The Wishing Well Series

The Wishing Well Series

Interviews with adult adoptees sharing what they wish about adoption. What do they wish people knew about adoption? What do they wish they could say to their first families? What do they wish for their future?

The Wishing Well Series
  • The Wishing Well Trailer

    "Do you wish you hadn't been adopted?" "What do you wish your adoptive parents would've done or said?" As adult adoptees share our stories, we frequently come across questions about our wishes. Sometimes these questions are disingenuous and sometimes they're sincere. In this series, adoptees take...

  • The Wishing Well with Francie Frisbie

    Francie Frisbie is an infant adoptee and host of the Adoption Advocacy Podcast. She joins us at the wishing well to share what she wishes she knew about her biological family.

  • The Wishing Well with Jen Chapman

    Jen Chapman is a Korean adoptee who shares what she wishes her adoptive parents would've told her when she was a child and why it would've made a huge difference for her life.

  • The Wishing Well - Jen Matthews

    Jen Matthews, creator of Conversations About Adoption, shares her wishes as an adoptee. She joins us at the wishing well to dive into what she wishes people understood about adoption and what she wishes for the future of adoption.

  • The Wishing Well - Nicole Koharik

  • The Wishing Well - Sara Easterly

  • The Wishing Well with Natalie Boone

    Natalie is an infant, domestic adoptee who is in reunion with her biological family. She joins us at the wishing well to share what she wishes she'd known as a kid and what she wishes others knew about adoption today.

  • The Wishing Well with Kevin Hofmann

    Kevin D. Hofmann, author of Growing Up Black in White, is a biracial Black, transracial adoptee. He joins us at the wishing well to dive into what he wishes people understood about adoption and what we wishes for his fellow adoptees to know about their power.