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Unraveling Me
Join host Kara Rubinstein Deyerin as she speaks with people who, like her, are impacted by NPE's (non-parental events), DNA surprises, adoption, assisted reproduction, or other unexpected information bombs that reveal the truth about who they are and their family relationships and secrets. As anyone who's ever experienced such an event can tell you, it separates you from you. From knowing your own story. In "Unraveling Me", Kara explores the myriad ways why knowing the truth about who you are…
Episodes
Unraveling MeS1E52 Unraveling Unraveling Me
S1 E52 - Unraveling Alan & Kara In episode one, our producer, Alan Katz, turned the microphone toward me. Now, as we close our first season, it’s my turn to…
Unraveling MeS1E51 Unraveling Chris & Mary
S1 E51 - Unraveling Chris & Mary Chris grew up knowing he was adopted—and knowing his genetic family. His parents shared celebrations, built relationships with…
Unraveling MeS1E50 Unraveling Corey & Kendall
S1 E50 - Unraveling Corey & Kendall Kendall always knew he was adopted. His parents welcomed his questions, and when his adoptive mother died, his father…
Unraveling MeS1E49 Unraveling Stephanie
S1 E49 - Unraveling Stephanie Stephanie’s story is about what happens when a lifelong search for roots finally begins. It is also a reminder that success does…
Unraveling MeS1E48 Unraveling Thomas J
S1 E48 Unraveling Tom J Tom Junod has spent much of his career investigating other people’s lives. His profile of Fred Rogers inspired the film A Beautiful Day…
Unraveling MeS1E47 Unraveling MP
S1E47 Unraveling MP MP grew up feeling like the odd person out. He looked different from his brothers, struggled to connect with the man he believed was his…
Unraveling MeS1E46 Unraveling Sheridan
S1 E46 – Unraveling Sheridan By 40, Sheridan believed she had already done the difficult work of understanding her childhood. The man named as her father on…
Unraveling MeS1E45 Unraveling Matthew
S1 E45 - Unraveling Mathew Mathew grew up without a consistent father in his life. In 2013, he took a DNA test simply hoping to learn more about his ancestry…
Unraveling MeS1E44 Unraveling Susan & Marci
S1 E44 – Unraveling Susan & Marci This episode is about living between worlds and eventually discovering that identity does not have to fit neatly into a…
Unraveling MeS1E43 Unraveling Ashley
S1 E 43 – Unraveling Ashley Ashley grew up in what she describes as a hurricane—an unpredictable childhood shaped by physical and emotional abuse, fear, and…
Unraveling MeS1E42 Unraveling Mary
S1 E 42 – Unraveling Mary - Mary always knew she was adopted. She grew up with loving parents, an adopted brother, and a younger sister, and while she was…
Unraveling MeS1E41 Unraveling Ona, Nina, Christine & Sarah
S1 E41– Unraveling Ona, Nina, Christine, and Sarah This episode is a powerful reminder that family truth rarely lands evenly. One sibling may feel immediate…
Unraveling MeS1E40 Unraveling Dee
S1 E40 – Unraveling Dee - At 23, while grieving the death of the mother who raised her, Dee learned another life-changing truth: she was adopted. For her…
Unraveling MeS1E39 Unraveling Priscilla & Bill
S1E39 – Unraveling Bill & Priscilla - This episode is a testament to persistence. Sometimes the truth takes decades, thousands of names, and one final piece of…
Unraveling MeS1E38 Unraveling Lynne
S1 E38 – Unraveling Lynne - Lynne’s story exposes what can happen when fertility practices operate through secrecy, misinformation, and little accountability…
Unraveling MeS1E37 Unraveling Shelli
S1 E37 Unraveling Shelli - Shelli’s story is about surviving childhood without the care every child deserves, doing the hard work to become healthy, and…
Unraveling MeS1E36 Unraveling Steve & Becky
S1 E36 Unraveling Steve & Becky - Steve and Becky’s story is raw, funny, painful, and almost unbelievable—except it is true and documented. Their book, DNA Did…
Unraveling MeS1E35 Unraveling Michelle S
S1 E 35 Unraveling Micelle S - Michelle’s story is layered, funny, honest, and full of hard-earned wisdom. She shows us that adoption is not a single event…
Unraveling MeS1E34 Unraveling Jennie
S1 E34 Unraveling Jennie - Jennie’s story is about more than a DNA test. It is about secrecy, loyalty, medical truth, sibling connection, and the complicated…
Unraveling MeS1E33 Unraveling Joesph & Charity
S1E33 Unraveling Joseph & Charity - Charity spent most of her life believing a painful story about her origins. Raised by her maternal grandparents after the…
Unraveling MeS1E32 Unraveling Melody
S1 E32 Melody: Melody took a DNA test for one reason: to search for the younger brother she had not seen since childhood who’d been relinquished to adoption…
Unraveling MeS1E31 Unraveling Dr. Syb
S1E31 Unraveling Dr. Syb: Dr. Syb spent 42 years feeling like something didn’t fit. Then, at a family funeral, a cousin confirmed what her body, spirit, and…
Unraveling MeS1E30 Unraveling Nick
S1 E 30 Unraveling Nick Nick was supposed to receive a DNA test for his birthday, but his parents asked that the gift be delayed. The next day, they sat him…
Unraveling MeS1E29 Unraveling Monica H
S1 E 29 Unraveling Monica H Monica was adopted as an infant and raised in Alaska rough-and-tumble 1970s oil boom in a home where much was left unbroken. From…
Unraveling MeS1E28 Unraveling Maria
S1 E28 Unraveling Maria In this wide-ranging and deeply insightful conversation, Kara and Maria explore what happens when personal discovery intersects with…
Unraveling MeS1E27 Unraveling Aaron & Jess
S1 E27 Unraveling Aaron & Jess In this thoughtful and often funny conversation, Kara, Aaron, and Jess explore what happened when a long-abstract donor…
Unraveling MeS1E26 Unraveling Amanda
S1 E25 - Unraveling Amanda - Amanda speaks with honesty, perspective, and compassion—for herself, her parents, and the complexity of the choices made long…
Unraveling MeS1E25 Unraveling Lisa
S1 E25 - Unraveling Lisa - Lisa took a DNA test out of curiosity: something light, something fun. But when her results came back, they didn’t just surprise…
Unraveling MeS1E24 Unraveling Monica
S1 E24 Unraveling Monica B - In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Kara and Monica explore how meaning can emerge even from the most chaotic…
Unraveling MeS1E23 Unraveling Donna
S1 E23 - Unraveling Donna - In this powerful conversation, Kara and Donna explore what it means to survive a traumatic upbringing, uncover a hidden genetic…
Unraveling MeS1E22 Unraveling Randi, Kirk & Athena
S1 E22 - Unraveling Kirk and Randi - In this episode, Randi and Kirk share their deeply human, nonlinear journey of welcoming Kirk’s newly discovered daughter…
Unraveling MeS1E21 Unraveling Diana
S1 E21 - Unraveling Diana - Diana speaks candidly about identity, secrecy, and the emotional toll of discovering that official records cannot always be…
Unraveling MeS1E20 Unraveling Angie
S1 E20 - Unraveling Angie - In this candid and emotionally layered conversation, Kara and Angie explore what it means to live between bravery and fear, loyalty…
Unraveling MeS1E19 Unraveling Linda
S1 E 19 - Unraveling Linda Linda speaks candidly about fear, obligation, guilt, and the slow unraveling required to rebuild a life rooted in truth. Her story…
Unraveling MeS1E18 Unraveling Andrea
Everyone has the right to know the truth about where they come from. Unraveling Me speaks to those people impacted by DNA surprises, NPEs (non-paternal event)…
Unraveling MeS1E17 Unraveling Melanie
1E17 – Unraveling Melanie - This episode is a powerful reflection on identity, race, motherhood, and resilience—and on what it takes to keep going, even when…
Unraveling MeS1E16 Unraveling Cassandra
S1 E16 – Unraveling Cassandra - This episode is a powerful meditation on truth, belonging, and the slow work of integration. She reminds us that identity isn’t…
Unraveling MeS1E15 Unraveling Athena
S1E15 Unraveling Athena - This is a story about identity, patience, accountability, and what can happen when honesty finally replaces silence. Athena’s journey…
Unraveling MeUnraveling Me Special Edition
UM Special Edition – When Adoption Is Framed as a Solution - This conversation is not about debating politics. It is about lived experience, accuracy, and…
Unraveling MeS1E14 Unraveling Bryan
S1 E14 Bryan - This episode is a deep dive into the science of stress, identity, and connection—and a compassionate challenge to rethink how we parent…
Unraveling MeS1E13 Unraveling Jennifer
S1E13 Unraveling Jennifer - This is a story about identity, betrayal, resilience, and the hard-earned strength it takes to break cycles—especially when the…
Unraveling MeS1E12 Unraveling Brenna
S1E12 Unraveling Brenna - Brenna’s story shows that unraveling doesn’t always begin with discovery. Sometimes it begins years earlier, in care, conflict, and…
Unraveling MeS1E11 Unraveling Laura & DNAngels
S1E11 - Unraveling Laura & DNAngels - This is a story about identity, truth, secrecy, grief, and grit. It’s about what happens when one woman refuses to stay…
Unraveling MeS1E10 Unraveling Renee
S1 E10 Unraveling Renee - This episode is about truth-telling, family preservation, and what happens when we finally look critically at systems built on…
Unraveling MeS1E9 Unraveling Lorenzo
S1E9 Unraveling Lorenzo: Lorenzo’s story highlights how DNA discoveries are rarely a single moment—they unfold over time, intersecting with grief, loss, and…
Unraveling MeS1E8 Unraveling Lauren
Unraveling Lauren: This is a story about identity, truth-telling, and what happens when the missing piece of your story finally comes into focus. Lauren brings…
Unraveling MeS1E7 Unraveling Marcie
S1E7 – Unraveling Marcie - This episode is a profound look at identity, secrecy, reunion, and the lifelong impact of being denied your own information…
Unraveling MeS1E6 Unraveling Lauren
S1 E6 - Unraveling Lauren C - Lauren’s story is a reminder that family trees aren’t just diagrams—they’re living, shifting truths. And sometimes the truth has…
Unraveling MeS1E5 Unraveling Mark
S1 E5 – Mark Hansen - Mark’s story sits at the intersection of fertility fraud, misattributed parentage, and the long-term trauma caused by secrecy. It is raw…
Unraveling MeS1E4 Unraveling Oliver & Melissa
S1E4 - Unraveling Oliver: This episode is about adoption, silence, identity, and the long interior journey many adoptees walk before saying their questions out…
Unraveling MeS1E3 Unraveling Bruce
S1E3 – Unraveling Bruce: Bruce’s story is raw, honest, and deeply human. It reveals the long shadow that secrecy casts—and the resilience required to rebuild…
Unraveling MeS1E2 Unraveling Jodi
S1E2 Unraveling Jodi - Kara’s first guest is Jodi, her “opposite twin” in the DNA surprise world. Raised in a tiny Midwestern farm town as the only person of…
Unraveling MeS1E1 Unraveling ME
THE BLURB: Kara grew up believing she was half Black but learned she was actually half Jewish instead. Jodi, by contrast, grew up believing she was 100% Black…
Unraveling MeUnraveling Me: A Quick Intro
Join host Kara Rubinstein Deyerin as she speaks with people who, like her, are impacted by NPE's (non-parental events), DNA surprises, adoption, assisted…