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Laying an Orphan on a Wooden Bed on Mother's Day with Caroline Boudreaux
May 7, 2021
Imagine you are on a global trip of a lifetime with a dear friend. One of your many stops is in India, mainly to see if the little boy your friend's been supporting for years is actually real. Imagine you meet that boy and get to see his life and others. Then imagine after spending time with at the orphanage and you rocking a baby to sleep, you go lay them down only to discover picnic style beds. Would your life change forever? Well for guest Caroline, it did. Listen in to hear why Caroline is not sorry for laying an orphan on a wooden bed on Mother's Day in 2000. Fast forward to this weekend, they will be celebrating 21 years ago of the Miracle Foundation, where they have been empowering orphans and vulnerable children to reach their full potential.
Imagine you are on a global trip of a lifetime with a dear friend. 

One of your many stops is in India, mainly to see if the little boy your friend's been supporting for years is actually real.

Imagine you meet that boy and get to see his life and others. Then imagine after spending time with at the orphanage and you rocking a baby to sleep, you go lay them down only to discover picnic-style beds. 

Would your life change forever? Well for guest Caroline, it did. Listen in to hear why Caroline is not sorry for laying an orphan on a wooden bed on Mother's Day in 2000. Fast forward to this weekend, they will be celebrating 21 years ago of the Miracle Foundation, where they have been empowering orphans and vulnerable children to reach their full potential. 

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About the guest:
Caroline Boudreaux is the founder of Miracle Foundation.org where for the past 20 years they have been empowering orphans and vulnerable children to reach their full potential. Miracle Foundation’s revolutionary Thrive Scale™ methodology is based on the UN Rights of the Child and leverages data and technology to create a family for every child in our lifetime. To date Miracle Foundation has impacted 15,000+ children’s lives.

Their latest project is FosterShare™ a phone and desktop app that prevents foster children from bouncing from home to home, decreases the drop-out rate of foster parents, and brings greater stability to the foster care ecosystem.
 
Caroline and Miracle Foundation has been interviewed for their work, by a wide variety of media including:

• Forbes
• USA Today
• CNN
• Chicago Tribune
• USA Today
• UNICEF
• ELLE
• People
• Rolling Stone
• Thrive Global
• Maria Shriver
• Rockefeller Foundation

As a leader in the social entrepreneurship field, Caroline has received a variety of awards including: The Hope Award, The Impact Award and The United Nations Humanitarian Award. In addition, Caroline is a popular speaker on the topics of “Reimagining Philanthropy: Social Impact vs. Charity,”
“Social Entrepreneurship: Creating Social Change in the For-Profit Sector” and “Engineering a Miracle: Using Money for Meaning and Impact.” Caroline has spoken for:


• World Economic Forum
• Women’s Leadership Forum
• Young Presidents Organization
• UBS Philanthropy Day
• UBS women for women symposium
• TEDx

Caroline is a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum and has completed executive programs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Yale's Jackson Institute for Diplomacy, India School of Business and Oxford University. 

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