Ralph Waldo Emerson urged kindness as a path to a fulfilling life. Jan shares the story of the nuns who taught him about his own father's kindness and the journey to his understanding that kindness can often be the best map to positivity and healing.

Jan introduces you to the story of Snowflake Bentley who taught us no two snowfall crystals were alike, each original, just like each of us. Asked as a teen to write the theme song for the local PBS production on Bentley's life, he discovers the inspiring creativity found in nature that definitely leads to more of the good stuff of life.

Fun.

Jan shares stories of how some celebrities do it: Hanks and typewriters, Beyonce and actual Beehives-and introduces us to his simple childhood game of catching autumn leaves: pointing us to the power and balance created when we simply prioritize fun!

Longing vs. Living.

Jan shares with you the vital story of a divorced woman sitting on the sidelines of life who discovers the power of getting on its dance floor and creating her own choreography of living!

We are all primed to go far in life, each in our own way, but to do that, at times, we must first find our way home. Jan shares the true story of his mother's Alzheimer's and the inspiration for his LA Times bestselling second novel of a mother and a son and the meaning of art.

Jan continues exploring grief and loss and why they are necessary parts of love and life and happiness. He turns to Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross to help us understand how to talk to others about grief and loss and all that matters.

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Jan explores the grieving process as he introduces you to an older woman, Ruby, who taught him how to approach loss. As the Queen herself said after the death of her beloved husband last year, "Grief is the price we pay for love."

How we pay and the power of that love matters.

Through words of his grandmother, as well as Mrs. Jihan Sadat, and Rachel Naomi Remen, Jan suggests there's a boon to our health by 'acknowledging' and 'letting go'.

There are memorable people we encounter who have the ability to alter our understanding of life itself. Jan introduces you to Hannah, who, in the corridors of a home for the elderly in Jerusalem, showed him what turning darkness into light looks like, and helped inspire the central character of his first novel.

Jan shares with you how his late brother gave the gift of celebration to their father by opening up the world of possibility.

Come share life stories that lead us to the good stuff!