In this episode you’ll learn the value of patience and listening from ex-Notre Dame football player Michael McGlinn who quit the team under legendary coach Lou Holtz during his 9-season streak of bowl game appearances, but was convinced to come back by someone who barely said a word to him.

My guest, bestselling author Annette Simmons, shares the lessons she learned from her grandmother on living – and dying – with dignity, humility, and self-respect.

Learn how valuable (and contagious) a great attitude can be, from a man who had to climb 19,000 feet up Mt. Kilimanjaro just to find it. That man is Dan Dorr, author of Kissing Kilimanjaro: Leaving It All on Top of Africa, an inspiring book that documents his attempts to climb the tallest mountain in [read more]

Meet a young gymnast who learned the value of repeated, monotonous, practice on and off the mat. She put in over 1,000 practice attempts to learn to perform a 3-second maneuver. And it’s led to much of her success in life ever since.

People that lack self-confidence don’t lack confidence. They just gain it from someone else. Meet an 8-year-old girl from Kentucky who learned the dangers of doing things just to get other people to like you, the moment she heard a gunshot.

This engineer’s trip to the bathroom of a new building was one he’ll never forget. He left in a dead sprint and vowed to be more open-minded in the future. It taught him why we’re slow to accept new ideas, and can teach you how to admit when you’re wrong. (Plus it’s just funny!)

If you don’t have your health, nothing else in life seems to matter much. But when we do have our health—or at least think we do—it’s often easy to neglect it and take that good health for granted. But that’s when the seeds of destruction are usually sown. One person who knows that well is David [read more]

Meet a high school basketball team that learned a life-changing lesson about kindness from the most unlikely cheerleading captain West Jordan High school has had before . . . or since.

Meet a Colorado man who stood up to bigotry in a way that will make you laugh and cheer at the same time. What would you do if this happened to you?

Meet a newlywed couple in Venezuela whose first argument turned into a family tradition that’s now bringing the power of compromise to a third generation.