Once Upon A Time...In Adopteeland

Feb 04 2025 200 ep. 48 mins 15
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Through an audio drama, episodes of thought-provoking conversations and bonus recordings, the listening audience can learn some of the issues that the adoption community face from the perspective of the adoptee.

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216. Diego Vitelli: "Adoptee Identity, the Search for Answers and Sitting in True Authenticity."

Feb 04 2025 61 mins  
Diego Vitelli is a dedicated adoptee-focused therapist, relationship expert, and advocate for racial diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusion. An international adoptee from Colombia, Diego was adopted at approximately five years old by an Irish-Italian family outside of Boston. His lived experience as an adoptee fuels his deep passion for amplifying adoptee voices and fostering spaces where

215. Paul Kimball: "We are all Human Beings; An Adoptee Ponders"

Jan 28 2025 77 mins  
Paul Kimball is an active musician in Stockton California. He conducts Musicals, The Zion Chamber Orchestra and Pops Choir and recently retired after 36 years as a music teacher with the Lincoln Unified School District. He is French Horn player. As a baby, Paul lived in Foster Care after being relinquished by his first mother, a concert cellist, at 5 days old. He was adopted on his

214. Jennifer Hiltebeitel: "Trust Falling"

Jan 21 2025 54 mins  
Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL-ta-bite-el) is a returning guest.Jennifer is an adopted person on a lifelong healing journey. She was adopted through the county foster care system in Pennsylvania in the early 70s and just obtained her original birth certificate in 2023. She met her biological mother at 17 and father at 21 before the internet existed and has ongoing relationshi

213. Astrid Castro: "Three Decades of Serving the Adoption Constellation"

Jan 14 2025 66 mins  
Astrid Castro is a returning guest.Astrid is the founder and CEO of Adoption Mosaic, an adoptee-led, BIPOC woman-owned business that creates for and connects our adoption constellation community through adoptee-centered events, education courses, and consultations. For over three decades, Astrid has served the adoption constellation through a variety of innovative programing design

212. Sharon Butler-Obazee: "Growing Intentional Families Together (GIFT)"

Jan 07 2025 51 mins  
Sharon Butler-Obazee, an adoptee, attended Cal State Hayward. She worked in human services and tenured with the insurance industry as a medical sales rep. After retirement, she became certified under the International Coaching Federation after attending Professional Christian Coaching before starting her coaching practice.  Her handle on social media was @adoptionclarity,

211. A Review of 2024: "Happy New Year's Eve!"

Dec 31 2024 21 mins  
We encourage you to go to https://www.onceuponatimeinadopteeland.com/ and search the individuals mentioned in this episode to find their contributions/links.OBC to California Born Adoptees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHylYLHqXgMusic by Corey Quinn

210. Jennifer Hiltebeitel: "Where Did I Come From, Who Do I Look Like and Why Did This Happen?"

Dec 24 2024 58 mins  
Original air date: November 1, 2022Jennifer Hiltebeitel (HILL - ta - bite - el) was adopted from foster care as a preschooler and grew up to be a fourth-grade teacher with a Master's degree in Multicultural Education. She met members of her biological family between the ages of 17-21 and is honored to understand pieces of her story that were once missing. She ha

209. Natasha Tripplett: "THE BLUE PICKUP and JUNETEENTH IS"

Dec 17 2024 62 mins  
Natasha Tripplett, a Jewish-Jamaican American author, lives in Northern California where she writes from a tree house perched in a sycamore tree. As a baby, Natasha was adopted into a Dutch, Christian family. Growing up on Vancouver Island in Canada, she was acutely aware that she was different from her family; this did not keep her from integrating all the pieces of her identity.

208. Lisa MM Butler: "As The Crow Flies"

Dec 10 2024 59 mins  
Lisa MM Butler is a Black (biracial), US domestic, transracial adoptee and former foster youth. She is an artist, writer, advocate, community organizer, and library lover. Lisa is known, online, as the Adoptee Clown and shares her experiences as an adoptee both on her Instagram @theadopteeclown and on Substack as The Adoptee Clown Diaries. She serves on the Board of VOICES, a BIPOC

207. Anita Garber: "A Transracial Adoptee, Author and Poet"

Dec 03 2024 64 mins  
Original Air Date: 11/22/22Anita is a passionate, creative, transracial adoptee. Adopted with her identical twin sister, she grew up on a chicken farm with five siblings and considers her faith and family to be most important to her. She has a bachelor's degree in Social Work and is presently pursuing her Master's degree in Social work and a Certificate in Expressive Arts. Whe