Podcasts

I'm Adopted: The Podcast

Stories, conversations, and personal experiences from adoptees around the world.

Hosted by: Alex Gilbert

New Zealand

Adoptees On

The podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience. This is not the usual adoption talk. You will find real, raw, and deep feelings addressed in these interviews. No sugar-coating here! Come and laugh, cry, learn and heal with us. Adult adoptees share stories of search, reunion, and secondary rejection. Adoptees On also curates recommended resources to encourage and educate the adoption community about adoptee issues.

Hosted by: Haley Radke

Canada

Thriving Adoptees

Let's thrive. Thriving Adoptees helps adoptees thrive. What does thriving mean to you? Healing? Post Traumatic Growth? Evolving? Listen in as we explore what's helped adoptees do all that.

Hosted by: Simon Benn

United Kingdom

Adoptees Dish

Adoptee centered podcast elevating experiences and the lived experience of those impacted by the complexities of adoption. Amy & Marcela are both international & transracial adoptees as well as licensed clinical social workers. Their insights are both personal and share a clinical lens.

Hosted by: Amy & Marcela

United States

Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories is a podcast hosted by adult adoptees Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Browne. Launched in frank and honest conversations, the show focuses on reframing the adoption narrative by giving a platform directly to adoptees to share their personal histories and lived experiences.

Hosted by: Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt

United States

Divine Angelic Guidance

The podcast began as Angels, Adoption, and Ancestors, inspired by my own adoption journey and the profound questions it raised about identity, belonging, family, and connection. Over time, it evolved into Divine Angelic Guidance, expanding the conversation while continuing to honor the themes that first inspired it. Through personal stories, spiritual insights, and meaningful conversations, the podcast explores topics that many adoptees can relate to, including self-discovery, healing, ancestral connections, grief, forgiveness, intuition, and finding a sense of belonging beyond circumstance.

Hosted by: Michelle Irene Stupski

United States

Ethiopian Adoptees | Unapologetically Unfiltered

Ethiopian Adoptees: Unapologetically Unfiltered is a podcast by and for Ethiopian adoptees navigating the long aftermath of intercountry adoption. Hosted by Lidet O’Connor, the podcast centers adoptee voices without romanticizing adoption or softening harm. Through solo episodes and conversations with other Ethiopian adoptees, it explores identity, grief, systemic failure, survival, responsibility, and the realities adoption leaves behind.

Hosted by: Lidet O'Connor

Listening To Adoptees

Listening to Adoptees is a podcast for everyone in the adoption constellation: adoptees, adoptive parents, birth or first or biological parents, siblings, friends, extended family and allies of adoptees. We believe that the people who know the very most about adoption are adoptees. Adoptees are the experts on their own experiences. This podcast is a place to listen to the stories, advice and visions of adoptees. There is no singular story of adoption, so we interview multiple adoptees on this long journey to explore, deepen and learn from adoptees.

Hosted by: Katelyn Dixon & Annie Schuessler

United States

Open Adoption Project

This podcast is about connecting. It's about growing. It's about stretching. In society nowadays, it's easy to fall into echo chambers. This is not an echo chamber. Open Adoption Project is a community dedicated to listening and learning, and building relationships based on healthy respect and communication. The Open Adoption Project focuses on improving adoptee experiences by encouraging open communication between all members of the adoption constellation, nurturing ongoing open adoption relationships and promoting ethical adoption practices.

Hosted by: Lanette & Shaun Nelson

United States

Pulled By The Root

My name is Heidi Marble. I am a domestic adoptee/author/speaker born in 1965. I did not realize the depth of pain caused from my own relinquishment until later in life. The loss surrounding adoption is so far reaching it is hard to grasp; the gravity of hurt pulled me to take action. Fueled by our amazing team, Pulled By The Root has become a collective platform that elevates, honors and gives voice to the issues surrounding adoption.

Hosted by: Heidi Marble

United States

When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees

What happens when the adoptee is centered as the hero in their own story? These are whole-hearted conversations with adoptees and adoption experts who are at the forefront of alchemizing adoption trauma into positive impact for you and the rest of the world. Each episode is designed to make you feel empowered, informed and fortified with a variety of methods, healing modalities and expert advice.This is for the adoptee, parents, and the adoption-curious. Hosted by Lanise Antoine Shelley who is an intercountry adoptee from Haiti. She is an artist and somatic coach based in the US.

Hosted by: Lanise Antoine Shelley

United States

Who Am I Really?

Adoptees telling their own stories of life in adoption, their search for their birth family, and how their reunion attempt turned out.

Hosted by: Damon L. Davis

United States