Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
by Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt
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Estimated from 12 chart positions in 12 markets.
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- 🇨🇦CA · Parenting#5130K to 100K
- 🇺🇸US · Parenting#1035K to 30K
- 🇦🇺AU · Parenting#1405K to 30K
- 🇬🇧GB · Parenting#1985K to 30K
- 🇲🇽MX · Parenting#5110K to 30K
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28K to 108K🎙 Daily cadence·213 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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94K to 359K🇨🇦28%🇮🇸28%🇺🇸8%+9 more - Active Followers
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28K to 108K
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Janice: Adopted, Adored, and Afraid
Sep 1, 2026
Unknown duration
Bryan: From Fear to Love
Aug 25, 2026
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Laurie: Journey to the Truth
Aug 18, 2026
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Elle: Adopted Into Silence
Aug 11, 2026
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Mishelle: Harnessing the Strength Within
Aug 4, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/1/26 |  Janice: Adopted, Adored, and Afraid | Adopted in 1947, Janice Jones grew up as a lonely, privileged only child in a family where adoption was known but never discussed, inspiring her lifelong search for truth and connection. A freelance writer and editor, dog-obedience instructor, children’s book buyer, and puzzle inventor, Jones is the author of Dr. Beare’s Daughter: Growing Up Adopted, Adored, and Afraid, her fourth published book. | — | ||||||
| 8/25/26 |  Bryan: From Fear to Love | Bryan Post is a leading expert in child behavior, adoption trauma, and love-based parenting, drawing on his own experience as a foster child and more than two decades of helping families heal through connection, compassion, and regulation. As the founder of Fear to Love, Bondify.ai, the Post Institute, and Leaf Wraparound, he combines neuroscience and spiritual principles to help parents understand behavior as communication and replace fear and punishment with love and connection. | — | ||||||
| 8/18/26 |  Laurie: Journey to the Truth | Laurie, a Baby Scoop Era adoptee born in 1968, spent decades searching for her biological family, eventually discovering her biological father, six half-siblings, and a sister who had also been placed for adoption. After a lifetime of questions, unexpected discoveries, and complicated relationships, Laurie has found connection, embraced her story, and proudly knows who she is. | — | ||||||
| 8/11/26 |  Elle: Adopted Into Silence | Elle is a baby-scoop-era domestic adoptee born in New York City in 1969, who grew up in a dysfunctional adoptive family where questions about her adoption were not welcome. After more than 30 years of searching, twists, rejection, and reconnection, Elle found many of the answers she was seeking and, through coming out of the fog, has found healing while helping others through sharing her story and lived experience. | — | ||||||
| 8/4/26 |  Mishelle: Harnessing the Strength Within | Mishelle was born as "Baby Girl Powers," a placeholder name that would take on unexpected meaning as she navigated the lifelong impact of adoption. Through The Making of Me and the shared stories of fellow adoptees, she finally discovered the source of her resilience and embraced the strength that had always been within her. | — | ||||||
| 7/28/26 |  Diane: The Art of Finding Home | Diane, an accomplished Bay Area artist and adoptee, spent decades searching for her origins, ultimately reconnecting with both sides of her biological family—including a father who never knew she existed—and building meaningful relationships that transformed her understanding of herself. Her deeply personal adoption journey now inspires her paintings and sculptures, which explore identity, DNA, memory, secrecy, and the lifelong search for belonging. | — | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | adoptionresilience+3 | Adrian Burks | Adoption: The Making of Me | — | adoptionfoster care+5 | — | 54m 15s | ||
| 7/14/26 | adoptionhealing+3 | Christy Gilvear | The Rooted Petal | Citizen Potawatomi Nation | adopteehealing+3 | — | 1h 07m 26s | ||
| 7/7/26 | adoptiongenealogy+4 | Patsy Brooks-Tallant | Baby Scoop Era | — | adopteeDNA+6 | — | 1h 03m 44s | ||
| 6/30/26 | adoptionheritage+4 | Susan "Cricket" Fedorko | Grand Portage Band of Chippewa | — | adoptionheritage+5 | — | 1h 05m 56s | ||
| 6/23/26 | adoptionresilience+4 | Jackson TerKeurst | The Only Way Forward Is Back | LiberiaUnited States | adoptionLiberian civil war+6 | — | 51m 41s | ||
| 6/16/26 | adoptionidentity+4 | Anne-Grete | Adopterte | NorwayLondon | adoptionidentity+5 | — | 1h 10m 04s | ||
| 6/9/26 | adoptionfamily reunion+4 | Samantha Shields | — | San Francisco | adoptionreunion+5 | — | 1h 03m 33s | ||
| 6/2/26 | danceidentity+5 | Gabriel Gutiérrez | MoFundamentals | United StatesP’urhépecha | adopteedance+7 | — | 1h 06m 22s | ||
| 5/26/26 | adoptionfamily secrets+4 | Lynn | — | — | adoptionadoptee+6 | — | 58m 49s | ||
| 5/19/26 | adoptionsearch for identity+3 | Mary Lynn | — | — | adoptionsearch angel+7 | — | 54m 00s | ||
| 5/12/26 | adoptionfamily reunion+4 | Diane Wheaton | Finding Loretta | — | adoptionBaby Scoop Era+5 | — | 57m 18s | ||
| 5/5/26 | identityadoption+4 | Jae Carelli | Boston Conservatory at BerkleeAmerican Doll+1 | KoreaNew Jersey+2 | adoptionidentity+5 | — | 1h 06m 01s | ||
| 4/28/26 | adoptee storiesqueer-centered practice+4 | Virginia McQueen Laney | Bozeman Identity Counseling Center | Austin, Texas | adopteeLGBTQIA2++5 | — | 55m 01s | ||
| 4/21/26 | adoptionidentity+4 | Alex Blum | — | — | adoptionbiological brothers+5 | — | 55m 24s | ||
| 4/14/26 | adoptionidentity+4 | Dr. Lisa Chism | Oakland Macomb Center for Breast HealthThe Adopted Nurse | — | adoptionidentity+5 | — | 1h 02m 50s | ||
| 4/7/26 | identitybelonging+3 | Mioara | — | Roma | adoptionRoma heritage+5 | — | 47m 28s | ||
| 3/31/26 | identityadoption+4 | Jeff | — | San Francisco | adoptionidentity+5 | — | 1h 09m 25s | ||
| 3/24/26 | adoptionidentity+4 | Greta | — | — | Baby Scoop Erabasketball+5 | — | 1h 03m 02s | ||
| 3/17/26 | adoptionidentity+3 | Raven | — | North Hollywood, California | adoptionbiological mother+3 | — | 57m 19s | ||
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Chart history for Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
Peaked at #19 in IS, currently #19 in IS.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| IS | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| Canada | — | #51 | #51 | — |
| Mexico | — | #51 | #51 | — |
| South Africa | — | #71 | #71 | — |
| PE | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| United States | — | #103 | #103 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #132 | #132 | — |
| Sweden | — | #134 | #134 | — |
| Ireland | — | #139 | #139 | — |
| Australia | — | #140 | #140 | — |
| Norway | — | #188 | #188 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #198 | #198 | — |
| South Africa | — | #198 | #198 | — |
Chart Positions
14 placements across 12 markets.
Chart Positions
14 placements across 12 markets.