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The podcast where black adoptees discuss their adoption experience and how they navigate their identities. We all have an internal need to know who we are as a person as our identity helps us to navigate the world and to know what unique about us. We all develop an identity but the process of navigating this journey can be more difficultg for adoptees in relation to early challenges they might have faced through their adoption.
Episodes
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Isaiah James, a transracial adoptee based in America. They discussed how Isaiah navigated his adoption and his identity, relationship with his adoptive family, reunion with his birth family and beyond.
Follow Isaiah on: @soyouhavebeenadopted and @rewritingadoption
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Steffany Venneri, a voice and life coach and transracial adoptee from Canada. They discussed how adoption impacted her identity, the struggles she and her brother faced, birth family expectations and price tag.
Content warning: discussion about mental health, drug addiction, drug overdose from 15:03 to 15:40
@blackadopteesidentities
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Kevin Barnett, a transformational speaker. They discussed Kevin's childhood in foster care and the difficulties he endured before his adoption, how adoption impacted his identity and his reunion with his birth family.
Content warning: discussion about malnutrition from 7min14 to 8min11; discussion about abuse from 9min00 to 9min17; 13min21 to13min45; 29min06 to 29min26 and 34min45 to 35min00
https://www.livingmyshadows.org
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Jules, a transracial adoptee, originally from Mali. The conversation explores how adoption impact on mental health and relationships and Jules shares how she navigated birthdays, medical history, racism and changing name.
Content Warning: General discussion of suicide from 15min00sec to 15min32sec.
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Dr. Abigail Hasberry, coach and therapist. Dr Hasberry is an American domestic transracial adoptee and in this episode she shares her adoption journey and how it impacted her identity. She also recounts her journey as a birth mother and her reunion with her birth family.
https://dearabbyllc.org/about-abby
Christelle Pellecuer
Christelle is a life coach, adoptee coach and creative leadership coach.
Christelle was born in Madagascar, raised in South of France, lived in the UK for over 20 years and she is now splitting her time between Portugal, UK and France.
She was adopted in South of France at the age of 10. Her lived experience as a transracial adoptee as led her to do work with adoptees and adoption agencies and she is passionate about supporting other adoptees and sharing stories of other adult adoptees.