Family Secrets: Season 3 Trailer

Get ready for more inspiring, provocative, and moving conversations about identity, forgiveness, and the meaning of family, featuring incredible guests like David Kaczynski, the Unabomber’s younger brother, and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’s first-born. The new season of Family Secrets with Dani Shapiro launches next Thursday, February 6.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Family Secrets. It turns out that just about everyone has them,
which accounts for the incredible outpouring of community and sharing
of these stories that's happening as a result of my
podcast Family Secrets. My name is Danny Shapiro, and I'm
a writer author of the instant near times best selling
memoir Inheritance, which I wrote after discovering a massive secret

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that had been kept from me all my life. That
discovery changed my life in good ways and hard ways,
and led to this podcast. In each episode, I sit
down with an amazing guest and we delve into stories
that cover all sorts of things identity, addiction, loss, legacy,
and always the secret shame that runs beneath so much

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that is hidden. Here's some of what I've learned in
the first two seasons of Family Secrets and what you
can expect from the third season. Sometimes families keep secrets
from each other in the name of love. We mean well,
we really do, but those secrets leave a trail of

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confusion in their wake. When a secret is kept from us,
we often feel haunted, like there's something we don't know,
something we can't put our finger on, and this can
make us feel especially as children that there's something wrong
with us, and sometimes when we do discover a secret,
we end up in the uncomfortable role of becoming keepers

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of secrets ourselves again in the name of love. In
Season three of Family Secrets, which launches on Thursday, February sixth,
you can expect some extraordinary, soulful, dramatic stories. I sit

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down with Michael Haney, a brilliant journalist who spent his
life trying to piece together what happened the night his
father died. When I come into ownership of this secret,
my father's a secret, I basically froze, and for a
good year I just thought I can't write this story.
I can't share it. I don't know what I'm going
to do now. I talk with Lisa Jobs, daughter of Steve,

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who spent years denying that she was his child. My
father actually wasn't a cold person, but it kind of
added up to that because he couldn't depend on the warmth.
It was so intermittent and unpredictable. He was passionate, he
was warm, and he was cold when he was in race.
I explore the power of forgiveness during an amazing conversation
with David Kazinski and Gary Wright, who was nearly killed

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by one of the Unibomber's powerful male bombs. Gary was
Jed's victim. I was Jed's brother. If we could build
a bridge across this chasm it's abyss of human suffering,
then there was hope. I speak with Stephen Romo, a
Houston based news anchor who for a very long time
kept the dark truth about his childhood very deep beneath

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a polished professional exterior. It did create dissonance for me
as I was growing up and moving on in my
career that my job was to seek out the truth.
I sort of just pretended to be the boy with
no history. I discuss what happens when the source of
your family's financial ruin is someone whose job it was

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to protect you with Axton bets Hamilton, an expert on
identity theft. That's why I was doing the right thing
by not answering the door, by not developing friendships, by
just willing to be left alone, I thought I was
helping defend our families from the identity feet. I can't

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wait for you to hear all of the incredible conversations
we'll be having this season, which kicks off February sixth.
You can listen and subscribe to Family's Secrets on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.