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Missing Pieces - NPE Life
Don Anderson
Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 85

🎧 Missing Pieces – NPE Life
Every Secret Has a Story
Every family has secrets. Some are whispered. Others are written in our DNA.
Missing Pieces – NPE Life is where those hidden stories come to light — through honest conversations with people whose DNA results changed everything they thought they knew about family, identity, or truth. It’s also a space for those searching for answers and discovering unexpected connections — sometimes even finding family.
Hosted and produced by Don Anderson, an Emmy-winning storyteller and NPE himself, the series explores what happens after the discovery — the shock, the search, the healing, and the human connections that follow.
🧬 Real stories. Real voices.
Because sometimes, finding out who we are starts with finding what’s been missing.
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📧 Contact: donNPE@icloud.com
📸 Instagram: @npe_life_podcast
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Shelby - Sister of NPEs
Season 6 · Episode 13
mercredi 5 novembre 2025 • Duration 40:38
✦ EPISODE: Shelby – Sister of NPEs ✦
Shelby shares the astonishing story of discovering not one, but two NPEs in her immediate family.
Born in Detroit and now settled in Tennessee, she brings warmth, humor, and reflection to a journey that proves DNA can connect — and complicate — in equal measure.
🧬 Secrets, surprises, and the search for truth — this is Missing Pieces.
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🎧 Follow on Instagram: @npe_life_podcast
📧 Contact: donNPE@icloud.com
Anonymous Newbie
Season 6 · Episode 12
vendredi 17 octobre 2025 • Duration 59:31
🎧 Missing Pieces
Welcome to another episode of Missing Pieces – NPE Life.
Today’s anonymous guest takes us from her childhood in Maine to a life-changing discovery just a few months ago. She’s brand-new to the NPE world and bravely shares what it’s like to stand at the very beginning of that journey.
✨ Listen in — it’s raw, real, and relatable.
📬 Connect with Don:
📧 donNPE@icloud.com
📸 Instagram: @npe_life_podcast
Marta From Poland
Season 6 · Episode 3
dimanche 20 avril 2025 • Duration 57:09
Welcome to another exciting episode of Missing Pieces. This is a good one. It's about an NPE from Poland. It's an incredible story and she's an incredible person. Check it out and spread the word.
If you want to get in touch with Marta you can find her on instagram marta_kostrzewska
To follow Don on instagram click here NPE_LIFE_PODCAST
Please listen to Ukraine: The Latest, the podcast that does in-depth coverage of the was in Ukraine go to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ukraine-the-latest/id1612424182
To email Don you can send email to Don NPE at iCloud dot com.
Laura, Ann's Daughter
Season 6 · Episode 2
vendredi 4 avril 2025 • Duration 56:23
Check out this fabulous episode, where we hear Laura's (Ann from Iowa's daughter) side of the story. I love being able to hear the story from different perspectives.
If you want to get in touch with Don email him at don NPE at iCloud dot com. (trying to get less junkmail) Or follow me on instagram at NPE_LIFE_PODCAST.
To get in touch with Billy Sullivan go to Sulllystone.com
Don't forget to rate, review and follow. Thanks
Ann From Iowa
Season 6 · Episode 1
samedi 8 mars 2025 • Duration 01:06:51
Welcome to another special episode of Missing Pieces. Today Ann shares with us her story of being a birth mother and the source for an NPE. It's an incredible open conversation that can't be missed.
If you would like to donate to Don's trip to Ukraine go to ianice,org and support us. Thanks so much!!
If you want to get in touch with Don email him donNPE at iCloud dot com. Or you can find him on instagram NPE_LIFE_PODCAST
Thanks for listening
My Dad's Mixup
Season 5 · Episode 13
jeudi 20 février 2025 • Duration 56:24
Welcome to another great episode. We hear Candi tell the amazing story about how she helped her dad figure who he really was.
To get in touch with Don you can email him donNPE@icloud.com or find me on instagram @NPE_LIFE_PODCAST
To get more info on Candi and their amazing non-profit go to https://www.bestwa.org/home
Don't forget to rate and review!!!
Sarah Goes Home
Season 5 · Episode 12
lundi 13 janvier 2025 • Duration 42:47
On today's show we follow Sarah on her way back to the country she was adopted from, Kazakhstan. Please join us for this very special episode.
If you want to reach out to Don you can email him at donNPE at iCloud dot com
Or you can find him on instagram NPE_LIFE_PODCAST
A few words about the fires in Los Angeles. It's a devastating time in LA right now. There is so much heartbreak going on. Whole neighborhoods burnt to the ground. But I am proud of my fellow Angeleno's. I love Helen Keller's quote "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it." It's beautiful that in the midst of such tragedy we are coming together, neighbors helping neighbors, donations upon donations. And to our amazing firemen and all the firemen who came from other cities, states and countries, we thank you!!
Don's Story FINALLY
Season 5 · Episode 11
vendredi 20 décembre 2024 • Duration 57:46
Hi
Finally we hear Don's story in full for the first time. Check it out!!! Hosted and interviewed by Tracy from the episode A Change of Heart, if you haven't heard it, it is a good one.
To get in touch with Don email him at Don NPE at iCloud dot com (too many spammers out there. Or follow him on instagram NPE_Life_Podcast
Other NPE podcasts that I mention...
NPE Stories by Lily Wood and Everything's Relative with Eve Sturges. Check them out!
Half Russian Yankee
Season 5 · Episode 10
jeudi 12 décembre 2024 • Duration 48:57
Welcome to another episode of Missing Pieces - NPE Life. On this episode, Julie talks about her DNA surprise. Check it out!!
Don't forget to rate and review this podcast!!!
WARNING: This episode mentions inappropriate sexual contact between an adult and a minor.
Pamela The Reluctant One
Season 5 · Episode 9
dimanche 1 décembre 2024 • Duration 53:53
Welcome to another fun episode of Missing Pieces. Today, I talk with Pamela, a friend of mine in real life. She texted me this past 4th of July about some info she just found out. Some info that would change her life and make her question who she is.
If you want to get in touch with Don, you can email donNPE at iCloud dot com. (sorry getting too many spam emails) Or you can follow me and message me on instagram. NPE_LIFE_PODCAST or click here
That app I talked about is called AI Song, its thumbnail has a Purple Heart set against black. Check it out









