Get ready for more inspiring, provocative, and moving conversations about identity, forgiveness, and the meaning of family, featuring incredible guests like David Kaczynski, the Unabomber’s younger brother, and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Steve Jobs’s first-born. The new season of Family Secrets with Dani Shapiro launches next Thursday, February 6.
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Family Secrets. It turns out that just about everyone has them, which accounts for the incredible outpouring of community and sharing of these stories that's happening as a result of my podcast Family Secrets. My name is Danny Shapiro, and I'm a writer author of the instant near times best selling memoir Inheritance, which I wrote after discovering a massive secret that had been kept from me all my life. That discovery changed my life in good ways and hard ways, and led to this podcast. In each episode, I sit down with an amazing guest and we delve into stories that cover all sorts of things identity, addiction, loss, legacy, and always the secret shame that runs beneath so much that is hidden. Here's some of what I've learned in the first two seasons of Family Secrets and what you can expect from the third season. Sometimes families keep secrets from each other in the name of love. We mean well, we really do, but those secrets leave a trail of confusion in their wake. When a secret is kept from us, we often feel haunted, like there's something we don't know, something we can't put our finger on, and this can make us feel especially as children that there's something wrong with us, and sometimes when we do discover a secret, we end up in the uncomfortable role of becoming keepers of secrets ourselves again in the name of love. In Season three of Family Secrets, which launches on Thursday, February sixth, you can expect some extraordinary, soulful, dramatic stories. I sit down with Michael Haney, a brilliant journalist who spent his life trying to piece together what happened the night his father died. When I come into ownership of this secret, my father's a secret, I basically froze, and for a good year I just thought I can't write this story. I can't share it. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I talk with Lisa Jobs, daughter of Steve, who spent years denying that she was his child. My father actually wasn't a cold person, but it kind of added up to that because he couldn't depend on the warmth. It was so intermittent and unpredictable. He was passionate, he was warm, and he was cold when he was in race. I explore the power of forgiveness during an amazing conversation with David Kazinski and Gary Wright, who was nearly killed by one of the Unibomber's powerful male bombs. Gary was Jed's victim. I was Jed's brother. If we could build a bridge across this chasm it's abyss of human suffering, then there was hope. I speak with Stephen Romo, a Houston based news anchor who for a very long time kept the dark truth about his childhood very deep beneath a polished professional exterior. It did create dissonance for me as I was growing up and moving on in my career that my job was to seek out the truth. I sort of just pretended to be the boy with no history. I discuss what happens when the source of your family's financial ruin is someone whose job it was to protect you with Axton bets Hamilton, an expert on identity theft. That's why I was doing the right thing by not answering the door, by not developing friendships, by just willing to be left alone, I thought I was helping defend our families from the identity feet. I can't wait for you to hear all of the incredible conversations we'll be having this season, which kicks off February sixth. You can listen and subscribe to Family's Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.