I'm Adopted: The Podcast
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I'm Adopted: The Podcast
Established in 2015, the I’m Adopted community organisation provides a safe space for adoptees, topics and meet-ups with others. Welcome to our official podcast!
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An Adoption Story — Where Are They Now: Marina’s Birth Family Discovery in Crimea
Marina was born in Staryi Krym, Crimea, and later adopted from an orphanage in Simferopol by her Italian parents. She grew up in Italy, gradually lear...
Victor’s Lifelong Search for His Birth Mother
Simulcast from our An Adoption Story series. Victor was adopted as a young boy and came to Auckland, New Zealand, when he was just four years old. Bor...
Valentina’s Heartbreaking Discovery and Reunion with Long-Lost Sibling
Simulcast from our An Adoption Story series. Valentina always knew she was adopted but never knew her history. When motherhood takes her on an unexpec...
Ian’s Long Kept Family Secret and Surprise Heritage
Simulcast from our An Adoption Story series.
Ian was born in Waihi, New Zealand, and adopted as an infant. He didn’t discover his adoption until...
Ekaterina's Emotional Journey and the Search for those Birth Family Links
Ekaterina Clark's journey began in Syktyvkar, Russia, where she was adopted at the age of three. Raised in New Zealand, she shares her experiences fro...
Felicita's Adoption Journey from Odesa, Ukraine to Southern Italy
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Felicita was born in the city of Odesa, Uk...
Marina's Adoption Journey from Crimea to Italy - The Search For Her Birth Family
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Marina was born in Staryi Krym, Crimea to...
Iván's Discovery of His Birth Family Links in Russia and Armenia
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Iván was adopted at the age of 13 months f...
Nina's Journey - Adopted from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Rochester, New York
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Nina was born from a small village called...
Adopted from Krasnodar, Russia to New York - Zachary-Victor's Journey
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Zachary-Victor was adopted at the age of 8...
Ukranian-American Adoptee Katya Reach Shares Her Emotional Journey
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Katya Reach was adopted from an orphanage...
Alexei's Adoption, The Links with His Birth Family and Life with Spina bifida
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Alexei was born in Velikiye Luki, Russia to then being p...
Vanya's Lost Connection with his Birth Mother and Siblings in Russia
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Vanya Syron was adopted from a regional orphanage in Ark...
Alex's Early Life from a Romanian Orphanage into his Adopted German Family
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Romanian adoptee Alex (Alexander) Kuch was adopte...
Anya’s Journey Searching Through Those Birth Family Links
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the help from our friends at MyHeritage.
Mother of three Anya Gibson, lives right down in the...
Viktoria's Search and Discovery of Her Birth Mother in Russia
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Viktoria was born in the North of Russia, in a city called Severodvinsk. She was adopted at the age five by her New...
Alexei's Journey from Ukraine and Russia to New Zealand
Alexei was born in Eastern Ukraine to then moving with his biological family to Velikiye Luki, Pskov, Russia.
He was adopted into a New Z...
Burning Questions for Adoptees
In this podcast episode, we bring to you the cast from our live Facebook video stream. This week on the I'm Adopted - Talk live cast we talk with Alex...
Relationships Between Adoptive Siblings - Alex Kuch
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Adoptee Alex Kuch is hosting and he talks about the relationships between adoptive siblings.
Welcome 2020 - 7 Years Since Contacting my Birth Family. Whats Changed?
Welcome to our first Podcast of I'm Adopted for 2020. In this episode, Russian - New Zealand Adoptee Alex Gilbert talks about the current relationship...
A Huge Thank You!
This is our final episode of I'm Adopted for the 2019 season. We will be right back with our new season in the New Year! Thank you so much!
Romanian Adoptee Alex Kuch shares his views on the global state of International Adoptions
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Romanian Adoptee Alex Kuch is still hosting with us and this week he shares with us his views on the global state of I...
Romanian Adoptee Alex Kuch Talks about his own personal views on Adoption
This week on I'm Adopted, Romanian-German-Kiwi Adoptee Alexander Kuch is hosting while Alex Gilbert is away. This week Alex talks about his own views...
National Adoption Awareness Month - Those Stories From Other Adoptees
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, we take a look at some of the incredible stories that were told on our podcast. We revisit Janna Lambs story, Alex Kuc...
Adoptee Alexander Kuch Talks Romania
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Romanian Adoptee Alexander Kuch joins us to talk about his views on his birth country, Romania.
Celebrating National Adoption Awareness Month
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Adoptees Alex Gilbert and Alex Kuch talk about what National Adoption Awareness Month means to them.
Remembering Our First Memories
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, we are joined with Romanian-German Adoptee Alex Kuch to talk about our first and earliest memories growing up as an ad...
From Moscow to North Carolina, American-Russian Adoptee Allyson Duranceau Shares Her Story
This in this Episode of I'm Adopted, American-Russian Adoptee Allyson Duranceau shares with us her story, about the relationship with her family who r...
Being In The Shoes of your Birth Family or Birth Parents
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Alex Gilbert talks about how his birth parents might have been feeling before meeting him in Russia for the first time...
Tajikistani-New Zealand Adoptee Sarah Berghan Shares her Story and Incredible Journey
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Tajikistani-New Zealand Adoptee Sarah Berghan joins us to talk about her story. Sarah was adopted at the age of only o...
Every Experience is Different
In this weeks episode of I'm Adopted, Romanian-German-Kiwi Adoptee Alexander Kuch speaks with Alex Gilbert about the personal and emotional challenges...
Russian-American Adoptee Alex Schmidt Shares us his Adoption Journey
Alex Schmidt is an Russian-American Adoptee currently residing in Seattle Washington. In this Episode of I'm Adopted he shares with us his story and j...
Russian-American Adoptee Daria Rottenberk joins us
In this Episode of I’m Adopted, Russian-American Adoptee Daria Rottenberk joins us to share her story. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and ad...
Adoptee Alex Kuch Talks to Alex Gilbert about some of the most common questions as an Adoptee
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Romanian-German-Kiwi Adoptee Alex Kuch joins Alex Gilbert to talk about some of the most common questions and challeng...
My First Impressions of Russia after meeting my Birth Parents
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Russian-New Zealand adoptee Alex Gilbert talks about his first impressions of Russia when he met his birth parents for...
My Childhood as an Adoptee
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Alex Gilbert talks about his childhood as an adoptee, what he would ask his parents about with his own adoption and th...
Alex Gilbert talks to his Russian birth father Mihail (Misha) Kovkov about his Life
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Alex Gilbert organised a talk with his birth father Mihail (Misha) about his life and his relationship with Alex. Miha...
When Should I Search for my Birth Family or Parents?
In this Episode Russian-New Zealand Adoptee Alex Gilbert talks about the right age to search for your birth family or birth parents. Be honest, be pre...
Celebrating Four Years of I'm Adopted - Why It's Important
In this episode Alex talks about the importance of I'm Adopted and how the project started in 2015. This month we celebrated four years of the I'm Ado...
Russian-New Zealand Adoptee Janna Lamb shares with us her story and search
In this episode, Russian-New Zealand Adoptee Janna Lamb sat down with Alex to talk about why she did the search for her birth family in Russia, what s...