When Andrew Bennett was three years old, his mother left him with his grandparents one afternoon. She was taking Andrew’s seven-year-old sister, Kelly, to the d...
The story of Lenny Berger’s family is quintessentially one of American success. His paternal grandparents were immigrants; both of them, in fact, were Jewish re...
Karl Colder had already applied to the DEA once when a college classmate offered to connect him with her uncle who was a Special Agent in Charge in Philadelphia...
Karen Doner was only a fifth-year attorney when she won the case she remembers best. She was practicing employment law as a midlevel associate for the large fir...
Trish Ferrick considers her prize possession to be an old college sweatshirt, but it’s not from her alma mater. When her father Ed passed away, it was an item s...
George Hinckley III was smart, but growing up he didn’t take academics very seriously. Neither of his parents had gone to college, and only his mother had finis...
Tina attributes her military efficiency to growing up on naval bases and moving around the country following her father’s successful military career. She was bo...
At 17 years old, Tim Koehl realized he had a second chance at mastering change.
His father didn’t have a college degree, and when he’d come home each day fro...
Keith Kruse’s father was a Naval Engineer, and from a young age, Keith had an interest in the military. In particular, he dreamed of aviation, although his poor...
Like a lot of recent college graduates, Pete Lamont thought he knew it all in his early 20s. He was working as an assistant administrator at a law firm, and in ...
Dan Lender wasn’t raised with a silver spoon. He grew up in a rural part of West Central Pennsylvania, in the small town of Smithmill. His dad was a truck drive...
Anne Meltzer comes from a long line of strong women. Her grandmother worked in a children’s clothing store while she was growing up, and Anne remembers playing ...
Scott Montgomery prides himself on putting his relationships first. Valuing the people around him is both a path to professional success and a closely held pers...
Tamara Nall wasn’t like other 12-year-olds. She did well in school, enjoyed playing with the other kids in the neighborhood, and sometimes argued with her siste...
Although Katie spent most of her childhood in Arizona with her father and stepmother, she was born in the DC area where her mother and maternal family remained....
