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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 relinquishment and adoption. The adoptee is at the center of all conversations had with other members of the adoption constellation.

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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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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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54:55

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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50:53

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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196. Amanda Robinson: "Between Those Scars"

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2024/09/24

Amanda Robinson is a Korean adoptee. She was adopted with her twin sister and raised in Washington. Though she's wanted to be many things, currently she is a retired dental hygienist who homeschools her two kids, and is an aspiring children's lit writer in her free time. She aims to encourage kids through her future children's books.Music by Corey Quinn

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195. Grace Yung Foster: "The Incl[us]ion Initiative"

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2024/09/17

Grace Yung Foster is the Founder and CEO of The Inclusion Initiative. They are elevating the future of work for Adoptees of Color and Foster Care Alumni.Grace is both an Adoptee and a Foster Alum. She’s committed to creating more equity, inclusion, and opportunity for our communities, especially within our workplaces and careers. She is a former nonprofit executive with 15 years of experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors and holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.Website:

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194. Kathleen Shea Kirstein: "Dear Mother and Blown...

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2024/09/10

Kathleen Shea Kirstein is a Late Discovery Adoptee and NPE (Non-Expected Parent Event), as well a mother of two sons, retired Registered Nurse, and illustrator of three children's books with author D Ann Hollon. She has published two essays in Severance magazine: "Dear Mother" and "Blown off

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193. Shannon Gibney: "The Girl I Am, Was, and Never...

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2024/09/03

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, and activist. The author of several books, includingThe Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption,which received a Michael L. Printz Honor and a Minnesota Book Award;See No ColorandDream Country,both winners of Minnesota Book Awards; andSam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight,a children’s picture book about a cross-cultural family also published by the University of Minnesota Press. A Bush Artist and McKnight

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01:13:48

192. Ryan Jafar Artes: "The Adoptee Open Mic"

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2024/08/27

Ryan Jafar Artes (he/she/they) is an activist, memoirist, and poet. Ryan’s work calls for a re-imagination of culture via cultural renaissance from their lived experience and perspective as a transracial transnational South Asian Indian American adoptee. Ryan is the host of The Adoptee Open Mic, and hosts virtual letter writing classes to support their activism and creative work.Links: https://linktr.ee/ryanartes https://upendmovement.org/dream/ Music by Corey Quinn

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191. Pekitta Tynes: "Pekitta's Journey"

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2024/08/20

Original air date: 02/01/2022Pekitta Tynes is a published author of the book "Thank God I was Adopted 'Cause DNA is No Joke!" Based on her memoirs and journey to how she found her biological family through DNA testing. Her reunion can be seen on a YouTube video, "Pekitta's Journey". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhUFNkqpPUMusic by Corey Quinn

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190. Marc Borne: "Was I Adopted, Yes or No?"

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2024/08/13

Original air date: July 27, 2021"Raise your hand and self validate yourself." -Marc BorneMusic by Corey Quinn

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189. Elizabeth Blake: "Connecting Threads: Five...

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2024/08/06

Elizabeth (EM) Blakehas a recently released graphic memoir calledConnecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found.Sheis one of five children who were removed from their first family over time and placed in foster care, and most were adopted when young.She didn't know until decades later that she had lived with her first mother forweeks or months.Because of closed adoptions, it took decades to connect scarce information to find her siblings.Sheandher siblings have Ojibwe or A-nish-i-naabeand Northern

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188. Nancy McCaughey: "An Open Heart and Mind"

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2024/07/30

Nancy McCaughey is a returning guest.Nancy identifies herself by her most treasured life roles; wife, mother, daughter, sister, newly-retired midlife transition coach and late discovery adoptee (LDA). She is in the process of completing her memoir, Reunion. It is about her own midlife ‘identity quake’ that took place at her 20th high school reunion when her best friend from childhood revealed a 37 year old family secret: Nancy was adopted. Nancy returned home from the reunion without telling her mom

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187. Bonus: "Adoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated"

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2024/07/23

ADOPTION LOSS: WHEN GRIEF IS SUFFOCATEDBy Kate Murphy, LCSWKate Murphy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a psychotherapy practice in Atlanta, GA.Shespecializes in working with members of the adoption constellation with a focus on adoptees. She knows that processing the loss and grief caused by relinquishment is challenging to do alone. Kate believes it's possible to understand yourself better, take charge, and live with more purpose and joy.Website: https://katemurphytherapy.com/

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