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Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Nadia Levett
43 episodes
4 hours ago
Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
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Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
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Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode - 42 Part 1 “Jo on Reunion, Identity, and the Power of Story”
Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...
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5 hours ago
45 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 41 - "The Science of Calm: Dana Hargus Talks on Biofeedback, Attachment, and the Restore Method"
Send us a text Hey Listeners! In this episode, I sit down with Dana Hargus - licensed professional counsellor, founder of Restore of Ada, and passionate advocate for trauma-informed healing. Dana shares how her journey as a mother to an adopted son led her into the world of biofeedback, attachment theory, and frequency-based care. With over 25 years of experience, she’s built a healing model that blends science, compassion, and practical tools for families navigating trauma, adoption, and reg...
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2 months ago
54 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 40 - "Ryan Jon: Adopted…and Adept at Stirring Emotions"
Send us a text Welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast, where we explore the stories that shape us; stories of identity, resilience, and the courage it takes to search your truth. Today’s guest is someone many of you will recognise, not just from the hugely popular Toni and Ryan Podcast, but from a more personal journey that’s touched hearts across Australia and beyond. Ryan Jon is a storyteller, a broadcaster, a podcaster, a husband and father and an adoptee. In 2017, he shared a heartfel...
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3 months ago
43 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 39 - "Adoption Wasn’t a Big Deal for Michelle … Until It Was!"
Send us a text Today, we’re sitting down with Michelle- a mum, a midwife, a nurse, and someone who has walked the winding path of adoption and healing. Adopted at six weeks old, Michelle grew up in southern Sydney with her brothers and a whole lot of freedom, never really thinking adoption was a big part of her story. But like many of us, life has a way of inviting us deeper. In her forties, Michelle started to ask new questions, about identity, belonging, and the layers we carry withou...
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3 months ago
51 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Trailer: "Under the Radar - Stories That Needed Telling"
Send us a text Welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth, a space for the stories that live beneath the surface. In this trailer, host Nadia Levett shares the origins of the podcast and in Episode 1 she shares her personal journey from foster care to adoption, shaped by both love and complexity. But this series is about more than one story; it’s about many. With compassion and curiosity, Nadia brings forward voices from across Australia and internationally: adoptees, ...
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3 months ago
1 minute

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 38 - “Winging It Since 1982: A Bonus Chat with Jo Sparrow”
Send us a text Hey Everyone, and welcome to this special bonus ep of The Australian Adoption Podcast. This one’s a bit different - I’m flipping the mic and sharing an interview I did with Jo Sparrow on Adopt Perspective. We get into all of it - early care, family, reunion, identity, and what healing really looks like over time. Jo asks the kind of questions that get under the surface, and I reckon this chat might hit home if you’ve ever wondered where you fit, or how to make sense of a ...
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4 months ago
1 hour 38 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 37 - "The Fire of Belonging: A Journey Through Loss and Sovereignty"
Welcome to Season 4 of The Australian Adoption Podcast, with your host Nadia Levett, where truth is reclaimed, stories are given a voice, and silence is broken. Today, we are privileged to hear from Shane Bouel, a man whose life was shaped by adoption—not as an act of love, but as a theft of identity. In his own words, he recounts the journey of a life unwoven and stitched together again, through pain, reunion, and ultimately, sovereignty. Through his recorded poetic piece, Shane invite...
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5 months ago
7 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 36 - "Empowered Voices: Emily Hikaiti Elevating Youth in Australia's Care System"
Welcome to Season 3 of the Australian Adoption Podcast, with your host, Nadia Levett. In today’s episode I’m joined by the inspiring Emily Hikaiti. Emily is an Australian-born Māori woman with a powerful story and a deep commitment to youth advocacy. Drawing from her lived experience in Australia’s out-of-home care system, Emily has become a passionate voice for change, working both nationally and internationally to shape policies and improve outcomes for young people in care. From becoming a...
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6 months ago
57 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 35 - "Adopted and Adopting: Peter's Journey of Love and Legacy"
"Welcome to the Australian Adoption Podcast, where we explore stories that inspire, challenge, and broaden our perspectives. In this episode, we're honoured to introduce Peter, an 81-year-old adoptee from New Zealand and brother of Jan Peart, who shared her journey in Episode 16. Peter’s story is one of love, resilience, and the transformative power of family. As both an adoptee and an adoptive parent of two, alongside two biological children, Peter’s unique experiences shine a light on...
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7 months ago
59 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 34 - "FRAGILE, Handle with Care: Barton C Williams Story of War, Art & Identity"
Send us a text Hi listeners, today I am speaking with Barton. A former Surf Life Saver, Australian barefoot water ski champion and an educator, Barton is also a published writer, an actor in film, tv, and theatre. He is also a Vietnamese war adoptee. In April 1975, President Ford initiated the largest-ever humanitarian child evacuation. Thousands of babies were "lifted" from war-torn Vietnam to Western countries to begin a new life. Barton C Williams (aka Huynh van Cuo...
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8 months ago
46 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 33 - "Every Child Deserves Better: Renee Carter on Reform, Resources & Adopt Change"
Send us a text Hi everyone, today I will be speaking to Renee Carter, CEO of Adopt Change Australia. Adopt Change is a non-profit organisation with its purpose to support children in need, focussing on government care, foster care, orphans, or children without families, and their carers, families and guardians. They have continued to achieve this by providing resources such as my packs to support at-risk children and also providing support and resources to carers, families and guardians...
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10 months ago
43 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 32 - "The Gift That Keeps on Giving: Kura Perkins on Love, Loss & Legacy"
Send us a text Hi everyone, today I speak with Kura. Kura Perkins is a Perth-based adoptee. Born in 1975 and was adopted in Western Australia at 6 weeks of age to newly arrived immigrants from New Zealand. They decided to give her a Māori, name and although she wasn’t Māori, her adoptive parents had heard of this incredible name Kura and loved it, her name would soon have coincidental significance, becoming clear 25 years later. Growing up, Kura always knew she was adopted., She h...
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1 year ago
53 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 31 - "Adopted & Amplified: Jim Moginie’s Soundtrack of Searching"
Send us a text Hi Listeners, In this episode I sit down with Jim Moginie. We had an amazing conversation over zoom from his home in Ireland and I was fortunate to meet him for the launch of his new book earlier this year. For 50 years, Jim was a driving force behind one of Australia’s most iconic bands Midnight Oil. He grew up in Sydney’s northern suburbs and attended high school in the city, where he befriended drummer Rob Hirst. Together with another friend, Andrew ...
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1 year ago
46 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 30 - “Make a Difference, Travel, Heal”: Denna’s Story of Adoption & Awakening
Send us a text Hey guys, Today I’m speaking with Denna. Denna is an intercountry adopted person, born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1979. She grew up in Mclaren Vale, South Australia, and an organisation, formerly known as ASIAC organised her adoption from Yayasan Ibu Sayap. At 4 months of age, Denna took her first international plane trip, and since then has travelled extensively around the globe in both career and personal life. Denna views her adoption experience as being a...
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1 year ago
32 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 29 - "Healing the Heart First: Alyson’s Woo-Woo Wisdom for Adoptee Wellness"
Send us a text Welcome to today's podcast. My guest is Alyson, an Australian adoptee from the Baby Scoop Era of the 1970s. Alyson holds a Bachelor's degree in Naturopathy and is certified in a wide array of modalities through her business, “Your Authentic Self.” Her expertise includes Homeopathy, Sanum Therapy, Herbal Medicine, Nutrition, Nutrigenomics, Applied Kinesiology, Touch for Health, Brain Gym, the Biology of Trauma, Somatic Healing and Creatrix transformology. Alyson's j...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 28 - "When You’re Missing the Story: Julie on Health, Heritage & Making Sense of It All"
Send us a text Today I will be speaking to an international adoptee from Chicago, Julie who is also a author–memoirist, essayist, and columnist– who writes about finding out who you are, where you come from, and making sense of it. At 48, julie was sent for a breast biopsy. This incident highlighted what closed adoption prevented her from knowing: her birth circumstances, family medical history, and genealogy. The subsequent search for her “personal story” that consumed five years. She ...
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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 27 - "Six Weeks, Fifty Years, One Answer: Lisa’s Adoption Story Unfolds"
Send us a text Today’s guest, Lisa was born in England in 1970 and was adopted at six weeks of age into a family who had already adopted a son. Lisa’s family moved to Australia when she was two years old and the family grew to include a biological daughter. Lisa’s story of reunion spans decades, two continents and is a testament to her determination, resilience and courage. And having the belief and hope that a NO would not always stay a no. Here is Lisa's story. Support ...
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1 year ago
52 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 26 - "What Nanny’s Diary Revealed: Jo’s Late Discovery & the Search for Truth"
Send us a text Jo is a late discovery adoptee who discovered at the age of 46 that everything that she had known to be true about her identity and family was no longer, it was like a sudden and tragic death. The information that blew her world apart was a diary kept by her recently deceased maternal grandmother “Nanny” that spanned the years 1960-1965. Jo immediately filed for her paperwork with DoCS to obtain her original birth certificate and find her birth mother. The story that unfolded w...
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1 year ago
1 hour 11 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 25 - "Of Priests, Nuns & DNA: Brendan’s Search for Belonging"
Send us a text When Brendan was eight years old, his parents told him he was adopted. In his late twenties, he found out the identity of his birth mother – but she wanted nothing to do with him. For thirty years there was only limited communication with his birth mother, and he knew nothing about his birth father. It wasn’t until 2018, a DNA test led him to the truth: 'After decades of searching, Brendan discovered that his birth parents were a Catholic priest and a nun. His ‘Memo...
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1 year ago
55 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 24 - "Unfolding the Self: Jo’s Path Through Forced Adoption & Healing"
Send us a text Jo is an adopted person, born in Adelaide in 1969. She lives with her family in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Creativity has been a constant in her life and she worked in advertising, marketing and design for many years, but is now quietly forging a new path as a yoga teacher after feeling its transformative effects in her own life. I first met Jo at a yoga training retreat in Bali earlier this year. Jo was forcibly removed from her mother immediately after her birth at Quee...
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1 year ago
51 minutes

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Send us a text Hey everyone, welcome to The Australian Adoption Podcast: My Unknown Truth. In this two-part episode, I’m chatting with Jo - an adoptee, advocate, and the voice behind the Adopt Perspective podcast. Jo was born in 1971, right in the middle of Australia’s closed adoption era, and her story is one of deep reflection, resilience, and truth-telling. In Part 1, we talk about Jo’s early years - being chosen from a hospital nursery, growing up on a grain farm, and navigating a complex...