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Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

Jennifer Dyan Ghoston

Through an audio drama and episodes of thought-provoking conversations, the listening audience can learn some of the issues faced by those affected by adoption. The adoptee is at the center of all conversations had with other members of the adoption constellation.

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01:01:43

216. Diego Vitelli: "Adoptee Identity, the Search for...

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2025/02/04

Diego Vitelli is a dedicated adoptee-focused therapist, relationship expert, and advocate for racial diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusion. An international adoptee from Colombia, Diego was adopted at approximately five years old by an Irish-Italian family outside of Boston. His lived experience as an adoptee fuels his deep passion for amplifying adoptee voices and fostering spaces where identity, belonging, and healing can thrive.Now holding a master’s degree in Couples and Family Therapy, Diego

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01:17:42

215. Paul Kimball: "We are all Human Beings; An...

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2025/01/28

Paul Kimball is an active musician in Stockton California. He conducts Musicals, The Zion Chamber Orchestra and Pops Choir and recently retired after 36 years as a music teacher with the Lincoln Unified School District. He is French Horn player. As a baby, Paul lived in Foster Care after being relinquished by his first mother, a concert cellist, at 5 days old. He was adopted on his first birthday by a liberal Berkeley family in the 1960’s. He is married to Doctor Dominee Muller-Kimball. They have

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214. Jennifer Hiltebeitel: "Trust Falling"

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2025/01/21

Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL-ta-bite-el) is a returning guest.Jennifer is an adopted person on a lifelong healing journey.She was adopted through the county foster care system in Pennsylvania in the early 70s and just obtained her original birth certificate in 2023.She met her biological mother at 17 and father at 21 before the internet existed and has ongoing relationships with extended members of her biological family.Jennifer loves helping others - especially adoptees - process their stories

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01:06:15

213. Astrid Castro: "Three Decades of Serving the...

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2025/01/14

Astrid Castro is the founder and CEO of Adoption Mosaic, an adoptee-led, BIPOC woman-owned business that creates for and connects our adoption constellation community through adoptee-centered events, education courses, and consultations. For over three decades, Astrid has served the adoption constellation through a variety of innovative programing designed to highlight the adoptee experience. Prior to creating Adoption Mosaic, Astrid worked in both the private and public sectors of various adoption

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212. Sharon Butler-Obazee: "Growing Intentional...

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2025/01/07

Sharon Butler-Obazee, an adoptee, attended Cal State Hayward. She worked in human services and tenured with the insurance industry as a medical sales rep. After retirement, she became certified under the International Coaching Federation after attending Professional Christian Coaching before starting her coaching practice.Her handle on social media was @adoptionclarity, where she encouraged an adoptee-centric philosophy. She became a Board Member of the Post Adoption Center for Education and

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211. A Review of 2024: "Happy New Year's Eve!"

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2024/12/31

We encourage you to go to https://www.onceuponatimeinadopteeland.com/ and search the individuals mentioned in this episode to find their contributions/links.OBC to California Born Adoptees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHylYLHqXgMusic by Corey Quinn

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210. Jennifer Hiltebeitel: "Where Did I Come From,...

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2024/12/24

Original air date: November 1, 2022Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL - ta - bite - el) was adopted from foster care as a preschooler and grew up to be a fourth-grade teacher with a Master's degree in Multicultural Education.She met members of her biologicalfamily between the ages of 17-21 and is honored to understand pieces of her story that were once missing.Shehas been married to her husband Eric for 24 years - the person who taught her she was worthy of unconditional love.They have one daughter through

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01:02:12

209. Natasha Tripplett: "THE BLUE PICKUP and...

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2024/12/17

Natasha Tripplett, a Jewish-Jamaican American author, lives in Northern California where she writes from a tree house perched in a sycamore tree. As a baby, Natasha was adopted into a Dutch, Christian family. Growing up on Vancouver Island in Canada, she was acutely aware that she was different from her family; this did not keep her from integrating all the pieces of her identity. Natasha’s multicultural background has allowed her to flow seamlessly through different cultures while bridging gaps

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208. Lisa MM Butler: "As The Crow Flies"

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2024/12/10

Lisa MM Butler is a Black (biracial), US domestic, transracial adoptee and former foster youth. She is an artist, writer, advocate, community organizer, and library lover. Lisa is known, online, as the Adoptee Clown and shares her experiences as an adoptee both on her Instagram @theadopteeclown and on Substack as The Adoptee Clown Diaries. She serves on the Board of VOICES, a BIPOC Adoptee Community 501(c)3 organization and is a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer at CASA for Children

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01:04:03

207. Anita Garber: "An Author and Poet"

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2024/12/03

Original Air Date: 11/22/22Anita is a passionate, creative, transracial adoptee. Adopted with her identical twin sister, she grew up on a chicken farm with five siblings and considers her faith and family to be most important to her. She has a bachelor's degree in Social Work and is presently pursuing her Master's degree in Socialwork and a Certificate in Expressive Arts. When she isn't engaged in coursework or academic activities, you can almost always find her grabbing a bite with friends or

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206. Jill Mann: "A Team Member of BIPOC Adoptees"

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2024/11/26

Jill Mann is a transracial, transnational Korean adoptee. She is an artist, musician, and writer, and a member of the BIPOC Adoptees team. She also works on the BIPOC Adoptees documentary project as editor, animator, and producer. She is also on the board of Asian Heritage Association, a local organization based in McMinnville, Oregon.Website: https://www.bipocadoptees.org/IG: @pandamonium25 Music by Corey Quinn

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01:07:02

205. Sandra Caesar: "Further Along an International...

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2024/11/19

Sandi is an international adoptee from Panama, adopted by a Black US Air Force family stationed in Panama at the time. Most of her life has been in the midwest but she moved to Virginia in 2020. She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health & child welfare. She has been in reunion with her first mother and maternal family since 2004. She's experienced some life-changing events since she was guest in 2022.Music by Corey Quinn

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204. Bonus: "Adoptees Aren't Their Trauma"

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2024/11/13

Simon Benn is the host of https://www.thrivingadoptees.com/podcastMusic by Corey Quinn

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203. Sandi Caesar: "Before Dual Citizenship as an...

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2024/11/12

Original Air Date: 07/12/2022Sandi C. is an international adoptee from Panama.Most of her life has been in the midwest but she returned to the DMV area about a year & a half ago.She is a social worker whose 30-year career has included time in mental health, adoption, and foster care.She has been in reunion with her birthmother and maternal family for 18 years.Music by Corey Quinn

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202. Julie Brumley: Part 2/2; "A Trauma-Informed...

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2024/11/05

Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response for decades until she found the power of somatic trauma healing. Now she uses somatics, nervous system regulation,

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50:39

201. Julie Brumley: Part 1/2; "A Trauma-Informed...

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2024/10/29

Julie Brumley is a trauma-informed adoptee coach who has been coaching men and women for more than 15 years to overcome addictive behaviors and heal the primal trauma of abandonment. She is also the CEO of Coming Home to Self, a company dedicated to helping adoptees heal. After her own birth mother tried to abort her twice, she found herself frozen in an unconscious trauma response for decades until she found the power of somatic trauma healing. Now she uses somatics, nervous system regulation,

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200. Mavka: "An Imposter Among My Own People"

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2024/10/22

Molly/Mavka is an early 80's Catholic Charities, closed, same-race adoptee. She has been in on-again-off-again reunion with her birth mother for 20 years, and is leisurely navigating reunion inklings with her birth father. Her adopters' choice to estrange themselves from her has offered an often-troubling-but-still-freeing expanse in which to explore her post-placement options, she guesses. In the interest of efficiency, her hobbies are her coping mechanisms and include pitch-black humor, elaborate

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01:02:31

199. Kim Stevens: "One of Two"

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2024/10/15

Kim Stevens was adopted in Korea along with her bio brother into the same family. They were stationed in South Korea and immigrated to the US after their adoption. Kim was raised in Central Texas in a predominantly white community with few racial mirrors and even less cultural socializations. Being in that environment, she was taught to ignore the racism and micro-aggressions which caused her to deny a lot of her identity and curiosity until much later in life. Kim has two biracial children, a

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198. Dana Ozak: "A Girl and Her Four Families"

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2024/10/08

Dana Ozak is a full-time preschool teacher, passionate adoptee advocate whenever she has time, part-time college student, part time water color artist, part time author, and whatever other free time she has is spent going on long walks with her sweet husband and hanging out with him and their college aged offspring.Website: https://girland4families.com/Music by Corey Quinn

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197. Liana Soifer: "BIPOC Adoptees VOICES"

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2024/10/01

Liana Soifer (she/her) is a transracial, transnational adoptee from South Korea, raised in Oregon, and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of BIPOC Adoptees VOICES, a Portland-based nonprofit leading initiatives for BIPOC adoptee communities. With a BA in Human Services, Liana has experience as a Project Manager in software and web applications. She previously ran a web design and digital branding business and is dedicated to building community and making a positive impact through her professional

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