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!
Episodes
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 learning more about her roots in Crimea — but it wasn’t until later that she began to connect more deeply with her birth family.We caught up with her as part of our Where Are They Now segments — updates from those who shared their stories in our An Adoption Story series. Since sharing her...
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. Born in the town of Velikiye Luki in western Russia, his journey began with many unknowns.Now a science teacher and photographer in Christchurch, Victor has built a life full of curiosity, creativity, and meaningful connections in New Zealand. Alongside his everyday life, he continues a ...
Simulcast from our An Adoption Story series. Valentina always knew she was adopted but never knew her history. When motherhood takes her on an unexpected journey into discovering her past. What follows is a remarkable story of heartbreak, forgiveness and an incredible reunion with a long lost sibling. This is her story.
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 he was 48 years old, at which point he slowly started to find those connections with his birth mother. With the help of his daughter Yolande, Ian then uncovered his previously unknown Māori heritage. This is his story.
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 from childhood to discovering her roots and birth family, connecting her past with her present. This is her story.
Taken from the An Adoption Story Series which you can watch on YouTube via 'Alex Gilbert'.
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Felicita was born in the city of Odesa, Ukraine to then being adopted at the age of 7 months by her Italian parents. She was raised in the small village town of Ascea. A village that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea in Southern Italy. Felicita has always had an interest in her roots and ever since she could remember, she has always known ab...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Marina was born in Staryi Krym, Crimea to then being adopted out from an orphanage in Simferopol by her Italian parents. With her life in Italy, she has grown up learning more about her roots within Crimea but it wasn't until later on when she started to connect more with her birth family links. She shares her entire journey from the ...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Iván was adopted at the age of 13 months from Moscow, Russia by his Spanish parents. He was raised on the north coast of Spain, in the city of Santander. He had always known that he had birth family links in Russia but later on when he grew older, he then found out more about having links also in Armenia. With his life growing up in Spain...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Nina was born from a small village called Bolshaya Vruda which is located just below Saint Petersburg in Russia. She was adopted at the age of three and a half years old by her American parents who then raised her in Rochester, New York. Nina has always been told that she has siblings back in Russia but it wasn't until later on after ...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Zachary-Victor was adopted at the age of 8 months from Krasnodar, Russia by his American parents. He was raised in Long Island, New York to moving to Brooklyn to pursue a career in music. Zachary-Victor shares the connections he has made with some of birth family to the support he has from his parents who adopted him. This is his story.
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Katya Reach was adopted from an orphanage in Donetsk, Ukraine at the age of four years old by her American parents. She was raised in Kansas to then studying psychology in Oklahoma. She now lives her life in Tyler, Texas for her graduate studies. She has always wanted to learn more about her birth family growing up. And with her parents sup...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Alexei was born in Velikiye Luki, Russia to then being placed in an orphanage in Pechory. At the age of two and a half, he was then adopted by his New Zealand family. Alexei was born with a birth defect called Spina bifida and with the care of his New Zealand parents, he was able to get the help he needed so that he could walk. He has been able...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Vanya Syron was adopted from a regional orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia in the late 1990s by his New Zealand parents.
With information that his parents held onto about his birth family, he managed to get a letter through to his Birth Mother in 2010. Since then, Vanya had lost contact but hopes to re-connect with her and his siblings in Arkhange...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the support from our friends at MyHeritage.
Romanian adoptee Alex (Alexander) Kuch was adopted from Cluj-Napoca, Romania at the age of two by his German parents. His family then moved to New Zealand in 2006. Alex shares his journey of his reconnections with Romania and his birth family.
He goes through his story, from the beginnings to revisiting Romania later on in his early adult y...
Simulcast from an Adoption story. Made with the help from our friends at MyHeritage.
Mother of three Anya Gibson, lives right down in the far south of New Zealand. She was adopted at the age of four from a regional orphanage (Number 12) inside of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prior to her adoption, she was looked after by her grandmother but found out later that she was placed into the orphanage due to her grandmother not bein...
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 Zealand parents who also adopted another child from the neighbourhood city and my birth city, Arkhangelsk.
She connected with her birth mother in 2019 after she reached out to me for help. She is still however, continuing her journey with those connections overseas and hopes to meet m...
Alexei was born in Eastern Ukraine to then moving with his biological family to Velikiye Luki, Pskov, Russia.
He was adopted into a New Zealand family at the age of eight. At an early age he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Eisenmenger Syndrome. He shares with me his journey, his outlook on life and the connections he has found overseas with his birth family.
This is his story.
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 Kuch, Katie Zucker, Kristine Freark and Robert Clifford to talk about those burning questions for adoptees. Connecting with more of you around the world, wherever we are. You can watch the video version of this over at Facebook.com/imadoptedOrg
In this Episode of I'm Adopted, Adoptee Alex Kuch is hosting and he talks about the relationships between adoptive siblings.
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 with his birth family in Russia after being in contact for 7 years.
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