Welcome to Bending the Future; a podcast for all of the young innovators, inventors and changemakers dreaming up a different future; one idea at a time.

Maddy Buchner’s entrepreneurial journey began when she was just nine years old. She asked the very question that still drives her today: “Who cares for the carers?”

Maddy grew up caring for her younger brother, who had a range of chronic illnesses, and her mother, who was diagnosed with breast cancer. At nine years of age, she identified a gap in the support system for Young Carers and began to raise awareness through fundraising events and stalls. This eventually culminated in a business plan for an organisation called Little Dreamers, way back in 2009.

More than ten years later and over 5,000 young people reached, Little Dreamers is now Australia’s leading Young Carer organisation. Across a range of key support programs co-designed with young people in caring roles, they’re breaking down barriers and empowering young people, with a vision to ensure that every Young Carer around the world is supported by someone or something by the year 2030.