Stories of Transformation

Philip Melendez was 19 years old when he committed a double homicide and was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole by the State of California.

Running from the scene of a gunfight,…

From defending her brother from the bullies as a child, to reporting in the darkest and most dangerous corners of the Earth, Janine di Giovanni has always had a fierce need to fight for justice and s…

While many civic leaders are working towards detangling the complex systems that have sustained injustice from here on Earth, Dr. Danielle Wood is coming at it from a very different angle.

Who would h…

Today’s Stories of Transformation guest is Fritzi Horstman.  She’s the Founder and Executive Director of the Compassion Prison Project.  Before that, she was a Grammy Award Winning producer of projec…

A black man steps out onto the street and sees the word “POWERLESS” on a New York City newspaper headline. For most people, they knew it to mean an electrical blackout in the city. To Theo Wilson, th…

In light of recent events that have further exposed the gross racial injustices and system failures of the American criminal justice system, many of us are searching for answers on what we can do to …

These past few weeks, many Americans’ eyes have finally been opened to the injustices that have been so deeply ingrained in every system of the “land of the free”. 

Yet still, so many Americans are le…

Remi Adeleke shows us what people are capable of achieving when all the odds are stacked against them. His is a story of riches to rags, and then back to riches again. In this interview, he delves in…

George Kourounis is no stranger to fear or uncertainty. In fact, it’s basically his job to live in fear and uncertainty. George Kourounis is a global explorer, adventurer and storm chaser. 

George has…

Victor Strecher describes his life before and after his young daughter got a heart transplant, as going from black & white to technicolor. 

Before her first life-saving heart transplant, Victor was go…

Imagine if you could look into the future and see exactly what you’d look like, and how your life would turn out, based on the health and finance choices you make today. Do you think you’d delay inst…

When’s the last time you left your family doctor’s office feeling seen, heard, and truly cared about? If you were to visit our Stories of Transformation guest Dr. Moyez Jiwa’s office in Australia, ch…

Loneliness was already a pervasive problem in America, and now throwing social isolation into the mix, experts are worried that the rates of loneliness, depression and suicide will spike.

This week’s…

What do you get when you mix medical expertise with the art of storytelling?

You get science translated into action. Our guest Dr. Celine Gounder is an “interpreter” of sorts between sufferers of pub…

Today, we talk about the transformative power of music, our relationship with music as humans, how we use music to communicate beyond words and visuals, and how the score of a film can make or break …

You may not realize it, but you probably know someone with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or have it yourself. PTSD is widely misunderstood yet crushing condition that afflicts millions of Ame…

**Pause and Reset: This Is Our Wakeup Call with Global Health Physician Nassim Assefi**

Nassim Assefi, a second-generation Iranian-American, is an internist specializing in women's health and global …

Mo Scarpelli, an award-winning Italian-American director and cinematographer of non-fiction cinema, was looking forward to filming her next documentary in Northern Italy, and spending some time intro…

Lucas Joppa is a deeply curious person, which he attributes to having been raised by a family that valued curiosity and debate. It is his sense of curiosity and willingness to explore the unknown tha…

Zarlasht Halaimzai and her family fled their home of Afghanistan when she was 11 years old, leaving all their hopes and dreams for the future behind. Now, she is the Co-Founder and Executive Director…