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Every Adoptee Has a Story.
Every Story Leads to Another.

The Adoption Chain is an adoptee-centered podcast where each guest shares their story—and introduces us to the next link in the chain.

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A Podcast Built Around Real Connections.

The Adoption Chain is built around a simple format: each adoptee tells their own story, then introduces us to someone they know who has one of their own.

Each guest talks openly about adoption, identity, family, reunion, loss, discovery, belonging, and whatever else shaped their experience. At the end of the conversation, they introduce another adoptee who becomes the next link.

We started in Oklahoma, have already followed the chain to Colorado, and hope to see where it leads next.

LINK ONE

FOLLOW THE CHAIN

See Where the Conversations Take Us.

The chain has already moved beyond Oklahoma, carrying us into new communities, families, and perspectives. Browse the episodes and follow the connections from one guest to the next.
Our Latest Episodes
Meet the people who are shaping the chain right now.
Donald Lepp · Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Donald begins The Adoption Chain with his own story of learning at age fifty that he had been adopted—and the questions about family, identity, secrecy, and belonging that followed.
Scott Smith · Oklahoma

Donald’s longtime friend and fellow adoptee Scott Smith becomes the second link in the chain, sharing his own experience and helping begin the journey from one adoptee to the next.

WHY THESE STORIES MATTER

There Is No Single Adoption Story.

Adoption can hold gratitude, grief, humor, anger, reunion, loss, belonging, confusion, and healing—sometimes all at once. The Adoption Chain gives adoptees space to speak without being reduced to one version of what adoption is supposed to mean.
IDENTITY
FAMILY
DISCOVERY
REUNION
BELONGING
LOSS
HUMOR
HEALING

Your Story Could Be the Next Link.

Are you an adoptee with a story to share, or do you know someone whose voice belongs in the conversation?