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

🎧 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?'...

🎧 Rob Jones: Survive, Recover, Live

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

🎧 Emily Kustka proves 9 yr olds can THINK BIG!

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

🎧 A Heartbeat From Death, Mike Papale Discovers His Dream

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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...

🎧 Lisa Kirk Turns Her Struggles Into Mentoring Homeless

🎧 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,...

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

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

🎧 “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...

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

🎧 “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...

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

🎧 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,”...

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

🎧 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...

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

🎧 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....

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

🎧 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...

🎧 Two Time Cancer Survivor Sean Swarner Redefines Impossible

🎧 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...

🎧 Jacque Hawk is Taking on the System to Combat Homelessness

🎧 Jacque Hawk is Taking on the System to Combat Homelessness

There are far too many cities and towns struggling with homelessness, with no easy answers on how to fix the...

🎧 Domestic Violence Turned Her Life Purpose into Wings of Courage, Meet Shayna Qualls

🎧 Domestic Violence Turned Her Life Purpose into Wings of Courage, Meet Shayna Qualls

"What if this woman who was beaten by her boyfriend and put in ICU for 3 days was your mother?...

🎧 Two Paths of Life and Death, Leslee Schneider & Brittany Griffith Form Life Mission

🎧 Two Paths of Life and Death, Leslee Schneider & Brittany Griffith Form Life Mission

The birth of a child is one of life's greatest experiences; the emotional and lasting impact has consequences that will...

🎧 Human Trafficking Almost Killed Her, Norma Bastidas Fights Back

🎧 Human Trafficking Almost Killed Her, Norma Bastidas Fights Back

"I cannot be called brave and courageous until I do the hardest thing, which is to acknowledge publicly that I...

🎧 Death, Isolation, Despair… Lisa Williams Discovers A Reason To Live

🎧 Death, Isolation, Despair… Lisa Williams Discovers A Reason To Live

When things go bad, it is often difficult to know you've reached the lowest point of the plummet. Sometimes you...

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