It's safe to say the odds were against Jillian Bullock from the beginning. By age 15, the Philadelphia native was already a murder witness, rape survi...

Former Wall Street executive Joyce O'Brien is not one to simply accept the hand she's been dealt. Following a grim cancer diagnosis at 33 — soon aft...

They say life isn't fair, and it seems likely that no one knows this better than Ken DeLeon. At age 40, the successful Palo Alto-based real estate age...

Christine Jensen, age 50, had struggled with emotional eating and weight issues since her twenties. But over the last 18 months she has completely ove...

After 20 years with Avon Products, Gail Blanke successfully launched her own company, Gail Blanke's Lifedesigns, and was living out her dreams. She wa...

Twenty years into his career as a software contractor, Steve Silberberg ditched the corporate world for the great outdoors. The result was Fitpacking,...

As a compliance manager at a big-name financial services firm, Danielle Coulanges knew she was lucky. Having worked her way up over 20 years in the in...

Neil Gussman enlisted in the Army straight out of high school at the height of the Vietnam War. Badly injured in training, he never went overseas, but...