Rudy T. -- All Star player. Two time NBA world champion. Gold Medal winning head coach, you’d think he had it all. He worked really hard at being a good student, and a good athlete, a good person. But he had this voice in his head telling him, “Rudy, you really aren’t all that.”

I walk out of her spin class energized and ready to do anything - even if I don't know what it is! I feel like I’ve had the best workout of life and been to a revival at the same time

As I’m writing this, the worst killing of jews on U.S. soil just occurred just a few days ago as a crazed gunman stormed the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 jews worshiping on a Saturday morning, injuring many more. Rabbi Chasen, Senior Rabbi at Leo Baeck Temple, led a vigil in Los Angeles along with leaders of many many faiths and community leaders as he has on other occasions.

I decided to interview a person a week for a year and mentioned it to one of the rabbis who runs my monthly spirituality class. I told her how I believe we connect through our stories and I wanted to talk to different individuals over the course of a year to get their messages: to derive meaning and simply see where it takes me.