Adapted Podcast

About Adapted Podcast

This is one of the pioneering podcasts on intercountry adoptees. Started in 2016, Adapted Podcast has interviewed more than 130 Korean intercountry adoptees on their lived experiences. The podcast started as a Fulbright research project in Korea and has been now downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world.

Publisher

Kaomi Goetz

Category

society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jul 2016

Latest episode

28 Aug 2024

Latest episodes

18 of 166 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   28 Aug 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma

   I sit down with Alicia Soon Hershey, 41, a Korean transnational adoptee now living in Barcelona. Soon Hershey was the very first adoptee interviewed on the podcast back in 2016 and our conversation book-ends the podcast in the 165th episode (!). We get a chance to hear how she has evolved in the past eight years and her outlook for life now that she is a mother herself.

2. 

   16 Aug 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees

   Korean-American cultural anthropologist Eleana Kim talks about her research that went into the seminal imprint "Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging," Duke University Press, 2010.

3. 

   3 Aug 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Season 7, Episode 24: Geoffrey Winder - Fluidity in Identity

   Geoffrey Winder (born Jong Ke-Bin) (he/him), 42, of Oakland, CA, shares some of his story as a queer Black Korean transnational and transracial adopted man and about his activism in queer advocacy, adoptee community, and leadership spaces.

Inside a recent episode

Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma

Published 28 Aug 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I, I don't know, I think maybe going through that, shedding some of those layers and shedding maybe some of the. It was like I'm alone in this or it just happened to me kind of feeling this allowed me to open up space my heart to maybe communicate in a more clear way with both of my sisters. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

94 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

25 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 6 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

1

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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