The One About Building His Own Family with Dad Diaries, Joseph Tito!
The Papaya Podcast
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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Now a children’s book author, father of 2 twin girls, engaged to be married and creator on @TheDadDiaries.ca Joseph takes us back to when this all began as he was on a career high, all around the world and hit with the realization: he wanted to become a dad. However, the path to building that family wasn’t so easy. With overseas surrogacy, Joseph found himself as a news headline when he was declined being able to bring his newborn twins home, which began an online campaign to unite this family at home in Canada. Joseph shares of those days, the trials and triumphs to building his family - and just how did his big Italian family react to him choosing to be a single father? And, his brand new book.
Follow Joseph on his journey @TheDadDiaries.ca and check out his new book “The Twin Diaries”
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, |
| 0:23.1 | get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:33.3 | We have had so many different guests and stories on here when it comes to making a family, |
| 0:38.3 | whether it was from infertility, single motherhood by choice. |
| 0:42.5 | We've had so many. |
| 0:44.9 | Oh, even surrogacy. |
| 0:45.9 | We had a whole episode on surrogacy before. |
| 0:48.4 | And today is sort of like a crossover episode of a lot of those things. |
| 0:52.1 | Today I'm welcoming Joseph Tito from The Dad Diaries. We met |
| 0:55.7 | years ago at a conference and I immediately adore him. He is one of those people that is very |
| 1:01.8 | magnetic, very fun to follow. And I remember him going through this journey of surrogacy as he |
| 1:08.7 | chose to be a single dad and raise a family and share his success |
| 1:13.7 | with a new generation. And so as it often happens, it wasn't so easy. So today we're having |
| 1:22.9 | Joseph on the episode to kind of share his journey through choosing this path and the complications that came |
| 1:29.5 | along the way and where he is now, where everything is now. So I'm so excited for you to hear |
| 1:35.0 | this story because I truly have never sat down with him to hear it in full. So you're going to be |
| 1:41.0 | hearing it for the first time along with me, even though I have a little bit more insight from following him on Instagram for years and seeing it on the news. Yes, |
| 1:49.2 | this was a newsworthy kind of story. All right, let's get into the show. All right, we're ready for |
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