Adoption Podcasts

Shefali Naidu is an author/screenwriter by profession. She has published two books, a love anthology - Love Unplugged. And a Crime thriller - Roses are Red Crimes are Blue. She is also have been a choreographer for over a decade, teaching western form of dancing like Jazz, Jive, hip-hop, Salsa and Bollywood, until the writing bug bit her!! Shefali has been married to Karthik for 13 years now. They...

Few years back a moment changed the purpose of Sahana's life forever. She got a call from a distant friend and they expressed the desire to adopt a child. Their ignorance around the subject made them look more like buyers than prospective parents. This made her think – adoption as a concept is not normal in our society. She wanted to do something to bring awareness and took the initiative to start...

Priya was born and bought up in Mumbai, India. She is a nutritionist by profession, She is currently parenting an 8 year old son and 17 month old daughter along with her partner.

"Smriti Gupta is an adoptive mother of two daughters and is the co-founder of Where Are India's Children ( waic.in ) - an organisation working to bring abandoned and orphaned children in India into the legal adoption pool. Smriti has a background in technology, marketing, and partnerships. She has previously worked with Wikimedia Foundation, PayPal (eBay), and Synopsys. She is an alum of the India...

Leena Mhatre is an MBA in human resource having work experience in companies like Nokia, HDFC Life and DCB Bank. Currently she is working as a freelance professional fine artist. She is also passionate about singing. Pankaj Mhatre is an electronics engineer and is currently working with Chubbs Systems at Manager position. He is a pet lover and does a lot of social activities related to street dog...

Vidyadhar Prabhudesai is an entrepreneur and behaviour change advocate. He is the co-founder of LeadCap Ventures with presence in 40 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe. Over the past one and half decade, LeadCap is working with international institutions like the United Nations, World Bank, World Economic Forum, fourtune 100 companies like Google, Unilever, Microsoft, and SMEs and startups l...

I had the privilege of interviewing Dr Charu Thanvi (General practitioner) about Post Adoption Deression. Dr Charu qualified as a medical doctor in 2015 and has had the wonderful opportunity to work in a variety of hospital specialties. After taking a year out travelling across New Zealand, Hong Kong and Spain, she decided to specialize in general practice and completed her training in 2021 from B...

Adoption today means openness rather than secrecy which was what surrounded adoption in the past. Children are placed for adoption with an expectation that they will be brought up by their adoptive parents in the full knowledge of their adoption. So does that mean we should tell the child their story?

I am interviewing my amazing friends Reemal and Sapna Rabheru. During our adoption journey we found some of our closest friends to be our biggest supporters. They took the place of close family who were not sure of our decision to adopt. In this podcast we are ultimately talking about support from friends within the adoption journey, both positive and negative opinions.

When you become an adoptive parent, there seem to be an endless amount of curious people. Most of them are harmless, just nosy and a little invasive but on the other hand some of the questions asked are extremely sensitive. In this podcast we are ultimately talking about inappropriate questions faced within the adoption journey. Vidya has lived most of her life in Mumbai, India and moved to the UK...

During the adoption journey one of the biggest hurdles that we faced was unexpected negative opinions on our decision to adopt. I come from a very traditional Hindu family and this is the views my mum has on our journey.

During the adoption journey, its all so easy to forget your birth child and their perspective on your adoption journey because they are "too young". What we learn, against all the advice that was given to us, was to include our son in our adoption journey and be a part of it. These are memories he still has to the day and openly speaks about. This podcast is a reflection of our son's understanding...

I am a mother of two children, Anay & Siya. My husband Rakesh and I got married in 2010 and we were blessed with our son in September 2015. Unfortunately, the pregnancy with our son was not plain sailing. So, in 2017 we decided that we wanted another child, but I was not ready to go through the problems that I had in my last pregnancy, so we decided to adopt a child in need. We welcomed Siya f...