Every year, Jacky Grossman talks on social media about her family--and how so many lost their lives in the Holocaust.In this episode, Jacky talks about the stories of how her parents and grandmother survived--and the special emphasis that she p

Dustin Watson: After fleeing a military coup, trying to find normal again

Mar 31st, 2022 40m

"...As we were headed towards the airport, a large convoy of military personnel in armored vehicles were entering the city. I looked out the side window to my left, looked out to my right, where my wife was sitting, and I said, 'this doesn't lo

Tomika Holmes: The gift of giving back, despite it all

Jun 6th, 2021 37m 11s

The trauma is forgotten, but a single act of warmth and kindness provided a lifetime of giving back. That's how Tomi Holmes lives her life after passing through the foster care system when she was little. She is an inspiration for how to live a

Saurabh Chowdhry: Not letting MS stop him

May 16th, 2021 25m 2s

Multiple Sclerosis has sent Saurabh Chowdhry on several career detours, but he views each experience as a triumph. From medical student to science teacher to scientific writer to inspirational author, he keeps pressing onward and refusing to le

Uvistra Naidoo: First XDR-TB, now long-haul COVID

Apr 19th, 2021 36m 14s

It took Uvi Naidoo, a South African pediatrician, three long years to get through extensively drug resistant tuberculosis. Now, he's working through long-haul COVID symptoms, after contracting the infection twice. But even though he still needs

Woo Jin Ho: Surviving the Mets (April Fools Edition)

Mar 29th, 2021 33m 55s

Baseball season this year starts on April Fools Day, which is a perfect metaphor for Mets fans. Seeing as how this episode is launching the same week, my good friend Woo Jin Ho joins me to take a look at what it's like to survive as a fan of th

Connie White: The cancer triple crown and three lines in the sand

Mar 15th, 2021 39m 22s

In November of 2019, Connie White bought a pair of maternity tights by accident--she wasn't actually pregnant. In trying them on though, she fell down the rabbit hole of tests, cancer diagnosis and treatment. What's worse, most of her journey w

Ashoka Mukpo: Ebola wasn't as bad as the media hullabaloo

Mar 2nd, 2021 45m 18s

The last time the world freaked out about a global pandemic, it was 2014. The Ebola virus devastated Liberia and two other West African countries, but only about a dozen people were treated in Europe and North America. Ashoka Mukpo was an Ameri

Dan Powers: Redefining luck, cardiovascularly speaking

Feb 15th, 2021 27m 14s

When Dan Powers relocated to Truckee, California, he was not expecting to test out the emergency room at the local hospital so quickly. But when he woke up with chest pain shortly after the winter holidays, he needed medical help. While the inc

Adam Zagoria: COVID came for him, then the sports world

Feb 1st, 2021 24m 58s

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic put a new wrinkle into March Madness, the most frenzied month in the college basketball season. Adam Zagoria, a journalist who covers college hoops and other sports, attended a concert one night and the Big Ea

Paul Tewksbury: Death only lasted 35 minutes

Jan 18th, 2021 33m 7s

At the end of July, 2017, Paul Tekwsbury wasn't feeling so great. One month later, he learned he had leukemia; one month after that, the chemotherapy that was treating his cancer left him dead of a heart attack--but only for 35 minutes. His per

Debbie Salamone: Trying to save the shark that bit her

Jan 4th, 2021 27m 15s

When Debbie Salamone was bitten by a shark, she had no idea how much it would transform her life. After recovering, she went back to school to get her master's degree and changed her career from journalism to advocacy. She organized a group of

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz: Decades later, they're still calling her a communist

Dec 27th, 2020 37m 21s

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz began advocating for Indigenous rights as a teenager and still hasn't let up, first working to improve the health and welfare of her Kankanaey Igorot community in the Philippines and then for Indigenous communities around

Peter Dykstra: "What else do you have for me?"

Dec 14th, 2020 33m 5s

Peter Dykstra is an accomplished environmental journalist, advocate, and, on a personal level, a dear mentor of mine. In a few short months, from the end of 2016 to early 2017, he lost his eldest son to suicide, the results of the presidential

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