The Janchi Show

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Mindy Tsonas Choi Instagram   Show Resources Be Seen Project  In this episode we talk about: An intro?!: 1:10 Welcome, Mindy!: 8:13 Putting the pieces back together: 15:33 The process of realization: 22:39 Exploring adoption: 29:24 The moment you know: 35:23 Breaking boxes: 40:14 Back to Korea for the first time: 44:00 Moving to the social media space: 54:49 The Janchi Show Eating Portion...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Rick Allen Instagram   In this episode we talk about: The Pachinko Intro: 1:24 Welcome, Rick!: 13:12 Rick's adoption story: 16:03 Navigating discovery: 22:04 Navigating culture: 27:51 Celebrating identity amidst violence: 30:39 The catalyst for engaging with Korean culture: 33:50 Going back to Korea for the first time: 38:46 Returning to the site of the orphanage: 44:10 Starting a birth se...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Shené Randall Personal Instagram / Podcast Instagram / TRA Mom Instagram   Show Resources Shené’s blog Sign the petition to support the Adoptee Citizenship Act    In this episode we talk about: The Bechdel Intro: 0:54 Shené’s story: 11:26 On “resiliency”: 27:52 Seoul Conversations: 35:08 Balancing, a lot: 46:04 One more thing…:55:25 KAAAAAN: 1:00:23 The Food Portion!: 1:03:51  --- // Suppo...

// Meet Elisa Noël Instagram / Twitter   Show Resources Sign the petition in support of the Adoptee Citizenship Act!    In this episode we talk about: The Fraction Intro: 0:49 Elisa’s story: 9:53 TW / CW: Suicidal ideation & attempts: 13:18 The first step to becoming Christian: 17:51 The start of a birth search: 22:44 Adoption conversations and being Korean in France: 36:30 The truth about her...

--- // Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our per...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Michelle Li Instagram | Website   // Meet Very Asian Foundation Instagram | Website   Show Resources Sign the Adoptee Citizenship Act petition ! Contact your Senators via Adoptees for Justice ! Contact your Senators via The National Council for Adoption !    In this episode we talk about: The 30-second ACA Intro: 0:47 It's Michelle Li!: 11:20 Reunion, unexpected: 15:08 Navigating shame in...

// Meet Amanda Paul Instagram   Show Resources Sign the petition to support the Adoptee Citizenship Act   In this episode we talk about: The LNY Intro: 1:46 Amanda’s Intro aka “I’m ‘nervited’ to be here!”: 11:55 Proximity to adoption, anything Asian, and whiteness: 23:55 Boundaries + navigating the world: 30:25 Shifting circles from predominantly white to less so: 35:02 Learning Language: 44:59 Ko...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Shelise Gieseke Email: shelise@adoptionmosaic.com    Show Resources Adoption Mosaic Instagram Adoption Mosaic Facebook    In this episode we talk about: The basketball / DVD / math intro: 0:54 Shelise shares her story: 8:04 Understanding racial and adoptee isolation and engaging with identity: 15:59 A place in the family: 22:07 Finding language + "coming out of the fog": 25:35 Adoption Mos...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Tia Stark Instagram   In this episode we talk about: The Last Intro of the Yeaaaar: 1:04 Tia’s adoption story: 6:27 Defining “Birth Work”: 9:16 Growing up in SoCal: 11:00 Engaging with the Korean culture/community: 14:31 The differences in our journeys: 17:12 Internalized mindsets: 20:48 Deconstructing internalized values + the rock climbing community: 25:44 Conversations about adoption wi...

By the way, we’ll be taking a break Jan 5, so there won’t be an episode that drops then. We’ll see you again in the new year!    --- // Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spre...

// Meet Kim McKee Twitter / Instagram   Show Resources Buy  Disrupting Kinship Tobias Hubinette Eleana Kim Kim Park Nelson Sarah Park Dahlen Sarah Duncan Morgan Kit Myers Elise Prebin Elizabeth Raleigh Jae Ran Kim  Arissa Oh David Smolin Susie Woo Kori Graves Crystal Mun-Hye Baik Deanne Borshay Liem Kelly Condit-Shrestha  In this episode we talk about: The Religion Intro: 1:02 Kim’s adoption story...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Mary Byrne Instagram   In this episode we talk about: New Intro: 1:30 The Car Crash Intro: 12:29 Mary's story: 13:50 Growing up in St. Louis: 14:46 "The guts to start searching.": 24:11 The start of the search: 28:55 Photos from the agency!: 36:49 The journey of reunion: 40:32 Communicating with her birth father: 47:06 Run it back: Receiving the letter from her father: 50:15 Back to it: Re...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Beyond The Scene (aka BTS) Twitter / Instagram / Facebook   In this episode we talk about: The Beyond the Scene Intro: 0:47 Welcome, Emily Nagle!: 7:17 The real reason we're here: BTS!: 9:38 Learning Hangul: 12:04 Standards of Beauty in Korean Society: 14:06 The Universal Message: 16:18 BTS + Adoption: 21:47 Nathan, knower of BTS knowledge: 26:45 How do you see yourself before BTS and afte...

// Support/Follow the Show! Online at janchishow.com Support the show at janchishow.com/support Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @janchishow Join our Group! janchishow.com/afterparty Watch our Youtube Videos The Janchi Show Quick Bio We’re three Korean Adoptees spread out around America and each of us are at different stages in life. We’ll talk about the Korean adoptee experience from our perspec...

// Meet Erin Beals Instagram / Facebook   // Meet Danny Chan Instagram     Show Resources KAD Zoom Friends Facebook Group Adoptee Reclamation Roundtable Registration! In this episode we talk about: The NAAM Intro: 0:51 Welcome back!: 15:31 Erin’s story: 16:20 Danny’s story: 21:14 Connecting with each other via 23&Me: 26:06 Creating a Facebook group: 28:52 The catalyst for exploring culture: 33...