You're listening to The Forgotten Podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community.

And you cannot figure out what will really serve these kids and these mentors until you just get there, you get out on the pavement, and you start doing it.

Welcome to the Forgotten Podcast where we are bringing voice to the foster care community.

In every episode of this podcast, I get the opportunity to interview members of the foster care community, whether they be foster parents, folks who grew up in foster care, workers, those who work in the system, or even

those who minister to this foster care community. And today is no exception. Today I get to

introduce you to Carrie Sowers. Carrie Sowers is an intellectual property attorney who helps

those manage their intellectual property assets and collaborative teams.

She hosts the Manifest Collab podcast, which is also brand new and you have to listen to it.

And she oversees all content under the Manifest Collab and Create Umbrella.

Carrie is also the co-founder of Place Conference and serves as in-house counsel and lead trainer for the mentoring

project. Carrie and her family reside in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and most importantly, she is

wife to John and mom to their twin daughters. The Sowers are expecting their third child this

July, so that's super exciting. In today's episode, I'm going to ask Carrie how she got

involved in the mentoring project and what they do. I also want to ask her some common pitfalls and

struggles in starting and growing a mentoring program, and also just find out what difference does a

mentor make. I know you're going to be super encouraged by today's episode. So without further ado,

let's get right to it. Here's my interview with Carrie Sowers.

Hey, Carrie. I'm so happy to have you on the podcast today. How are you doing? I'm great. I am so

honored to be here and I love your podcast. I'm so glad

you're doing it. Well, thank you. I'm so glad it's very cool because Carrie and I have had,

we've known each other for a little while now. We met at KFO, right? It was a summit. I think we're in

Nashville? Yeah, I think it was Nashville. And wasn't it your session that I came up to you afterwards and was asking you how we can

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