Who Is Adoption Really For? Alé Cardinalle's International Adoption Experience

Cate & Ty Break It Down

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Join us for a powerful and deeply personal conversation with Alé (@wildheartcollective), who shares her incredible journey as an international adoptee. Adopted from Brazil at just four months old, Alé's story is one of emotional complexities, and ultimately, profound self-discovery. Alé opens up about the unique challenges she faced growing up—navigating feelings of difference, grappling with mental health struggles, but also shares the remarkable tale of how, with the support of her adoptive family, she was able to find her biological family in Brazil. Alé passionately advocates for a fundamental shift in how society views adoption, emphasizing the critical importance of prioritizing the child's needs above all else - the raw, honest, and eye-opening exploration of adoption from the inside out.

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0:00.0	Okay, well, welcome back to Kate and Ty, Break It Down.
0:11.3	In this episode, we have Allie Cardinalee.
0:14.6	Okay, is it Allie?
0:16.5	Yep.
0:16.9	Okay, it's just Ali.
0:17.8	Okay.
0:18.6	And she is on TikTok, and that's how we connected originally.
0:23.3	You are an adoptee.
0:25.0	I am.
0:25.9	And so for people who don't know, like open adoption, close adoption, how are you involved
0:32.1	in adoption at all?
0:34.0	Okay.
0:34.6	Well, I'll go right in.
0:35.9	So I am an international adoptee. I was adopted from Brazil when I was four months old by a New Jersey, Italian-American couple. And so my adoption was completely closed, even to myself, because I was around 11 or 12 when I kind of put the pieces of my puzzle together.
1:00.0	And I asked my mom, my adoptive mom, am I adopted?
1:06.5	And she said yes.
1:08.9	Wow.
1:09.4	And how did you, you just had a feeling that you were or?
1:12.5	So I like to say it like this.
1:15.7	My, my, I didn't have a conscious memory of it, but my body remembered, my soul remembered.
1:22.8	And there was a few times in my childhood.
1:26.0	My mom talks about the story that I was like in the bathtub and I just said,
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