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Miss Honey, mother of Mary Mary members Erica and Tina Campbell, reveals how her mother gave her the strength to keep going after her son's death.
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Matthew Griffin is a 2001 United States Military Academy graduate commissioned into the Field Artillery. Between 2003-2005, Griff deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan. After departing the military in 2006, Griff worked in the defense sector that eventually led him back to Afghanistan where he learned the power of persistance, creativity and respect.
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In this 2013 TED Talk, Kamau Stanford asks whether perseverance is a matter of nature or nurture, as he perseveres to build schools as places of information, opportunity and exposure, not just for students, but to the community at large.
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Michelle Neujahr had no idea how much she would need the motivational tapes she grew up listening to. Her story of overcoming numerous difficulties and the negative voices in her head that threatened to keep her down will inspire you. Her message teaches us to not give up as she shares her story of perseverance.
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This now-legendary speech, delivered at the 1993 ESPY Awards, shows us what perseverance and strength look like to a once-vibrant man now dying of cancer.
I'll never forget my first day in Asheville. 1997, standing in the parking lot of the French Broad Food Co-op thinking, "I will live here one day." Throughout my years at Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in L.A., I often thought of Asheville and CBI. Danielle and I were married in Montford. Our aufruf (when the groom is called to the Torah) was in the small CBI chapel. To be honest, I never envisioned being a pulpit rabbi - I love community organizing and non-profit management - but if there was one place I would want to be a pulpit rabbi, I knew it would be here. (read more)