Dr. Randy Michaux hurt his shoulder throughout his teenage years, and physical therapy never fully fixed it. In college, still unsure what to do with...
Amanda Chinkan spent more than half her life sick. She moved through one diagnosis after another, one medication after another, without anyone offerin...
Susie St. Angelo built her entire career as a private banker without ever planning to. She fell into banking after college, worked her way up, and spe...
Shelli Netko was on a family vacation at Disneyland, watching her kids enjoy the happiest place on earth, when her husband had a sudden heart attack a...
For two years, the only things keeping Dan de Luis upright were a cane, a stack of pain medication, and whatever was left of a body that had given out...
Nathalie Niddam studied physiology in college, then spent most of her career selling advertising. She taught fitness classes on the side that whole ti...
For twenty years, Ron Shank charged the same hourly rate for his web design work. He started at thirty dollars an hour, matching a couple of stay-at-h...
The team expected a routine sales call. On the other end sat a very large company, the kind of client a young software business dreams about landing....
Mary Gardner has kept a journal since she was 12 years old. She has documented her whole life in it, the embarrassing early entries included, because...
Jon Engelson was raised inside medicine. His father taught at USC Medical School, his relatives were doctors, and Engelson headed to UC San Diego as a...
Walk into most orthopedic offices with knee pain, hip pain, or lower back pain, and you tend to hear the same handful of answers. You have arthritis....
In 1986, Van Carlson was a high schooler in Fruitland, Idaho, paying no attention to the tax reform bill moving through Congress. Decades later, that...
Vance Morris spent ten years with the Disney company before discovering something uncomfortable about himself. He made a lousy employee. He did not li...
Dr. Sumeet Jindal grew up watching his father practice ophthalmology twice. The family moved from India when Sumeet was two years old, and his father,...
Thayne Martin was on the wrong street. That was how his story started, in a neighborhood his parents thought was safe and wasn't. The damage that foun...
JD Tremblay grew up in a household where healthy habits were not part of the routine. His parents divorced when he was young, and at 17 he traded that...
