Perfectly Placed
Perfectly Placed
Podcast Description
Adoption is never just one thing. It’s joy and grief, questions and clarity, beginnings and lifelong journeys. On Perfectly Placed, host Kate Migues invites you into real conversations with the people who live it every day: birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive families.As a teacher, a mom of two through adoption, and the founder of the Placed Adoption Education Foundation, Kate knows the power of story. She also knows how often those stories go unheard or get oversimplified.This podcast changes that.Each episode brings you honest, thoughtful, and sometimes hard conversations that reflect the full picture of adoption, not the highlight reel. These are the voices that deserve more space, more understanding, and more compassion.Perfectly Placed will allow listeners to hear what adoption really looks like from the inside, understand the triad experience from every perspective, and be a part of reshaping how adoption is talked about in our communities.Because in the honesty of real stories, we find the beauty of being perfectly placed.
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Content Themes
The podcast emphasizes the deep emotional landscape of adoption, featuring themes such as the real experiences of adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. Episodes cover subjects like emotional highs and lows, navigating uncertainty, and the importance of community in adoption, with examples like personal stories and discussions on support and resilience.
Adoption is never just one thing. It’s joy and grief, questions and clarity, beginnings and lifelong journeys. On Perfectly Placed, host Kate Migues invites you into real conversations with the people who live it every day: birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive families.
As a teacher, a mom of two through adoption, and the founder of the Placed Adoption Education Foundation, Kate knows the power of story. She also knows how often those stories go unheard or get oversimplified.
This podcast changes that.
Each episode brings you honest, thoughtful, and sometimes hard conversations that reflect the full picture of adoption, not the highlight reel. These are the voices that deserve more space, more understanding, and more compassion.
Perfectly Placed will allow listeners to hear what adoption really looks like from the inside, understand the triad experience from every perspective, and be a part of reshaping how adoption is talked about in our communities.
Because in the honesty of real stories, we find the beauty of being perfectly placed.
In this episode, Rosa Hood shares her story of being adopted at birth and how it’s shaped every part of her life. She talks about her 25-year marriage, raising three daughters, and the faith that carried her through loss and healing. Rosa opens up about her gratitude for her adoptive parents, the courage of her birth mother, and her deep connection to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Her story is a beautiful reminder of how faith, family, and adoption are all part of one divine plan.
00:00 – Introduction & Family Background
03:16 – Rosa’s Adoption Story & the Miracle of Birth
12:12 – Motherhood, Faith & the Legacy of Guadalupe
17:05 – Loss, Gratitude & Family Connections
25:35 – Understanding Adoption: Fears, Traits & Identity
30:19 – Strength from Her Birth Mother & Faith Through Challenges
39:54 – Ministry, Teaching & Final Reflections
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