Unspoken Lives Podcast

Send us Fan Mail For 42 years, Millie believed her biological father never wanted her. Meanwhile, her father, Albert, had spent decades believing the child he lost had never been born. At just 12 years old, Millie discovered that the man she had grown up calling Dad wasn't her biological father. She was told her real father didn't want daughters, and she carried that belief into adulthood. Thousands of miles away in Peru, Albert had spent years searching for Millie's mother, unaware that his ...

Send us Fan Mail After 50 episodes of asking others to share their stories, I'm finding out just how difficult it can be to sit on the other side of the microphone. This week, my husband Kyle takes over as host of Unspoken Lives Podcast, and I'm the guest. We talk about why I started this podcast, what I've learned from the people I've interviewed, and how my faith has shaped the person I am today. I also share a deeply personal part of my childhood that I once believed I would never tell any...

Send us Fan Mail For six months, Melody Wilson knew the name of her biological father but wasn’t ready to contact him. She had imagined just about every way it could go wrong. Then, before she ever made a move, a message appeared in her 23andMe account from Dennis, one of the unexpected DNA matches from Part 1. Dennis was her biological uncle, and things moved quickly from there. He called his brother Jimmy and told him he had a daughter he never knew existed. Jimmy’s reaction was nothing lik...

Send us Fan Mail Melody Wilson took a 23andMe test expecting to learn a little more about her ancestry. Nearly a year later, she logged back in and noticed something she had completely missed the first time: two names she had never seen before, both sharing about 25% of her DNA, roughly the same amount she shared with her own brother. Naturally, Melody started digging. One search led to another, then another. Late-night research, family trees and an obituary started connecting dots she never ...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Espinoza made a commitment to write every day for the year following the loss of her 25-year-old son, Chandler. What began as a way to process her grief and honor her son eventually became her book, First, Brush Your Teeth: Grief and Hope in Real Time, and helped Lisa put words to something she had already been learning to live: the power of taking the next small step. Lisa shares why she wanted her writing to show grief as it really was, including the first Mother...