LA Calling

Fathers and Sons

Fathers and SonsIn the first episode of LA Calling, two stories about fathers, sons, and the complicated things passed between them. 🎵 Act One: The Song Bob Thiele Jr.

Joanna Go Forth

Joanna grew up believing she was the miracle baby. Her two older siblings were adopted, but Joanna was the biological child her parents had waited years for. Then, when s

Uncle Clarence

🎙️ Uncle Clarence Ed Hill grew up with a complicated family story. His mom married his uncle — technically, his dad’s sister’s ex-husband — and Clarence became the man w

Alison-From-Ashes

🧩 In this episode of Missing Pieces, Don sits down with Alison, a sober solo traveler who has explored some of the most remote places in the world. A DNA test she took ou

Lisa Joyner

🧩 In this episode of Missing Pieces, Don sits down with television host, journalist, adoptee, and adoptive mother Lisa Joyner. Lisa shares the story of searching for and

Relative Strangers

🧩 Relative Strangers This week on Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with writer Laura Jenkins, whose essay appears in the new anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritanc

Analog Rick

🧩 Analog Rick In 1992, Rick set out to find his birth mother’s family without DNA tests, without Ancestry, without 23andMe, without Facebook, and without the internet as

Veronica From The Other Side

Veronica From The Other Side In this episode of Missing Pieces — NPE Life, Don talks with Veronica, who discovered in middle age that her father had two children outside

Christina’s Truth - LIVE

🧩 Christina’s Truth - LIVE 🎙️ On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we hear Christina’s incredible story — the questions, the search, the emotions, and the years spent t

Jamilia - Out of Anonymity

🧩 Jamilia - Out of Anonymity  Years ago, I did an episode called The Moment of Truth — a collection of stories about that exact instant when denial disappears… and the t

3 Sisters United

🧩 3 Sisters United On today’s episode of Missing Pieces, we tell the story of June — raised in Canada by her grandparents, growing up with questions instead of answers.

Tonia - Dirty John's First Wife

🎙️ Tonia – Dirty John’s First Wife Today on Missing Pieces, I’m joined by Tonia Bales, the first wife of John Meehan, also known as Dirty John. 🧬 At one point in the epi

Amanda From Texas

🎙️ Missing Pieces explores the stories of people who’ve discovered—or are still searching for—their "missing pieces". In this episode, Don talks with Amanda, who grew up

A Christmas Check-In With Don

🎄✨ Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays, everyone! ✨🎄 This is a very special episode. I take a moment to share a few things happening in my own life—and one hugecoincidence

David Field Actor from Down Under

🎧 Missing Pieces – NPE Life Today I’m joined by Australian actor David Field, whose world was shaken by a deathbed confession and a DNA truth decades in the making.  🔗

Shelby - Sister of NPEs

✦ EPISODE: Shelby – Sister of NPEs ✦ Shelby shares the astonishing story of discovering not one, but two NPEs in her immediate family. Born in Detroit and now settled in

Anonymous Newbie

🎧 Missing Pieces Welcome to another episode of Missing Pieces – NPE Life. Today’s anonymous guest takes us from her childhood in Maine to a life-changing discovery just a

Stephanie Finds Herself

🎧 Missing Pieces Stephanie shares her remarkable journey from growing up in Detroit to discovering her true identity. She’s a born storyteller, very moving. 📖 A Penny on

One Big Happy Family

🎙 Welcome to Another Episode of Missing Pieces! Today’s guest is Lisa Brenner — actor, writer, and producer — who bravely shares her own NPE/DCP journey through her bran

Jake - Raised in a Cult

Welcome to another amazing episode of Missing Pieces – NPE Life In this episode, Jake shares an incredible life story that’s equal parts jaw-dropping and inspiring — fro