Exploring & Belonging with Owen Knight

Join us for the final episode of Season 3. Amber and I discuss what chosen family means to us and how it relates to interacting with our family units. Along with this, we share some of our closing thoughts about the entire season.

Joy is the CEO of IAMAdoptee, an online non-profit that provides resources for adoptees. She speaks on how this non-profit can help adoptees navigate their adoption journey in regards to the family unit as well as sharing a bit about her expertise in this work.

Mireille Adele is a transracial adoptee from Canada. She was adopted with her twin sister and they had an interesting introduction to their birth mother at a young age. Listen in as she shares her story on reuniting with her birth family.

As far as family goes, the older you get the more likely you will experience the question "do you want kids?". For adoptees that question may seem more complex as we try to understand how or if we want to have children. Listen in as Amber and I discuss our own experiences and season of life exploring this idea of "the next generation".

Owen Knight is a transracial adoptee from Korea. He was also a contestant on Survivor Season 43 where some of his story about being a transracial adoptee was shared. Listen in as he talks about his childhood, his adoptee identity, and the various ways he's navigated his adoption journey.

Darci Wen Siegel is a Chinese adoptee from Huangshi and identifies as a transnational adoptee, activist, and advocate, whose dedication to examining the relationship between gender, race, and policy is driven by her personal experiences stemming from China’s One-Child Policy. Listen in as she shares her story of returning to China along with seeing how her adoptee identity has impacted her perspective on herself and relationships with others.

Continuing on the focus of romantic relationships tune in to this episode where Eric Bartram, a Korean adoptee, shares his experience navigating his adoptee identity while in relationship with his wife who is also Korean.

Join us this week as Amber Davies-Sloan and I discuss how our adoptee identity might have impacted some of our previous romantic relationships. We also briefly talk about our spouses and what our experiences have been like not only sharing our adoption journey with them but also with others like our in-laws.

Joh McCormick, a transracial adoptee from Colombia, shares his story about reuniting with his birth family. He discusses different resources that supported him through his journey and talks about his most recent visit to be with his birth family.

Listen in while Sam Severns, a Korean adoptee raised in Colorado, discusses his birth family reunion story. While Sam also shares about his story, he adds in about a non-profit that impacted him from childhood to now.