Voices of Adoption
Voices of Adoption amplifies authentic stories from across the adoption triad - birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive families - along with adoption service providers. Host Donna Pope, Executive Director of Heart To Heart Adoptions and Clinical Mental Health Counselor and her co-host Nathan Gwilliam, founder & former CEO of Adoption.com, create a safe space for honest conversations about the complexities of adoption. Birth parents share their journeys of love, loss, and healing. Adoptees discuss identity, belonging, and their lived experiences. Adoptive families open up about challenges and beautiful moments. Adoption service providers offer insights from their professional experience supporting families throughout the process. Each episode bridges different perspectives within the adoption community, helping listeners understand that every adoption story is unique yet connected by common threads of resilience and hope. These conversations don't shy away from difficult emotions or complex questions. Instead, they honor the full spectrum of adoption experiences with empathy and respect. Join us for stories that educate, inspire understanding, and remind us that every voice in the adoption community matters.
Episodes
Real bonds with kids are not built face to face. They grow shoulder to shoulder, one small moment at a t...
Brooke Pace has been told her kids are not really hers more than once. Sometimes it comes from a strange...
Alicia Divico, a licensed mental health counselor and certified addiction professional in Tampa, Florida...
For Amanda and Tony, becoming parents was never going to be defined by genetics. Adoption had been part of their conversations even before they were married, and after years of navigating fertility challenges, they realized they were genuinely called to adoption and ready to build their family in a different way.
In this heartfelt conversation, Amanda and Tony share the emotional and...
Jeff and Christine had been matched with a birth mom for exactly one week when the phone rang in the mid...
A startle reflex that didn't fully fade. A nervous system still bracing for danger years after the dange...
Foster parent and junior high teacher Amie Huggins wrote two rules on her Utah foster application. No ad...
Ben and LaCol Kjar share their adoption journey to three kids, the movie Standout, and the name written down twice. Ten years of trying. Four rounds of I...
Two child welfare insiders pull back the curtain on foster care and adoption.
He called 22 people, mom or dad, before he learned what family really means. Michael Sheaffer moved thro...
For twenty-eight years, Cheryl Parkhurst has worked inside school systems with neurodivergent teenagers,...
Shelby Kilgore was seventeen when she traveled to the country she was born in and met the woman who...
When Sara Bradford's son was identified with autism at 14 months, she started recognizing the same trait...
Living in California, far from her family, working two jobs, and facing the loss of her housing, Sarah f...
Birth father Jason Coombs carries a story most birth fathers never get to tell. At twenty-six, after fou...
Brian J Baker and Lachandra Baker made family happen three times over: Brian adopted Aujie at ten. Brian...
Ashley and Eric Felton wanted to be parents. What stood between them and that goal was four rounds of IU...
Adoptive parents pour everything into becoming parents. And then the real work begins. Dr. Hilary Claire...
Foster mom of nine Jessica Hanna made a childhood promise: any child in her care would stay until a perm...
Spirit baby medium Kelly Ann Meehan has spent over a decade telling parents their child may already be reaching for them before arrival. In this...
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