Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who was the first female to win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is also the first person and the only woman to win 2 Nobel Prizes. One in chemistry and one in physics. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and cancer research.

Eugenie Clark fell in love with sharks from the first moment she saw them at the aquarium. She couldn't imagine anything more exciting than studying these graceful creatures. But Eugenie quickly discovered that many people believed sharks to be ugly and scary―and they didn't think women should be scientists.

The city of Baghdad was full of thinkers, artists, and scientists, the littlest among them Zaha Hadid. Zaha knew from a young age that she wanted to be an architect. She set goals for herself and followed them against all odds. A woman in a man's world, and a person of color in a white field, Zaha was met with resistance at every turn. When critics called her a diva and claimed her ideas were unbuildable, she didn't let their judgments stop her from setting goals and achieving them one by one.

Today we are excited to tell you all about Madeline Stuart born on November 13, 1996 in Australia. She has been described as the first professional model with Down Syndrome. When Madeline was just ten days old her heart stopped and she had to have surgery to keep her alive. From that day on Madeline’s family vowed to help her live life to the fullest. Madeline attended a fashion show when she was 18 and fell in love with modeling. She posted one of her first modeling pictures on social media and got 100,000 followers overnight. Soon after that she launched her own fashion line called Twenty One Reasons Why by Madeline Stuart. She continues to be an advocate for others with Down Syndrome and works hard with numerous other charities to give back to her community.

Todays featured person is Colette Divitto. Colette was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1990. For the longest time, she applied for jobs but no one would hire her, so when she was 25 years old she decided to open up her own business with the help of her mom and sister. She started Collettey’s Cookies and was selling cookies at the Golden Goose Market, a store in her neighborhood in Boston. She sold 100 bags of cookies her first week and charged $7.00 per bag. She now fills orders all over the country. Most recently she had to fill over 4,000 orders… each order had a dozen cookies. That is almost 50,000 cookies that she had to make. She is a woman in business that also just happens to have Down Syndrome.

John Cronin’s story began in 2016 when he was in his final year of high school. John was trying to figure out what he could do after graduating and nothing really seemed to fit. One day he decided that he wanted to go into business with his dad but they were not sure exactly what kind of business they could start. All John knew was that he wanted a “fun store”. They tried a couple of different things including starting their own food truck. The problem was that neither one of them could cook.

They soon decided that since John had worn crazy socks his life, that they would sell socks. In their first month, they completed over 452 orders and earned $13,000 in profit. They started John's Crazy Socks with one simple mission: Spreading Happiness! Today John’s Crazy Socks Company has over 2,000 different pairs of socks to sell and they are committed to donating 5% of their earnings to the Special Olympics. Check out johnscrazysocks.com and pick up some today!

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

“Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives.”―Oprah Winfrey

This book is going to change the way you see your life.

Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.

Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

Here, Winfrey shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. In conversation throughout the book, she and Dr. Perry focus on understanding people, behavior, and ourselves. It’s a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it’s one that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future―opening the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery.

"Fascinating and upbeat.... Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist." –Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving Ophelia

How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover?

Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry tells their stories of trauma and transformation and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what happens to children’s brain when they are exposed to extreme stress—and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease such pain and help them grow into healthy adults. Only when we understand the science of the mind and the power of love and nurturing can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.

From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection, a bond made possible by empathy—the ability to love and to share the feelings of others.

In this provocative book, psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry and award-winning science journalist Maia Szalavitz interweave research and stories from Perry's practice with cutting-edge scientific studies and historical examples to explain how empathy develops, why it is essential for our development into healthy adults, and how to raise kids with empathy while navigating threats from technological change and other forces in the modern world.

Perry and Szalavitz show that compassion underlies the qualities that make society work—trust, altruism, collaboration, love, charity—and how difficulties related to empathy are key factors in social problems such as war, crime, racism, and mental illness. Even physical health, from infectious diseases to heart attacks, is deeply affected by our human connections to one another.

As Born for Love reveals, recent changes in technology, child-rearing practices, education, and lifestyles are starting to rob children of necessary human contact and deep relationships—the essential foundation for empathy and a caring, healthy society. Sounding an important warning bell, Born for Love offers practical ideas for combating the negative influences of modern life and fostering positive social change to benefit us all.