The Adoptee Next Door

There is something temptingly tidy about the idea of adoption: a family with extra love and resources meets a child in need of both. The Adoptee Next Door takes the listener beyond the sparkly fairy tale of adoption. angieadoptee.substack.com

The Adoptee Next Door is a society podcast hosted by The Adopted Life, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Adopted Life hosts The Adoptee Next Door, a society show with 19 episodes published.

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  Dr. Abby Hasberry on Adopting Privilege, her Memoir

  Jun 3, 202635 minS0

  <p>Dr. Abby Hasberry joins me to discuss her memoir, Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing My Adoptee Narrative. As a transracial adoptee, licensed therapist, birth mother, and researcher, Abby brings a uniquely layered perspective to conversations about adoption, identity, race, and belonging.</p><p>In this episode, we explore her experiences growing up in a color-evasive adoptive family, the complexities of reunion, the lasting impact of relinquishment, and what it means to hold multiple roles within the adoption constellation. Abby also shares how community, language, and healing helped her reexamine the stories she once believed about adoption—and why sh...

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  A Live Book Talk with Rev. Alissa Newton

  Mar 4, 20261h 11mS0

  <p>Some conversations are worth trudging through a blizzard for. In early February, when New York City was buried under a Bomb Cyclone, I made my way to the Church of the Ascension in Greenwich Village for a conversation I’d been wanting to have for a long time, with Rev. Alissa Newton, Canon to the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of New York, adoptive mom, founder of the Adoptive Parents 4 Adoptees Fund, and Board Chair of the Adoptee Mentoring Society, the nonprofit I founded and lead.</p><p>I have a soft spot for rooms where people in positions of in...

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  From Indonesia to the Netherlands: A Documentary That Holds the Paradox of Adoption

  Jan 15, 202649 minS0

  <p>Al Jazeera released this documentary and it’s available HERE.</p><p>I had so much fun interviewing Huibert van Wijk for this podcast—and watching Child of Their Time left me quietly undone in the best way. Two things struck me immediately. First, this is an adoption story told with deep care by the adoptee’s brother. Second, the film allows the adoptive father to be fully seen and not as a caricature or a villain, but as someone actively grappling with paradox.</p><p>Lex, the adoptive father, recalls the excitement of adoption in the 1970s: “The baby did...

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  Reshaping Adoption Narratives in LA's Entertainment Capital

  Dec 4, 20251h 12mS0

  <p>In mid-November, I found myself standing inside a glowing cube in Hollywood.</p><p>Not metaphorically. Literally. Emerson College’s West Coast micro-campus is a futuristic beacon rising from the heart of the entertainment capital, housing the ambitions of 200+ students who are learning to write, produce, act and report on the stories that will shape our culture. And on this particular night, the stories we were making space for were the ones so often pushed to the margins in the realm of entertainment: adoption, identity, belonging. </p><p>Next to me sat Marissa Jo Cerar. Screenwriter. Storyteller. She’s the...

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  From a Nail Salon to the National Stage: Angela Tucker in Conversation with Jen Psaki

  Nov 12, 202555 minS0

  <p>What started as two women chatting in a nail salon turned into a deep and moving exchange about family, identity, and what it really means to belong. In this heartfelt episode, Angela Tucker—author of You Should Be Grateful—joins Jen Psaki for an honest conversation about transracial adoption, the myths that surround it, and the importance of centering adoptee voices. From laughter and vulnerability to lessons in empathy, this dialogue reminds us that some of the most meaningful connections start in the most ordinary places.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Adopted Life at angieadoptee.substack.com...

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