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Everyone's a critic, even with porn. Alice Vaughn and co-hosts, discuss the holes and the plot holes of your favorite porn. They're joined by comedians, porn stars, scientists, authors to review films, discuss the industry, and topics that are porn/sex adjacent. Support us: Patreon.com/twogirlsonemic
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Two girls, One mic. Bringing you your weekly dose of random (but laughable) banter. We find ourselves funny, sucks if you don't.
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We're two twenty-something girls who talk too much about work, feminism and news and committed to smashing stereotypes. Join us for our musings about our lives as first generation asian ladies who haven't quite appeased our traditional grandparents as we navigate the world of law, current affairs and other big topics.
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The go-to poddy for ALL your pop culture needs, wants and desires. With self proclaimed pop culture gurus, Sarah MacKenzie and Jacob David taking to the mic to keep you covered, expect a whole lotta chaos and giggles as we dive into the world of Poppy C together! In our ROUNDUP episodes, we'll be keeping you up to date on all the latest happenings in the world of Poppy C - discussing the hottest trending topics, the latest pop music, and all the celeb shenanigans. We've got you covered and y ...
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Welcome to "Petty Swap's" podcast. Every week I will share my opinions and stories along with discussing choices that we make on a daily basis. From time to time I'll have a guest. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/PettySwap/support
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We are a couple of dudes that decided, one day at lunch, we wanted a podcast. We overnighted two microphones and two mic booms and were talking mad sleez on the internet within 24 hours. Design is our day job, we drink coffee, beer, and smoke hookah. We are oookillem.
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Through an audio drama, episodes of thought-provoking conversations and bonus recordings, the listening audience can learn some of the issues that the adoption community face from the perspective of the adoptee.
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Jess and Rach are two millennial wedding photographers - and one of us happens to be divorced, and the other one just got married. This is a podcast where we have conversations about relationships, love, and all the BS that comes along with it. We aren't professionals... but neither is your mom and we won't judge you as much.
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This brand new poetry podcast began as a fun experiment between two like-minded artists who share a passion for music, verse and prose, one another's company, and the occasional Cote du Rhone. Intended to cover a variety of inspiring and compelling themes, it begins with pieces devoted to New York City, and continues on to some of the great male speeches of Shakespeare. Composer and conductor Daniela Candillari creates an original score set to recitation performed by Theatre and Film actress ...
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It's not worth a bite.... unless it's a MOUTHFUL
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Every week, comedian Sierra Katow will chat with a fascinating guest about how they’ve managed to survive in this world (so far) all while keeping an upbeat outlook on life. Topics can range from the long-term philosophical to the short-term practical. Was this the career or the lifestyle they always planned on pursuing? What’s their go-to broke recipe? What did they wish they knew earlier? What was the worst advice they were ever given? The best? And most importantly, in tougher times, how ...
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The Poppy C Pod goes GAGA! In our brand new REWIND adventure, Sarah & Jacob are travelling back to follow Lady Gaga's entire musical journey from the very beginning, and exploring the ICON's impact on Poppy C. Expect everything from music, fashion, memes, and GAY RIGHTS! In this first episode, we look at Gaga's humble beginnings and her schooldays …
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201. Julie Brumley: Part 1/2; "A Trauma-Informed Adoptee Coach"
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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…
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ROUNDUP: Diddy Drama, Strictly Scandals & Beefy Bops
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In this episode of The Poppy C Pod: ROUNDUP, Sarah & Jacob get ooky spooky as Halloween approaches and the SCANDAL is SALACIOUS as skeletons have been clambering out of many closets... We go IN as we tackle the P DIDDY scandal, we have the latest in the ballroom with the STRICTLY scandal and even our new Queen of Green, CYNTHIA ERIVO, isn't best pl…
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200. Mavka: "An Imposter Among My Own People"
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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 explo…
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199. Kim Stevens: "One of Two"
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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 …
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REWIND: Girls Aloud - Part Two
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In this epic REWIND two-parter, we’re following the Sound of the Underground as we go back in time to dissect the Biology of Girls Aloud. JUMP right in for Part Two as we explore the PEAK of Girls Aloud… the girls were everywhere you looked! We follow the girls through their hiatus, their solo endeavours, the anniversary tour, the breakup and all w…
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198. Dana Ozak: "A Girl and Her Four Families"
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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://girland4familie…
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In this epic REWIND two-parter, we’re following the Sound of the Underground as we go back in time to dissect the Biology of 'Girls Aloud' from the very beginning - all the way to NOW. JUMP right in for Part One as we begin our Girls Aloud REWIND with their auditions on UK competition reality show “Popstars : The Rivals”. We follow their way throug…
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197. Liana Soifer: "BIPOC Adoptees VOICES"
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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. …
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196. Amanda Robinson: "Between Those Scars"
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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…
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ROUNDUP: Sexy Tunes, Sabrina Carpenter & Super Bowl Halftimers
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In this episode of The Poppy C Pod: ROUNDUP, Sarah & Jacob catch-up on all things pop culture after an unprecedented time apart! The latest celeb scandals are analysed (we’re looking at you Sabrina C. & Queen B), the Rumour Mill doors are opened WIDE with the help of Drake and Nicki, and Jacob’s Jams goes full Girl Groups - in ode to our latest REW…
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REWIND: Pop Group Breakups which SHOOK Pop Culture - Part Three
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Throughout these three REWIND episodes, we are looking back at some of the messiest and most shocking pop group break ups across the pop culture-verse. We will be covering the lead-up, the breakup itself and the aftermath of every iconic pop group split. In this third and final episode, we go full GIRL POWER as we discuss the 90s and 00s girl group…
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195. Grace Yung Foster: "The Incl[us]ion Initiative"
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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 n…
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In this special "Short n' Sweet" episode of The Poppy C Pod: ROUNDUP, we're covering the pop culture STAPLE of award shows: The MTV VMAs 2024. We'll be covering the Poppy C highlights, performances, red carpet lewks and of course... all the online discourse surrounding this year's award show ceremony. Check out our social media pages for all the vi…
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194. Kathleen Shea Kirstein: "Dear Mother and Blown Off Course"
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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 Course.” https://severancemag.com/dear-mother/ https://ww…
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193. Shannon Gibney: "The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption"
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Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, and activist. The author of several books, including The 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 Color and Dream Country, both winners of Minnesota Book Awards; and Sam and the Incredible African…
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As brat summer comes to an end, we ROUNDUP all the defining pop culture moments of the past month. We’ll be discussing the Olympics Poppy C highlights, the SCANDALS of the summer, and the latest pop bops to take over the airwaves. We’ve got you well and truly covered at The Poppy C Pod huns.
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REWIND: Pop Group Breakups which SHOOK Pop Culture - Part Two
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Throughout these three REWIND episodes, we are looking back at some of the messiest and most shocking pop group break ups across the pop culture-verse. We will be covering the lead-up, the breakup itself and the aftermath of every iconic pop group split. In this second episode, we enter the TV talent show era of pop groups and the X Factor MACHINE …
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192. Ryan Jafar Artes: "The Adoptee Open Mic"
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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 t…
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191. Pekitta Tynes: "Pekitta's Journey"
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Original air date: 02/01/2022 Pekitta 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=ZFhUFNkqpPU Music by Corey Quinn…
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REWIND: Pop Group Breakups which SHOOK Pop Culture - Part One
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Throughout these three REWIND episodes, we are looking back at some of the messiest and most shocking pop group breakups across the pop culture-verse. We will be covering the lead-up, the breakup itself and the aftermath of every iconic pop group split. In this first episode, we are rewinding all the way back to discuss the OG pop groups who set th…
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190. Marc Borne: "Was I Adopted, Yes or No?"
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Original air date: July 27, 2021 "Raise your hand and self validate yourself." -Marc Borne Music by Corey QuinnAv Jennifer Dyan Ghoston
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189. Elizabeth Blake: "Connecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found"
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Elizabeth (EM) Blake has a recently released graphic memoir called Connecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found. She is 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 for weeks or mon…
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REWIND: Iconic Award Show Performances - Part Two
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In the first ever episodes of The Poppy C Pod: REWIND, we’re discussing and dissecting the iconic award show performances which impacted pop culture and left us all SHOOK! In the second part of this two parter, we discuss the legendary pop princess performances, the effect the media and press has had, and we struggle to narrow down our ULTIMATE Que…
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REWIND: Iconic Award Show Performances - Part One
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In the first ever episodes of The Poppy C Pod: REWIND, we’re discussing and dissecting the iconic award show performances which impacted pop culture and left us all SHOOK! In the first part of this two parter, we discuss the OG award show ICON, awards shows on both sides of the pond, and the performances which impacted us personally and PROFOUNDLY.…
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In the first ever episode of The Poppy C Pod: Roundup, Sarah & Jacob say a big Poppy C 'HELLO' and tackle the year of 2024 so far in a juicy, jumbo, introductory episode. For your pop culture rundown of the hottest trending topics, latest new music & all the celebri-TEA, The Poppy C Pod: Roundup is the place to be huns.…
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188. Nancy McCaughey: "An Open Heart and Mind"
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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 reunio…
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187. Bonus: "Adoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated" by Kate Murphy, LCSW
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ADOPTION LOSS: WHEN GRIEF IS SUFFOCATED By Kate Murphy, LCSW Kate Murphy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a psychotherapy practice in Atlanta, GA. She specializes 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. …
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186. Simon Benn: "Be Inspired and Empowered by Your Lived Experience"
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Simon Benn is a returning guest. Simon was adopted at 5 weeks old and told so young he doesn’t ever remember not knowing. He didn't experience any conscious adoption trauma until 40 when he found out his childhood teddy bear was a gift from his birth mother. This caused an eruption of anger, feeling rejected and unloved. That kickstarted a healing …
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185. Marcie J. Keithley: "Finding Meaning is the Fuel of Our Minds"
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Marcie J. Keithley is a returning guest. Marcie is an author, speaker, master storyteller and CoFounder of the National Association of Adoptees and Parents (NAAP) She retired as Vice President of Retail Bank Management and Merrill Lynch after serving the financial industry for over 32 years. A first/birth mom in reunion since 2008, she co founded I…
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184. Dr. Katherin Elizabeth (K E) Garland: "In Search of a Salve: Memoir of a Sex Addict"
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Dr. Katherin Elizabeth (K E) Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer, blogger, and author based in Florida. She uses personal essays and memoir to de-marginalize women’s experiences with an intent to highlight and humanize contemporary issues, such as reproductive rights, intergenerational trauma, adoption, and mental health issues. …
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183. Lisa Bouler: "Resiliency and Faith"
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Lisa K Bouler is a returning guest. She was born and adopted in Chicago. From an early age her adoptive parents shared her adoption story and encouraged her to search for her biological family. With their support, she eventually found out she was not only a big sister to her parent’s biological child, but a big sister to her own four biological sib…
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182. Dr. Stephen Rowley: "The Lost Coin: A Memoir of Adoption and Destiny"
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Dr. Stephen Rowley became a psychotherapist after a rich and varied career in K-12 and higher education. He earned his B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major in English and Psychology. He also earned a Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis from the Graduate School of Education of Stanford University and an M.A. in Counseling…
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181. Autumn: "FOG Lifters and Smog Grifters"
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Rebecca Autumn is a returning guest to the podcast. Rebecca Autumn Sansom is a documentary filmmaker, event planner, and non-profit director. Her films, including Reckoning with the Primal Wound (2023) and Trainsforming America (2012), have screened at film festivals and public and private events throughout the United States. She is the founder and…
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180. Mee Ok Icaro: "Holding Compassionate Space"
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Mee Ok Icaro (pronounced “Mee Oak Ee-car-oh”), is a unique and powerful voice in the world of visionary medicine and personal growth. As a Writer, Book Doula, Sacred Medicine Advisor and Integration Specialist, Life Purpose Coach and Guide, Mee Ok is dedicated to helping individuals heal and find their path in life. Skilled in Gabor Maté’s Compassi…
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179. Shelise Keum Mee Gieseke: "Head of Operations at Adoption Mosaic"
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Shelise Keum Mee Gieseke (s/hers) is the head of operations at Adoption Mosaic. She has worked in the adoption community as an editor, educator, and administrator for over 10 years, including editing and curating the blog Land of Gazillion Adoptees and the online magazine Gazillion Voices. Shelise is also an intercountry Korean, interracial adoptee…
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178. Becca Flatt: "Adoptee Beacon" and "Conscious Adoption Navigating Estrangement"
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Becca Flatt is a Mixed Race, Black and white, closed, domestic infant, interracial adoptee. Becca’s biological family and adoptive family mirror each other; however, Becca, being mixed race, does not share the racial identity of either set of her parents. Becca Graduated from The University of Southern California with her Master’s in social work an…
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177. Rebecca Wellington: "Who Is A Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption"
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Rebecca Wellington currently teaches in the School of Education at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. She holds a doctorate in education history from the University of Washington. Rebecca’s career in education started 26 years ago on the ocean, sailing around the world on a traditionally rigged tall ship. Through this two-year glo…
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176. Louise Browne: "Adoption: The Making of Me"
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Louise Browne is a baby scoop-era adoptee from the United States living in California. She Co-Hosts a podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me, that helps to get adoptees' stories out in the world to help change the narrative around adoption. Hosting Adoption: the Making of Me has brought questions and past feelings to the surface about why she had alwa…
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175. Jennifer Poole: "Openness in Adoption as an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth"
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Jennifer Poole was adopted as an infant in a closed adoption. She holds a Masters Degree in Interfaith Pastoral Counseling, where she wrote her thesis on “Openness in Adoption as an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth”. It was during this time, in 2001, that she initiated her reunion with her birth mother and later with her birth father. Passionate ab…
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174. Edward Di Gangi: "Mothers, Mothering and the Month of May"
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Edward Di Gangi is a returning guest. Adopted at birth, Edward Di Gangi was born and raised in New York City. Although he knew for most of his life that he was adopted, it wasn’t until he approached his 70th birthday that he began to search for the identity of his birth mother. His journey and the many surprising discoveries he made as he searched …
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173. Heather G. Marshall: "When The Ocean Flies"
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Heather G. Marshall is an adoptee, author, speaker, teacher, and traveler. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of journals, including Black Middens: New Writing Scotland, and Quarried, an anthology of the best of three decades of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel. Her first novel, The Thorn Tree, released in 2014 (MP Publishing). When the…
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172. Michael Knox: "Not Lucky, Nor Chosen"
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Michael Knox is a returning guest, and after four years of listening to podcasts and interacting with his biological family, he has a different view on adoption. Coming out of the fog, he thinks is a real thing. Nobody can really define it, but there are things that he discovered that might help explain it for some people. The fact that after 25 ye…
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171. Valerie Naiman: "Mystic Masquerade: An Adoptee's Search for Truth"
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Valerie Naiman is a returning guest and the author of the newly released book Mystic Masquerade: An Adoptee's Search for Truth. Her memoir was compiled from decades of diaries and journals she wrote during her biological & spiritual search. Valerie is also a singer, story-song writer and is working on an album of her adoptee story songs. Besides th…
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170. Eva Asperalis: "Adoption in Adulthood"
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Eva Asprakis was raised in South London by her American mother and Cypriot stepfather, who subsequently adopted her. She now lives in Nicosia with her partner, and is the author of two contemporary fiction novels. https://www.eva-asprakis.com https://www.instagram.com/eva.asprakis Music by Corey Quinn…
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169. Leslie Pate Mackinnon, LCSW: "Do Us Justice"
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Leslie Pate Mackinnon, L.C.S.W. resides in North Carolina and presents nationally and internationally on issues that impact families conceived through adoption and third party reproduction. She trains therapists, agencies, and universities across the U.S. on the complex issues that accompany adoption and ART. She offers individual consultation and …
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168. Monica Hall: "Practically Still a Virgin"
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Monica Hall was born in Canada, adopted by American parents, and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. Growing up in a house filled with dysfunction, Monica rebelled against her strict Catholic parents in a downward spiral of delinquency. After being raped and finding out she was pregnant, her parents pushed her to up give her daughter–her only known blood …
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167. Marilyn Mendenhall Waugh: "A Search Angel"
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Marilyn Mendenhall Waugh is the Director of Adoption Concerns Triangle of Topeka, a search and support group serving those in Northeastern Kansas, and past president of the American Adoption Congress. She is a frequent conference presenter on ethical search and reunion techniques. For the past 28 years, Marilyn has volunteered in the Post Adoption …
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166. Melissa Brunetti: "Mind Your Own Karma: The Adoption Chronicles"
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Melissa Brunetti is a domestic adoptee from the baby scoop era and even though she had what she calls a 'good adoption with great adoptive parents' that doesn't mean she doesn't still have scars from her relinquishment. She says that she sees her healing journey as a gift that has shown her hidden treasures among the trauma. Melissa is the podcast …
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165. Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard: "Part 2; Birth Parents Unfiltered"
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Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is a birth mother who has spent several years working in the adoption field—both as a paralegal on the West Coast and in adoption agencies in the Midwest and East Coast. Kelsey is the fourth generation in her family to relinquish a child for adoption and her whole life has been uniquely impacted by adoption as a result. …
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