Speaker 1: Family Secrets. It turns out that just about everyone has them,
Speaker 1: which accounts for the incredible outpouring of community and sharing
Speaker 1: of these stories that's happening as a result of my
Speaker 1: podcast Family Secrets. My name is Danny Shapiro, and I'm
Speaker 1: a writer author of the instant near times best selling
Speaker 1: memoir Inheritance, which I wrote after discovering a massive secret
Speaker 1: that had been kept from me all my life. That
Speaker 1: discovery changed my life in good ways and hard ways,
Speaker 1: and led to this podcast. In each episode, I sit
Speaker 1: down with an amazing guest and we delve into stories
Speaker 1: that cover all sorts of things identity, addiction, loss, legacy,
Speaker 1: and always the secret shame that runs beneath so much
Speaker 1: that is hidden. Here's some of what I've learned in
Speaker 1: the first two seasons of Family Secrets and what you
Speaker 1: can expect from the third season. Sometimes families keep secrets
Speaker 1: from each other in the name of love. We mean well,
Speaker 1: we really do, but those secrets leave a trail of
Speaker 1: confusion in their wake. When a secret is kept from us,
Speaker 1: we often feel haunted, like there's something we don't know,
Speaker 1: something we can't put our finger on, and this can
Speaker 1: make us feel especially as children that there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with us, and sometimes when we do discover a secret,
Speaker 1: we end up in the uncomfortable role of becoming keepers
Speaker 1: of secrets ourselves again in the name of love. In
Speaker 1: Season three of Family Secrets, which launches on Thursday, February sixth,
Speaker 1: you can expect some extraordinary, soulful, dramatic stories. I sit
Speaker 1: down with Michael Haney, a brilliant journalist who spent his
Speaker 1: life trying to piece together what happened the night his
Speaker 1: father died. When I come into ownership of this secret,
Speaker 1: my father's a secret, I basically froze, and for a
Speaker 1: good year I just thought I can't write this story.
Speaker 1: I can't share it. I don't know what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do now. I talk with Lisa Jobs, daughter of Steve,
Speaker 1: who spent years denying that she was his child. My
Speaker 1: father actually wasn't a cold person, but it kind of
Speaker 1: added up to that because he couldn't depend on the warmth.
Speaker 1: It was so intermittent and unpredictable. He was passionate, he
Speaker 1: was warm, and he was cold when he was in race.
Speaker 1: I explore the power of forgiveness during an amazing conversation
Speaker 1: with David Kazinski and Gary Wright, who was nearly killed
Speaker 1: by one of the Unibomber's powerful male bombs. Gary was
Speaker 1: Jed's victim. I was Jed's brother. If we could build
Speaker 1: a bridge across this chasm it's abyss of human suffering,
Speaker 1: then there was hope. I speak with Stephen Romo, a
Speaker 1: Houston based news anchor who for a very long time
Speaker 1: kept the dark truth about his childhood very deep beneath
Speaker 1: a polished professional exterior. It did create dissonance for me
Speaker 1: as I was growing up and moving on in my
Speaker 1: career that my job was to seek out the truth.
Speaker 1: I sort of just pretended to be the boy with
Speaker 1: no history. I discuss what happens when the source of
Speaker 1: your family's financial ruin is someone whose job it was
Speaker 1: to protect you with Axton bets Hamilton, an expert on
Speaker 1: identity theft. That's why I was doing the right thing
Speaker 1: by not answering the door, by not developing friendships, by
Speaker 1: just willing to be left alone, I thought I was
Speaker 1: helping defend our families from the identity feet. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for you to hear all of the incredible conversations
Speaker 1: we'll be having this season, which kicks off February sixth.
Speaker 1: You can listen and subscribe to Family's Secrets on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts.