After years of manipulating her own life to feed her drug and alcohol addictions, Tamar Medford had enough. Instead, she left a bad marriage and built the structure and support to reinforce the better choices she gets to make on her own lasting, empowering road to health.

I look back on season 4 of Do a Day and the amazing and inspiring stories that my guests shared to help you overcome and achieve in your life.

Years of abuse and turmoil created great inner-conflict in Lakshmi Dev Bowen's life. Drugs, alcohol, Bulimia and attempts at suicide filled her world. Through discovering yoga and the mindset that accompanies it, Lakshmi Dev found the path to self-acceptance and the beauty it allows in life that she shares with women around the world today.

Life closed in on Andrew Hood rapidly, with a new job that wasn't going well, new city with no family or friends, and a bad investment threatening his family. This lead to extreme anxiety and depression, which Andrew worked hard to hide from those around him – only making everything worse. When his wife reached out to his father to help, Andrew found support and freedom through honesty and openness about his struggle. That has defined a new path for him, which supports others who struggle as he has.

A series of medical retirements due to serious back problems that impacted his ability to walk only to be followed by the deterioration of his sight, Paul Stretton-Stephens learned the repeated lesson of exploring what is open rather than living in what is closed. When his career in physical activity was not possible, he shifted to education. When education was not possible, he shifted again, building his third, thriving career. Paul shares his story to remind us of the power of options we all have.

After learning the shocking truth of a multi-year betrayal by her boyfriend, Emily Gough moved half-way around the world to Bali and dove head-first into a journey to discover more about herself and the world that was full of unknowns and questions. Through her journey and the openness with which she shares her story of being a victim of infidelity has freed her to pursue things that genuinely resonate with her in life.

When life overwhelms you and seems impossible, focus on the next five minutes and take fierce action. That is how Carolyn Colleen broke free of a life of hardship and pain, including poverty, abuse and a suicide attempt. Through all of that, as a single mother with no clear solution in front of her, Carolyn built herself into a successful mother, Ph.D. and business consultant helping people approach their life in five minute increments to transform.

Sunday Burquest learned from an early age from her mother and the loss of her father that Grit, faith and family can carry you through anything. That lesson was reinforced time and time again as she and her family faced great struggles, including the near-death of her husband and her own battle with invasive cancer in the span of a year. She topped it off by proving her strength on the show "Survivor", finding even more grit within.

The inspiring Cornell Thomas and Michael O'Brien join me for episode 100 at a time when the message of Do a Day is even more relevant for all of us as we face an international crisis. COVID-19 has meant many of us are cut off from people we care about, and even just basic human interaction. And we face great uncertainty and can be scary and confusing. Michael, Cornell and I talk about this, and take a different look at the situation given our experiences with tragedy as a chance for resilience and hope.

Nathan Todd was born with Cerebral Palsy, which is a label itself, but comes with many others, like "Disabled" or "Handicapped". Nathan has come to realize that no label defines us unless we allow it to. And that we can choose our labels and how we interpret them. If we don't like the ones we have in a given moment, like a name tag, we can peel it off and stick on another one that empowers us to love ourselves.