Episode 11: From Foster Care to Founder: Live at Bamboo Ann Arbor

What happens when your Intensity Point becomes your life’s purpose?In this special first-ever live taping of the Bring Your Big Energy Podcast at Bamboo Ann Arbor, Stacey Kulongowski sits down with Kamille Tynes, Founder & CEO of Konnected with Care—a social impact tech company transforming how foster youth and child welfare systems stay connected and supported.Kamille shares her lived experience entering foster care at 14, the moment she realized she had to become her own advocate, and how that early courage shaped everything that came next—from demanding change at the University of Michigan to helping create one of the nation’s strongest scholarship models for former foster youth.Together, Stacey and Kamille explore:* Hidden gaps in foster care and why “you don’t know what you don’t know”* Advocacy, courage, and what it means to “do it afraid”* Turning pain into purpose—and purpose into systems-level change* Why belief isn’t the absence of fear… it’s action with fear* How community, connection, and faith fuel Big EnergyThis episode is a reminder that your story is not just something you survived— it might be the blueprint for what you’re here to build. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T_uMpYSj0TAConnect with Kamille / Konnected with Care:Website: https://getkonnected.co/Email: [email protected]: Konnected with Care + Kamille TynesWant more Big Energy?Subscribe/follow the Bring Your Big Energy Podcast + join the Energy Hype Squad newsletter for behind-the-scenes, tools, and episode drops.https://bringyourbigenergy.kit.com/80791d8674