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Shoplifting & The Human Psyche
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🎧 Inspiring Girls to Excel in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)
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🎧 Rob Jones: Survive, Recover, Live
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🎧 Ria Pieters Turns Family Sadness Into Hope for Future Generations!
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🎧 Janelle Towne Redefines homeless with furnishings, love and respect!
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🎧 Through the Eyes of Jessica Taylor-Bearman “A Girl Behind Dark Glasses”
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🎧 Emily Kustka proves 9 yr olds can THINK BIG!
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Riley Howell Stops UNC Campus Shooter in Ultimate Sacrifice Protecting Students
Podcast
🎧 Cutting Lawns For Free Turns into a Movement that Empowers Kids
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11 yr old Teaches Forgiveness
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🎧 Until Every Child has a Family, Caroline Boudreaux Wants to Create Miracles For Them
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🎧 Greg Nance takes on 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days to inspire students to DREAM BIG
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🎧 A Remarkable Story of Determination; A Challenged Life to a Crowning Achievement, Cordelia Cranshaw is Miss DC
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🎧 Hannah Elisabeth Dougherty Gives Life’s Umbilical Cord to Disadvantaged Youth
Podcast
🎧 A Heartbeat From Death, Mike Papale Discovers His Dream
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Giving Hope and Home to Teens, Joe Toles Adopts a Different Strategy
Podcast
🎧 A Farming Accident Turned Tragic, Suicide & Setbacks, Dick Beardsley Runs Life’s Marathon
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🎧 Broken families, illness, poverty; over 143 million orphans worldwide, Greg Buzek has a plan!
Podcast
🎧 Jake Clark’s Mission of Miracles Starts by Saving One Warrior at a Time
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🎧 A Local Answer to a National Homeless Problem, Meet Toby Owen, CEO Presbyterian Night Shelter
Podcast
🎧 Lisa Kirk Turns Her Struggles Into Mentoring Homeless
Podcast
🎧 Ansley Sara Flynn – A story that will give you hope and love in your heart!
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Shantell “Shannie” Pooser Dreams of Being A Flight Attendant Against All Odds
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10 yr old, Grace Eline Captures a Nation’s Heart
Podcast
🎧 “This was Personal” Craig Sawyer Turns the Table on Child Trafficking
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At 10, Winston Duncan had a Vision to Help the People of Africa – 8000 bikes later –
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🎧 “I don’t think we should have homeless vets,” explains Lt. Col. Deborah Snyder
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🎧 How Life’s Worst Helped Me Achieve My Best, Shay Eskew says “Embrace the Suck”
Podcast
🎧 A Higher Calling; Gretchen Smith and the Code of Vets
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A Miracle For Roxli
Podcast
🎧 A Life Mission to End Ocean Pollution, Meet Chloe & James
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Ricky Rodriguez and The Game Scrabble, Takes Our Future To A Better Place
Podcast
🎧 One Bed at a Time, Luke Mickelson Wants Kids off the Floor, Top 10 CNN Heroes
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Larry Dodson and the New Law Forcing Airlines to Respect Wheelchairs
Podcast
🎧 Two Time Cancer Survivor Sean Swarner Redefines Impossible
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Carolyn Kenyon and Judith Jones Pay Healthcare Debt Off For NY Families
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Nate Scarano was an Angel to Victims When Terrorists Attacked
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🎧 Jacque Hawk is Taking on the System to Combat Homelessness
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Rescuing Dogs in CA Fire, Jeff Evans Shows Heroic Courage
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🎧 Domestic Violence Turned Her Life Purpose into Wings of Courage, Meet Shayna Qualls
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🎧 Two Paths of Life and Death, Leslee Schneider & Brittany Griffith Form Life Mission
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“I’m 27 now. I don’t want to go. I love my life,” says Holly
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Palestine Violin Maker Shalalda Yearns For Peace Through Music
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Bruno Mars Celebrates Success By Giving Thanksgiving Meals to 24k Families
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🎧 Human Trafficking Almost Killed Her, Norma Bastidas Fights Back
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The Kind of Special Person That People Hope for in the World
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🎧 Death, Isolation, Despair… Lisa Williams Discovers A Reason To Live
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From AVM to MVP, Kimberly Valladares has Perspective
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🎧 A Life Changing Accident Changes Everything; Jim McCay & The Power of Positive Thinking
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🎧 An Abusive Childhood Turned Victim Advocate, Meet Dr. Greg Williams

It was time to put a spotlight on the good in humanity; to get beyond the constant barrage of negative and bad news, and showcase the awesomeness of the people who passionately care about thy fellow man. Our mission in life should be to celebrate people, to lift them up, not tear them down. Our goal should be to help a fellow brother or sister when in need, and not always expect something back in return. Welcome to the BRINK OF GREATNESS friends!

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Shoplifting & The Human Psyche

Police officers see it all from sunrise to sunset, and even in-between these two daily occurrences, officers are on guard to be the peacekeepers. They see the human…

Podcast

🎧 Inspiring Girls to Excel in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)

Every young girl and boy have been asked the question; ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ For boys, it was an athlete, astronaut, doctor,…

Podcast

🎧 Rob Jones: Survive, Recover, Live

Afghanistan is one of the world’s most heavily landmine contaminated countries, and the impact to the civilian population as well as our military soldiers is the leading cause…

Podcast

🎧 Ria Pieters Turns Family Sadness Into Hope for Future Generations!

It should have been a happy time, fresh off her retirement, Ria had set off across the country to visit her sister in Johannesburg, South Africa. As they…

Podcast

🎧 Janelle Towne Redefines homeless with furnishings, love and respect!

Janelle had not a clue that when she contacted her friend at a local homeless shelter for her own daughter⏤who needed service hours for school⏤that it would turn…

Podcast

🎧 Through the Eyes of Jessica Taylor-Bearman “A Girl Behind Dark Glasses”

A high achiever at school, Jessica’s life completely changed at the end of 2005, when she caught a virus that her body just couldn’t get over. She tried…

Podcast

🎧 Emily Kustka proves 9 yr olds can THINK BIG!

Emily Kustka found joy differently than most nine year olds. She enjoyed going with Grandma Kathy to help feed the homeless. She loved the feeling she got in…

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Riley Howell Stops UNC Campus Shooter in Ultimate Sacrifice Protecting Students

The scene has become all to familiar. Another mass shooting on the grounds of a college campus. This time it was the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.…

Podcast

🎧 Cutting Lawns For Free Turns into a Movement that Empowers Kids

“Once day I saw an elderly man cutting grass and something just hit me. God was talking to me (saying)⏤‘Do something about it.’” It was that one split…

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11 yr old Teaches Forgiveness

“My daughter has not seen her biological dad since she was 4. She’s 11 now. When she was 2 he contacted me and asked if I would allow…

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🎧 Until Every Child has a Family, Caroline Boudreaux Wants to Create Miracles For Them

Caroline was not the first person to find herself in a good job with all the security, money and niceties that a good corporate job provides. She was…

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🎧 Greg Nance takes on 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days to inspire students to DREAM BIG

Addiction comes in all forms. Psychology Today, defines it as a condition in which a person engages in the use of a substance or in a behavior for…

If it seems impossible…

…how do you push forward against such odds?

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🎧 A Remarkable Story of Determination; A Challenged Life to a Crowning Achievement, Cordelia Cranshaw is Miss DC

“Growing up, I was always told that I would end up pregnant, that I would never be anything, that I would end up in jail, that I would…

Podcast

🎧 Hannah Elisabeth Dougherty Gives Life’s Umbilical Cord to Disadvantaged Youth

This story starts at a doorstep back in 1991 in the country of Romania. Baby Hannah was left hours after birth, umbilical cord still attached to her tiny…

Podcast

🎧 A Heartbeat From Death, Mike Papale Discovers His Dream

Seconds can make the difference between life and death.Being in the wrong place at the wrong time can change the outcome as well.Having trained personnel with the proper…

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Giving Hope and Home to Teens, Joe Toles Adopts a Different Strategy

Considering the number of children that have no parents, and no real home, adoption makes perfect sense. But, what is the perfect age child that you should adopt?…

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🎧 A Farming Accident Turned Tragic, Suicide & Setbacks, Dick Beardsley Runs Life’s Marathon

“When I stood on the starting line at the Boston Marathon two runners down from Alberto Salazar (then the world record holder) and Bill Rodgers (four-time winner at…

Podcast

🎧 Broken families, illness, poverty; over 143 million orphans worldwide, Greg Buzek has a plan!

Seventeen years ago, Greg Buzek was working as a Product Development Manager making anti-theft devices. They were the type of devices designed to deactivate if merchandise left a…

Podcast

🎧 Jake Clark’s Mission of Miracles Starts by Saving One Warrior at a Time

Jake Clark enlisted in the Army at 17 years old; he served five years and then went onto become a Los Angeles Police Officer and FBI Agent. He…

Podcast

🎧 A Local Answer to a National Homeless Problem, Meet Toby Owen, CEO Presbyterian Night Shelter

Homelessness is a worldwide problem, a national disaster, and a drain on local communities. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a…

Podcast

🎧 Lisa Kirk Turns Her Struggles Into Mentoring Homeless

“Finally, I met a guy who wanted to get to know me as a friend. He wasn’t hitting on me, he didn’t need money, he was completely self-sufficient.…

Podcast

🎧 Ansley Sara Flynn – A story that will give you hope and love in your heart!

Kathy & Roger Flynn were so excited at the birth of their first child,their beautiful daughter Ansley Sara Flynn. “Shortly after this joyous occasion we were suddenly approached by…

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Shantell “Shannie” Pooser Dreams of Being A Flight Attendant Against All Odds

“I want to be a flight attendant,” says 17-year-old Shantell “Shannie” Pooser who is diagnosed with Down Syndrome, and has severe health problems.  The trifecta, in a parent’s…

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10 yr old, Grace Eline Captures a Nation’s Heart

It was a glorious moment as her smile lit up the room. The big room that is, the one known as ‘The People’s House’. It was a moment…

Podcast

🎧 “This was Personal” Craig Sawyer Turns the Table on Child Trafficking

Life can change in the blink of a moment, and when you least expect it. Sometimes it is an ordinary everyday event that goes bad. Fact is, many…

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At 10, Winston Duncan had a Vision to Help the People of Africa – 8000 bikes later –

What’s your best memory when you were 10 years old? Let me rephrase that. What is the memory that stuck with you the most from when you were…

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🎧 “I don’t think we should have homeless vets,” explains Lt. Col. Deborah Snyder

“I used to walk to work every day in Crystal City,” Snyder says of the area in Northern Virginia near the Pentagon. Each day, she encountered veterans like…

Podcast

🎧 How Life’s Worst Helped Me Achieve My Best, Shay Eskew says “Embrace the Suck”

“I was going to redefine what was possible, I was no longer going to be defined as the burn kid,” Shay Eskew explained. The story begins on October…

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🎧 A Higher Calling; Gretchen Smith and the Code of Vets

How do you unsee what you’ve seen? Impossible really. The lasting impact of war on our veterans has a traumatic affect on every aspect of their lives; for the…

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A Miracle For Roxli

You can’t always explain how miracles happen. You just have to believe in them. Gena and Scott Doss were praying for such a miracle for their daughter, Roxli…

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🎧 A Life Mission to End Ocean Pollution, Meet Chloe & James

She is full of energy, sharp, organized; she manages the teams, writes the grants, plans the cleanup, does the research. He is a bit quiet, unless he has…

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Ricky Rodriguez and The Game Scrabble, Takes Our Future To A Better Place

“When you want to do something, you do it,” says 9-year-old Ricky Rodriguez who is diagnosed with Autism. Even when their son Ricky was diagnosed with Autism, Guillermo…

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🎧 One Bed at a Time, Luke Mickelson Wants Kids off the Floor, Top 10 CNN Heroes

“If you want true joy, you’ve got to stop looking at yourself,” says Luke Mickelson. Mickelson knew something was missing in his life. It was time to get off…

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Larry Dodson and the New Law Forcing Airlines to Respect Wheelchairs

“It’s like you getting to your destination and your legs are missing or your legs are broken or injured and you can’t get around,” say Larry Dodson. Larry…

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🎧 Two Time Cancer Survivor Sean Swarner Redefines Impossible

At the time, it seemed a pretty lofty goal; to climb out of the hospital bed and crawl eight feet to the bathroom. A simple task by most standards,…

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Carolyn Kenyon and Judith Jones Pay Healthcare Debt Off For NY Families

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts that healthcare spending will on average rise 5.5 percent annually from 2017 to 2026 and will comprise 19.7 percent of…

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