Family Secrets

The 10 Best Family Secrets Podcast Episodes

Best episodes ranked by Podyssey's 20,000 community members.

1) A World Erased
Growing up Noah knew his grandparents had survived the Holocaust, but his questions had always been sidelined.
A World Erased
34:56 | Sep 26th, 2019
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This story makes me wonder if everyone of Jewish ancestry has these feelings. Of desperately trying to find our family's story because one g...Show More
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2) Little White Lie
What if, as a child born into a white Jewish family, anytime someone remarked about your skin color, a story was told about a distant Sicilian grandfather? Even if it was obvious that wasn't the whole...Show More
Little White Lie
22:01 | Mar 7th, 2019
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When you're Black, but your parents are both White and tell you that you're White. Are you Black or White? Fascinating episode.
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3) Flying and Crashing
Kiese grew up in Oxford, Mississippi —the only child of a single mother, a black boy who struggled with weight. His childhood and adolescence were marked by two daily assaults: that of American racism...Show More
Flying and Crashing
43:30 | Oct 24th, 2019
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This is the episode every white person needs to listen to right now.
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4) Bonus: Thanksgiving Thoughts from Dani
Dani shares her thoughts, a personal story and well wishes this Thanksgiving.
Bonus: Thanksgiving Thoughts from Dani
06:13 | Nov 28th, 2019
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I think I may need to listen to this one every year. Not my favorite holiday at all, but my sister has made it better. Not sure what will ha...Show More
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5) The Fifth Passenger
Growing up in suburban New York, Joanna was always aware of two pastel portraits of children she assumed were just part of her parents’ art collection. But sometimes she would hear her mother on the p...Show More
The Fifth Passenger
33:26 | Oct 10th, 2019
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This was so heartbreaking 😢 I understand the mother’s point of view but I don’t think it’s necessarily better for her to have found out as ...Show More
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6) Bonus: Listener Stories, Episode 19
In this bonus episode we hear from listeners in the Family Secrets community. To share your secret, call 1-888-SECRET-0.
Bonus: Listener Stories, Episode 19
08:28 | Jun 25th, 2020
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7) The Mysterious Boot Club
As a child, Ariana Neumann stumbled upon a strange photo of her father, tucked away in a secret box he kept in his workshop. It was undeniably him, and yet the name in the caption didn’t belong to the...Show More
The Mysterious Boot Club
32:04 | Feb 13th, 2020
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8) Mama and Her Numbers
Bridgett grew up in Detroit in the '60s in a vibrant house with a mother who was genius with numbers. But for most of her life, Bridgett kept her mother's genius a secret.
Mama and Her Numbers
37:15 | Sep 12th, 2019
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9) The Loving Choice
What if you kept a secret because it was so painful it would crush your young children? What if you were terminal and chose not to tell them?
The Loving Choice
36:13 | Aug 19th, 2019
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10) Inheritance
Author Dani Shapiro reveals what it was like to, by chance, discover a shocking secret about herself, and what this secret taught her about identity, family, and new beginnings.
Inheritance
15:42 | Feb 14th, 2019
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