TrulySignificant.com riffs with Kevin Adler, new Daddy, founder of Miracle Messages. 

Kevin F. Adler is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, speaker, and “street sociologist” whose work focuses on homelessness, relational poverty, and community connection. He is best known for founding Miracle Messages, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness rebuild social support systems and find belonging and stability. He has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and delivered a TED Talk on his work. Adler has received recognition as a TED Resident, Presidential Leadership Scholar, American Express / Ashoka Emerging Innovator, and more. Educationally, he holds graduate degrees from UC Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Miracle Messages (Organization) Miracle Messages is a nonprofit focused on addressing what Adler calls relational poverty — the isolation and lost social ties common among people experiencing homelessness. The organization helps unhoused individuals by:

• Reuniting them with family and loved ones through volunteer-led message and reconnection services.
• Providing “phone buddies” — volunteers who connect weekly with unhoused neighbors for consistent social support.
• Direct cash support pilots, such as basic income experiments backed by Google.org and USC research.

The mission reframes homelessness not just as a housing issue but as a crisis of community, connection, dignity, and belonging. When We Walk By (Book) When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America is Adler’s book (co-authored with Donald W. Burnes) that explores the deeper causes of homelessness and proposes constructive ways individuals and systems can help. Key themes include:

• Humanizing people experiencing homelessness — challenging stereotypes and urging readers to see their shared humanity.
• Relational poverty — the idea that losing social connections is a core contributor to people becoming and remaining unhoused.
• Critiques of broken systems — showing how social services and public narratives often fail to address root causes.
• Actionable solutions — from individual empathy and connection to evidence-based policy and community-driven approaches.

The book blends social analysis, personal stories, history, and practical guidance, showing how walking with rather than walking by people experiencing homelessness can transform both individuals and systems. Why His Work Matters Adler’s work is influential because it reframes homelessness from a problem to be managed into a shared human challenge that society can solve through empathy, connection, and better policy. His approach emphasizes relationships and agency rather than judgment or paternalism, and it has measurably reunited thousands of unhoused people with loved ones and helped inform innovative solutions like basic income pilots

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TrulySignificant.com presents GO TEXAN honoring Guy Stout at the Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association. 

Guy has been in the wine industry for over 40 years holding every conceivable position from grape growing, making wine, working in restauranteur, master sommelier, CEO and mentor to many.

Enjoy this odyssey that will inform, entertain, and illuminate.

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Truly Significant honors Yasiris Ortiz, featured professional table tennis player in the movie Marty Supreme and founder of Spin and Learn Foundation. 

Enjoy her remarkable story of immigration, resilience, vision, and tenacity to serve others. Ms. Ortiz defines Truly Significance as she lifts young people up, especially the special needs community. 

Yasiris speaks candidly about accessibility, cultural relevance, and disadvantaged youth. 

She answers the CALL to help, uplift and educate students, instilling courage, pride and purpose.

Contribute today to www.spinandlearn.com or call 718-690-1693. Email [email protected]. 



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TrulySignificant.com honors Monica Nasif, founder, entrepreneur, and brand builder of Mrs. Meyers. Inspired by her mother Thelma Meyer, she entered into the $19B household cleaning product market with their fearlessness of Thelma. 

Today, Monica is sharing details from her illuminating book- I Bottled My Mother (The Mrs. Meyer's Story: Grit, Grime and Growing a Business), debuting March 2026 from IdeaPress Publishing)

Learn what is truly significant to Monica beyond revenue, exits, and brand recognition. 

Hear about the toughness and playfulness of Monica coupled with her work ethic. 

Did Monica actually retire at 53 or was she merely hovering over the next opportunity? 

Finally, hear Monica riff on creativity and the importance of your personal outlet. 

Buy "I Bottled My Mother (The Mrs. Meyer's Story: Grit, Grime and Growing a Business) everywhere books are sold. 

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TrulySignificant.com presents author Kyle Young riffing on his book Success is a Numbers Game: Achieve Bigger Goals by Changing the Odds. 

Learn this: every goal has two hidden numbers attached- probability of success and probability of failure. Hear about the inner qualities that will influence those numbers.

Is "changing the odds" really about changing external conditions or changing ourselves first? 

Kyle is training for a marathon. Hear about his success diagram for eating, sleeping and training and never falling into the "averaging trap." 

And listen to Kyle stepping back from the boardroom and frameworks to reflect on what's truly significant.

Buy Kyle's book- Success is a Numbers Game. Connect with Kyle on Linked in via Kyle Austin Young. Purchase at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target and everywhere books are sold.

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Dr. Bill Sappenfield, theologian, man of grace and gifted with common spiritual sense, returns to our studio to celebrate the beginning of Lent. 

Enjoy hearing his perspective and wisdom as we recalibrate our lives over the next 40+ days of Lent. 



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Stephanie Michelle Pimentel is a force of nature serving as Founder and CEO of Lumena Global. This "take no prisoners" leader brings cultural fluency, compliance precision and discipline, and operational clarity for companies seeking to scale their businesses to Latin America. 

Enjoy this insightful interview where Stephanie shifts the narrative to boardroom topics that are of prime interest.  

Visit www.luminaglobal.com today to learn more about their services and the extraordinary leadership of Stephanie Michelle Pimentel....born in the Bronx by Dominican parents and resonating clearly with business expertise for the Latin American markets. 

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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner wrote one of the finest pieces of non-fiction with Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist. It is a book for "the ages" and is a finalist for non-fiction book of the decade at Truly Significant.com. 

This book is pure gold blending joy, history, social justice, accessibility, and more. 

We recommend this book for every student of art, music, film, television, dancing, and even anthropology. It clarifies purpose and intention. 

In this conversation, learn about "perfection paralysis," the rhythm and process of "page-system-measure," the value of the smartest form of collaboration, and a fresh definition of innovation. 

And as of bonus, get the inside story on the genius of Lin-Manuel Miranda and his many mentors that created a musical mosaic. 

Visit www.danielpollackpelzner.com to learn more about this brilliant author.  

Here's more: NPR picked Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist (Simon & Schuster) as Books We Loved for 2025.  Daniel teaches English and theater at Portland State University. He received the Graves Award from the American Council of Learned Societies for outstanding teaching in the humanities. As a cultural historian and theater critic, his articles about playwrights from Shakespeare to Quiara Alegría Hudes have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. His pandemic spoof, "What Shakespeare Actually Did During the Plague," was adapted into a short film for PBS, and his New Yorker profile of Cherokee playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle is being adapted into a feature documentary. He is the scholar-in-residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project and a frequent guest lecturer at theaters around the country. Born and raised in Portland, he received his B.A. in History from Yale and his Ph.D. in English from Harvard. He met his wife in their elementary-school production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; they now live in Portland with their two children.

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According to author Kyle Young, every goal has two hidden numbers attached- probability of success and probability of failure. Hear about the inner qualities of leadership that influence those numbers. 

Learn the secret to achieving bigger goals and changing the odds. Listen to Kyle's framework that prevent you and your enterprise from falling into the trap of averaging.

From a cultural and significance perspective, you will be illuminated with tips on probability hacking where your culture will flourish. 

Most importantly, Kyle steps back from boardrooms and frameworks and shares his heart on being truly significant.  You must know "what has to go right." 

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When Barry Hoffner lost his wife Jackie in a sudden tragedy, his grief was a black hole that consumed everything. But amid the quiet wreckage of loss, something unexpected stirred: the call to move, to reconnect, join a community and to live again. 

What you will hear today is a remarkable recovery and an audacious mission visit to all 193 countries on Earth. 

Listen to the incredible story tied to Belonging to the World, a deeply felt memoir of healing from grief, finding resilience, and forging human, emotional connection across the globe.

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