Open Adoption Didn't Fix Everything: Adopted Connor on "Proof of Life" Visits, Belonging Beyond DNA, and the Business of Adoption

The Resilience Project · Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 12m · transcript

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Adopted Connor on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook. He answers DMs, not comments.

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The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier

You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron (Connor's favorite adoption book)

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Gretchen Sisson's book Relinquished

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Julie sits down with Connor Howe, known online as Adopted Connor, a former marketer turned adoptee advocate whose bio says it plainly: "Adoption is what…