I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

My friend LC, is a therapist who among other things, specializes in working with folks who are adopted, were in foster care, or don’t know their bio parents.

She reached out a couple of months ago to ask the following:

“I am hosting an event at Novel on Nov 14th, it’s called Voices Unheard. Its an event where people who are either adopted, were in foster care, are a NPE (having the shock of a DNA surprise), or grew up without knowing a biological parent can share about their experience on the stage. If you are interested in submitting to this, I would LOVE to have you.”

I immediately said yes, although it did give me some fear. I have never read something I’ve written aloud before and it’s been 20 years since I’ve spoken in front of any size group.

Well the event was held on Friday night and I did my thing. I asked a couple of people to record it for me and well here it is.

Before you watch, I was the only speaker who was not adopted. And I was only one of two men speaking. All of the speakers were powerful in their own way, all with different stories to share. It was a small space and there were around 60 people in attendance.

PS: I wrote the intro/bio at the beginning. Everyone else was super academic about their writing, recovery etc. I was nervous when they go to me, because I wrote about Adam and my cats. The most important things in my life.

Enjoy!