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A follow-up episode to Jennifer's DNA-discovery that she explores on "DNA Surprises With Alexis Hourselt Podcast." Eve and Jennifer have a lovely time developing a friendship and connecting about their NPE journeys. Jennifer is the host of "Unfinished Truths," a podcast that explores various perspectives of the DNA Discovery world.
Last summer, Eve took her family in a van for the Everything's Relative Roadtrip. First stop: Strathmore. Jason and Miguel: Like Father, Like Son is a personal favorite; Eve wanted to see Miguel again, this time on his own home turf.
Annette Becklund and Eve explore her NPE DNA Discovery, how she came to write a book, and how it's affected her role as a licensed therapist. Buy Anette's Book here.
Kristin talks about how isolated she feels, even within the Misattributed Parental Event community because of the strife she's experienced from her DNA discovery.
Summer Surprise Episode: Untangling Your Roots Summit!
01:23:14
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SURPRISE!
With Don Anderson and Lily Wood, Eve invited guests in their audience to participate in making a podcast together! Extra special thanks to all the brave vulnerable people who shared their stories with the room, and now the world.
Untangling Our Roots, in partership with NAAP (National Association of Adoptees and Parents) was held in Denver, Colorado this year. the NEXT Untangling Our Roots will in in Atlanta Georgia in 2026. I hope you'll be there with me! (me is Eve)
Aaron worked in the archives and offers a lot to think about the people who are interested in their heritage, and how the mail-in DNA kits are changing that landscape--especially for women and people of color.
Eve talks with Margo about the experience of writing her second book When You Shake The Family Tree. Topics Discussed: DNA-Discovery, Expectations, Sobriety, Therapy. (Also discussed: babies, and the Los Angeles fires.)
After 25 years in public education, Margo has decided to use her masters degree and teaching experience to become a personal empowerment mentor. Her first memoir published in 2022, entitled “When the Apple Fall Far from the Tree,” outlines a lifetime of adversity and the tools she used to make it to the other side.
From growing up chaotic in a house of violence, to cancer recovery, weight loss surgery, a newly sober lifestyle, and a spiritual awakening- Margo feels compelled to share the “gifts” she has discovered along her path of personal growth.
She is the creator of the blog site, justbeingjill.com where you can learn more about the birth of her pen name, Margo Reilly. Margo has recently completed a life coach course and soon hopes to be assisting others with their own transformational journeys.
Her sequel memoir, When You Shake the Family Tree, launched in December 2024. In her latest work, she details her journey of self-acceptance and healing after learning she was not exactly who she thought she was after taking an Ancestry DNA test.
She is eager to share how she navigated her identity crisis in hopes of inspiring others to find their way forward.
Lauren is using her own story as a Donor Conceived Person to open up conversation about transparency, and the absurdity so many people in the DNA-discovery community face.
After hearing Annie's story on Lily Wood's NPE Stories, Eve tries to dig deeper into changed heritage, and gets the recipe for the best Chicken Marsala in the Bronx.
Tonnocus McClain is still navigating the awkward and difficult world of meeting new family after his DNA test results confirmed what he already suspected: Kenny is not his biological father.
Dick has zero answers, but he is an awesome example of someone who has a shocking experience but tries to be of service to others instead of wallowing in the stress of it all.
Jill, AKA Margo Reilly, talks about how her mom was telling the truth all those years ago. Jill is the author of When The Apple Falls Far From The Tree, and is now working on a second memoir that focuses on her DNA Discovery. She works as an empowerment coach; find more about her at www.justbeingjill.com
Eve addresses the call-in talkshow host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and the way she treated an NPE asking for advice on her own podcast, "call of the day." Spoiler alert: Dr. Laura is a total wretch. With guests, B.K. Jackson, Julie Dixon Jackson (Cutoff Genes Podcast), and Krista Driver
Eve's guest always knew he was adopted, but the story he was told doesn't match up when a half-sister contacts him through ancestryDNA. Stranger still is the award-winning play he wrote in graduate school, "The House of Several Stories." The House of Several Stories by A. John Boulanger is available at Concord Theatricals
content warning: sexual assault, family separation
A lot of people in the DNA-surprise community relate to the strange sequence of events that lead us to a discovery: If only Kay's cousin wasn't adopted... if Kay's mother hadn't fallen down... if there wasn't an appointment to cancel... if there hadn't been that text message...
Tiffany would have loved to know the truth of her medical history before all the extra colonoscopies. Now she's advocating for the rights of all donor-conceived people.
Tuesday Hang with Eve & Sheridan (and friends!): Don Anderson from Missing Pieces, NPE Life Podcast
00:54:50
Eve and Sheridan and Don go on a roller coaster conversation that includes California fast food chains, the shame-struggle of NPEs, Don's secret trip to Ukraine, Field of Dreams, and Sheridan's metaphor obsession. Remember: your healing is an iphone. Warning: dark humor, and a few swear words.
Support Don's secret trip to Ukraine which is definitely not a spy mission:https://www.ianice.org/
Eve Wiley has become a prolific advocate for fertility legislation ever since her DNA Discovery revealed she was born of her mom's fertility doctor's sperm, and NOT the specimen from whom they picked on a list from California Cryobank. See a news clip here.
Find your congressperson and write them an email about FERTILITY FRAUD LEGISLATION BILL HR 451.
Peter Boni's spent 20 years trying to understand himself and the history of donor conception; he uncovered a billion dollar industry and wrote the best-selling book Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination in the process.
Mesa's life wouldn't be the same without the bond between her and her siblings; her story is about a DNA shock, but it's really about love being stronger than family dysfunction.
Episode 1: LET'S DO THIS! with guest host Erin Costentino
00:51:01
Eve Sturges and Erin Cosentino talk about Everything's Relative Roadtrip, and what's in store for season 6.
For new listeners, Welcome to Everything's Relative Podcast. Eve uses this platform to talk about DNA-discoveries and the growing phenomenon of misattributed parentage.
Rebecca Berg of No Strings Nutrition in Los Angeles California, talks about how coming out of the adoption fog has informed her work as a licensed dietician.
CORRECTIONS CORNER: Rebecca states in this episode that her biological mother did not complete a high school education. This is incorrect; Rebecca feels badly for the misstep, and reiterated to Eve that her bio-mom is a successful and driven woman.
26 Aug 2022
Author Chrysta Bilton: Normal Family - Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
Eve and Dawn talk about how her own experience as an NPE led her to help others as a search angel and geneologist with a specific interest in unknown fathers.
Eve spends some time with Jack "Paul" Fronczak, who was the subject of CNN's recent documentary The Lost Sons, as well as the co-writer of The Foundling, and True Identity . TW: traumatic events, abuse
For more information about the case, and to contact Jack Fronczak: www.fronczakfiles.com
Eve Sturges, host of Everything's Relative Podcast, launches a new series with her friend Sheridan Anderson. They talk about whatever they want, as long as it's related to the DNA-discovery experience in one way or another. This is a series that offers listeners and guests a more casual (less edited!) approach to the DNA-Discovery conversation. Eve invites any guest from previous seasons to return with updates about their own story, and will also allow other people to talk about their own books or projects as long as they can prove it's related to DNA-Discovery.
Fred Nicora was just minding his own business at a family BBQ one minute, and experiencing the annihilation of his identity the next minute. His DNA discovery is what we call "LDA," Late-Discovery Adoption. His journey is one that many in the community of Misattributed Parentage will relate to. Go to frednicora.com to order Fred's book, Forbidden Roots: A Memoir of Late-Discovery Adoption.
Abby joins Eve to tell her story and explore the complicated nature of finding out the truth about where she came from and knowing it's not that unusual. TRIGGER WARNING: rape.
Dani Shapiro was already a renowned author of memoirs and novels when it happened to her: a recreational DNA test turned her world upside down. Eve talks with her about the journey that led to her latest best-selling book, "Inheritance."
Meg Thomas, host of Emotional Expedition Podcast, talks with Eve about learning she was a Donor Conceived Person, which has had a major impact on her personal fertility journey and her work as a fertility coach.
Tobie talks about pain and healing in this special episode that explores the complexities of family secrets. TRIGGER WARNING: sexual abuse, physical abuse, incest.
A special conversation with founders Alesia Weis and Kara Rubenstien Deyerin of the Right To Know organization and all they're doing for the MPE community.
Founder and editor of Severance Magazine Kate Jackson imagined a lot of things about the mother she never knew; what she discovered changed her whole understanding of the MPE experience. Now, her magazine is a treasured resource for the entire MPE community.
Abby Hasberry of instagram account @D.E.A.R._Abby talks with Eve about coming into the adoption conversation with two penultimate experiences: she is a transracial domestic adoptee, and as a teenager she became a birth mother who relinquished a son.
Cassandra was totally shocked to discover her Ashkenazi Judaic heritage, and that her parent's used a sperm donor. Now she helps other donor-conceived people process their own discoveries, and helps to educate parents on how to navigate the conversation with their own DC children.
Eve and Sheridan talk about the pressure to find things in common with newly discovered family members, and whether or not it's a good idea to contact them right away, or wait. Sheridan waited...20 minutes.
Holiday Episode! If you're interested in winning a signed copy of both our books, Who Even Am I Anymore created by Eve Sturges, and Folksong by Cory Goodrich head over to our instagram accounts for more info!
Steven's DNA Discovery journey has been clunky and full of self-discovery, including a conversion to Judaism and a newfound understanding of who his mom and dad were as people and as parents.
Tuesday Hang with Eve & Sheridan (and friends!): The Life List movie on Netflix starring Sofia Carson and Connie Britton
00:44:51
What is up with movies that include DNA-Discoveries?! Eve and Sheridan discuss Netflix's hit romcom "the Life List." THIS PODCAST EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS FOR THIS MOVIE.
Tuesday Hang with Eve & Sheridan (and friends!): Lorah Gerald
00:44:36
Lorah Gerald, or "the adopted chameleon," learned to process her experiences and trauma with movement. Now she shares her methods with fellow adopted people, NPEs, or anyone who feels pain in their heart. Lorah ALSO has a special "knowing," so Eve touches base with about a tarot reading they experienced together in summer of 2023.
Carlyn Montes De Oca, author of Junkyard Girl, A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances talks about what it's like to have a DNA Discovery like her's, including realizations about late-discovery adoption and her own identity as a Mexican American woman.
Lezlee Liljenberg is a firecracker storyteller in Dallas Texas who started investigating when her dad kept saying "If you only knew what your mother has done." She's blogged about her journey at iamlezlee.com
Kelly Grace from DNAngels search group talks about how her NPE discovery led to an entire organization that helps people find the missing puzzle pieces of their family tree.
Emma Stevens discusses her identity as an adoptee, and her journey to find her relatives and the truth. To buy The Gathering Place, about Emma's adoption journey, follow this link here.
For a copy of A Fire Is Coming, click this link here.
Hi, Eve here. The goal of this episode was twofold: to finally tell my own DNA-discovery story, and to talk about season 6 and all the plans we have for 2024. I think I did an okay job, but I suspect you'll still be hungry for more details about my personal DNA-discovery. As Joy my editor put it, "the real details are for the book!" But I tried! I really did.
I want to clarify now: the podcast is NOT over. Season 5 is finished so I can enjoy the holidays and recalibrate how to use my resources wisely as we move forward. I really hope you will all come along with me as Everything's Relative evolves. Thank you, as always, for your support and friendship. xo Eve
Nick's DNA Surprise was delivered by his mother without much fanfare despite the obviously wild information. He created a graphic novella about his journey, a must-have for anyone building their DNA-Discovery/Misattributed Parental Event library. To order a $5 copy of "Someone To Watch Over Me," visit http://nijomu.com/books/someone-to-watch-over-me/
A crossover episode with Lily Wood's NPE Stories, Eve and Laura explore what it means if DNA results expose dark secrets about people you know and love. TRIGGER WARNING: rape, sexual assault and related topics are discussed in this episode.
Note: Read more about Dr. Morris Wortman, and his unexpected death here.
Blogger and advocate David Berry talks about his DNA Discovery as a Donor Conceived Person, and the way he was thrust into the world of Fertility Fraud. Like Eve Wiley, David Berry is hoping for the passage of HR 451, a federal law designed to protect families from Fertility Fraud.
To contact your own congress member about issues affecting the MPE Community, including HR 451, visit this link here.
This Fouth of July weekend, learn about our country's sordid history of manipulative and dishonest adoption practices. Eve and author Gabrielle Glaser get to talk all about her new book.
Kimberly shares her story from the other side of the MPE experience: why she lied about the paternity of her own daughter, and what she wants MPEs to consider about their own mom's and the decisions they made decades ago. Trigger warning: suicide
Barbara's story is a poignant testimony about the way that a DNA discovery can trigger more than just confusion. (Please note: Eve calls this "episode 6," but she's wrong about that.)
Kiara Rae Schuh talks with Eve about about her DNA Discovery journey, learning that not everyone feels the same way about being donor conceived, and navigating a plethora of new relationship dynamics. For more information, visit https://www.kiararaeschuh.com , and to buy her book at Amazon, link here.
Jessica Stavena talks about what it means to be "donor decieved," and the growing community of people demanding accountability and change in the fertility industry.
Maryll and Culley have been friends for over 20 years; they both were contacted by siblings at the same time, and found out things about their dads they never knew. They sit with Eve for Father's Day weekend to explore the experience of what it's like to be on the other side of an NPE-experience, when strangers reach out because they share the same dad.
Moses Farrow works as an an adoption trauma educator, adoption activist, and licensed marriage and family therapist. He explains to Eve how and why he wants to raise the alarm about crimes being committed against adopted children. *CONTENT WARNING*
Virtual Town Hall March 10: register at AdopteeMurders.eventbrite.com
A listener generously offers her time to explain how she and her wife are choosing to develop their family. Eve asks a lot of questions; her mind is blown.
Eve talks with We Are Donor Conceived's founder Erin Jackson about what inspired her to create a online space, and now a gorgeous magazine, for her community.
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