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011: From Victim to Victorious with Jessica Conness

011: From Victim to Victorious with Jessica Conness

By Arwen Becker | October 13, 2020


After 24-year-old Jessica Conness told her then-husband that rent was three months behind, he picked her up and threw her through the glass dining room table. When child protective services arrived later that day, they told her that the next […]

012: Love The Story Your Body Tells with Kerstin O’Shields

012: Love The Story Your Body Tells with Kerstin O’Shields

By Arwen Becker | October 20, 2020


For many years, performer and singer Kerstin O’Shields found herself privately dealing with abuse at home, all the while living a very public life. About five years into the marriage, when she asked for help from family, the message was […]

013: Finding Peace After Significant Loss with Megan Jones

013: Finding Peace After Significant Loss with Megan Jones

By Arwen Becker | October 27, 2020


It’s one thing to lose your parent, it is another to lose your mom, dad and father-in-law in a span of 2 years, while dealing with your own health challenge. Megan Jones found herself fighting through the fallout of her […]

014: Mom’s Faith Was Bigger Than Multiple Sclerosis with Randy Becker

014: Mom’s Faith Was Bigger Than Multiple Sclerosis with Randy Becker

By Arwen Becker | November 3, 2020


Randy’s youth was forever changed when his mom was diagnosed with progressive Multiple Sclerosis when she was just 26. It was the accident that she experienced early in her diagnosis that permanently relinquished her to a wheelchair and thrust him […]

015: Dismissed English Major Turned Venture Capitalist with Marcella Allison

015: Dismissed English Major Turned Venture Capitalist with Marcella Allison

By Arwen Becker | November 10, 2020


Marcella Allison was told that a “glorified bookkeeper with an English degree” does not become a venture capitalist after she enthusiastically approached the guest speaker in her MBA class. He continued to tell her that since she didn’t get her […]

016: The Courage to Let It All Fall Apart with Debbie Page

016: The Courage to Let It All Fall Apart with Debbie Page

By Arwen Becker | November 17, 2020


After growing up with an alcoholic father, Debbie Page was told in college “If you have alcoholism in your family, you’re going to be attracted to that in a partner.” Being a very level-headed woman, whose father got sober when […]

017: Penniless and Worthless No More with Jen Du Plessis

017: Penniless and Worthless No More with Jen Du Plessis

By Arwen Becker | November 24, 2020


One day around the age of seven, an extended family member told Jen Du Plessis, “You’re going to be just like your father, you’re going to be worthless, you’re going to be poor, you’re going to be an alcoholic…you’ll really […]

018: Sometimes Irrational is Totally Rational with Arwen Becker

018: Sometimes Irrational is Totally Rational with Arwen Becker

By Arwen Becker | December 1, 2020


In 2009, when the Becker’s 4-year-old cat, Lewis, was attacked leaving him with a broken jaw, the entire family faced a very difficult decision; find a way to fund a $5,000 bill in the midst of the greatest financial difficulty […]

019: A View of Redemption with Fahren Johnson

019: A View of Redemption with Fahren Johnson

By Arwen Becker | December 8, 2020


When she was 23 years old, Fahren Johnson learned that she was born of rape to a mother who was institutionalized with severe paranoid schizophrenia. Her mother’s condition resulted in Fahren being a ward to the state with no contact […]

020: Near Blindness Created Clearer Vision with Kristen Brokaw

020: Near Blindness Created Clearer Vision with Kristen Brokaw

By Arwen Becker | December 15, 2020


At the age of 40, Kristen Brokaw was told by her doctor that she could potentially lose her vision when she found out that she had unknowingly exposed herself to toxic mold. With permanent scarring and vision loss, she didn’t […]