Found with Trish and Sherri

This is a story about loss, intentional parenthood, reproductive choices, and the determination to build a different future.Whether you're donor-conceived, considering IVF, exploring single motherhood, navigating genetic testing, or simply interested in the many ways families are created, this conversation offers an important perspective.At FOUND with Trish & Sherri, we believe everyone has a story worth telling. Through honest conversations about adoption, DNA discoveries, donor conception, family secrets, identity, and belonging, we explore what it means to find your roots and define your family.Subscribe to FOUND with Trish & Sherri for more real stories about family, identity, and the unexpected paths that connect us.Have a story you'd like to share?Visit https://foundwithtrishandsherri.com/ and click “Share Your Story Here” to tell us about your experience. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode of FOUND with Trish & Sherri!Everybody has a story. Every story deserves to be FOUND.

At 54, she took a 23andMe DNA test expecting to learn more about her Jewish ancestry and health. Instead, an unexpected DNA match appeared: an “uncle” she had never heard of.There was just one problem—she didn't have any uncles.That discovery led her into the unexpected world of **NPE (Not Parent Expected)**, a term used when DNA testing reveals that someone's biological parentage is different from what they had always believed. Also sometimes called a *Non-Paternity Event*, an NPE discovery can raise questions about family relationships, identity, and long-held family secrets.But **Annde's story is about much more than an unexpected DNA result.** It's about the life she lived before that discovery, the relationships that shaped her, the questions that followed, and the emotional journey of learning that her family's story was more complicated than she ever imagined.Join us on **Found with Trish and Sherri**, where everyone has a story.**Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • Identity**This heartfelt conversation explores NPE discovery, unexpected DNA matches, biological family, family secrets, grief, identity, unexpected siblings, and the complicated reality of discovering that the story you believed about your family wasn't the whole story.**Because behind every DNA discovery is an entire lifetime of experiences, relationships, and stories waiting to be told.** Have a story you'd like to share?Visit https://foundwithtrishandsherri.com/ and click “Share Your Story Here” to tell us about your experience. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode of FOUND with Trish & Sherri!Everybody has a story. Every story deserves to be FOUND.

What finally makes someone ready to tell a story they’ve kept private for years?Inspired by Maya Angelou’s words, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,” Trish and Sherri talk about the stories we carry, why some remain hidden for years, and what can finally make us ready to tell them.Because sometimes, telling your story is the beginning of something you never expected.Have a story you'd like to share?Visit https://foundwithtrishandsherri.com/ and click “Share Your Story Here” to tell us about your experience. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode of FOUND with Trish & Sherri!Everybody has a story. Every story deserves to be FOUND.

DNA Season is coming—and DNA kits can seem like a fun, meaningful gift for the holidays. But sometimes, the results reveal much more than anyone expected: unknown relatives, family secrets, unexpected ancestry, or even a completely different family story. On Found with Trish & Sherri, we talk about what can happen when a simple DNA test changes everything.Have a story you'd like to share?Visit https://foundwithtrishandsherri.com/ and click “Share Your Story Here” to tell us about your experience. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode of FOUND with Trish & Sherri!Everybody has a story. Every story deserves to be FOUND.

Morgan also takes us inside what their open adoption actually looks like 10 years later and discusses the extraordinary decision to become a surrogate for her son's family.This is a conversation about adoption, grief, relationships, trust, support, and what happens to a birth mother after everyone else thinks the adoption story is over.Have a story you'd like to share?Visit https://foundwithtrishandsherri.com/ and click “Share Your Story Here” to tell us about your experience. Your story could be featured in an upcoming episode of FOUND with Trish & Sherri!Everybody has a story. Every story deserves to be FOUND.

She placed her daughter for adoption 34 years ago — but their story never ended.Today, they have a fully open adoption, a lifelong relationship, and a connection that continues to grow. She shares what it really means to be a birth mom decades after placement, why she is still at peace with her adoption decision, and why birth mom support matters for a lifetime.Today, she is the co-founder of Birth Moms Empowered, a nonprofit created by birth moms for birth moms. The organization provides peer support, community, connection, and a place for birth moms to openly discuss the lifelong realities of adoption — including grief, love, complicated emotions, relationships, growth, and healing.🎥 Watch the full episode at https://youtu.be/uGng5Rks8U0If you have a related story and would like to be on a future episode, please email us at [email protected]

When Christine and her husband Andrew became foster carers in 2019, they expected fostering to become Christine’s new job. Their very first placement was a four-year-old a child who had experienced extreme neglect, trauma, and two previous placement breakdowns.They initially agreed to care for him for only six months. Instead, he changed their lives.Christine shares how learning to recognize the unmet needs underneath trauma-related behavior transformed the way she and Andrew parented their son—and how six months of fostering became a four-and-a-half-year fight to keep him.In February 2024, he officially became their son through adoption.This is Christine’s story of foster care, trauma-informed parenting, perseverance, adoption, and becoming a family.Found with Trish & Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityEverybody has a story.

What if one unexpected letter could reconnect you to a life you left behind?Alina was adopted from Romania with her twin sister at five years old and grew up in America carrying memories—and complicated feelings—about the life she left behind.Years later, a letter from Germany arrived that would change the direction of her story.In this episode of Found with Trish & Sherri, travel across the ocean with Alina as she explores adoption, family, reunion, memories, and what it means to reconnect with where your story began.Found with Trish & Sherri — Everybody has a story.Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityIf you have a related story you'd like to share, please send us an email at [email protected] and you could be part of an upcoming episode.Please Like & Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Sondra was adopted from Guatemala, but years later, a DNA test taken simply to see what other interesting genes might be hiding in her ancestry opened a much bigger door.In this episode, we talk about identity, international adoption, DNA, biological family searches, the complicated history surrounding adoption from Guatemala, and what happens when finding the truth doesn’t necessarily complete the story.Found with Trish and Sherri — Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityEveryone has a story.Email: [email protected]📖 Read our book: Found: Adopted Friends Search for Their Birth Families, available on Amazon.👍 Like this episode, subscribe to Found with Trish and Sherri, and turn on notifications so you don't miss our next conversation.

What happens when DNA changes everything you thought you knew about your family?This is a story about DNA discovery, family history, genetic genealogy, biological parents, generational cycles, unexpected relatives, and the search for the truth.Found with Trish & Sherri — Everybody has a story.Adoption • DNA • Family • Reunion • IdentityIf you have a related story you'd like to share, please send us an email at [email protected] and you could be part of an upcoming episode.Please Like & Subscribe so you never miss an episode.#DNA #DNATest #DNAResults #GeneticGenealogy #Genealogy #FamilySecrets #BiologicalFamily #BiologicalFather #BiologicalGrandfather #DNAJourney #FamilySearch #FamilyHistory #DNACommunity #UnexpectedDNA #FoundWithTrishAndSherri #AdopteeCommunity #BirthFamily #DNAStory