Rob Konrad: Conversations

When she was 14 years old, Shannon Martinez was raped at a party by two men who took advantage of the fact that she was intoxicated. 

Overwhelmed with self-hate and anger, her life spiraled downwards …

In 2014, Devin Person decided to re-invent himself and create for him what he calls the "best possible reality". 

And part of that reality was to become - a Wizard. 

In a freak coincidence, after the i…

After years of physical and mental abuse in a chaotic and violent home, being bullied at the almost 40 schools he went to in his youth (due to the constant relocations of his drug-addicted parents), …

The Curiosity Show was - and still is - one of the most loved science shows that ever existed. Hosted by Dr. Rob Morrison and Deane Hutton from Australia, it was syndicated to 14 countries worldwide …

February 5th, 2007, is a day that has forever changed the life of Charity Lee. It is the day she learned that her 4-year old daughter Ella was murdered by Charity's other child, Ellas 13-year old bro…

In the early 1990s Dr. Rick Strassman, was granted approval to conduct research with one of the strongest hallucinogens, DMT. At the time he was the first scientist in over 2 decades allowed to test …

There are ordinary teenagers... and then there's Laura, who at 13 years of age, ventured to become the youngest person to ever sail the planet - alone, without support boats or checkpoints along her …

Dr Aubrey de Grey doesn’t just believe that ageing, and the suffering that comes with it, can be slowed down - he believes it can be undone altogether.

What’s more, he thinks we are merely a few years…

Growing up, John Sevier Austin knew he was different from other kids. 

But what he didn’t know was that he had an incredible gift. 

One day John accidentally played a vinyl record backwards, and discov…

Five years ago, shortly after giving birth to her son, Mason, Shanti Hodges put him in a baby carrier and went for a hike. 

This was the beginning of "Hike it, Baby"... 

Today Hike It Baby serves over …

“How do you become a pickpocket?” 

Bob Arno, a Swedish-born American entertainer, author, and criminologist gets asked this a lot. 

And if you had the chance to ask him yourself, in person, he would ha…

The first time Jamie Pool died, he was wearing a suit.

That suit turned out to be the difference between his cardiac arrest going unnoticed by passers-by, and him getting medical help that would save…

When Jessica Cox was born without both arms, her parents didn’t grieve. In fact, her father has never shed a single tear over his daughter’s life-altering disability. Instead, Jessica’s parents chall…

As one of the earliest Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight Champions, former King of Pancrase and Thai Boxer, Bas Rutten has faced some pretty tough opponents.

But none challenged him as …

On the first day of high school, Mirna Valerio went to hockey practice - and suffered. She was larger than the other players, and a lot less fit. Her coach, instead of telling her she was no good, en…

When Christian Picciolini was 14 years old, he joined America’s first organized neo-Nazi white power movement and remained there for 8 years. He became a leader in the organization and recruited hund…

When Harold Mintz met Gennet Belay, a stranger to whom he had donated one of his kidneys some months earlier, he wondered how that kidney could have possibly fit inside her. He was a 6’5” tall man, a…

What drives extraordinary people?

That’s the one question that I’ve always been fascinated with.

• What drives outstanding athletes, adventurers, artists and entertainers?
• What drives exceptional scienti…