What if you could look back on your life and see that your work has made the lives of millions of children around the world so much better?

Ben Perks is a leader at UNICEF, an author and child rights advocate who spent his youth running away from violent care homes. His inspirational story is far from ordinary and proves that it just takes one person to see the potential in you, for you to believe in yourself.

Ben is the cycle breaker and change maker who was told “Your job is to save children’s lives at scale” and rose to the challenge. He could either have turned his life into a victimhood of his younger years, or used his lived experiences to create a positive impact and change for children around the world. He chose the latter.

In this episode, we discuss who inspired him to escape the life society would have conditioned him into. The inspirational leader who demanded “No bullshit” and to focus on their real outcome - to save children’s lives at scale.

Not to mention the incredible work that is showing parents the skills to be able to meaningfully love their children, and in turn healing themselves. True proof that love heals.

His book Trauma Proof explores how childhood trauma is not an insurmountable problem, it is in fact one that we can heal from globally through simple, scalable united actions.

“What is our legacy? We now have this science that tells us if we can reduce childhood adversity, improve nurturing care, we can have much better outcomes and save a lot of money for the lives of the life cycle. And for society, that should be a no-brainer.”

If one person can break the cycle, this podcast asks - can we all be cycle breakers?

Take a listen, this is a powerful episode!

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Music: 'Spirit of Fire' - fiftysounds.com

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