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Roots & Rebuilt: Lost Family, Found Self

Roots & Rebuilt: Lost Family, Found Self

By: Stacey Chillemi
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Most people spend years carrying a story they didn't choose. This show is about rewriting it.

Two strangers discovered they were siblings through a DNA test — along with 10 others nobody ever told them about. Now James Hayden and Dawni Rae Shaw are turning that discovery into a roadmap for healing identity, breaking family cycles, and finally feeling whole.Copyright Stacey Chillemi
Episodes
  • The Hidden Wounds Behind Success

    The Hidden Wounds Behind Success
    Jul 2 2026
    You built the career, hit the numbers, and still feel like something is missing. That emptiness is not a mindset problem; it's a wound.

    What looks like relentless drive is often a quiet search for belonging that no amount of success can satisfy.

    James Hayden scaled 140 companies across four continents and generated billions in revenue, but his deepest breakthrough came from connecting with his biological family later in life; a discovery that rewired how he saw himself, his leadership, and his worth.

    Learn how to stop chasing more zeros and finally understand what you have actually been reaching for.

    🔗 Connect with James Hayden
    Website: ⁠jamesbhayden.com⁠ | Podcast: ⁠Adapt or Die ⁠(Apple & Spotify) LinkedIn: ⁠linkedin.com/in/jamesbhayden ⁠| YouTube:⁠ @JamesBHayden⁠ Instagram & X/Twitter: @jamesbhayden | TikTok: ⁠@jameshayden6140⁠

    🔗 Connect with Dawni Rae Shaw
    Website: ⁠dawnirae.com⁠ | Child to Wild: ⁠whoamitome.com⁠
    Facebook & Instagram: Dawni Rae Shaw
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    28 mins
  • You're Not a Workaholic. Here's What's Going On

    You're Not a Workaholic. Here's What's Going On
    Jun 17 2026
    You outwork everyone, you keep everyone happy, and you still feel like you have to earn your place. That exhaustion is not a character flaw. It is a wound that was created before you had words for it. It is not ambition.

    It is what happens when a child quietly decides love must be earned, then spends decades trying to earn it. The drive that built your life and the pain you keep running from are the same thing.

    Two strangers discovered through a single DNA test that they are biological siblings carrying the same wound from the same father. One man walked away from a company right before it sold for two hundred and fifty million dollars because he was too afraid of being abandoned to stay. One woman became so agreeable she learned to abandon herself, all the way into an eating disorder she barely survived.

    Stop asking what is wrong with you and finally understand what happened to you.






    🔗 Connect with James Hayden
    Website: ⁠jamesbhayden.com⁠ | Podcast: ⁠Adapt or Die ⁠(Apple & Spotify) LinkedIn: ⁠linkedin.com/in/jamesbhayden ⁠| YouTube:⁠ @JamesBHayden⁠ Instagram & X/Twitter: @jamesbhayden | TikTok: ⁠@jameshayden6140⁠

    🔗 Connect with Dawni Rae Shaw
    Website: ⁠dawnirae.com⁠ | Child to Wild: ⁠whoamitome.com⁠
    Facebook & Instagram: Dawni Rae Shaw
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    49 mins
  • DNA Revealed Their Biggest Family Secret — 12 Siblings No One Knew About

    DNA Revealed Their Biggest Family Secret — 12 Siblings No One Knew About
    May 13 2026
    Most of us spend years searching for the one thing we can't name — the feeling of truly belonging somewhere.

    Host Stacey Chillemi sits down with James Hayden and Dawni Rae Shaw, two people who discovered through Ancestry DNA that they share the same father — and 10 other siblings they never knew existed.

    In this episode, you'll learn:
    🧬 How a single DNA test can completely rewrite your sense of identity
    💔 Why the pain of an absent parent doesn't fade on its own — and what actually heals it
    🔓 How being vulnerable opens doors that years of strength couldn't
    🧠 The real work of inner-child healing — and why it's worth every hard moment
    🌱 What "wholeness" actually looks and feels like on the other side


    🔗 Connect with James Hayden
    Website: ⁠jamesbhayden.com⁠ | Podcast: ⁠Adapt or Die ⁠(Apple & Spotify) LinkedIn: ⁠linkedin.com/in/jamesbhayden ⁠| YouTube:⁠ @JamesBHayden⁠ Instagram & X/Twitter: @jamesbhayden | TikTok: ⁠@jameshayden6140⁠

    🔗 Connect with Dawni Rae Shaw
    Website: ⁠dawnirae.com⁠ | Child to Wild: ⁠whoamitome.com⁠
    Facebook & Instagram: Dawni Rae Shaw
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    1 hr and 12 mins
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