Episodes

  • Introducing Adoption: The Long View

    Introducing Adoption: The Long View
    Jul 2 2020
    Adoption: The Long View is a truly informative podcast for adoptive parents, helping them to navigate the ever-changing, post-adoption world. If you thought adoption was something that ended when a child was placed with your family, think again. But don't...
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    1 min
  • 101: Cultivating Openness In Your Adoption: A Conversation With Leah Campbell

    101: Cultivating Openness In Your Adoption: A Conversation With Leah Campbell
    Aug 7 2020
    In this episode, Lori Holden talks with single adoptive mom Leah Campbell about the unexpected way she became a mom to her beloved daughter, "Cheeks," now 7. Author of the just-released children's book The Story of My Open Adoption, Leah is a writer and mo...
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    32 mins
  • 102: Birthmother Grief, Healing, and the Importance of Adoption Education: Interview with birth mother, educator, and adoption advocate Ashley Mitchell

    102: Birthmother Grief, Healing, and the Importance of Adoption Education: Interview with birth mother, educator, and adoption advocate Ashley Mitchell
    Sep 1 2020
    In this episode, we hear from birth mom Ashley Mitchell of Big Tough Girl and Lifetime Healing Foundation. Now 14 years into her open adoption experience, she talks of grief and healing, and of the importance of adoption education for both adoptive and for...
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    28 mins
  • 103: Inconceivable Yet True: Carolyn Savage's Journey Through Adoption, Surrogacy & Parenting

    103: Inconceivable Yet True: Carolyn Savage's Journey Through Adoption, Surrogacy & Parenting
    Sep 15 2020
    In this episode, Lori talks with Carolyn Savage, who has, perhaps, the twistiest-turniest journey to family you've ever heard of. Starting with an inconceivable snafu with a fertility clinic, within one year Carolyn (1) gave birth to a son she placed in th...
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    31 mins
  • 104: Ending Shame & Secrecy: A Discussion About Adoptee Rights With Rich Uhrlaub

    104: Ending Shame & Secrecy: A Discussion About Adoptee Rights With Rich Uhrlaub
    Oct 1 2020
    In this episode, adoptee and activist Rich Uhrlaub addresses the ways that adoptees in many states don't have the same legal rights as the non-adopted. He tells us why original birth certificates were sealed in the closed adoption era, and what the ripple...
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    40 mins
  • 105: Between the Pain of One Set of Parents and the Joy of Another: An Interview with Angela Tucker

    105: Between the Pain of One Set of Parents and the Joy of Another: An Interview with Angela Tucker
    Oct 15 2020
    Angela Tucker is on a mission to center adoptee voices -- which have been historically marginalized -- because she considers adoptees the experts in the adoption experience. That’s a great point, and adoptive parents are wise to listen for understanding. I...
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    40 mins
  • 106: "You're Not My Real Mom!" and Other Real Fears of Adoptive Parents: A Conversation with Sara Easterly

    106: "You're Not My Real Mom!" and Other Real Fears of Adoptive Parents: A Conversation with Sara Easterly
    Nov 2 2020
    If you’ve ever feared not being considered the “real” parent, if you are unsure how you can co-exist in your child’s heart along with their birth mother or father, if you are curious about how an adoptee tries to “earn” their love from their adoptive paren...
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    42 mins
  • 107: My Not-So-Open Kinship Adoption: Managing Emotions, Truth, And Family With Clemencia Deleon

    107: My Not-So-Open Kinship Adoption: Managing Emotions, Truth, And Family With Clemencia Deleon
    Nov 15 2020
    To get ready for this episode -- which turned out to be on Emotional Intelligence in adoption relationships -- imagine that you are 18 years old and parenting a 4 month old boy, a path you don’t feel prepared for at all. You have an older half-brother; he...
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    40 mins