Mikey Doucet: A former foster kid who taught himself to hope and dream

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From the age of eight, Mikey Doucet lived in uncertainty. Who would truly care for him? Would he have enough to eat? Would he get along with the people who were supposed to be responsible for him or would he end up on the outside of another closed door holding all his belongings?

Instead of losing his entire childhood to despair, he found ways to foster hope and dream of a better future and a happier, more secure version of himself. He found that fitness played an important role in helping him maintain his resilience.

Now, he shares his story in the hope of helping others become who they were meant to be and to make it safe for the important conversations that SHOULD be had about improving care for foster youth everywhere.

This is something of a change a pace episode for us, and we’re thankful that Mikey was able to join us. You can find him on IG and Threads at @mikeydoucet and on YouTube.

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0:00.0	Where are you at, man, where are you from?
0:13.1	So I'm actually a live in Hammond, Louisiana, so it's a little bit north of New Orleans.
0:19.8	Okay.
0:20.8	You got Louisiana's spot.
0:21.8	I don't know well.
0:23.8	I've been to New Orleans once, maybe.
0:26.8	Dude, it's, you got your country folk, you got, I mean, we're just diversity all across
0:34.8	the board.
0:35.8	Yeah.
0:36.8	New Orleans was cool.
0:37.8	Like the people were really cool.
0:38.8	I'm not much of like a party or bourbon street guy, so we walked out a little bit, but like the
0:44.0	culture you could feel and like the food, obviously in the architecture, that was all
0:47.4	cool.
0:48.4	Just the bourbon street.
0:49.4	I don't know if that's my calling.
0:52.2	Dude, I feel you, man, whenever, so I'm from Southwest, Louisiana, which is nowhere near
0:58.8	New Orleans.
0:59.8	And when I moved out this way, I got to experience bourbon street and it was fun whenever
1:06.8	you're incredibly young, but as you get older, you're like, eh, the music, the music and
1:14.8	the culture and just everything is great about New Orleans with the history and it's just
1:21.3	a, it's a beautiful place.
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