Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt
4.7from 184 ratings
- 239
- Episodes
- 117
- Transcribed
- 184
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 106K
- YouTube views
About Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Two adult adoptees, Sarah Reinhardt and Louise Browne, delve into all things adoption - from their perspectives as adult adoptees. Each season Sarah and Louise recap a chapter from a book centered on adoption and then interview a guest. Sarah and Louise come out of the 'fog' in real-time through Seasons One and Two and are advocating for change in the adoption industry. They want to give voice to all adoptees. Adoptee stories are needed to reframe the narrative around adoption.Sarah and Louise, two former business partners who had a successful ice cream truck in Los Angeles, team up again - this time in frank and honest conversations about all things adoption from the adoptee perspective. Both were adopted shortly after birth, but they had very different experiences. These will be intimate conversations, but also fun - because Sarah and Louise know how to lighten things up and have a good time. They also have an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a subject with anyone who crosses their path - so conversations will take many turns.
- Publisher
- Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt
- Category
- kids & family · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Apr 2021
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
117 of 239 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Wilson: Marked by Adoption
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Live Episode from Minneapolis: Candi
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Samantha: The Art of Becoming Whole
Inside a recent episode
Wilson: Marked by Adoption
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Two things I learned on this voyage. One, the ship was our lifeline. Our lives depended on it, literally. We needed to stay aboard and we needed to stay afloat. That's so adoption. Yes. Our lives depend on the stories we're told. Well, so she gets into many of the same things about the business, just about private adoption, closed adoption. But I highlighted... some things that she said from a macro view, adoption is the lens through which we can see in stark relief how our nation differentially values humans. The whole project of adoption is contingent on making value judgments about a pregnancy, about who is a worthy mother and who is a worthy baby. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
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- Wilson Munsterman
- Candi
- Samantha Verrone
- Jean Kelly Widner
- Pushpa Devi
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- YouTube views
- 106,462
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 130 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 54 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 92
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 93
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