from first being relinquished and then becoming an adoptee who...
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S3-#30 Adoptee ~ Natalie
Natalie is an adoptee who was born in Colombia and adopted out to Norway when she was 9 months old. She just went through reunion, and will disclose some interesting details in our conversation. (I don't want to spill the beans.) Here is the link to her GoFundMe we talked about in the episode in...
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S3-#29 Adoptee ~ Valerie
Valerie is an adoptee with a LOT of life experience, and I just don't mean age, which is a bit of a mystery. She's had a lot of adventures and shares some of them in our conversation! We talked about SO much! There was laughter and tears (On my end) and some silliness in this conversation. She...
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S3-#28 Barbara Raymond ~ Author of The Baby Thief
Barbara Raymond is the author of one of the most important books (In my opinion) because it kept Georgia Tann from fading into history. If Barbara hadn't stumbled across Georgia's story while working on an article she thought was going to be about an adoption reunion in the 1990s, Georgia could...
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INTRO- What to expect in Conversations About Adoption
What this podcast is about.
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S3-#27 Word salad about Social media
Free flow ADHD rambling thoughts about social media and our community
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S3 #26 Adoptee ~ Lisa Elaine
Lisa Elaine Scott is a writer and filmmaker. She is a Baby Scoop Era California adoptee and the director of the upcoming film “All You Have Is Love: Demand, Deception and the Infant Adoption Industry. If you can, please support this incredibly important project with a donation. Seed & Spark...
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S3-#25 First Father ~ CJ
An activist, comedian, director, and middle school theatre teacher, CJ Miller aspires to do everything he can to change the world for the better. A holder of degrees in both Theatre and Aerospace Technology, CJ is also a military veteran, an actor, and an outstanding dramaturg (even though no one...
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S3-#24 Article reading from Journal of American Academy of pediatrics
Today I am reading this article. Families and adoption: the pediatrician's role in supporting communication. ABSTRACT: Each year, more children join families through adoption. Pediatricians have an important role in assisting adoptive families in the various challenges they may face with respect…
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S3-#23 Mother's day chat
Because Mother's day is complex when you are affected by adoption, and people in my groups had started talking about mother's day feels in various groups and other platforms, I decided to open up a zoom room and have a Mother's day chat. I invited people in from all the platforms that I…
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S3-#22 Good morning from Louisville KY
Just an update from Louisville Kentucky where I've been attending the untangling our Roots summit
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S3-#21 Update - Untangling our roots summit
Just an update to let everyone know I'll be attending the summit in Louisville KY March 30th- April 1st. And reminder on how to contact me.
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S3-#20 Adoptee ~ Isabel
I spoke with Isabel a transracial adoptee who has been in reunion with her mother since she was 17. She is an example of another adoptee who acted out due to trauma, and was sent away. She talks about reunion, her siblings, her adoptive family, and how being racially ambiguous while growing up…
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S3-#19 Adoptee ~ Chelle
In this conversation I am talking to Chelle, and our conversation hits many different points. She told me how her open started out as open, but her adopters closed it within the first few months of her life, how she was thrust into reunion when she was a teen because of issues at home, and...
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S3-#18 Adoptee ~ Suzanna
This is a conversation I had with Suzanna, she tells me about her adoption, and the subsequent court battle that happened when her first mom tried to regain custody of her after her revocation period. We also discuss her search and reunion. We have something in common in that we are both...
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S3-#17 Adoptee ~ Vin
** TRIGGER WARNING** Vin talks briefly about sexual assault in this episode. This is a conversation with my very good friend Vin who is an international transracial adoptee who was born in India and raised on Australia. We have been friends for several years and we have a conversation up on my...
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S3-#16 Adoptee ~ Sarah
Sarah is a baby scoop era adoptee who recently started making tiktoks about her experiences as an adoptee. In this episode she discussed how she felt finding out the only knowledge she had about her first parents was incorrect, including her nationality. Her username on Tiktok is @higher7771…
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S2-#15 Adoptee voices # 1
In this special series for National Adoption/Adoptee Awareness month (November) I asked adoptees to call in and leave a message answering the question, "What is the best advice you could give to an adoptee just learning about the primal wound, and just venturing out of the fog?" I obviously…
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S2-#14 Adoptee ~ Rebecca Autumn
In this conversation I talk with the film maker of "Reckoning with the Primal Wound" Rebecca Autumn Samson! Join us on the Struggle-bus and check out our conversation! She is a reunited adoptee who was inspired to make a film about her story incorporating the book called "The Primal Wound" by…
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S2-#13 Adoptee ~ Marc
Thanks for joining us today! In this episode I talk with Marc who is an adoptee with quite a few labels. He is an international adoptee being born in Colombia. He is a transracial adoptee as his adopters (as he calls them) are mid-western white Americans. And Marc is also transgender. I came…
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S2-#12 Adoptee ~ Paul
This is a special bonus episode where I have a quick chat with Paul Brian Tovey who is a UK adoptee and artist. He is active on some social media and has been working on collecting data about adoption via a survey project. Please be sure to participate in his adoptee survey! He has a blog on...
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S1-#07 First Mom ~ Carrie
In this episode originally posted on YouTube on October 7, 2020, Carrie tells us her story of how she lost her child to adoption. It is another story of a woman in a vulnerable situation being coerced into relinquishing her child. If you are an adoptee or parent who lost a child to adoption and...
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S2-#11 Adoptee ~ DezaRay
This was a totally spontaneous Conversation had with DezaRay who is a transracial adoptee. I have followed her for years on Instagram, but recently she has joined Adopteetok which is to say the adoption community on Tiktok of adoptees, foster care survivors, first parents, and other advocates who...
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S1-#03 Adoption and how it affects intimate relationships
This is a bonus episode originally posted on April 19, 2018 on Youtube. I asked adoptees and first parents to call in an answer the question, "How has adoption affected your intimate relationships?" If you like the idea of contributing, please subscribe so you can receive notifications about...
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S1-#01 Adoptee ~ Joey
Hi! This is the VERY first episode I ever tried to make, so please bear with the editing job. (This is why I don't edit anymore. I am not an editor.) This was originally published in 2016. This is a conversation with my friend Joey who is also a baby scoop adoptee. He made a documentary film…
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S2-#10 Adoptee ~ Judy a Georgia Tann survivor
**Trigger warning she talks about how babies and children were abused, and her brother's abuse.** This conversation is long but so important as the survivors of Georgia Tann are aging & it is so important that they tell their stories. If you are unfamiliar with Georgia Tann, she ran the Tennessee...
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S1-#06 First Mom ~ Renee Lynn
This episode is a conversation with Renee Lynn Gellin lost her son through a perfect storm of financial struggles, and adoption coercion. This experience inspired her to want to prevent other mothers from losing their babies to adoption. She is a cofounder of Saving our sisters adoption. If you…
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S2-#09 First Mom ~ Shyanne
Posted August 2, 2022 This is a conversation I had with Shyanne. She is the first mom featured in the Time magazine article called "The baby Brokers". This is an audio only version, now video on my YouTube channel due to technical difficulties. Shyanne's linktree which includes a link to the...
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S1-#05 First Mom ~ Janet
Originally published 4/29/2018 This is the conversation I had with Janet a Canadian first mother of the baby-scoop era. She has searched and found her daughter but there is very little contact between them at the time this was recorded. She has a great story to tell and we talk about a whole...
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S1-#02 Adoptee ~ Damon Davis
Originally published 4/21/2018 This episode was originally uploaded to YouTube in video format. Damon is a fellow adoptee and host of the podcast Who am I really? He shares his amazing story, and we talk about adoption, podcasting, life, and more. I apologize for the audio quality. If you would...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hi! My name is Jen and I am an adoptee! I searched and found my first family in 2001. My mother had been deceased since 1982. :( Since then I have become very vocal about the flaws in the adoption system. Back in 2016 I got the idea to start a podcast about adoption from the adoptee perspective, but I hade no idea what I was doing so it didn't really get off the ground. I still don't really know what I am doing, but I love talking to adoptees and first parents about their experiences. They are always interesting conversations about adoption, and I hope you like them too. Please subscribe! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convosaboutadoption/support
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