Building Beds For Kids With Luke Mickelson
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of children across the country will sleep tonight without a comfortable bed. This unfortunate situation deprives them of proper rest, which leads to a pretty unhealthy lifestyle and mental disposition. Luke Mickelson is on a mission to put an end to this problem through Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP), the largest bed-building charity in the world. In this conversation with Corinna Bellizzi, he shares how they help children secure a safe and comfortable place to lay their heads every single night. Luke explains how they take advantage of community involvement to boost their bed-building efforts and significantly reduce costs. He also discusses how to make non-profit fundraising efforts more effective, why founders should master the art of storytelling, and what it takes to avoid the dreaded mission creep.
About Guest:
Luke Mickelson, a farm kid from Kimberly, Idaho, has always been passionate about community service. A lifelong athlete and youth coach, he developed strong leadership and people skills that fueled his love for business and philanthropy. In 2012, he founded Sleep in Heavenly Peace (SHP), a nonprofit that builds beds for children in need. Under his leadership, SHP has grown to over 400 chapters across 46 states and four countries, helping 80,000+ children annually. Featured on Returning the Favor with Mike Rowe, NBC, CNN, and more, Luke’s “humans helping humans” philosophy has earned national recognition. Through keynote speeches, media appearances, and podcasting, he continues to inspire others to act on their own Tiny Moments.
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shpbeds
Guest Website: https://shpbeds.org/
Guest Social:
https://www.instagram.com/shpbeds/
https://www.youtube.com/@SHPbeds
https://www.facebook.com/SHPbeds/
Additional Resources Mentioned:
Returning The Favor with Mike Rowe - Sleep In Heavenly Peace
Annenberg Alchemy Fundamentals
Show Notes:
- 00:02:57 - Luke Mickelson On Building Beds For Children
- 00:16:34 - Encouraging Community Involvement
- 00:27:11 - Making Your Mission The Center Of Fundraisers
- 00:33:54 - Board Vs Executive Leaders And The Power Of Storytelling
- 00:45:00 - Managing The Organization’s Continuous Growth
- 00:52:25 - How To Raise Awareness And Spread The Word
- 00:54:41 - Closing Words And Episode Wrap-up
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | As a founder, no one has your story. |
| 0:03.1 | And everybody's going to want to know your story till the day you die. |
| 0:06.5 | You can't get fired from being the founder of the idea. |
| 0:10.0 | So you'll always have that mantle on your head, but you have the story behind it. |
| 0:14.9 | And that's where us as founders, as voice pieces of advocates for our mission, that's where we shine. And when you get to the |
| 0:22.4 | point where you can step away from the management and actually just focusing on sharing your |
| 0:27.0 | story, you'll find it's hard, but it's super fulfilling because that's what you want to do. You |
| 0:31.8 | want to get on podcasts like this with Karina and share your story about child bedlessness |
| 0:36.3 | and what you've done and what you've seen |
| 0:38.4 | and how people can get involved and getting fired up. That's what our real talents are. |
| 0:42.8 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social |
| 0:48.5 | impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. Hear inspiring stories from those who put people and planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:57.6 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 1:02.4 | Here's your host, Karina Belizei. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello and welcome to Care More Be Better. |
| 1:08.9 | Each week, I invite you to care more about social and environmental |
| 1:12.3 | issues so that we can create a better world together. At the beginning of this year, I kicked off a new |
| 1:18.4 | program, an initiative to make the world a little greener with your help each day. This program |
| 1:24.6 | is a collaboration with forestplanet.org to plant a tree for every new subscriber to our email list, newsletter, and our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. If you've been adding these up, yes, that means we'll plant more than one tree per listener if you did all of those things. This is part of our fight to |
| 1:45.7 | build a better planet, and I'm just happy that we can do it together. As of the recording of this |
| 1:50.5 | episode in mid-April, we've already planted 7,345 trees this year. Now, I had an initial goal of |
| 1:59.4 | hitting 20,000, but I think we're going to scream right |
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