Chris Epting, author of best selling book Roadside Baseball takes you on a weekly journey to learn about the places and people that make baseball history worth re-living.
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Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott is the podcast I wish I had before I started on my journey more than 25 years ago. It’s a mosaic of real stories from the adoption community which includes parents who gave up their children, families struggling with infertility and natural conception, and the often silent adult adoptees. Host Bryan Elliott decodes these experiences, combined with expert advice from medical professionals and published authors on the subject to help people cope and li ...
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Lesli Johnson MFT - Living in Adoptionland as an Adoptee Therapist
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Lesli Johnson MFT is as an adoptee therapist helping people in the adoption community to live healthier and happier lives.Want to find out more about Leslie? Visit: www.askadoption.comFrom Lesli's website: "I created Ask Adoption to provide a community for individuals and families created by foster care and adoption and for others who are curious a…
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J.T. Harding - No Wonder I Party Like a Rockstar! Finding Out My Dad is a Big Celebrity...
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How does an adoptee who grew up with an outrageous passion for rock-n-roll end up writing giant country hits? How does a guy who had no music-business connections whatsoever find his way to his dream of being on hit radio? Your attitude about your circumstances helps a whole lot. According to Harding, “Being adopted has given me an incredibly optim…
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What It's Like Being an International Adoptee -- Moses Farrow
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Moses Farrow is the international Korean born adopted son on Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. To say Moses' adoption, childhood and adult life has been complicated is a massive understatement. Forget about what you think you know about Moses and put any tabloid style commentary aside. In his own words, Moses said, "Adoption Trauma is a shared life-chang…
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The Gathering Place - Author, Emma Stevens
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Emma Stevens is an adoptee from the Baby Scoop Era and author of the book, The Gathering Place. You can find her book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zP4JwP Emma's story is heartbreaking and healing at the same time as we discover the ends to which she had to endeavor in order to find her real identity. It's a familiar story of how adoptees often ventu…
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You Don't Know How Lucky You Are - author, Rudy Owens
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Nearly 50 years after he was relinquished for adoption, Rudy Owens learned how fortunate life can be. In 2014 in San Diego, Owens met his biological half-sister for the first time. That meeting inspired Owens to tell his adoption story set against the larger adoption narrative that has impacted millions of adoptees, their birth parents, and their c…
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Marcy shares the story of her father who is an adoptee and how she discovered more of her past. Thank you for listening, if you want to ask me a question you can do it anomalously or include your name and I’ll give you a shout out — to Record your question just goto: Speakpipe.com/Adoptionland from your phone or computer and it’s that easy.…
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Dr Paul Conti - Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal from It
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This episode of Adoptionland with Dr Paul Conti was adapted from a previous interview I did with Dr Conti on my other series Behind the Brand [Listen to my business show on iTunes: https://apple.co/3OWJ0bj ]. His work in the area of trauma is so important and relevant that I wanted to share this excerpt with my audience here as well. Dr. Conti is a…
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We Need More Adoptee Voices Like This - Dr. Lisa Munro
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If you don't know Dr. Lisa Munro, one of the most articulate #adopteevoices I know speaking out on a variety of adoption-related topics, you should. Fair warning, Dr. Lisa doesn't sugar-coat and often has some of my favorite "unpopular opinion" rants and riffs on the internet. You can follow her here: https://twitter.com/llmunro Want to ask me a qu…
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A Little About Damon Davis in his own words..."I had the good fortune to be reunited with my biological mother in 2009 in a heart warming story of coincidental history, a mutual desire to be reunified, and the pure luck to be able to surprise my biological mother, Ann, for our reunion on her birthday! I always enjoy hearing and sharing the real sto…
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"This is Not a Legal Record" - The Right to Privacy vs The Right to Know One's Identity: Tony Corsentino
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Did you know that only 11 out of the 50 United States allow adoptees to obtain a copy of their original birth certificate? This means that many adoptees in both open and closed adoptions cannot ever know their true identity...heritage...race or origin story. It also means these adoptees may never have access to their personal or family medical hist…
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Leslie Mackinnon - The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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Leslie Mackinnon is a pioneer and trailblazer in Adoptionland -- and one of the girls written about in Ann Fessler's book, The Girls Who Went Away. Leslie recounts her personal story and part of the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the deca…
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The Plot Thickens -- The Real Reason Why My Mom Rejected Me
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The plot thickens a bit as Bryan explains more details about the methods he used to find his birth mom -- and the possible true reasons why she rejected and bullied him with the aid of her lawyers. This episode also offers advice for birth parents and adoptees who are seeking reunion as well as details Bryan learned first-hand about legal rights re…
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Emma - An International Russian-Born Adoption Story
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Emma is a 23 year old international adoptee who was born in Russia and adopted by a couple in Canada, along with their natural born child and 2 other adoptees from Russia. Emma is active and outspoken about adoption issues on TikTok, you can find her at https://www.tiktok.com/@svetty4444By info@podcastone.com
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How It Started - Bryan's Adoption Story
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Living in Adoptionland is the podcast I wish I had before I started on my journey more than 20 years ago…I explore the world of adoption from positive stories to stories about heartbreak, trauma and sometimes even a lifetime of hidden pain. There are more than 500k kids in the foster care system today waiting to find a home, while infertility rates…
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Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott: Trailer
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Living in Adoptionland with Bryan Elliott is the podcast I wish I had before I started on my journey more than 25 years ago. It’s a mosaic of real stories from the adoption community which includes parents who gave up their children, families struggling with infertility and natural conception, and the often silent adult adoptees. Host Bryan Elliott…
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Baseball historian Ralph Carhart's remarkable journey to pay tribute to Hall of Famers in the form of one special baseball will soon be a book. We talk about that and more.
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Renowned photographer Jean Fruth has an innate gift for capturing the game of baseball through her lens. Her new book, "Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin" provides many examples of her artistry as well as first-hand stories from some of baseball's most profound legends. She and Chris discuss the book, her career and more.…
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Graham Knight has been visiting ballfields for decades. He's been to hundreds of them, and shares his impressions and reflections at baseballpilgrimages.com. Our conversation covers many of his experiences, favorites and reasons why he is such a passionate baseball traveler.
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He's never really told this story before, but back in the 1950s the kid who ran the manual outfield scoreboard at D.C's Griffith Stadium saw something he wasn't supposed to see
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Over more than five years, baseball fan Ron Bolton has built a huge social media following by sharing vintage images on his Twitter page "Old Time Baseball Photos." But as he explains to Chris, there's more to it than just meets the eye.
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Chris chats with renowned baseball photographer Bob Busser.
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This Eposode's Guest: Renowned ballpark traveler/photographer Bob Busser, who has visited and photographed literally hundreds of ballparks and arenas (and this July is being honored by the Baseball Reliquary for his efforts) gives Chris a rundown of his favorite ballparks and former ballpark sites, little-known ballpark secrets and other tales from…
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Roadside Baseball sites visited in Kansas City, MO: Former site of Municipal Stadium Kauffman Stadium
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Roadside Baseball location referenced in this episode: 1. Gate of Heaven cemetery, Valhalla NY 2. Griffith Park Golf Course, Los Angeles
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Roadside baseball locations referenced in the episode: Former site of League Park, Cleveland Former site of the Polo Grounds, New York Former site of St. Lawrence Hospital, New York Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Progressive Field, Cleveland
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Award winning author Chris Epting, is bringing stories from his best selling book Roadside Baseball to the show weekly. More detail. More history. More amazing facts from history lost and history being made today. If you love baseball, or even if you don't- you will enjoy the tales of pure, amazing Americana.…
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