GRIT - Stories of Resilience
Episodes
Prosecuting Jeffrey MacDonald - Preparing for Trial
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was the spring of 1979, more than nine years since Colette, Kimberly and Kristen MacDonald had been brutally murdered in their home at Ft. Bragg, N...
The Power of Strong Relationships
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Harvard University Medical School study, 85 years in the making, is very clear on the question of how to have happier lives in the world. As the New...
Jade Neptune - Campus Suicides and the Pressure of Perfection
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"BENJAMIN NO!!!!!" Jade Neptune, and a new article on College Suicides, gives us these last two words sent to Ben Salas by a father to his son moment...
Jim Blackburn - Imagine - Grit: Stories of Resilience & True Crime
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to feel better about the future and the next generation, just become a client of Patrice Nealon's Digital Marketing class at N.C. Stat...
The Beauty of Small Towns
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When I was very young, I thought it was normal to ride bikes all over town, go swimming every summer day in the large community pool, where the deepes...
Carla Roshitsh - Paws for Life - Saving Cats and Dogs
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The next time you walk into a pet store or any other place with cats and dogs and look at them playing or sleeping in cages, think for just a moment t...
Jim Blackburn - Finding Happiness
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happiness, I believe, is what people in the world want most in their lives. Attaining that is a lifelong pursuit, with sometimes different results, de...
Jim Blackburn - Never Too Late
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most challenging things to do in life is something new, something you have never done before, such as go to college, start a new job or cha...
Anne Drescher - Doctoral Student - Psychology - Mental Health & Wellness of College Students
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Anne Drescher was in her second year of Doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina School of Psychology, she developed and taught a cou...
John Drescher - Newspaperman & Writer - The Future of News Reporting
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Drescher knew he wanted to be in the newspaper business at the age of 15 when he became a reporter for a neighborhood newspaper in Raleigh. In th...
Duke Lineberry - Navigating a Life in Family Law
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Duke Lineberry never planned on practicing Family Law. A native of Charlotte, he interned at the United States Attorney's office in Raleigh and ho...
Friends in Low Places
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The partial title of the song by Garth Brooks captures both the tone and story of my time in the winter months of 1994. From January, 1994 through al...
Jim Blackburn - Accountability and My Life Back
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"So Wade, if I take yours and Rick's advice and plead guilty to all of the counts, everything, with no plea agreement of any kind, what do yo...
Paulette Wilkes - Coming to America
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paulette Wilkes, born and raised in England, a graduate of both high school and college there, went home one day after a particular trying time at wor...
Jill Staton Bullard - A Consequential Life
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Staton Bullard was a soccer mom, going lto a game one Saturday morning in north Raleigh many years ago when she and another mom decided to go to ...
Rufus Edmisten - The Rest of the Story
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rufus Edmisten, in this Episode, does not hold back. He tells his life story of the last fifty years. There was so much success, winning the office of...
Wild Horses of the Currituck Outer Banks
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
More than 500 years ago, the first Wild Horses came to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. They likely came to the east coast of the United States, str...
Jim Blackburn - Waiting Tables and Resilience
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid 1990's and one year in the early 2000's, I was at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar almost every night waiting tables. It was a long way f...
Rufus Edmisten - A Life in the Law -Watergate, Attorney General, Secretary of State
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming from Boone, in the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten knew he wanted to be a lawyer and work for U.S. Senator Sam Ervin in Washington,...
Geoff Hulse - Turning Darkness into Light
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Hulse knew two things to be true when he was young. He would never live in the relatively small eastern North Carolina city of Goldsboro, where ...
Dana Stevens - A Screenwriter's Life
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Stevens has had a long career writing feature films and television. Her most recent movie, "The Woman King" starring Viola Davis premie...
Leslie Van Der Have - Grit and Hope in her Life and the Practice of Family Law
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I first met Leslie Van Der Have many years ago after making a talk at the North Carolina Bar Center when she approached me and pressed a hand written ...
Freddy Kassab - The Man Who Caught Jeffrey MacDonald
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Freddy Kassab, was the stepfather of Colette and by extension the grandfather of Kimberly and Kristen. When they died on February 17, 1970, a piece of...
Dick Horgan - Optimism and Faith- this lawyer's keys to success
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether leaving southern California for a Yale education, to a lucrative partnership as a big time litigator in a major New York law firm, to leaving ...
Hiding in Plain Sight - Magnificent Defeat
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the first part of this episode dealing with Mental Health and Depression challenges continues with some stumbling on my part, the fall and early...
Hiding in Plain Sight - Part Two
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Duke Psychiatric Hospital - my home for a week. Therapy sessions with my doctor sometimes twice a week. Asking me questions such as when was the last ...
GRIT - Stories of Resilience (Trailer)
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hiding in Plain Sight - Part One
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the beginning of a story of someone who rose very high, fell very low in a very public way, and survived. It is also the story of mental illne...
True Grit - Mr. Thomas for the Defense
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For more than sixty years in Eastern North Carolina, if you got in trouble, better call Allen Thomas in Wilson. Here, he tells what he believes and ho...
A Basketball Life and the Grit of Resilience
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Corchiani met his first basketball when he was three years old, dribbling under the tutelage of his Dad and eventual high school coach. He went ...
Passion and Jeffrey MacDonald
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the early morning hours of February 17, 1970, time stopped at 544 Castle Drive on Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, when the family of Green Beret Doctor ...