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Real stories about the joys and challenges of the adoption journey. You'll hear from parents and families who've been through infant and international adoption, foster-to-adopt, and even embryo adoption. These inspiring stories are told from the perspective of the adoptee, birth parent or adoptive parent.
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Wandering Tree ®, LLC Podcast is the ultimate audio companion for curious and adventurous minds, offering a journey through thought-provoking discussions and unique perspectives on life, culture, and the journey of an adoptee. This show has been established with the simple goal of reaching other adoptees who may benefit from just hearing other adoptees share on the lived experience. Host, Adoptee Lisa Ann, will share the tangled roots of the life long journey as an adoptee, the search for bi ...
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The Community Cats Podcast

The Community Cats Podcast

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Our mission is to provide education, information and dialogue that will create a supportive environment empowering people to help cats in their community. *For transcripts of most shows, visit https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/podcast/.
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Sharing stories and experiences of Australians who have been through Adoption and Foster Care. The stories are sometimes complex and tackle difficult issues which span over 50 plus years. From children that have been in an under resourced system to Australia's traumatic history of forced adoptions and the stolen generations. But through this darkness comes light - there are also stories of hope, courage resilience and love. My Unknown Truth is hosted by Nadia Levett, born and raised in Austr ...
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The Adoption Podcast, Made by Queer Adopters. Your hosts Sam, Paul (husbands and parents to their adopted son), and Andi (adoptive Dad to two children), invite you to join them in a safe space where everyone is welcome, LGBTQIA+, solo adopters, straight couples considering adoption or people who have adopted! This podcast honestly breaks down the adoption and EP process, SEND, and life after adoption. This podcast covers the hard times, the good times and does it all with a touch of humour a ...
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Adoptees On

Haley Radke

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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.
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Hey! Am I Adopted podcast

Emily Trowbridge and Gene Trowbridge

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Welcome to 'Hey! Am I Adopted?' – the podcast that opens the door to the world of adoption, hosted by the dynamic duo, father-daughter team, Emily and Gene Trowbridge, who are both adoptees. If you've ever found yourself pondering the unique journey of adoption or have burning questions about the process, you're in the right place. Join us as we delve into heartfelt conversations, share personal stories, and create a safe space for you to explore the intricacies of adoption. Whether you're a ...
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The Jersey PodCats

Danielle Woolley & Elizabeth Gearhart

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If you love talking about cats, but your friends and family are kind of over it, this is the podcast for you! Join your hosts, Danielle Woolley and Elizabeth Gearhart, on The Jersey PodCats for entertaining conversations with everyday cat lovers talking about life, cats and everything in between! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and everywhere you listen to podcasts.
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Same China. Different stories. We are the ones who found our way in a new life, Adoptees Born in China. Chinese adoptees’ stories and the stories of those lives they have become a part of. This podcast acts as a personal journal, archive, and resource for adoptees and others. Want to share your story? Email adoptedbabiesfromchina@gmail.com @adopteesborninchinapodcast on Instagram/ Facebook. Please rate and review. Music | bensound.com
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This podcast creates a space for genuine conversations about adoption, where emotions are acknowledged, journeys are reconciled, and a healthy acceptance of truths is fostered. Delve into the impact of adoption on all parties involved, gaining insights from adoptees, adoptive parents, biological parents, as well as professional psychologists and social workers. Explore the realities, reconciliation processes, and ongoing dynamics of adoption.
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We are Children's Division

The Missouri Department of Social Services

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This podcast is about all things Children's Division in Missouri! Learn about Children's Division's mission, involvement in big issues facing child welfare today, and how the division is working hard to better support the children and families in the Show Me State.
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The Forgotten Podcast

The Forgotten Initiative

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We want to see people everywhere supporting the foster care community and experiencing Jesus together. So, in this podcast, we are sharing the stories of the foster care community to bring awareness that leads to action!
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If you’ve got questions about following Jesus, we feel you. We started this podcast looking for answers on how to follow Jesus, but what we found were stories—stories that reminded us God is at work in the ordinary places we sometimes forget to look.
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ADOPTION MATTERS: Real People, Real Life, Real Talk

Growing Intentional Families Together, LLC

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Welcome to ADOPTION MATTERS, a podcast with real people sharing real life stories and getting real about adoption from all three perspectives of the adoption triad. I'm Kim Noeth, one of your co-hosts, and a birth mother, along with Sharon Butler Obazee, an adoptee and Sally Ankerfelt, an adoptive parent. Together we explore difficult topics and share frank conversations guided by our commitment to truth-telling and truth-seeking. In each episode we discuss important issues using adoption at ...
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Join Mal + Kate each Monday as they talk about adoption, parenthood, Disney, and MORE! They are two adoptive moms that seek to love, support, and elevate all corners of the adoption triad through honest conversations with adoptive parents, birth moms, & adoptees, all while running Funding Love, a non-profit that strengthens bonds, builds community, and restores people through all-expenses-paid vacations to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida! So grab a cup of coffee or a glass of wine; the ...
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Adopted Feels

Hana and Ryan

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100% real talk with your two new Korean adoptee besties! Hana and Ryan, Korean adoptees from Melbourne, Australia, talk about anything and everything adoption related, including race, gender, birth family search and reunion, and more. Original podcast music by Domus.
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The Anna Jinja show focuses on the stories, issues, and questions connected to adoption and foster care experiences. The host is an international adoptee with biological roots in Korea and adopted roots in the United States. As you can imagine, her journey and experiences as a transracial adoptee are multifaceted. Her experiences have been with the pain of discrimination and rejection as well as the joys of self-discovery and learning to embrace all aspects of her identity. Along the way, sh ...
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The Foster Friendly Podcast

Courtney Williams, Brian Mavis, Travis Vangsnes

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Welcome to The Foster Friendly Podcast. We’re bringing foster care closer to home by sharing stories from the front lines. We're talking with former foster youth, foster parents and others who are finding unique and powerful ways to dramatically improve the experiences and outcomes for kids in foster care. The Foster Friendly podcast is brought to you by America’s Kids Belong, a nonprofit that helps kids in foster care find belonging in both family and community.
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Adoptive parents are more than aware that their child has suffered great loss in relinquishment, and they long to create a haven of love for their child. However, many times, the adopted child pushes love away. This can be because of RAD and the trauma that keeps hijacking the child’s brain. Some children don’t exhibit pushback behavior until their teen years or when they are searching for their biological roots. Adoptive parents must prepare themselves for this possibility by hearing the st ...
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In this podcast I deconstruct the romanticism holding up the family policing industry and expose the lies, abuse, and pain that gets silenced. I'm here to unwrap the shiny bow around adoption and speak my truths as an adoptee. In doing so, I explain what it means and what it feels like to “come out of the fog”. This isn't your feel good podcast, I am an angry, healing and honest adoptee.
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PLANT CEO

Anant Joshi

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As more people adopt plant-based diets or cut back on meat, innovative start-ups are rising to meet the demand for sustainable alternatives to traditional animal products. Anant Joshi, the show host, explores the entrepreneurs behind this movement, reimagining meat, dairy, seafood, fashion, health and beauty in eco-conscious ways. The audience will hear the inspirational stories of these pioneers building the next generation of compassionate companies. The show features exclusive one-on-one ...
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Toasted Cake is: * 1 crispy-gooey fantasy & science fiction flash story podcast every Monday * dark, twisted, frosting-covered stories hand-picked & read by me * THE best way to prepare cake, in case you hadn't guessed * an idiosyncratic 2012 podcasting venture from Tina Connolly.
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This is Infertility

A Podcast by Progyny

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This is Infertility is a bi-weekly podcast where we fuse narrative storytelling with experience and science to give you a new perspective on what it’s really like to go through a family building journey. Each episode dives into the emotional, physical, and financial burdens carried by those who experience infertility on their path to parenthood. Be it IVF, IUI, egg freezing, surrogacy, adoption, etc., the path is never the same and it can be long, painful, and lonely. It’s our mission to giv ...
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Chai with Ping | Immigrants | Cross-Cultures

Ping H, Taiwanese, Immigrant in U.S. and more

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Welcome! Chai with Ping covers immigrant stories and minority issues like int'l students, life/work abroad, and identity issues with guests such as child sexual abuse advocate Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Adoptee Heritage Camp Coordinators Sarah & Emily Quinn, and Third Culture Kids Consultant Tanya Crossman. We hope to generate cross-cultural dialogues and understanding between communities. 👉🏼 Biweekly episodes release on Mondays (Hopefully) 🌐https://linktr.ee/chaiwithping 👍 IG/FB @chaiwithping 📧 ...
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Who Am I Really?

Damon L. Davis

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Adoptees telling their own stories of life in adoption, their search for their birth family, and how their reunion attempt turned out. Stories that make you laugh, cry, or simply say "wow". This podcast has two purposes: 1) To help you explore your own feelings about your adoption, accept your desire understand your own personal history, and decide for yourself whether reunification with your biological relatives is right for you. It will help you understand how others have dealt with issues ...
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A place where adoptees can come to explore our stories, share our experience and speak our truth, in community and support with fellow adoptees. And where non-adoptees can come to listen, learn and support. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thisadopteelife/support
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This show is here to help you adopt. You'll find resources, inspiration and hope to build your family through infant adoption. This interview-based show has guests ranging from adoptive families to authors, consultants, agencies, attorneys and more. We lay it all out on the table with each interview to give you tips, encouragement and a TON of knowledge of the adoption process.
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Fitness doesn’t have to be complicated! What if you could burn fat, build muscle and get in the best shape of your life without giving up the foods you crave or wasting hours on a treadmill? With over 2 million lives transformed with our unique approach to health and wellness, the team at V Shred is here to break down popular fitness myths, unveil the secrets to achieving your dream body, and help you start building healthy habits for long term success. Tune in for exclusive content and inte ...
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SatsMate Show

Paul SatsMate

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SatsMate is about the importance of personal finance in today's rugged environment, emphasizing the importance of Bitcoin/Satoshis as a tool to gain sovereignty over one's finances. We live in a debt and credit-fueled world, that seems to only reward debtors as winners and savers as losers. A world in which people feel the need to gamble in stocks and other speculative markets to make ends meet. Fortunately, we have a strong Orange Light: Bitcoin. Through years of being in this space and mak ...
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Welcome to Family Twist, the podcast that dives deep into the tangled webs of family secrets and DNA surprises. Each episode, hosts Corey and Kendall Austin Stulce explore the complex and challenging truths that come with discovering you are a non-parent expected (NPE) individual—someone whose familial origins aren't what they seemed. Through candid interviews with people from the NPE, adoptee, and donor-conceived communities, Family Twist offers a platform for stories of unexpected parentag ...
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Whether you seek to add to your family through foster care, private domestic adoption or you are called to travel internationally, every adoption story is uniquely beautiful. Yet, each shares a common language of calling, loss, and hardship. As Christian parents we have a deep desire to love and shepherd our children well, but it can be challenging to navigate loss, trauma and how to best love and guide our adopted children. One thing is for sure, adoption is more than a process, it is an in ...
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Stories from Cumberland

University of North Texas Department of Media Arts

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Stories from Cumberland is a six-part documentary series about the 2019 Youth Media Lab hosted by the University of North Texas Department of Media Arts. Join teaching fellow Rob Upchurch as he highlights the impact this media literacy and production workshop had on a group of young people in foster care.
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Open Adoption Project

Lanette & Shaun Nelson

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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 re ...
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Truth Be Told: Adoption Stories

National Adoption Service

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In this adoption podcast, a group of adopters talk to each other about their experiences - from the first steps to post-adoption support. No one knew each other before the recording but within moments it will be like listening to old friends talk. They laugh together, they cry together. To find out more about adopting with the National Adoption Service, you can: Follow us @nas_cymru and @nationaladoptionservice Contact us adoptcymru.com
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Interested in human behavior and how people think? The Measure of Everyday Life is a weekly interview program featuring innovations in social science and ideas from leading researchers and commentators. Independent Weekly has called the show "unexpected" and "diverse" and says the show "brings big questions to radio." Join host Dr. Brian Southwell (@BrianSouthwell) as he explores the human condition. Episodes air each Sunday night at 6:30 PM in the Raleigh-Durham broadcast market and a podca ...
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Hope Stories with Sr. Josephine Garrett, CSFN explores extraordinary stories of hope hidden within the ordinary lives we lead. Sr. Josephine loves the transformational power and gift of stories, and their ability to reveal deep truths about the purpose and meaning of our lives. As a Catholic Christian writer, speaker, and mental health counselor, Sr. Josephine helps people discover and abide within places and relationships where they can be received wholeheartedly as gift. In the first seaso ...
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The Call to Foster

Missouri Department of Social Services

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The Missouri Department of Social Services is proud to present The Call to Foster, a heartwarming new podcast series that features inspiring stories from foster parents across the state. Each episode will highlight their unique experiences and perspectives, how they overcame hesitations, and provide helpful advice for anyone considering becoming a foster parent. Prepare your heart as you hear first-hand from the compassionate families and individuals working together to make a difference for ...
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In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book, 2024) richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson provides a richly detailed account to take us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. At the heart of this history is the fema…
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What skills and strategies enable civil society to be effective under authoritarian rule? Dr. Runya Qiaoan, assistant professor and senior researcher at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, explores this question in her book Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State (Routledge, 2021). The book highlights the ways NGOs and activis…
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Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls (Lexington Books, 2024) explores these effects in the context of Arviat, Nunavut. Lisa-Jo Van den Scott lays out the inherent social p…
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Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities. The first section studies the bazaar's spatiality - its location, relocation, and spatialization. Three actors p…
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In this episode, hosts Emily and Gene Trowbridge engage in a heartfelt conversation with Jessi, who shares her unique adoption story. Jessi was adopted by her biological aunt and uncle at the age of 12 after experiencing a tumultuous childhood marked by her mother's struggles with addiction. The discussion delves into the complexities of family dyn…
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Darcy Olsen is the founder & CEO of the Center for the Rights of Abused Children, an organization dedicated to uniting people in the fight to protect America's abused children. They have helped over 775,000 children nationwide. Darcy has fostered ten babies and adopted four as a single mother! Darcy’s dedication to supporting abused children and na…
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Isaac Etter grew up as a black boy surrounded by a loving but also primarily white family. It took him a long time to understand his full identity and how his race affected his place in the world. Over time, Isaac educated not only his adoptive family about race and adoption but also sought to inform other adoptive families. Isaac regularly speaks …
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What would you do if you had to make one of the toughest decisions of your life? Join us on the Wandering Tree Podcast as we explore the heartfelt and emotional journeys of a birth mother navigating the experience of open adoption. In this episode, Jenny Becknell candidly shares her lived journey, from the moment she went into labor with her daught…
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Although it is easy to scroll through social media applications to see posts from all over the world, it can be challenging to know what is real and what is artificial and to know about the mindset and wellbeing of people posting content. New tools can help us assess what gets posted online and to turn that into useful signals for interventions to …
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Welcome back to another episode of the Better Body, Better Life podcast! This week Vince is joined once again by V Shred Certified Coach Stephanie Mirich to talk about our own personal cultures effect on our diet and eating traditions. Many of us can understand that certain cultural norms surrounding food can directly conflict with living a healthy…
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In this episode, Pastor Buddy Sampson discusses the importance of foster care from a church perspective and the biblical mandate to care for orphans. He shares how his church, Overland Durango, meets the requirements to be a foster-friendly faith community by teaching about foster care, supporting foster families, and providing trauma sensitivity t…
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In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos remaining from assisted reproduction procedures, which they contend are unborn children. While a small part of US fertility services, embryo adoption has played an outsized…
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Rock Legend Jorma Kaukonen, Vanessa, and Daughter Izze Share a Deeply Personal Story on Family, Adoption, and Music This episode is one for the books! Join us as we sit down with Jorma Kaukonen, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, along with his powerhouse wife, Vanessa, and their daughter, Izze. Hear the heartwa…
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"The reproductive justice framework is really useful for thinking about community cats and TNR because it opens us up to engaging with the lives of the cats both personally and before sterilization, but also afterwards." This episode is sponsored in part by Maddie’s Fund and Tomahawk Traps. In this episode, Stacy LeBaron welcomes Katja Gunther, a p…
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In this powerful episode of Family Twist, Corey and Kendall Stulce sit down with Cree filmmaker and adoptee, Kristal Parke, to discuss her impactful documentary Because She’s Adopted. Kristal’s film dives deep into the complex emotional landscape of adoption, exploring themes like the primal wound, hidden trauma, and how adoptees often navigate ide…
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We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the state could stop people and search them. Taking advantage of a North Carolina law that required the collection of demographic data on those detained by the police during routine traffic stops, Frank Bau…
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In this episode, we’ll explore the big question: What do we mean by success? How are we really measuring it? Is success defined by traditional milestones like career achievements or financial stability, or can it be something more personal and nuanced? We’ll explore how success can look different for everyone, especially when considering individual…
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Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast. In this episode, I am joined by Sally Clarkson. Sally has written several books and her most recent release is titled, "Well Lived: Shaping a Legacy of Gratitude and Grace" which sparks today's conversation on how to live well as adoptive and foster parents. Let's be real... this calling is a hard one, there a…
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Send us a text Hi Sats Crew, Now more than ever we can see our government deliberately trying to negatively impact those trying to help. We all know the government is extremely inefficient, it is filled with bureaucracy and red tape and lastly, they aim to virtue signal. There are countless things I can go over, but in today's podcast, I stick to w…
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In this episode of the Hope Stories podcast, Sister Josephine Garrett welcomes her lifelong friend Maribel Laguna, a licensed professional counselor supervisor and founder of Cor Sacrum Counseling and Consulting. They discuss the unique experiences of first-generation Mexican American women and the mental health challenges they face navigating mult…
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This month we met with Alison Jacobson, the current CEO of First Candle. As a SIDS mom, Alison knows the pain of losing an infant to a sleep-related death firsthand. Also joining us for this conversation was Haylee Musso and Misty Allen from our DSS team. While we cover trend data, experience and other great information, the whole podcast boils dow…
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In honor of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re highlighting Joyelle Fleming’s story with breast cancer, which began at the young age of 31. During her journey, Joyelle was faced with a difficult decision – what to do about her future fertility given the impact of cancer treatment. With the support of her doctors and access to fertility …
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It’s week 5 of Season 4 and today’s episode is all about fundraising for your adoption. Everyone knows adoption can be really expensive, but don’t let money be the reason you choose not to adopt. Tune in as Mal + Kate share their stories and brainstorm ways to fundraise for adoption. Connect with your hosts! @malyourpal @katedawnduck Connect with F…
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TW: This episode contains mentions of drug use, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. If these topics could be triggering for you or others, we wanted you to be aware of these topics before listening. The trauma of our past can often define us and inform what we think and how we behave. This can create a cycle in which we are far more likely to repeat …
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Welcome back for Season 2! Please rate us 5 stars if you love the show and hit that follow button. This season we will cover even more aspects of adoption and will be joined by professionals to help us unpack the more complex parts of the process and beyond. Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram for more Two Dad content @my.2.dads.and.me Andi’s In…
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Send us a text Hey Satscrew, I recently stumbled upon a show that really is getting me to think in a more open and honest way about how the world works. It is challenging almost all of the misconceptions I have about money, finance, and business. The show is called Undercover Billionaires (I highly recommend everyone give it a watch)! At the end of…
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In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence in a textured way. The Iraqi Ba’th state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only c…
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How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Torsh speaks with Lynnette Arnold about her new book Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families (Oxford University Press, 2024). Lynnette also shares her tips …
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This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, global commodity chains or supply chains, exploitation of labour and environmental degradation, and resistance. To discuss these issues, we are joined by Dr. Alyssa Paredes, an environmental and economi…
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What is the future of classical music? In The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music (Manchester UP, 2024), Kristina Kolbe, an assistant professor of Sociology of Arts and Culture in the School of History, Culture and Communication at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, explores how the genre is seeking to…
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Hello and welcome to this episode of the podcast. We catch up with some news and reflect on the recent BBC programme 'I am not ok' looking at parents caring for children with violent and agressive behaviour. You can view it here in the UK. We also talk about the recent article in CYPNow by Mark Owers considering the changes that need to be brought …
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Janet spoke to me from her home in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She grew up with an adoptive mother who presented to the outside community as a saint whom everyone loved. But at home she was unkind to her family. Janet said she spent her whole life wanting to know her birth mother when she finally found the woman. Janet's birth mother didn't want to k…
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In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J. Thompson reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with obj…
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Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing field of Sufism in the Global North which often encompasses studies of North America and western Europe. This monograph study, the first focused study of Sufism in Italy and France, uses ethnographic …
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Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: libera…
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It’s time for another BONUS EPISODE of the Funding Love Adoption Podcast! This week, Mal + Kate talk with returning guest, Funding Love Birth Mom Vacation Alumna, and author of The Sixteenth Year: An Open Adoption Memoir, Leah Outten. Leah reflects on her experience as an expectant mom looking through profile books to choose a family for her baby. …
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As a professional bareback bull rider, Todd Pierce had “lots of close calls with life and death situations.” However, his biggest fear lurked within. Find out how Todd overcame a career-ending injury, his deepest fears, and how God lead him to use his rodeo experience to share the love of Jesus Christ on this episode of GPS: God. People. Stories. C…
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Welcome back to another episode of the Better Body, Better Life podcast! This week Vince is taking us through one of the easiest weight loss hacks you can do. And guess what? You already do it! It’s called walking. Yes, walking! Taking a walk can do wonders for your health, and over the long term it can help you lose a substantial amount of weight.…
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In this episode of the Foster Friendly Podcast, Brian Mavis and Courtney Williams interview Larry and Tammie May, a couple who adopted a child after their biological children had grown up. The conversation explores their decision to adopt, the challenges they faced, and the importance of being brave and stepping out of the norm. They discuss the pa…
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An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places (MIT Press, 2024), photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani introduces us to the comple…
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For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world regarded each other with apprehension—when not outright fear and loathing. Tribal or racial attitudes were virtually universal, no one group being much better or worse in this respect than any other—and for good reason given the conditions of life befor…
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Looking for an inspiring listen? Tune into the latest episode of The Anna Jinja Show for a powerful journey of self-discovery and creative expression with two remarkable guests: Izze Kaukonen—daughter of legendary guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and member of the band Basket Case—and Wendy McVicker, former Athens Poet Laureate. Here’s why you’ll want to l…
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"We will not spay and neuter ourselves out of the problem...the education is the lasting part of it, and that will go from person to person." This episode is sponsored in part by Maddie’s Fund and Tomahawk Traps. In this episode of the Community Cats Podcast, Stacy interviews Dr. Christine Monroe, a seasoned veterinarian, and Rhonda Shaffer, a dedi…
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