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Family Secrets iHeartRadio
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4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
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Family Secrets. We all have them. And while the discovery of family secrets can initially be terrifying or traumatic, often these discoveries have the power to liberate, heal, and even uplift us. Join Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of the memoir Inheritance, and her guests as they explore astonishing family secrets and uncover the extraordinary lessons the truth can teach us.
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Circle Yes or No
In 1988, Margaret Kimball is four years old and her mother attempts suicide; this is just one of several family secrets. As Margaret searches for answers nearly thirty years later, she mines through old diary entries, hospital records, home videos, and other archives to piece together a narrative map of her childhood in an attempt to understand the unspoken familial fractures.
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Yellow Legal Notepad
Beneath Justine’s mother’s polished façade lay a fearsome rage that drives Justine to flee from home. After her mother dies, Justine uncovers an envelope revealing the mystery of her mother’s character, and a telling history that stretches back to the early years of World War II and beyond.
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Escape Velocity
Just as Adam approaches an exciting apex in his career, he receives life-shattering news which stems from a deep and painful family secret.
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Tarof
Michelle grapples with the memory of her sexual assault and home invasion that occurred during her college years. Twenty years later, after a career of working with victims like herself, Michelle endeavors to find out what happened to her case and why she never heard from the police again.
Warning: this episode contains discussion of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.
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The 5:00 AM Call
Actress Maddie Corman is driving at 5:00 am to a TV soundstage to film a television show when she gets a panicked call from her children; police are at their home, seizing their father’s computer. Maddie’s husband Jace Alexander has a dark secret, now coming to light.
Warning: this episode contains discussion of child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
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Taxidermied Duck
After years of estrangement and hiding his true self, Trent loses his father. His inheritance is a puzzling combination of his father’s beat-up wooden toolbox and a taxidermy duck. In his grief, Trent decides to use his father’s tools to build a wooden canoe and in doing so, he confronts and uncovers his father’s secret history, and reconciles his own.
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Customer Reviews
Very Moving Podcast-
This is beautiful...the host has an amazing voice, she is thorough and she comes to the interview with wonderfully thought out questions for each episode's guest. This is a must have in your podcast library!
5 a.m. call….
Pornography of children is the worst: Vile, dark, violent, and the most evil form of pornography. The images of innocents being used in the most debased way is criminal. 10 years of probation? You’ve got to be kidding. One can only wonder if it had been HER child that was used for sickening sexual pleasure by strange men all over the globe, her choice might have been different?
How a mother could allow her husband to be allowed to be back into the family again, in her bed, is beyond the line in the sand. No amount of therapy can "fix" this particular addiction.
Having a decades-long user of child porn in the same house as your growing children is a risk no one should take. He didn’t have an affair. He had an all-consuming need that took him away from his wife and children for DECADES, that was child pornography. That was a choice. He was caught.
I am thankful he is remorseful.
It was a very strange and odd podcast.
I can only hope that there is not another 5 a.m. call.
Re: 5:00 am call
I cringed each time the interview subject referred to child sex abuse material as “illegal pornography.” That’s a euphemism that minimizes the horror inherent in CASM.
I admire the bravery of speaking publicly, but using words that mask and sugarcoat reality is almost deceptive.