Roots & Rebuilt: Lost Family, Found Self

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What if the drive that built your whole life was really a search for something you lost before you could name it? Roots & Rebuilt is a podcast about family, identity, and the wounds that quietly shape who we become. It follows James Hayden and Dawni Rae Shaw, two people who grew up as strangers and discovered through a single DNA test that they are biological siblings, two of twelve, who share the same absent father and the same hidden wound. James scaled 140 companies and generated billions in revenue. Dawni learned to disappear into everyone else's needs. Both were chasing the same thing without knowing it: the feeling of truly belonging somewhere. In each episode, they open up real, honest conversations about the pain of an absent parent, the search for belonging, inner-child healing, and what it actually takes to rebuild your sense of self. Whether you have felt like you have to earn your place, outrun an emptiness no success can fill, or finally u