Join host Pam Kroskie with her guest Suzanne Bachner-  Suzanne Bachner is an award-winning playwright, director and adoptee and adoptee equality advocate. Her award winning play, The Good Adoptee, is the riveting and outrageous true story of Suzanne’s search for the truth of her origins and her first/birth parents in the face of New York State's sealed records. The Good Adoptee won awards for Best Autobiographical Script and Best Actress for star Anna Bridgforth when it premiered in the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City. It was also named a Best Play by Indie Theater Now and is included in ITN’s Plays and Playwrights 2017 anthology. The show has toured to the London International Fringe Festival and all over the U.S., including a 7-week 9-city Connecticut tour to support the vital legislative efforts of Access Connecticut and the Keynote Presenter for Indiana Adoptee Network’s 2nd Annual Conference. The Good Adoptee has raised funds and awareness for ALARM, Origins Canada, Access Massachusetts, Access Connecticut and You Gotta Believe. Other adoption plays include We Call Her Benny; Alexandra Triptych, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Twin Studies and her 14-actor reunion epic, Brilliant Mistake. Suzanne holds an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University, is a member of the United Solo Academy and the Dramatists Guild. JMTCTheatre.com • TheGoodAdoptee.com

Join host Pam Kroskie with her guest Rhonda Churchill- Rhonda will be keynoting at IAN's conference April 5th and 6th in Indianapolis- for more information on the conference go to IndianaAdopteeNetwork.org and click on the link. Rhonda Noonan was born in 1956.  In 1980, she decided to investigate the grandfather she had been told “cared for her.” She embarked upon a thirty-year search culminating in the discovery of her grandfather Sir Winston Churchill.  Rhonda discovered, during the course of her search, that she had been called by five different names.  This led her to write The Fifth and Final Name: Memoir of an American Churchill. In 2013 she claimed her family name as Rhonda Churchill.    Rhonda is a mental health therapist and author who resides in the Tulsa metro area.

Join Adoptees Unplugged Host Pam Kroskie as she and her guest Heidi Meier chat about Heidi getting her certificate of live birth and other documents that the state of Indiana is issuing adoptees. Heidi is married and is a mother of two small boys. Heidi and her husband adopted their two sons in open adoptions. Tune in and listen as we chat about what it has been like to get the state to move through this process of releasing these records. We will also chat with Heidi how she plans the future for her boys who will no doubtly want some piece of their history for themselves. Also- Pam has released with her Vice President Marcie Keithley a children's book "Frankie and Friends Talk Adoption" and we will do a quick update on that.  Indiana Adoptee Network is also holding their third annual conference in April and we will chat a bit about what that will be like and what the workshops will include.  

Join host Pam Kroskie with guest Anne Heffron Thursday March 15th @ 3pm est After teaching writing at San Jose State University for over fifteen years, Anne retired to work full time on screenplays with her writing partner, Antonia Bogdanovitch. In 2015, Phantom Halo was named New York Times Critics’ Pick and it won Best Screenplay and Best Picture at The New York International Film Festival. The next year Anne packed up all her things, gave up her California apartment, and left for New York on a trip she called Write or Die. She said she was not coming back home until she had done the one thing she’d been wanting to do for over thirty years: write a book about adoption. Ninety-three days later, she had the manuscript for You Don’t Look Adopted. And the name of her birth father.  She is currently writing The Unofficial Adoptees’ Handbook and teaches monthly Write or Die classes, where she inspires and guides others to discover ways to get their stories on paper. You Don’t Look Adopted, which recently won Best of BellaOnline 2016, is available on Amazon.

Join host Pam Kroskie and her guest Pam Greenstone M.A., LPC Pam is a counselor in Austin and has been in private practice since 2002. She’s passionate about helping the GLBTQ community have strong relationships and she helps people recover from eating disorders. Her love of group therapy began in graduate school and it has been a big part of her training and professional life. Pam is also an adoptee in reunion with her birth family and has found Group very helpful in issues related to adoption.   Pam began her counseling career at the University of Texas Counseling Center and spent many years at Waterloo Counseling Center, which specializes in the GLBTQ community. She served on the board of the Austin Group Psychotherapy Society (AGPS) and also served as President of AGPS. Currently, Pam is a counselor in private practice in Austin and runs a weekly women’s psychotherapy group. She enjoys working with adoptees and all people whose lives are touched by adoption. Pam is an adoptee and is passionate about acknowledging and healing trauma related to relinquishment and adoption. Thanks to DNA testing, she has been in reunion with her birth family since 2014 and has a close relationship with both of her birth parents, many siblings and other family members. In fact, Pam’s birth father, Dan, is planning to attend the IAN conference. Her birth family relationships have become a very important part of her life.      

Join Host Pam Kroskie and guest Anne Heffron -she gets to meet her birth father!!! After teaching writing at San Jose State University for over fifteen years, Anne retired to work full time on screenplays with her writing partner, Antonia Bogdanovitch. In 2015, Phantom Halo was named New York Times Critics’ Pick and it won Best Screenplay and Best Picture at The New York International Film Festival. The next year Anne packed up all her things, gave up her California apartment, and left for New York on a trip she called Write or Die. She said she was not coming back home until she had done the one thing she’d been wanting to do for over thirty years: write a book about adoption. Ninety-three days later, she had the manuscript for You Don’t Look Adopted. And the name of her birth father.  She is currently writing The Unofficial Adoptees’ Handbook and teaches monthly Write or Die classes, where she inspires and guides others to discover ways to get their stories on paper. You Don’t Look Adopted, which recent

Join Host Pam Kroskie and guest Rhonda Churchill on November 9th @ 2pm EST- Renae Irene Gafford was given up for adoption in 1956.  She was adopted by Jim and Jeanlee Noonan and was raised in the wheat lands of north central Oklahoma, as Rhonda Noonan. In 1980, she began a quest to find her biological grandfather, who, she was told, had cared about her.  The journey was 30 years long but ultimately rewarding, as she found her birth mother and the identity of her birth father. Her beloved grandfather was none other than Winston Churchill.  In 2013, Rhonda told the story of her search in  “The Fifth and Final Name, Memoir of An American Churchill,”  a finalist for the Oklahoma Center for The Book Award.  In 2015, she legally changed her name to Rhonda Churchill.  Rhonda is a licensed professional counselor and has worked with adoptees and their families for over 35 years.  She shares her story with others to provide inspiration and courage to those searching and to highlight the spiritual connectedness we share with family who has gone before us. 

Join host Pam Kroskie and guest Reshma McClintock on November 7th @ 2pm est Reshma McClintock, a writer and adoptee advocate, was adopted internationally as an infant and grew up in the US. She recently returned to her birthplace as the Subject of the film, Calcutta is My Mother which is expected to premier in 2018. Reshma is the founder of DearAdoption.com; a website featuring adoptee voices from around the globe. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and daughter.

Join host Pam Kroskie and Jennifer Fahlsing on Thursday at 1pm EST- Jennifer is a REALTOR® in northeast Indiana. Prior to working in real estate, she worked for 15 years in the employment industry where she served on the state board in various roles, including President. Jennifer has spent many years as an industry speaker and trainer for state, regional and national conferences. As an adoptee and first mother herself, she understands the challenges involved in searching and the gamut of emotions experienced in a reunion.  After decades of searching, she located both her mother and son within a 3-month period in 2013.  In 2014, an article was written about her struggle to obtain a Passport. US Adoptees Have Trouble Getting Passports Due to Seal Records Law.  She has been interviewed by various local media related to IAN Conferences, Senate Bill 91 and she testified on behalf of this bill. Jennifer is a member of Concerned United Birthparents, H.E.A.R. and Adoptees and Birthparents of Indiana.

Alison Plavchak is an Occupational Therapist who works with high school students with special needs. Prior to becoming an OT, she worked for a year with underserved populations as an AmeriCorps Vista member in the Consumer Protection division of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General.    Alison attended the University of South Carolina where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science. She is a die hard South Carolina Gamecock! She graduated with her Masters of Occupational Therapy from the University of Indianapolis.    Although adopted at birth, Alison has only recently become active in the adoption community. She attended the inaugural Indiana Adoptee Network conference in Bloomington, Indiana in April of 2017.  By attending the conference, Alison was able to utilize resources and make invaluable connections to help her on her adoption journey.  This positive experience led Alison to take on her current role as membership director of the Indiana Adoptee Network.  Shortly after attending the IAN conference, Alison was reunited with her birth family, and is currently enjoying her two families.   

Host Pam Kroskie and guest Michelle Madden discuss their experiences with abuse. We will talk about our childhoods and our what we went through- this is a very personal discussion and will at times be emotional and may be triggering so we ask if you are an adoptee listening please be aware when listening. A lot of adoptees have experienced both mental, physical and sexual abuse unfortunately. This show will hopefully will open the lines of communications and we can talk about this taboo subject and heal some of the hurt that exist. Please join us!