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Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth

My Unknown Truth is a podcast sharing the stories and lived experiences of Australians who have been through adoption and foster care.

These stories are often complex, spanning over 50 years and touch on difficult truths, from growing up in an under-resourced system to Australia’s traumatic history of forced adoptions and Stolen Generations.

But within the darkness, there is also light; stories of hope, courage, resilience, and love. Hosted by Nadia Levett, an adoptee born and raised in Australia, this podcast is a deeply personal project.

It’s my wish that by sharing a range of voices and experiences, we can build greater awareness and understanding around adoption and foster care in Australia, spark informed conversations, and encourage others to share their truth, open hearts, minds, and homes to children in need.

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Episode 26 - What Nanny’s Diary Revealed: Jo’s Late Discovery & the Search for Truth

March 24, 2024 • Nadia Levett • Season 3 • Episode 26

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Jo is a late discovery adoptee who discovered at the age of 46 that everything that she had known to be true about her identity and family was no longer, it was like a sudden and tragic death. The information that blew her world apart was a diary kept by her recently deceased maternal grandmother “Nanny” that spanned the years 1960-1965. Jo immediately filed for her paperwork with DoCS to obtain her original birth certificate and find her birth mother.

The story that unfolded was nothing like the hopes she had of hearing about a forbidden teenage love affair. Today Jo touches on her journey and how kinesiology and Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) gave insight around her conception which at the time of hearing did not make sense, but everything fell into place when knowing of her adoption.

Here is her story.

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