S3E11 - Odette Mould: Turning Grief into a Lifeline for Bereaved Children

About this episode

Odette Mould shares her journey of turning personal tragedy into a charity that supports bereaved children.

What do you do when the worst thing imaginable happens to your five-year-old, and the support you desperately need is 50 miles away? In this episode, Simon welcomes Odette Mould, founder of Harry’s Rainbow. When her son Harry died suddenly from an asthma attack, Odette didn’t set out to build a charity - she simply refused to let other families face the same lonely void. Fourteen years later, Harry’s Rainbow is a thriving Milton Keynes lifeline offering respite breaks, peer support, and emergency grants to hundreds of bereaved children and their families. We trace the journey from a mother’s heartbreak to an MBE at Buckingham Palace, the relentless focus on gratitude that keeps her going, and the quiet strategy that turned personal tragedy into systemic change. What You’ll Learn - From Heartbreak to Mission: How one family’s unimaginable loss became the driving force behind a charity that’s supported hundreds of grieving children. - Gratitude as Strategy: Why Odette chooses to “switch a positive from a negative” every single day and teaches her children the same discipline. - Building What’s Missing: The practical steps (and sheer determination) it took to create local…

People in this episode

Host: Simon

Guest: Odette Mould

Topics covered

• grief support
• bereavement
• charity work
• personal tragedy
• systemic change
• parenting
• gratitude

Keywords

• grief
• bereaved children
• charity
• support
• respite breaks
• peer support
• emergency grants
• gratitude
• systemic change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harry’s Rainbow

Places: Milton Keynes

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