Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
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Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
Episode 28 - "When You’re Missing the Story: Julie on Health, Heritage & Making Sense of It All"
Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
1 hour 3 minutes
1 year ago
Episode 28 - "When You’re Missing the Story: Julie on Health, Heritage & Making Sense of It All"
Send us a text Today I will be speaking to an international adoptee from Chicago, Julie who is also a author–memoirist, essayist, and columnist– who writes about finding out who you are, where you come from, and making sense of it. At 48, julie was sent for a breast biopsy. This incident highlighted what closed adoption prevented her from knowing: her birth circumstances, family medical history, and genealogy. The subsequent search for her “personal story” that consumed five years. She ...
Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
