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Family Twist: A Podcast Exploring DNA Surprises and Family Secrets

Family Twist: A Podcast Exploring DNA Surprises and Family Secrets

Author: Corey and Kendall Stulce

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Family Twist shares real-life stories of DNA surprises, adoption, donor conception, NPE discoveries, and the secrets that reshape families. 


Hosted by Corey and Kendall Stulce, each episode explores what happens when the truth about identity, parentage, or family history comes to light. These revelations sometimes happen by choice, often by accident, and always with life-changing impact.


Through candid conversations with adoptees, donor-conceived people, late-discovery NPEs, birth parents, and family members who are navigating unexpected truths, Family Twist looks beyond the initial shock. We explore what comes next. We talk about the relationships that grow or break, the boundaries that help or hurt, the grief that surfaces, and the unexpected connections that can heal.


Kendall's personal journey plays an important role in the heart of the show. He was adopted at birth, searched for decades, and eventually discovered his biological family through a DNA test. His experience brings empathy, humor, and honesty to every conversation. Corey brings warmth and insight as the couple creates space for guests to share the real, complicated, hopeful, and often surprising moments behind their family twists.


If you are searching for your people, untangling a difficult discovery, or simply fascinated by the truth behind modern families, this podcast will remind you that you are not alone and that your story matters.


New episodes arrive every week, including in-depth interviews and shorter Story Snapshots that highlight powerful moments from our guests.


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As Meaghan Carriere approached her fortieth birthday, her grandfather told her he had a forty-year-old secret. She was ready to listen. He wasn’t ready to tell her. In the conclusion of this two-part Family Twist conversation, Meaghan joins Corey to explore the relationships that looked different after she learned the truth about her biological father. Writing her book meant deciding what to share, how to tell it, and how to approach the person she worried about most: her mother. They worked ...
Patricia Knight Meyer is back on Family Twist, and this time she brought an old friend along. Patricia's memoir, "Wonderland: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption," tells the story of growing up without a legal adoption, a real birth certificate or answers about where she came from. Now, part of that story is being brought to life on stage in Austin, Texas. Joining us is actor Brian Coughlin, who has known Patricia since their high school theater days. Brian has an interesting assignment. He's p...
Meaghan R. Carriere was considering adopting a child when conversations about openness brought her own family’s secret to the surface. Her parents asked her to take a walk, and her mother struggled to say something Meaghan had questioned since childhood: the man who raised her wasn’t her biological father. In part one of this two-part Family Twist conversation, Meaghan joins Corey to share what happened when that admission led to questions her parents weren’t ready to answer. She wanted a nam...
What happens when telling your adoption story becomes a way to challenge the secrecy that shaped it? Patricia Knight Meyer returns to Family Twist ahead of the release of WONDERLAND: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption. She joins Corey and Kendall to discuss sharing her story with readers, hearing from people who never considered adoption from an adoptee’s perspective, and turning her book launch into an event focused on truth, community and adoptee rights. Patricia also shares why recording th...
Want more Corey and Kendall? Join us on Patreon for Family Twist After Hours, our weekly unfiltered bonus show with personal stories, behind-the-scenes conversations, family chaos and plenty we would not normally share on Family Twist. Join us: https://www.patreon.com/c/FamilyTwistPodcastAfterHours What happens when the biological father you expected to reject you never knew you existed? In Part 1, Ashley learned through DNA testing that the man who raised her was not her biological father. A...
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