The speaker's journey from foster care to advocating for reform in the system. They experienced a traumatic adoption, homelessness, and abuse before re-entering foster care. Their anger at their own experiences led to a desire to improve the system. Their nonprofit focuses on kinship care, which aims to place children with extended family members instead of unknown foster parents. The speaker also shares a personal experience at a family reunion, realizing that any one of the families there could have been their own.
Kara and Scott discuss the Dow's record highs and home ownership's new lows. Then, George Santos leaves Congress like a "Scandal in the Wind," while the Newsom/DeSantis debate was a circus of another kind. Plus, Google is accused of suppressing evidence, Nelson Peltz continues his Disney proxy battle, and "rizz" is the word of the year (Do Kara and Scott have it?!). Our Friend of Pivot is Sixto Cancel, the CEO and Founder of Think of Us, who's on a mission to revolutionize the country's child welfare system.
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