Season 1 — Now Available
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Twisted Roots
A podcast exploring the moments, people, and places that shaped your family — one story at a time. Raw, real, and rooted.
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Season 1 — Now Available
Twisted Roots
A podcast exploring the moments, people, and places that shaped your family — one story at a time. Raw, real, and rooted.
The Show
Family Tree is a father-and-child podcast built around one belief: the stories families carry — and the ones they keep quiet — shape who we become far more than we realise.
Each episode features a family member telling their story, followed by an expert — a family psychologist, genealogist, or therapist — who helps us understand what we just heard.
This isn't a genealogy show. It's an archaeology of the people who made you.
Season One
Ep 01 — Pilot
The origin episode. A father shares one story he's never told on record, and we explain why this project matters.
Family: Dad — the origin episode
Expert: Family psychologist
Ep 02
An oldest relative traces the geography, migration, and life before. A genealogist gives the historical context that shapes the story.
Family: Grandparent / oldest relative
Expert: Genealogist / family historian
Ep 03
One choice — a move, a marriage, a door left unopened — and how it redirected everything that came after.
Family: Parent, aunt, or uncle
Expert: Family therapist
Ep 04
Every family has a silence. This episode asks what it is, why it exists, and what it costs when it finally gets named.
Family: Dad + one other relative
Expert: Psychologist — family secrecy
Ep 05
The trades, the labor, the identity wrapped in how a family makes its living across generations.
Family: Relative known for their work
Expert: Sociologist / occupational psychologist
Ep 06
Every family has someone who broke from the pattern. What were they running toward — and what did leaving do to those who stayed?
Family: The relative who left
Expert: Family systems therapist
Ep 07
Not the polished version. How did they actually meet? What nearly ended it? What kept it together?
Family: A couple, or parent on their relationship
Expert: Relationship psychologist
Ep 08
A family member recounts the hardest period they lived through. A trauma psychologist explores what survival looks like across generations.
Family: Relative who survived hardship
Expert: Trauma psychologist
Ep 09 — Finale
A father and child reflect on the season. What surfaced? What changed? What do you carry forward? The family psychologist from episode one returns to close the season.
Family: You and your Dad
Expert: Family psychologist (returns)
"The stories families carry — and the ones they keep quiet — shape who we become far more than we realise."
Family Tree · Twisted Roots
The Format
Every episode opens with an intimate recorded conversation between host and a family member. No scripts — just questions, memory, and the unexpected turns that make real stories so powerful.
A family psychologist, genealogist, or therapist joins to give the story context. Not to analyse — to help listeners understand what they just heard, and what it might mean for their own family.
Every episode ends with the same question: "What do you want the next generation to know about where we came from?" A recurring thread that ties the whole season together.
Every episode is designed to make you think of your own family — and maybe pick up the phone. The best listener response isn't a review. It's a conversation you start with someone you love.
Behind the Mic
Co-Host & First Guest
The person whose stories started this project. Every conversation reveals something new — not just about the family, but about how memory works, what we protect, and what we finally decide to say out loud.
Host & Creator
The idea behind Family Tree started with a simple realisation: the people who shaped me most had stories I'd never fully heard. This podcast is my attempt to change that — one conversation at a time, before the chance is gone.
Season 1 is available now. New episodes drop every two weeks.
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