Season 5: Best Advice of Adoption Experts + BONUS Feature

It’s December of 2024, which means we're bringing you the 5th -- and last -- Best Of advice. The first part of this episode is our traditional season-closing digest of best advice from all Season 5 guests, and the last part is a special musical treat from the creative mind of one of our Season 1 guests, so be sure to stick around.

This season we heard from 8 adoptees, 2 birth/first parents, 1 adoptive parent, and 5 professionals in the field, like scholars, therapists, educators, and activators. I’m honored that each of these guests sat down with us to share their personal and expert experiences to help us all get a better understanding of adoption’s long view.

You're about to hear a bite-sized recap from each guest of the Best Advice given this season. For Season 5, the question that ended each interview was this: What do you wish all adoptive parents knew from Day 1, or at least from today?

Enjoy the insights and wisdom from our brilliant Season 5 guests, distilled into this season’s best advice. After that, stay tuned for info about the new musical about adoption, For The Record(s) -- plus a song from it called Real Mother.

Show Notes

• 501: Jennifer Dyan Ghoston on What We Get Wrong about Same-Race Adoption
• 502: Lauren Fishbein & Glenna Boggs on Exploring the Full Range of Adoptee Emotions
• 503: Amber Jimerson on Adoption & The Bible
• 504: Katie Cowles & Amber Wooten on Lessons Learned from22 Years in an Open Adoption
• 505 & 506: Torie DiMartile on the Many Facets of Adoptee Math
• 507: Robyn Gobbel on Dealing with Big Baffling Behaviors
• 508: Lanise Antoine Shelley on Centering the Adoptee as the Hero of Their Own Story
• 509: Dr JaeRan Kim and Patrick Armstrong on the Adoptee Consciousness Model
• 510: Kathy Mackechney on “Not All Parts Get Adopted.” What!?
• For The Record(s) musical: ftrmusical.com
• Rich Uhrlaub on Instagram: @iambicrich

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About this Podcast

Lori Holden (The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole) brings to you an array of articulate and thought-provoking guests with lived experience in adoption, each with valuable insights to share about the all-encompassing journey of parenting an adopted person from babyhood to toddlerhood to school age to teenage -- and ultimately to adulthood. Join us as we explore Adoption: The Long View.

Named a Top 25 Adoption Podcast