Packed With Purpose Podcast Trailer | How One Backpack Can Make a Difference

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to packed with purpose a care packaging bound podcast care packaging bound is an organization that exists to deliver hope and listening to this podcast you're actually going to be part of that hope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to unpack a lot of ways that you can help those in foster care even if you're not a foster parent we believe that you can make a difference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My first question is a pretty

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, Chris.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it does not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, actually, I have a lot of people that are really excited about this and that's pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're starting to influence more than what we set out to when we first started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Our first initial thoughts when we were creating care package inbound was to just create that package for the initial need.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're like, okay, these backpacks are for, first it was 24 hours, now we got to 48 hour emergency backpacks, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we didn't realize the impact it was going to create not only on the child, but on the social workers and the foster families.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And their ability to stay in a placement longer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and now that we're growing, we're getting impacts on former foster children that are helping and they're finding healing and hope years later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it is a beautiful wonderful thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if we can bring that to you, if we can provide community to you, then yeah, we do need another podcast, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the items I go into are excited to share every single item is intentional, truly packed with purpose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is truly going to be a space where we can have social workers on, we're going to have actually a psychiatrist on, we're going to have doctors on people that see foster kids every single day from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, birth, unfortunately, immediately entering into the foster care system to teens that are aging out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The stories are so vast, and we want to capture those stories and shed some light on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have former foster youth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have bio kids and bio parents and foster parents that are going to be sharing stories that challenge our perception of every single day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and yet at the same time delivers some hope that things can change, things can get better.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to make sure that we bring in that joy, because honestly, like, yeah, it's really, really heavy, and we have a lot of times that are really, really heavy, but I found that even in those moments that we can find joy in it, and sometimes it's funny and laughing, and sometimes it's just peace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's definitely going to be times where we're going to say things that are going to hit hard.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we want people to know that that's okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay to feel that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But we're not gonna stay in those depths because we wanna have a good time too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We want you to understand the joy that we feel every day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna be sharing incredible stories of children that have received a backpack and just been able to be like, wow, like is this really for me?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like actually like genuinely, we've had that happen where somebody has received a backpack and they've asked that question in all sincerity, is this really mine?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is, it's so joyful and yet so heartbreaking at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that there's a misconception that if you're not a foster parent, then you can't make a difference in the system and really we're here to really break that idea, to shatter that idea, and to expose all of the ways that you can have an impact on a child's life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: completely agree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that we're kind of examples of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's really hard when you first start looking at foster care when you're first even aware of it because let's be honest foster system foster care those words in general have been kind of shoved underneath the rug for the last 80 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I tell this people all the time we're trying to drag it out but it sure is sticky.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So one of the purposes of us talking to you guys today is so that you can know what's happening and be informed, but also know that not everyone needs to do the same job, not everyone should or can be foster families.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's okay, but that doesn't mean that you just sit back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to either be informed or there's some whole things that you can do every day to make a difference.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have perspectives as parents as well going into this and the goofiness that goes along with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to try to reel her in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually going through SEALS training for this podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You went through hell week?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a whole other episode.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We can dedicate one to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she's freezing ocean water.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a real jessin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I'll joke this side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to invite you guys to go ahead and subscribe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want you to miss a single moment of all of those stories and ways that you can really truly make an impact a difference in this community.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But beware, Chris has all the dad jokes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I do.