Podcast Episode
EP077 – The Truth About Her Father Changed Everything | Melissa Jean Rod

About this episode
In this powerful episode of Visible Kindness, Ed Squire speaks with author and speaker Melissa Jean Rod (MJ) about discovering later in life that the man she believed was her biological father… wasn't.
Melissa shares the emotional journey behind her book The Daddy Files, including family secrets, adoption, trauma, forgiveness, identity, and the healing process that followed years of searching for the truth.
The conversation also dives into:
father wounds
childhood trauma
open adoption
reactive attachment disorder
family healing
faith and forgiveness
simple acts of kindness that change lives
Melissa's story is heartbreaking, honest, hopeful, and deeply human.
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