In our conversations with thousands of entrepreneurs, professionals, and creatives we often hear the most heartwarming stories. These stories matter and they show why pursing your passion matters. When you care about what you do, you can make miracles happen for your clients, employees and other stakeholders. You’ll find some amazing stories below.

DeShaun Desrosiers

Honestly, there are so many heartwarming moments within my field! I would have to say, once a baby is safely delivered and placed on the mom’s chest, so many of them have a cry of joy. It is so heartwarming to get hugs, words of gratitude, and overall love from my clients once they realized they just pushed out a beautiful baby! There is a certain point of labor when you just feel like giving up, you want to throw the towel in and just quit. Read more>>

Rebeca Yonasi

I have been training a lot of different people throughout the years, but this time I was blessed to have one of the most inspiring clients I have ever encountered. When I met Ron he seemed to be such a happy person waiting to see how our session will go. I had set up In the park a few dumbbells, some kettlebells, and some other tools and fitness equipment for our session. We did an assessment to see what where his strengths and weaknesses in fitness so that I can help him get in the best shape of his life. Ron is 80 years young and has an amazing ability and openness to learn any task that comes his way! Read more>>

Kwavi Agbeyegbe

One of my clients came to me feeling like her life was over. She was in her 60s and a retired principal. She had just lost her mother. She felt like she was in a dark place, those were the exact words she used to describe. She joined my program and she started to do the work and I remember her just telling me. I’m so happy and excited. I wake up happy. She had lost weight, she was feeling her feeling as uncomfortable as it could be sometimes and her relationships had improved. Read more>>

APRIL TAYLOR.

When I first started bringing my reading therapy dog to a library I had a mom bring her daughter and son to read with Erma. The little girl was a great reader. But the little boy had a device that had stories we could read together. They came for several weeks. After one session the mother commented that she appreciated me letting her son come even though he couldn’t read. I was very confused since he had been reading, although tentatively, with me the whole time. I told her this and she said that isn’t possible. The teachers told her he couldn’t read. So we laid back down on the dog bed with Erma between us and he read a story. When we finished his mother was crying with happiness. Read more>>

Phil Ferranto

My heart gets filled nearly every day I’m in our clinic. We work with a number of kids who may be non-verbal or face other developmental challenges. The love that each child shows you when you give them your full presence is what makes all of our efforts worth it. There is this one six-year old boy who doesn’t speak and has a number of handicaps, walking with braces, etc. Every time I am in the same room with him he’ll virtually run over to me to hold my hand and walk laps around our clinic. Read more>>

Nikki Batagower

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist working in the home health setting, I work with a variety of ages; however, I specialize in early intervention (birth-3 years). My patients are often start with me having minimal to no form of communication–and my goal for them is to create a form of functional communication so that they can communicate with their parents/guardians. In 2019, Read more>>