In this episode, I talk with Marcela, a Chilean adoptee who was adopted at one month old and raised in Massachusetts by a white American family. Without connection to her culture or heritage growing up, Marcela always felt something was missing. That changed in 2019 when she found and reunited with her birth mother in Chile. We talk about what reunion has meant to her, how it's shaped her understanding of identity, and how it's influenced the way she thinks about becoming a mother one day.

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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Kellan's Journey Through Adoption and Queer Identity

In this episode of Color Shift, Kellan shares their story of being adopted from China to the UK and raised in a white family and community. They reflect on the complexities of identity, silence, and survival that shaped their early years—and the deep healing work they’ve done since. Kellan speaks openly about what it means to reclaim space as a queer, transracial adoptee, and how building community with other adoptees and queer folks has been essential to their growth. This conversation is honest, grounding, and a powerful reminder of the importance of telling our own stories.

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Website: https://KaiMingHolistics.as.me/

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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Hannah was born in Kansas City to a white birth mother and Black birth father, and adopted into a white family in Pennsylvania. Raised in a community where no one looked like her, Hannah’s early years were marked by isolation, a lack of racial mirrors, and a longing to understand where she came from. In this episode, she shares what it was like to grow up feeling disconnected from her Black identity, how her search for belonging led her through music, literature, and eventually into the embrace of her racial community.

We talk about the moment everything shifted—an unexpected meeting with her birth mother during a visit to Kansas City—and how that encounter cracked open deeper questions around origin, identity, and healing. Now an educator, mother, and advocate, Hannah supports transracial adoptees and adoptive parents through her coaching work, online course, and writing.

This conversation explores the complexity of being raised in a world that doesn’t reflect you, the layered grief that comes with reunion, and the power of reclaiming your story on your own terms.

Hannah's website: https://www.hannahjmatthews.com/ — where folks can find my course as well as products and services for adoptees and caregivers

Podcast with my adopted Brother https://rss.com/podcasts/fakesiblingspodcast/

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Workbook https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Gap-Unapologetic-Reflective-Transracial/dp/B0CVVD11DP

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: transracialadoptionstories@gmail.com