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Season 7

Season 7, Episode 10: Marissa Lichwick and Her Ghosts

Marissa Lichwick, 46, is a Korean adoptee and filmmaker, playwright and actor. She is using her past pain and trauma surrounding her family separation, abuse in the orphanage and in her father and stepmother’s home and the haunting loss of a half-sister she’s never met in her art, to process the events of her life and to encourage healing and community with others. Her first feature-length film is a semi-autobiographical look at her life and will be distributed widely this fall.

Audio available on Friday, January 19, 2024.

Season 7

Season 7, Episode 9: Sara Docan-Morgan and Being In-Reunion

Sara Docan-Morgan, PhD, is a Korean adoptee and communications professor in Wisconsin. Docan-Morgan, 47, is also the youngest child in her Korean biological family, with whom she reunited with many years ago. Her research has focussed on experiences of Korean adoptees and their families, and this month she is out with a new book, “In Reunion: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family” (Temple University Press).

Audio available on Jan. 5, 2024. Patreon supporters receive an early download.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 18: Eric Poole is the Boy From Uijeongbu

Eric Poole, 55, is a transracially adopted Black Korean who has come a long way from his early days as a mixed-race Korean child in a US military camptown in Korea. He’s now a father to three kids, husband, and one of the few Black pilots in the commercial flight industry. But his success story is built on the complicated foundation of being orphaned, outcast, alone and othered. He also shares his experiences being at the Holt orphanage, including being sexually abused by other kids and being groomed for a new life in the US.  (Part 1 of 2 part interview). 

Audio available on April 25, 2023.

Transcript

“Running” by JaeJin.

Other music appears under license with Blue Dot Sessions.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 17: Karen Lechelt and Shapeshifting

Karen Lechelt, 50, is a mother, wife and a returned East coaster after two decades in the San Francisco bay area and a few years in Amsterdam in between. Their childhood in New Jersey was marked with feeling not quite fitting wherever she was, and having to always adapt themself.
Because of the loss of their first family, Karen says there’s always been a feeling of not being anchored. That changed with the birth of their daughter.

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“Running” by JaeJin.

“Some Nights End,” “The Sermon,” “Feeling Fine,” “Breaking The Chairs,” by Blue Dot Session under license.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 16: Megan Nyberg – Superheroes Have Feelings Too

Megan Nyberg, 37, was adopted as an infant from South Korea to Minnesota. But ever since her premature birth, she has struggled with medical conditions that have been constant reminders of the mystery surrounding her origins. Now a therapist, Nyberg gives other grace and more recently, has started to give it to herself too. 

Audio available 3/30/23.
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“Running” by JaeJin.

Other music by Blue Dot Sessions: “Awash,” “Leatherbound,” “Shoreline Piling,” and “The Gerimo.”

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 14: Laure Badufle Returns to Seoul

Korean-born French adoptee Laure Badufle’s story and search for idenity is now the subject of a new Sony Pictures film, “Return to Seoul.” In December of 2021, Badufle, then 37, shared some of that story, including meeting her birth parents in her 20s. The film is now opening to more international audiences this month and is already winning accolades. This is a re-broadcast. 

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“Running” by JaeJin.

Other music under license with Blue Dot Sessions.

Season 6

Season 6, Episode 13: Michael Jessup and His Inner Game

Michael Jessup of Mountain View, California is a father, coach and adopted Korean. But it’s only been in the last six years that the 46-year old has explored his feelings about his adoption and  faced his pain about being abandoned and given up by presumably his first family at 13 months of age. He opens up about his life, how tennis has carried him through the years, and shares a touching letter to his eomma. 

Audio available Feb. 23, 2023.
Transcript Download

“Running” by JaeJin under license.

“Trajectories,” “Krotoa Hills,” “Helion Ruins,” “Engine Flicker” by Blue Dot Sessions under license.