Luke Mickelson: The Garage That Became the World's Largest Bed Charity

Luke Mickelson is a farm kid from Idaho who heard, in a church meeting, that a family in his town had children sleeping on a hardwood floor. He had never heard of child bedlessness. He built one bunk bed. Sleep in Heavenly Peace has since built roughly 400,000. Host Zaneta Chuniq Inpower gets the whole arc, starting with Haley.

In this episode

• Child bedlessness: the problem in child poverty almost nobody names
• The restlessness at 35 behind a life that looked perfect on paper
• The first build with his Boy Scouts, and the congregation that wanted in
• The Facebook post that returned dozens of children sleeping on floors
• Haley, six years old, who had only ever slept in the back seat of her mother’s car
• What a bed changes beyond sleep: grades, mood, friendships, sleepovers
• The chapter model that scaled it to 440+ chapter presidents and four countries
• Why 160,000 children remain on the waiting list

“I believe true joy comes when you stop thinking about yourself and you start thinking about someone else.” — Luke Mickelson

“You might not change the world, but you’re going to change someone’s world. And that world might just be yours, and that’s totally fine.” — Luke Mickelson

“I’m just a farm kid from Idaho. I’m nobody special. This started because some dad in some podunk town got up off the couch.” — Luke Mickelson

Read the full recap: How I Built the World's Largest Bed-Building Charity From My Garage

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Hosted by Zaneta Chuniq Inpower. More at Unscripted Small Business.