By Joel Seymour
The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.
Christmas is a wonderful time for many children, but certainly not all. However, this week focuses three separate stories of how people are making an effort to change that for those in their communities.
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Helping Kids Find Community Even Without a Home
Arkansas Couple Adopts Set of 7 Siblings Ahead of Christmas
The Globe’s Biggest Maritime Shipping Company is Abandoning Fossil Fuels
Michael Bloomberg: Why I’m Giving $1.8 Billion for College Financial Aid
Man Postpones Retirement to Save Reefs After He Accidentally Discovers How to Make Coral Grow 40 Times Faster
Wallsend Village Security Guard Phil Colelough Saves Shop Assistant Kerry Woseen
Woman Uses DNA Kit to Reunite with Mother After Nearly 70 Years
Homeless Man with Terminal Cancer Donates to Holiday Toy Drive
This week is all about the good that gets created in the world, whether that’s for future generations, the people around us, or as a gift for us today.
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India Is Now a World Leader in Renewable Energy
Bus Driver Buys Homeless Rider Dinner, Lets Him Stay on Warm Bus All Night
Here’s Who to Thank That We All Survived the Quake on Friday
Iraq Veteran Battles PTSD After Returning Home, Dedicates Life to Helping Other Vets
Retired Firefighter-Paramedic Spends Savings on Naloxone, Gives it Away for Free
NYPD Finds UK Couple Who Lost Ring (down a grate) During Romantic Proposal
Michael Bloomberg’s Charity Donates $50m to Fight Opioid Crisis
Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl
Thanksgiving was this past week, so this week is all about people recognizing what they have, giving thanks, and paying it forward.
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Update on Former Homeless Connecticut Man Who Returned 10k Check Last Year
This Man Hosts a Free Thanksgiving Dinner for All Who RSVP. It’s His 33rd Year
A Soldier Says a Stranger’s Christmas Card Got Him Through Vietnam. He Just Met the Sender
Minnesota Farm Donates 36,000 Pounds of Potatoes for Thanksgiving Food Program
Nicki Minaj Celebrates Thanksgiving by Handing Out Over 500 Turkeys to Queens
It’s Now Cheaper to Build a New Wind Farm Than to Keep a Coal Plant Running
Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan Pays Off £438,000 of Debt Owed by 1,398 Farmers in His Home State in India
Israeli Scientists Develop Implanted Organs That Won’t Be Rejected
This week is devoted to stories of things and people bringing hope in hopeless situations, whether that’s science, video game tournaments, 9-year-olds, or garages.
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There’s New Hope of Not Only Delaying, but Reversing Symptoms of Dementia
SonicFox Donates $10K of His Injustice 2 Pro Series Grand Prize to Opponent’s Family
9-Year-Old Organizes Vigil for Man Her Father is Charged with Murdering
How a Paradise Garage, Miraculously Untouched by Fire, Saved a Fleet of Nurses and Their Patients
B.C. Couple Who Planned Holiday to California Spend Vacation Helping Wildfire Evacuees
Toyota Will Replace Burnt Tundra as a Thank You to Brave Nurse
Guy Fieri Surprises California Firefighters With a Home Cooked Meal
Sandra Bullock Donates $100,000 to Help Save Animals From Woolsey, Hill Fires
Metallica Donate $100,000 to California Wildfire Relief Efforts
This week is all about the selfless of other, whether that’s of doctors, doughnut lovers, or holiday operators.
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Since 1974 Every Sunday This Doctor Treats 700-1200 Patients Free Of Cost
91-Year-Old Bhakti Yadav Is Indore’s First Female Doctor and Treats Patients for Free
Customers Buy Out Doughnut Shop Early Every Day So Owner Can Be With Sick Wife
Thomas Cook Pledges to Remove 70 Million Items of Single-Use Plastics Over Next Year
Spain to Close Most Coalmines in €250m Transition Deal
Earth’s Ozone Layer is Healing, Says U.N.
US Cigarette Smoking Rate Reaches New Low
Half of YouTube Viewers Use it to Learn How to do Things They’ve Never Done
79 Students Kidnapped from a School in Cameroon are Freed
Becoming a US Citizen Was This 106-Year-Old’s Dream. She Took the Oath On Election Day
New Zealand Baby Rescue: Fisherman Pulls 18-Month-Old from Ocean
Son Wakes from Coma After His Elderly Mum Nursed Him Day and Night for More Than a Decade
This week, it’s Fall break at Lander University. But, that doesn’t mean the good news has stopped! Joel briefly highlights just some of the great articles from this past week.
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A Rural Community Decided To Treat Its Opioid Problem Like A Natural Disaster
Paralyzed Man Walks After Groundbreaking Spinal Implant
North Dakota Woman Donates 3,100 Pounds Of Vegetables To Families In Need
Thanks To Snapchat, Omaha Woman Gets Lifesaving Stroke Medicine With 12 Minutes To Spare
Cheap Diabetes Drugs Taken By Millions May Slow Down Progression Of Alzheimer’s
Asia Bibi: Pakistan acquits Christian woman on death row
Muslim-led Fundraiser Nets $150,000 For Funeral Costs Of Synagogue Shooting Victims
Carbon Dioxide Emissions From The U.S. Power Sector Have Declined 28% Since 2005
Bangladesh has reduced child mortality rates by 78%
This week showcases three different stories about how good is overcoming misfortune, whether that’s through sign language, societal opportunity, or parental instinct.
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Starbucks’ first US ‘Signing Store lets deaf customers order using sign language
San Jose: Homeless people will be paid $15 an hour to pick up trash in ‘hotspots’
Mom with ‘gut feeling’ stops school shooter before planned attack
Stephen King sold the rights to one of his stories to some teenage film students for just $1
This 12-year-old- girl built a robot that can find microplastics in the ocean
Koreas to remove guns and guard posts from Panmunjom ‘truce town’
Police repair woman’s door after it was damaged in a breaking and entering
Montreal man gives away heaps of farm-fresh veggies every week to promote a ‘genuine culture of sharing’ and caring
Iowa mother donates over 10,000 children books in late-daughter’s memory
The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.