The Untold Story Behind Somewhat Familiar: Pedro Andrade Reveals How It All Started!

About this episode

Rob Scheer and Pedro Andrade discuss the impact of storytelling on understanding family and foster care.

On this episode of Fostering Change, Rob Scheer is joined by his friend, Pedro Andrade, an Emmy Award–winning journalist, producer, and global storyteller whose work explores identity, culture, and what it truly means to be a family. Pedro is the host and producer of the HBO Max documentary series Somewhat Familiar, which follows Pedro and his husband as they adopt a baby and travel the world exploring how families are formed across cultures and communities. One episode of the series is especially meaningful to the Fostering Change community. Episode five featured Rob Scheer and the Scheer family, offering an honest look at foster care, adoption, and what permanency can look like in real life. In this conversation, Rob and Pedro revisit that experience and explore how storytelling can expand our understanding of family, bring visibility to foster care, and inspire more compassionate conversations about belonging. Episode Highlights How media and storytelling can redefine traditional ideas of family Why foster care stories deserve a place in global conversations about belonging Pedro’s experience of becoming a parent and how it shaped his perspective on adoption What the Scheer…

People in this episode

Host: Rob Scheer

Guest: Pedro Andrade

Topics covered

• storytelling
• foster care
• adoption
• family
• cultural identity
• media impact

Keywords

• Pedro Andrade
• Rob Scheer
• Somewhat Familiar
• foster care
• adoption
• family
• storytelling
• documentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HBO Max

Books & works: Somewhat Familiar

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