A world without words would be a poet's nightmare. Jan introduces you to poet m. nourbeSe Phillip, a Canadian poet who challenges us to imagine what we are without life's gifts and, in so doing, helping us to find all that we can be when we realize what we do have.

At times life sends you a NO that we can either accept or turn into an even more powerful YES!

Jan shares a recent meeting with a vivacious young woman, Ella, who did just that and, together with her wonderful partner, Florent, has fashioned an uplifting coffee shop in Paris serving terrific cups and a joyous dose of joie de vivre.

Jan celebrates our roots, the meaning of childhood experiences, and the way your own story can propel your imagination.

Retelling a story of his dad and late brother, Mark, Jan celebrates the incomparable love and gifts that they gave him, and calls on all of us to cherish the possibility of discovering light in the darkness.

Sometimes it is the wisdom of our wounds in life that provides us with a new lens on how to deepen our purpose and passion in living.

Jan shares the parable of the miller and the farmer, and the power of paying it forward.

Sometimes forgiveness can be found in the most unpredictable of place and one is transformed.

Jan shares the incandescent moment when he was wrapped in the wings of an angel, bridging years of injustice.

Many of us witness injustice in the world. Our pain can be real.How do we honor it?

Jan shares his personal encounter with the world famous Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, when he interviewed him in Vienna years ago and how he taught him it's possible for each of us to bring a bit more justice into the world by 'being the light.'

It's the little things sometimes. Small, seemingly pieces of trivia, that allow us to understand and see things in a richer way.

Jan shares several odd and fascinating facts we might never know about the world, along with a true story of how, with a scratch of a pen, a last minute change of name altered the course of history.