HELD: A Podcast Mini-Series

Angie and I have received questions from listeners who wanted to know more about Cindy and Randy, who are the spouses of Angie and Michael, who are Zac's biological parents. To that end, in this episode we explore the unique position of "step-bio parent." We take a look at what it means to be linked to your spouse's high-school sweetheart, and the child who is a result of their union.

After she gave birth, Angie explains when and with whom she shared her closely guarded secret. We are joined by several of Angie's closest friends who share how they learned of her pregnancy.

Angie and her therapist walk us through what it means to keep a long-held secret, and how one might work through such childhood trauma.

In this final episode, we meet Zac’s mother and father who discuss adoption, parenting, and meeting their child’s biological parents. Angie shares where she hopes to go moving forward.

Angie and Michael share what it was like to speak for the first time since being found by and and meeting Zac.

Zac reaches out to Angie, upending the well-constructed world she created in his absence.

Angie and her immediate family share how they learned of Angie’s pregnancy, and the steps taken to keep her secret.

Zac’s birth mother, Angie, recounts the isolating first months of her pregnancy and explains the drastic measures she was willing to take to keep her pregnancy a secret.

Thirty-five years after his birth and adoption, Zac, in search of medical information, is reunited with Michael, his biological father, who until that point, never knew of Zac’s existence.

Welcome to Held: a Podcast Mini-Series which explores the true story of the past and present life of one woman's 35 year old secret; revealing that not only can the truth set you free, but sometimes it may even propel you forward.