ENCORE Unconditional Love, Empathy & Human Connection with David Shane
Cate & Ty Break It Down
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Cate & Ty sit down with David Shane (@davidbshane), an adoptee who shares stories of love, mindfulness, and human connections on social media, but one day decided to share his journey of being contacted by his biological mother. David opens up about his upbringing, filled with open communication from his adoptive parents, which instilled in him a strong sense of self from a young age. He shares how the reunion with his biological younger sister, and eventually biological parents, came with emotional challenges and expectations, and the aftermath.
Cate and Ty discuss with David about the fragility of life, the importance of overcoming fear in pursuing connections before it's too late, and the idea that not all reunions are positive but deserve to be explored with a strong support system. Drawing from his experiences, David offers advice for both adoptive and biological parents, emphasizing the critical role of unconditional support, open communication, and respecting the adoptee's pace during the reunion process.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, everybody, thank you so much for coming back to another episode of Kate and Ty, break it down. |
| 0:12.8 | Today we have David Shane, which I'm so pumped about. |
| 0:15.6 | We connected social media. |
| 0:17.3 | I saw the first video I saw of yours was adoption story number one because at first I |
| 0:24.5 | saw it's funny because I actually did see some of your content before that but I didn't know |
| 0:28.9 | who you were and then I saw and I'm like man that sounds familiar the voice and then I was like |
| 0:33.6 | holy shit crazy yeah it's you it's you and then when you, my mind was blown. I think I told you this initially, that I was a quiet, I guess, like, super fan of team mom on MTV. And I had followed you guys. I think it was pretty like religiously. Like I said, it was under the table. I couldn't tell any of my friends. Right, right. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | You could not yourself. |
| 0:56.4 | But it was kind of like a full circle moment where it brought me back to those times. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm like, this is crazy in the present moment. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm talking to Tyler. |
| 1:03.3 | So how old are you? |
| 1:05.3 | I'm 32 now. |
| 1:06.4 | Okay. |
| 1:06.8 | Okay. |
| 1:07.2 | So we're about 10 years at difference. I'm 33. Okay, how old, how long ago was, was team mom? |
| 1:13.1 | 16 years ago. 16 years ago. So 2009. So I was 20, does that make me 25? So you're your mid 20. Okay, yeah. Oh, God, so I was obsessed at 25. No, no. |
| 1:23.3 | Oh, no. |
| 1:23.9 | No, but honestly, I've heard a lot of, I mean, I think it comes down to just like, you know, I mean, teen mom is a whole different thing. |
| 1:31.4 | It's like. No, but honestly, I've heard a lot of, I mean, I think it comes down to just like, you know, I mean, teen mom is a whole different thing on its own. |
| 1:31.9 | But we were the only like adoption story on there. |
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