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Melissa Guida-Richards is a Shameless Mom to two little boys and the author of WHAT WHITE PARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION.\xa0Melissa uses her gift of writing to help other adoptees and adoptive families.\xa0Her work has been featured in The Independent, Zora, Insider, HuffPo, Level at Medium, Electric Literature, Hello Giggles.\xa0And she had a viral Huffpost Article, My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity For 19 Years. She is also a contributing writer for The Everymom.\n\nI am in a Facebook group for writers and when Melissa shared a bit of her story in that group, I immediately reached out to ask her if she\u2019d be willing to join me here on the podcast.\xa0I\u2019m so grateful that she said yes.\xa0\xa0\n\nListen in to hear Melissa share:\n\nHer adoption story of being adopted from an orphanage in Colombia, being raised in New York, and not being told she was adopted until age 19\n\nThe process of discovering she was Latina, not Portuguese Italian, as her family had led her to believe\n\nThe process of having her article, My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity For 19 Years, go viral\n\nThe evolution of her relationship with her parents in the years after discovering she was adopted\n\nWhat inspired her to write her first book, What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption\n\nImportant notes for white adoptive parents or prospective white adoptive parents\n\nHer experience of finding her biological sisters and mom\n\nHow having her own children created an entire process of grieving around her adoption\n\nHow she\u2019s connected to her Colombian culture as an adult and as a mom raising Colombian sons\n\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nJoin me in Jen Lumanlan\u2019s 10-week Taming Your Triggers workshop: shamelessmom.com/taming\n\n\nConnect with Melissa: AdopteeThoughts.com\xa0\n\n\nMelissa\u2019s Book, What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption\n\n\nMelissa on IG\n\n\nPlease find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices