Adoptees On
Hosted by Haley · Haley Radke
4.8from 472 ratings
- 341
- Episodes
- 51
- Transcribed
- 472
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 118K
- YouTube views
About Adoptees On
The podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience. This is not the usual adoption talk. You will find real, raw, and deep feelings addressed in these interviews. No sugar-coating here! Come and laugh, cry, learn and heal with us. Adult adoptees share stories of search, reunion, and secondary rejection. Adoptees On also curates recommended resources to encourage and educate the adoption community about adoptee issues.
- Publisher
- Haley Radke
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Jun 2016
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
51 of 341 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Deanna Shrodes, D.Min.
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Alex Blum
Inside a recent episode
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I don't remember a time that we were not able to openly talk about that as a fact. What made everything uncomfortable in those family dynamics is when my brother started asking very specific questions of where he came from. And we knew that we had adoption files. He wanted to see the adoption files, which of course prompted more questions. And then out of fairness, which is, you know, great. Even though I was younger than him, they were like, oh, well, you should probably see your file too. And I didn't know how to look at it. And I had questions, but I didn't know how to ask them. And it's one of the things that we didn't really talk about when we were young, my brother and I directly and privately with each other was what was in our files. […]
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- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
- Deanna Shrodes
- Alex Blum
- Sullivan Summer
- Kristal Parke
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 118,317
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 362 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 110 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 95 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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Haley host the show. Published by Haley Radke.
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