I'm a two time cancer survivor. What got me through all the pain and the fear of cancer was listening to other people talk about how they survived adversity in their lives.

As two highly successful young, black financiers at Goldman Sachs , Corwin and Dennis share how they have identified that financial education and empowerment are the fundamental keys to ensuring racial and economic equity in the United States moving forward and have founded a Not-For-Profit the Free Group to do just that https://www.thefreegroup.org/about-us

The President and Executive of JobsFirstNYC, a nont-for-profit dedicated to serving the out-of-school and-out-of-work young people of New York City, Marjorie has seen the systems put in place to ensure the already tenuous futurs of this vulnerable population collapse under the pressures of Covid. Together we discuss what needs to change from both a Private and Public POV in order to rebuild education and employment opportunities for them.

First generation American, restauranteur and small business owner, Alex Rojas, shares what pivots he learned in order to keep his Queens restaurant going throughout Covid-19.

Caterers, chefs and Washington Heights small business owners -- Tom and Billy share how the personal loss of loved ones and the hunger crisis that emerged during the early days of Covid led them to turn their catering kitchen into an emergency food center for their local community.

Queens born Robert Lee shares how his early experiences with hunger led him to found Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, a brand new model for faciliating the delivery of leftover food to those most in need and how he had to shift and expand his services to address the explosion in need throughout the United States and world during Covid-19.

Rector of Upper West Side Christ and St. Stephen's Church, Mother Liles shares how she and other faith leaders have shifted gears to keep their congregations fed, supported, connected and hopeful during the isolation of Covid-19.

Long-time, Nonprofit Healthcare and Health System Strategist, Greg Kearns discusses how Covid had revealed the racial and economic gaps in our healthcare system, especially for those experiencing mental health crises, and shares how PAT -- Psychedelic Assisted Therapy -- will be key to addressing the now overwhelming global need for personal and communal mental healing.

PhD and practicing trauma therapist Laura Price shares how she and her practice partner had to literally shift their in-person private practice into a virtual and global one overnight to address the avalanche of need for therapy as Covid-19 hit New York and how her own care for the front-line workers who come to her, had to shift.

Minneapolis native and End-Of -Life Chaplain, Lindsey Briggs shares how Covid-19 and the murder of George Floyd in her hometown forced her and her fellow New York chaplains to find new ways to support each other, their communities of protesters, and and their flocks of near-death patients prepare for a better end.

New Jersey born, Dr. Chris T Pernell -- shares her calling as one of the few Black women doctors -- to care for her patients (primarily poor communities of color) not just as patients but as humans and spiritual beings and speaks to the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on these populations

Tom Allon is the president and publisher of City & State Magazine. We knew his parents had survived the Holocaust and that's why we wanted to talk to him. What we didn't know was that he's also a college-aged cancer survivor. How do you get through that while studying for finals? Tom has some insight.

Paul and Sibyl wanted to be parents but couldn't bring one to full term. Their struggle to have a child after losing so many pregnancies is inspiring and heartbreaking.

Gina is an athlete. A few years ago while training for her second Iron Man race, she woke up in the hospital with a TBI.

Maria is a part of a larger story about immigration and human rights. Each year workers in the US, those with documentation and those without, send their wages back to their home countries to the annual sum of $56 billion. It’s the largest, most effective foreign aid in human history and it’s all crowd sourced, one individual at a time.

Twenty years ago Maria’s family in Bolivia was poor and desperate. So Maria, to quote the musical Hamilton, the oldest and the wittiest, left her five year old daughter to be raised by her mother and traveled to New York City to work. She’s been living without documentation while sending every extra penny home to help her family for the last two decades.

Harriet is a co-founder of the DOE Fund's Ready, Willing and Able program. Last year she nearly lost her life but couldn't leave her life's work.

Stephanie found out she was pregnant right before college. She tells us how she managed to be a new mother and a freshman.

Shavar Jeffries is an American civil rights attorney and former candidate for mayor of Newark. When he was a young child his mother was stalked and murdered by her husband. Shavar shares with us what it was like to lose his mother and how that shaped the man he is today.

Mavis was one of the most successful nursing school teachers in New York City. She grew up on the segregated Upper West Side of Manhattan. Now nearly 100 years old, she tells us about her life and career; how she got through it and what we can all learn from it.

(Bonus we interviewed her in church and got her to curse!)

Terrance Coffie was raised in foster care and ended up being what he describes as the worst stereotype of a black man at the age of 39. Then after 20 years of being in and out of prison, Mr. Coffie radically changed his life. He now teaches criminal justice at NYU.