HeyJaredAdoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Two adult adoptees, Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Browne, delve into all things adoption - from their perspectives as adult adoptees. Each season Sarah and Louise recap a chapter from a book centered on adoption and then interview a guest.
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Pushpa: The Courage to Belong (opens the original)
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Pushpa Devi is an author and creative director whose work explores identity, belonging, courage, and finding home, drawing from her own experience of being adopted from India to rural America at age six. Through her memoir The Lucky Lotus and Blue Bear children’s book series, she uses storytelling to help readers understand adoption through a child’s eyes and celebrate resilience, kindness, and love.
Janice: Adopted, Adored, and Afraid (opens the original)
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Adopted in 1947, Janice Jones grew up as a lonely, privileged only child in a family where adoption was known but never discussed, inspiring her lifelong search for truth and connection. A freelance writer and editor, dog-obedience instructor, children’s book buyer, and puzzle inventor, Jones is the author of Dr. Beare’s Daughter: Growing Up Adopted, Adored, and Afraid, her fourth published book.
Bryan: From Fear to Love (opens the original)
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Bryan Post is a leading expert in child behavior, adoption trauma, and love-based parenting, drawing on his own experience as a foster child and more than two decades of helping families heal through connection, compassion, and regulation. As the founder of Fear to Love, Bondify.ai, the Post Institute, and Leaf Wraparound, he combines neuroscience and spiritual principles to help parents understand behavior as communication and replace fear and punishment with love and connection.
Diane: The Art of Finding Home (opens the original)
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Diane, an accomplished Bay Area artist and adoptee, spent decades searching for her origins, ultimately reconnecting with both sides of her biological family—including a father who never knew she existed—and building meaningful relationships that transformed her understanding of herself. Her deeply personal adoption journey now inspires her paintings and sculptures, which explore identity, DNA, memory, secrecy, and the lifelong search for belonging.
Adrian: From Survival to Purpose (opens the original)
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Our current guest, Adrian Burks, is a filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and recovery professional whose work is deeply shaped by his experience as a domestic adoptee and former foster youth. Through both storytelling and rehabilitation, Adrian is dedicated to helping others find resilience, healing, and hope while empowering them to rebuild their lives.
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