Carl and Valerie saw their perseverance pay off when their Internet business skyrocketed. ...

Gary and Evelyn Sherman of Poughkeepsie, New York love to explore the beauty of the Hudson River Valley. Financially things have never been better, but not long ago they were facing a mountain of debt....

Regi Harris had a promising future in basketball with a full-ride scholarship to Sam Houston State. He wound up in prison and now ministers to young athletes....

Jermaine grew up in New York with a crack addicted mother. To escape, this urban youth wrote about his pain....

Scott once aspired to be an award winning snow skier, but his lust for drugs robbed him of his dreams, direction and dignity....

"Literally, the house was starting at that moment to break, and then all I could hear was a screech as the phone went dead," says tornado survivor Beth Catania. ...

Alcohol was the tool Steve used to bury his feelings of anger about his childhood and the tool that nearly caused him to deliberately drive off a cliff drunk. Then he heard an unfamiliar voice. ...

"I wanted somebody that would understand me. I wanted someone that when I said to them what I had gone through that I could have that shoulder to lean on as opposed to being judged."...

“So I lived the dream, per se. I was a former IFBB professional bodybuilder. I was well known, had a lot of notoriety, magazine covers, titles, fans,” said Peter Putnam. ...