Adapted Podcast Kaomi Lee
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- Society & Culture
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This is one of the pioneering podcasts on intercountry adoptees. Started in 2016, Adapted Podcast has interviewed more than 130 Korean intercountry adoptees on their lived experiences. The podcast started as a Fulbright research project in Korea and has been now downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world.
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Season 7, Episode 18: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 2
I continue the conversation with Nik Nadeau, 36, a Korean adoptee who is in reunion with his Korean birth mother. He is a secret, unable to meet his half-siblings who are also in their 30s, or be acknowledged by his mother, publicly. His relationship with his mother is qualified by language barriers, time and mutual grief, and love. We start off this episode with Nadeau recalling the experience of when he first introduced his then-girlfriend, a bilingual Korean-American, to his Korean mother.
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Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother
Nik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing process and about how he's unlocked feelings about the reunion and his own identity as a transnational adopted person.
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Season 7, Episode 16: Yukyeong Kim and Banet
Leader Yukyeong Kim and her group of neighbors and friends in Korea have been quietly and determinedly helping adoptees search for their biological family since 2018. I sit down with Kim to find out more about how the group got started and how their willingness to make a simple phone call has often times had surprising results.
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Season 7, Episode 15: JaeHee Chung-Sherman - You Don't Have to Be Resilient
Dr. JaeHee Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW, has centered her practice and research on decolonizing adoption and mental health for transracial and international adoptees. A transracial, transnational adoptee herself, Chung-Sherman, 47, has been among the first co-hort of TRIA therapists to do this work. She talks about narcissistic colonial adopt systems, and why she ultimately has decided to move on from private practice.
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Season 7, Episode 14: Leading an Adoptee Organization
Mia Quade Kristensen, 46, and Jannie Jung Westermann, 45, are on the board of the 34-year old Danish Korean adoptee organization, Korea Klubben. They will share about their own search and reunion stories, including one of them being in reunion with her Korean family for more than two decades. The women will also share about their community in Denmark and what is needed for the future. Besides the US and Korea, Denmark is the third most-downloaded country for the podcast.
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Season 7, Episode 13: Adoptee Consciousness Model
I talk with Dr. JaeRan Kim and PhD student Grace Newton about the Adoptee Consciousness Model - a framework for understanding adoptee awareness of the impact of adoption. Together with Dr. Susan Branco (not featured), the model is now being discussed and critiqued in academic and adoptee communities. Kim, 55, and Newton, 29, also talk about their earlier years when helming their own anonymous blogs about adoptee identity, 'righteous anger' and the impact of adoption.
Dr. JaeRan Kim:
Harlow's Monkey
https://harlows-monkey.com/2022/06/23/coming-to-consciousness/
Journal link https://www.ibpj.org/issues/articles/Susan%20F.%20Branco,%20JaeRan%20Kim,%20Grace%20Newton,%20Stephanie%20Kripa%20Cooper-Lewter,%20Paula%20O'Loughlin%20-%20....pdf
https://harlows-monkey.com/
Instagram @harlows_monkey
LinkedIn jaerankimphd
Grace Newton:
Instagram: @redthreadbroken
Facebook: Red Thread Broken
Twitter or X: @gracepinghua
Website: www.redthreadbroken.com
Customer Reviews
Phenomenal
Love the work and passion put into this by telling REAL stories about Korean American adoptees. There is something to learn and love about with each episode and can’t wait to listen to it all and for more to come! Great work
Beautiful stories
I’ve been listening to Adapted for over two years and it has been a welcome friend during my own adoption journey. I find solace in hearing unique but familiar experiences, and feel encouraged that so many adoptees are sharing their experiences.
An incredible work and glimpse into the different souls in the Korean adoptee community
Kaomi does a very poignant job of creating a meaningful experience for both interviewee and listener. Whether the listener is adopted or not, the story she weaves w her thoughtful emotional questions and her editing skills is an easy listen to vibe with and understand but will stay with you much longer as you process it in the days following. She is an original gangsta in the KAD community and an important voice in the community.