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In 2011, San Francisco was booming -- but not for everyone. As Doniece Sandoval, a successful PR exec, was walking through the city's design district, she came across a homeless woman crying that she would never be clean. That encounter would set Doniece on a path to change the lives of thousands of unhoused in San Francisco and beyond.

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One day, Howell Malham decided to pay a visit to his brother Joey, a Byzantine iconographer, at his artist studio at a church on Chicago's north side. The door wouldn't budge because it was blocked by an altar cross that Joey decided to build because... he'd always wanted to build an altar cross in the Cimabue style. The massive cross wasn't commissioned, but Joey wasn't worried. He knew that the cross was the answer. He was simply awaiting the right question.

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One day, Harper Reed got an email. "We've cleared your calendar for Monday afternoon. A VI-VIP (Very Important VIP) is coming in and we want you to spend some time with them." As the CTO of President Obama's reelection campaign, Harper was a busy guy. If his calendar was cleared, this had to be big. Who was the visitor and why did his visit require an entire afternoon of Harper's time? 

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When Ryan’s friend Rick got his dental board test results in the mail, he was so shocked to see he failed that he cancelled his upcoming vacation, when he planned to propose to his girlfriend. As he learned a couple of weeks later, the board results actually hadn’t been mailed out yet. Ryan recalls the wicked prank and its consequences.

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It was a Saturday morning and Paul was expecting the usual check-in from Wardo, an ex-convict who, until recently, worked for the nonprofit Paul was running. But Wardo didn't check in that Saturday. Or Sunday. And then on Monday, Paul -- who used to be a homeless drug addict himself -- got a text from Wardo's friend with devastating news.

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When Jason Kunesh became Chicago's Director of Design under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he headed a project to consolidate the city's vast collection of logos into a singular, redesigned, public mark. But after initial approval, the implementation was stalled as priorities changed with the new administration. For over a year, Jason kept the dream alive. And then, one day, he was called into a meeting with the new mayor to decide the project's destiny once and for all.

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When offered a chance to see the Dodgers play the Giants, Ethan Sandler, then a 30-something constantly-stressed young parent, jumped at the chance for a break from the grind. Little did he know that, in the third inning, a home run ball from Orlando Hudson would put him on a collision course with an inebriated Dodgers fan and her boyfriend, and the lesson of a lifetime.

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Mark Agnew was living a charmed life as the CEO of Lou Malnati's, happily married with four children. Then, one day, he had a seizure. At the hospital, the neurosurgeon showed him the CAT scan and he immediately recognized the unmistakeable mass on the image. The diagnosis would change his life forever, but with consequences even he could have never predicted.

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When Emmy-award winning writer and producer Dave Finkel was just twenty, he got a job as the assistant to an A-list celebrity. He thought it would launch his career. Instead, it became a nightmarish ride through the darkness of his boss's tortured soul, with one moment -- a missed opportunity to intervene -- continuing to haunt him to this day.

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LaSalle Network CEO Tom Gimbel takes us back to the early days of his company, when, as a young founder, he faced a difficult HR decision that forced him to decide between the easy way and the right way.

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