🌟 Remarkable lives and personal change

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Talented young achievers

9 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Four remarkable young talents
• Painting since infancy
• Handling criticism as a young artist
• A young competitive climber
• Winning the March Madness bracket

+ 4 more lessons

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Unusual careers

8 video lessons in this part of the course.

• America’s first hotel concierge
• A concierge’s career journey
• Exploring like a concierge
• Inside a butler academy
• A butler’s responsibilities

+ 3 more lessons

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A young professor's journey

7 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Meet the youngest professor
• Early curiosity about math
• Feeling disconnected at school
• Learning from early mistakes
• Becoming a university student

+ 2 more lessons

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From illiteracy to Cambridge

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• An unlikely Cambridge dream
• Discovering the power of words
• The mentor who believed in him
• Turning willpower into success
• Full video

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The King's chimney sweep

7 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Meet a modern chimney sweep
• Tools of the chimney trade
• Sweeping a chimney
• Child sweeps in the Industrial Revolution
• Why chimney sweeps bring good luck

+ 2 more lessons

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Life as a quick-change artist

8 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Meeting Arturo Brachetti
• From shy child to performer
• Fitness and his stage debut
• Creating a soldier routine
• Managing costumes backstage

+ 3 more lessons

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A record-breaking window cleaner

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Ten Guinness World Records
• His daily training routine
• Competing on the world stage
• A lifelong passion
• Full video

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Building a bird's nest office

9 video lessons in this part of the course.

• A human-sized nest idea
• Starting the seven-day build
• Working through English rain
• Making the nest waterproof
• Gathering wood with an expert

+ 4 more lessons

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Ellen von Unwerth on photography

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Creating emotion through pictures
• From modeling to photography
• Finding her style in Kenya
• Revealing personality and taking risks
• Full video

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Building a career in music and code

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• How music and code connect
• Growing up around hardship
• Sharing stories through freestyle rap
• Finding motivation to keep creating
• Full video

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Weightlifting and mental health

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Finding focus through lifting
• Becoming a competitive weightlifter
• Seeking help and getting diagnosed
• Pushing through physical limits
• Full video

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Healing through knitting

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Finding calm through knitting
• Learning to knit as a child
• Knitting for trauma recovery
• Knitting an anatomical heart
• Full video

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Women breaking barriers

10 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Women who inspire change
• Women fixing cars worldwide
• Training vulnerable women as mechanics
• Nigeria's first female mechanic
• Fulfilling a world record dream

+ 5 more lessons

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Lawyers challenging injustice

7 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Legal warriors redefining justice
• Defending an Anonymous activist
• From exoneree to innocence lawyer
• Finding the strength to fight
• Racial bias in hip-hop cases

+ 2 more lessons

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Why Black stories matter

8 video lessons in this part of the course.

• The need for Black storytellers
• Stories build empathy
• Seeing yourself in books
• Art that reflects loss
• Representation as a mirror

+ 3 more lessons

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Black identity and allyship

6 video lessons in this part of the course.

• Amplifying Black voices
• Being proud to be Black
• Empathy, not pity
• Standing up against racism
• Rejecting stereotypes

+ 1 more lessons

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Celebrating Black fatherhood

5 video lessons in this part of the course.

• A mission shaped by injustice
• Challenging stereotypes about Black fathers
• Building community during lockdown
• How fatherhood changes lives
• Full video