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.
Andrew Godley was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1980 and adopted at birth. Two years later, he moved to Louisiana, where he was raised by a loving family and built a successful life as a husband, father, entrepreneur, and owner of Parish Brewing.
Although adoption was never a secret and Andrew describes his childhood as wonderful, becoming a parent sparked a desire to learn more about where he came from and who his children were descended from. What followed was a decades-long search through DNA records, family trees, and unexpected dead ends that ultimately led him to his biological family in South Africa.
In this episode, Andrew shares his journey of identity, belonging, gratitude, and discovery. He reflects on growing up adopted, reconnecting with biological relatives, and the surprising peace he found after meeting people who looked, thought, and lived so much like him.
This conversation is a powerful reminder that family is not an either-or proposition. Nature AND nurture can both shape who we become…even when they're separated by an ocean.
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