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Family Secrets
Family Secrets. We all have them. And while the discovery of family secrets can initially be terrifying or traumatic, often these discoveries have the power to liberate, heal, and even uplift us. Join Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of the memoir Inheritance, and her guests as they explore astonishing family secrets and uncover the extraordinary lessons the truth can teach us.
Episodes
Family SecretsFamily Secrets: Season 7 Trailer
Welcome to the new season of Family Secrets, premiering September 1st. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices…
Family SecretsIn Conversation with Professor Michael Slepian
In this bonus episode, Dani speaks with professor and author Michael Slepian about the psychology of secret keeping and his new book The Secret Life of…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Galit Atlas
In this bonus episode, Dani speaks with psychoanalyst and author Dr. Galit Atlas about her new book Emotional Inheritance and the role of secrecy in…
Family SecretsBonus: Our Conversation with 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer Jennifer Senior
In this replay bonus episode, Dani speaks with writer Jennifer Senior about her cover story ‘What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind’ for the September 2021 issue of…
Family SecretsBonus: Stories You Want to Hear
Tell us what stories you'd like to hear at 1-888-SECRET-0. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani and Nora
Dani sits down with her friend and fellow podcaster Nora McInerney for a deep dive into her own family secrets. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsFamily Secrets Mixtape: A Treat from Hark Audio
Dani recalls some of her favorite Family Secrets moments in this special bonus episode put together by Hark. Watch for more bonus content as we continue work…
Family SecretsCan We Just Go Get Her?
When Zoe Shaw becomes pregnant at fifteen years old, her life is thrown into orbit. Not only must she conceal her pregnancy from her family and community, but…
Family SecretsMermaid Manor
Liz Scheier’s mother is eccentric at best, and violent at worst. In the grips of mental illness, she keeps secrets and tells lies. It isn’t until Liz turns…
Family SecretsCircle Yes or No
In 1988, Margaret Kimball is four years old and her mother attempts suicide; this is just one of several family secrets. As Margaret searches for answers…
Family SecretsYellow Legal Notepad
Beneath Justine’s mother’s polished façade lay a fearsome rage that drives Justine to flee from home. After her mother dies, Justine uncovers an envelope…
Family SecretsEscape Velocity
Just as Adam approaches an exciting apex in his career, he receives life-shattering news which stems from a deep and painful family secret. Learn more about…
Family SecretsTarof
Michelle grapples with the memory of her sexual assault and home invasion that occurred during her college years. Twenty years later, after a career of working…
Family SecretsThe 5:00 AM Call
Actress Maddie Corman is driving at 5:00 am to a TV soundstage to film a television show when she gets a panicked call from her children; police are at their…
Family SecretsTaxidermied Duck
After years of estrangement and hiding his true self, Trent loses his father. His inheritance is a puzzling combination of his father’s beat-up wooden toolbox…
Family SecretsNom du Père
Sherry Turkle grows up surrounded by mysteries—her own identity included. Her mother is full of unknowns, especially when it comes to her relationship with…
Family SecretsWind Beneath My Wings
Qian Julie Wang is just seven years old when her family arrives in America in 1994, and her whole world changes. Impoverished, isolated, and considered…
Family SecretsFamily Secrets: Season 6 Trailer
Inside every secret is a truth. And you know what they say: the truth will set us free. Season 6 of Family Secrets launches Thursday, December 9th. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: A Thanksgiving Message from Dani
Dani gives her thanks to the Family Secrets community this holiday. Be sure to tune in to season 6 on December 9th. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani's Listening, Episode 6
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani's Listening, Episode 5
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani's Listening, Episode 4
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Jennifer Senior
In this bonus episode, Dani speaks with writer Jennifer Senior about her cover story ‘What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind’ for the September 2021 issue of The…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani's Listening, Episode 3
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani’s Listening, Episode 2
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: Dani's Listening, Episode 1
In this new bonus series, “Dani’s Listening”, Dani connects with listeners by responding to those who’ve called in to share their family secrets. Learn more…
Family SecretsBonus: What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You?
In this bonus episode, Dani sits down for a conversation with Kelly Corrigan for her podcast, Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsUpdate: Dani's Listening
An exciting update from Dani on upcoming Family Secrets bonus content. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See…
Family SecretsThe Local Intelligentsia
Graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel had a complicated relationship with her father, who hid his sexuality from just about everyone in their small Pennsylvania…
Family SecretsThe Blue Chair
Nadia Owusu always worshipped her father, and his death when she was just 13 turned her world upside down. Fifteen years later, a bitter argument with her…
Family SecretsSecret Garden
As a kid, Liza Rodman spent her summers in Provincetown, trying her best to stay out of her volatile mother’s way. Her favorite escape: running errands with…
Family SecretsFainting Goat Syndrome
Nicole Georges never knew her father. From the time she was little, she was told he died when she was just an infant—of colon cancer, her mom said. But after…
Family SecretsMy Lolita
At just 17 years old, Alisson Wood began a dangerous entanglement with a creative writing teacher at her school, who gifted her a copy of Nabokov’s Lolita. To…
Family SecretsFacing Forward
Growing up in post-war America, Alexander Wolff had a vague sense that his father, Nico, and his grandfather, Kurt, had two very different wartime experiences…
Family SecretsBack Home
Emma Ramos grew up in a deeply religious, and deeply patriarchal, town in Mexico, where carving out an independent life for herself—outside her parents’…
Family SecretsThe Goofy Ring
As a law student, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich was vehemently opposed to the death penalty, even in the most heinous of crimes. Yet their deeply-held beliefs were…
Family SecretsGoddess of Compassion
Ly Tran’s father refused to accept any kind of weakness in his children—not even something as commonplace, and easily remedied, as poor vision. So when…
Family SecretsThe Vampire Bat
What’s it like to live your life so deep undercover, handling secrets that are so sensitive, not even the people who know you best—not your friends, not your…
Family SecretsFamily Secrets: Season 5 Trailer
Join us for more incredible stories about what happens when long-held family secrets come to light. The new season of Family Secrets launches Thursday, April…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Part II
Dani continues her discussion with Dr. Yehuda about intergenerational trauma, and her fascinating new research into psychedelics as a potential treatment for…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Dr. Rachel Yehuda
In this special episode, Dani speaks with noted trauma expert Dr. Rachel Yehuda about the controversial history of PTSD as a diagnosis, the disorder’s…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Robert Kolker
In this special bonus episode, recorded as part of the Two Writers Talking virtual series, Dani and journalist Robert Kolker—author of the instant New York…
Family SecretsBonus: Listener Stories, Episode 22
In this bonus episode we hear from listeners in the Family Secrets community. To share your secret, call 1-888-SECRET-0. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsUpdate: Thanks From Dani
Thank you for listening to season four of Family Secrets. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener…
Family SecretsThe Big Feelings
David Ingber is a spiritual leader and father of three young kids, beloved by his large New York City Congregation. His wisdom and ability to comfort is sought…
Family SecretsPulp Fictions
Julia McKenzie Munemo’s late father made his living by churning out trashy novels—that was about as much as she was willing to admit. But she had no desire to…
Family SecretsOld Boys’ Club
During her second year at an elite New England boarding school, Lacy Crawford was brutally assaulted by two senior boys. When the extent of the damage they’d…
Family SecretsGirl Planet
For the first 40 years of her life, Jennifer Finney Boylan figured the price of living her truth would be much too steep; by opening up about who she really…
Family SecretsBurning It Down
Nick Flynn was 7 years old when his house burned down. The official story, the one everyone laughed about, was that raccoons had knocked over the family’s…
Family SecretsKasha
Outwardly, Susan Burton had it all—a degree from Yale, a thriving career, a loving husband and kids. Inside, Susan waged a war on herself, using food as a way…
Family SecretsThe Second Secret
Lindsay Roemer assumed she’d metabolized, and mostly moved on from, the secret that had been kept from her most of her life—until an unexpected Facebook…
Family SecretsYou Used to Smile
The smart, opinionated, funny women who raised Saeed Jones—his mother and his grandmother—had a profound influence on his identity. But it was the things they…
Family SecretsGetting By
Singer Kanene Pipkin always loved her mother, but they weren’t exactly close. Until one day her mother called with some news Kanene couldn’t wrap her head…
Family SecretsThe Wire
Ruthie Lindsey attracted a massive following with her picture-perfect lifestyle shots on Instagram. But what those images didn’t show was everything that came…
Family SecretsUpdate: A Sneak Peek of Family Secrets Season 4
Ruthie Lindsey knows first-hand just how much pain might be hiding behind someone’s picture-perfect social media presence. Hear the rest of her story on the…
Family SecretsFamily Secrets: Season 4 Trailer
Get ready for more incredible stories about the secrets—both big and small—that shape us from the inside out. The new season of Family Secrets launches October…
Family SecretsUpdate: Hi From Dani
Dani checks in with a quick update on season 4. (Mark your calendars for October 1!) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com…
Family SecretsBonus: Listener Stories, Episode 21
In this bonus episode we hear from listeners in the Family Secrets community. To share your secret, call 1-888-SECRET-0. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsBonus: Listener Stories, Episode 20
In this bonus episode we hear from listeners in the Family Secrets community. To share your secret, call 1-888-SECRET-0. Learn more about your ad-choices at…
Family SecretsBonus: In Conversation with Alicia Keys, Pt. 2
Dani and Alicia continue their conversation about becoming the person you were always meant to be, and Alicia shares her strategy for moving forward when you…