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What's Possible! 50 True Stories of People who Dared to Dream They Could Make a Difference!
April 17, 6:00PM
The Sophia Institute, 297 East Bay Street
Daryn Kagan has gathered great stories in her 20-year career as a TV journalist, garnering several Emmy Award nominations along the way. As a CNN news and sports anchor, she was on-air live on September 11th, covered AIDS in Africa with Bono, and reported on-site from breaking events and numerous elections around the globe. Next, she parlayed her expertise in hard news to tell the stories she loves to share—compelling tales of people who triumphed over extraordinary challenges—on her award-winning and popular website, DarynKagan.com.
Now, in WHAT’S POSSIBLE!: 50 True Stories of People Who Dared to Dream They Could Make a Difference (Meredith Books; April 8, 2008), Daryn Kagan presents inspiring accounts of memorable people who defied the odds, survived incredible hardships, dreamed big, gave back, transformed grief to benefit others, and more. Daryn also relates her own personal story of pursuing her TV dream job, leaving CNN, and reinventing herself by creating DarynKagan.com.
Among the people you’ll meet in WHAT’S POSSIBLE! are:
- Bill Montgomery, who became a successful sculptor after losing his sight at age 80;
- Donna Carson, who in one year reduced the 45% drug incidence among babies in an Atlanta hospital nursery to 11% and founded My House where children now thrive;
- Scott Rigsby, who lost one leg at 18 and the other at 30, and made history in 2007 as the first double amputee competitor in Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon;
- Jill Youse, a new mother who made real her idea to send breast milk to hungry babies in Africa and the U.S.;
- Sebri Omer, a gas station owner who built a 25-bed hospital, the only facility of its kind in Ethiopia, the country he was forced to flee as a teenager;
- PX Head, at the wheel in a drunk driving accident that killed his best friend, now president of Zingo, a designated driver service that takes you home in your own car;
- Paula Lucas, who founded a crisis line to help women trapped in foreign countries after she escaped with her three young sons from an abusive husband in Dubai;
- Marie Hesser, one of a group of housewives with no business experience, who has made $1 million and donated $625,000 from their resale shop;
- Kelly Perkins, a heart transplant recipient who climbs mountains to support organ donation.
Every day, DarynKagan.com receives more than 10,000 page views to “Show the World What’s Possible.” The site won the 2007 Interactive Media Council Award (IMA) for Outstanding Achievement in the Personal category.
Please join us as Daryn talks about and answers questions about her new book. This event is free and open to the public. Donations are accepted and benefit The Sophia Institute. Pre-register by calling 843-720-8528.
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Come join us for lunch and find out about the unique work of The Sophia Institute and what you can do to bring forth a more conscious, enlightened world, a compassionate global community where wholeness, integration, sustainability, the conscious heart, deep wisdom, and the sacred feminine and masculine are the center of life.
Space is limited. Please reserve your place by calling 843-720-8528 or email info@TheSophiaInstitute.org.
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