


Overcoming Adversity
This 12-episode series features deep-dive conversations with the nation’s leading thinkers, leaders and experts around the nation’s most important issues. It explores national public affairs issues from government and politics to the environment and global affairs, with a mission to inform and inspire communities through shared dialogue and providing thought-provoking suggestions and solutions.

Overcoming Adversity
Season 2 Episode 209 | 56m 46s | CC
We’re living in an era where optimism, inspiration and hope are rare. The “sledgehammer effect,” wrought by a historic number of overlapping crises, has helped spawn a mental health epidemic marked by surging incidence of depression, suicide and addiction. This show will profile those who have overcome adversity and trauma through grit, resilience and determination.
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