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Perfectly Placed

Perfectly Placed

By: Kate Migues
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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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Episodes
  • 14 - Family Is What You Make It
    Feb 10 2026

    In this episode, Ashton shares the deeply personal story of how her family came together through loss, uncertainty, and two very different adoption journeys. From infertility and IVF, to kinship foster care that became forever, to a private infant adoption, Ashton reflects on what it means to love children through the unknown.

    She opens up about honoring birth families, navigating trauma and trust, and raising children who know their stories from the very beginning. This conversation is an honest, hope-filled reminder that family isn’t defined by biology—it’s built through presence, advocacy, and love.


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    43 mins
  • 13 - A Cosmic Connection
    Jan 27 2026

    In this episode of Perfectly Placed, we hear from Emily, a single adoptive mom whose path to motherhood included an adoption scam, deep loss, and unwavering faith.

    Emily shares what it was like to pursue adoption on her own, face the financial and emotional realities of the process, and forgive after being taken advantage of late in a pregnancy. Just months later, she received the call that changed everything, allowing her to welcome her daughter, Mary Elizabeth.

    This honest, hope-filled conversation explores resilience, trust, and why Emily believes there is no amount of DNA that could make her daughter more hers.


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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 12 - The Pieces of Life’s Puzzle
    Jan 14 2026

    Ellen’s story is one of love, loss, courage, and redemption. Adopted as a baby, she later faced an unplanned pregnancy at sixteen and made the heartbreaking decision to place her son for adoption, never knowing if she would see him again.

    Decades later, her life comes full circle in ways she never imagined. This episode is a powerful reminder that adoption is not just a moment. It’s a lifetime of connection, healing, and hope.

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    47 mins
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