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Sarah Chalke | Ten Days to Save Her Son's Life

Sarah Chalke and Jen Monroe met in kindergarten in North Vancouver and started making things together almost immediately — skits at birthday parties, plays recorded on th

Ezra Frech | Dancing on a Blade

Ezra Frech was eleven, sitting on the couch watching the Rio Paralympics, when he decided what he was going to do with his life. He went and found his mother and asked wh

Joe Manganiello | This Chihuahua Saved My Life

Joe Manganiello was 25, newly sober, broke, and showing up to AA meetings as they started so he could leave the second they ended. A 78-year-old man in a tweed coat took

Heather McMahan | A Million Dollar Check to Her Dad

Heather McMahan used to stalk Joan Rivers' shows. She bartended across the street from a basement comedy club in Hell's Kitchen, so she knew where the unmarked back entra

James Brown | "Kids Like You Don't Do Math"

James Brown was in fourth grade when a teacher saw him reading a book called So You Want to Be a Doctor and told him he should consider another career. “Kids like you, sh

Howie Mandel | "You Were Hysterical, Young Man"

Howie Mandel got expelled from high school in Toronto for calling a contractor out of the Yellow Pages and asking for a 25-foot addition to the school library. He schedul

Marlee Matlin | Nobody Stood Up at the Oscars

Marlee Matlin was twelve, performing at a children's theater for the deaf in Chicago, when Henry Winkler accepted an invitation to stop by on his day off. She performed t

Chris Olsen | "I Think My Therapist Hates Me"

Chris Olsen has more than 14 million followers on TikTok. At 19 he spent close to a year in a rehab in Boca Raton — six months inpatient with three group sessions a day,

Thomasin McKenzie | Anxiety and Jojo Rabbit

Thomasin McKenzie grew up in a house in Wellington where everyone acted — her parents coached it, and her grandmother is one of New Zealand's most beloved actors. She'd w

Chelsea Handler | He Said He Was Coming Back

Chelsea Handler was nine when her oldest brother Chet died — July 10th, in a hiking accident — and she came back to school in the fall to a town full of people asking if

Bozoma Saint John | Always the Outsider

Bozoma Saint John was 12 when her family landed in Colorado Springs, where her classmates already had a picture of Africa: the child on the UNICEF magnet, flies and a dis

Tori Kelly | The Internet Made Her a Star

Before Tori Kelly became a three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with a voice that can move stadiums, she was a 12-year-old girl walking into a record label office,

Gary Vaynerchuk | A Studio Apartment for Eight

Before Gary Vaynerchuk became a digital media mogul, CEO of a 2,000-person marketing empire, and one of the loudest voices on the internet, he was a three-year-old Soviet

Atsuko Okatsuka | My Kidnapper, My Best Friend

Before Atsuko Okatsuka became an internationally renowned comedian, sold-out performer, and one of the most unique voices in stand-up, she was a quiet eight-year-old girl

Brian Grazer | Straight F's, But a Gift for Gab

Before Brian Grazer became one of Hollywood's most powerful producers — 43 Academy Award nominations, 320 Emmy nominations, more than $15 billion at the box office — he w

Vivian Tu | "You Deserve a Seat at the Table"

Before Vivian Tu became a multimillionaire financial educator with 6.5 million followers, two New York Times bestselling books, and a chart-topping podcast, she was a 22-

Nirav Tolia | The Only Indian Kid in Odessa, TX

Before Nirav Tolia became the CEO of Nextdoor, a billion-dollar company connecting neighbors across America, he was a 28-year-old first-time CEO running a struggling star

Adam Lambert | Done Being Polite

Before Adam Lambert became a global superstar, Grammy-nominated artist, and one of the most electrifying voices in music, he was a 13-year-old theater kid from conservati

Ian V. Rowe | The Question He Asked at Twelve

Before Ian Rowe became a visionary educator, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, founder of Vertex Partnership Academy, and author of the book Agency, he

Margaret Cho | Ten Years Sober, Still Counting

Before Margaret Cho became a legendary comedian, Emmy-nominated actor, and one of the most influential voices in stand-up comedy, she was a 15-year-old kid who had just b