Doug Has Questions is a podcast dedicated to thoughtful conversation that leads to better understanding, connection, and inspiration. Host Douglas Olerud draws on his life experience to explore the stories of the people he’s met along the way.
Episode 48: Sandy Corbari; Finding Family After Six Decades of Questions
Send us Fan Mail A passport application shouldn’t rewrite your life, but that’s exactly where Sandy Corbari’s adoption story starts. When she requests her records and opens a live birth certificate, she gets a name, a birthplace, and a new set of questions she can’t unsee. Years later, one spontaneous search turns up an obituary, two half-brothers, and a message that comes back fast: “You’re my sister. I’ve been looking for you for 10 years.” We talk through the full adoptee journey, from gr...
15 Oct 2026
Episode 47: Kay Dunning; A Small Town Life Can Hold A Big Story
Send us Fan Mail A small town can make your life feel straightforward, right up until you zoom out and realize how many unlikely turns it contains. Kay (Haas) Dunning grew up in Haines, Alaska, with a family story that starts in the 1950s with the US Army, the Haines tank farm, and a mom who chose Southeast Alaska as home after falling hard for aviation and the north. We talk through the kind of local history you only learn by living it, how places change (and how names like “tank farm” never...
8 Oct 2026
Episode 46: Susie McCartney; From A Deadhead to Chilkat Guide to Hypnotherapy
Send us Fan Mail You can hear the exact moment a life story turns into a healing practice. Susie McCartney grew up outside Philadelphia in a family shaped by Vietnam-era fallout, alcoholism, and the kind of “everything is fine” chaos that looks normal until you’re old enough to feel your own nervous system. We trace how that early wiring shows up later as the urge to flee, the need to belong, and the lifelong project of figuring out who you are beneath the roles you inherit. Susie takes us f...
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