A Different Adoption Story
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Gethard talks with a caller who shares her story of adopting a young girl and what happened when, after a year, that child chose to return to her foster family. It’s an honest conversation about one person’s experience with adoption, the unpredictability of parenthood, and finding a way forward when something you’ve hoped for doesn’t turn out the way you imagined.
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| 0:00.0 | It's easy to know you want to make a change in your life, but it is hard to actually do it. |
| 0:05.4 | How to Be a Better Human from TED is a podcast for when self-help feels too daunting or just not for you. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Chris Duffy, the host of How to Be a Better Human, and trust me, I do not have it all figured out. |
| 0:15.1 | But join me as I talk to experts about actually attainable ways we can try to improve our lives. |
| 0:22.0 | Whether it's facing fears, |
| 0:27.1 | setting boundaries, cleaning your house, or all sorts of other topics. Find how to be a better human wherever you get your podcasts. Hello to everybody who had to get back up and keep on going. |
| 0:39.9 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call, no names, no holds barred. |
| 0:47.1 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:50.0 | I think it'll be more fun and I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me. Hi everybody, Chris Getherd here. If you don't like an intro, I get it. I'm begging you, though. The info on tickets for our live taping of episode 500 are in there. Go check that out. Come out to the show if you're anywhere near Jersey. See you there. If you don't want the intro, skip like six and a half minutes ahead. That'll put you right towards the end of the intro in the beginning of the call. Thanks so much. |
| 1:20.7 | Hi, everybody. Chris Getherd here. Welcome to beautiful anonymous. As I've been saying lately, the show where we look at the human |
| 1:27.5 | condition one anonymous phone call at a time. I feel so lucky and so grateful to be talking to you. |
| 1:37.1 | The big thing to push is that if you are in the New York tri-state area, on the 17th, get your butt to Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. |
| 1:50.2 | We're taping episode 500. |
| 1:52.1 | It is go time. |
| 1:54.5 | I've been thinking a lot about it. |
| 1:56.0 | And, Andrea, I haven't even cleared this with you. |
| 1:57.9 | I want to go ahead and do a raffle. |
| 1:59.8 | If you attend the show, we're going to, anyone there can enter for a chance to just be on the show. I'm going to go ahead |
| 2:04.8 | and say that. I've actually also been thinking, too, I want to use the 500 questions to get, |
| 2:11.1 | not the 500 questions, the, the questions from the paywall content to get to know our crowd. |
| 2:21.7 | I want to, I want to have a fun. I want to make it a party. I want to hang out in one of the best small towns on the whole Jersey Shore with a couple |
| 2:29.7 | hundred people as I think about episode 500 of Beautiful Anonymous. You can hear it right now. My voice is out |
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