In Season 1, Teri focuses on extraordinary people who have followed their passions to feed their souls and accomplish things that benefit others.

UPDATE: Sadly, shortly before this was broadcast, the incoming Presidential administration cut funding to the USAID program that funded Dan’s work in Africa and other third-world countries. After a few months, Dan figured out how to operate his programs without federal dollars. How long he’ll be able to keep doing that is anyone’s guess, but he’s putting his own resources, in greater measure than before, to his efforts.

In this episode, Dan Lavin says he’s doing exactly what he wants to do: taking his passion for humanitarian work to far-flung continents where he empowers communities and individuals, teaching them financial literacy through experiential learning. Dan works in places without electricity and few of the comforts we take for granted and he couldn’t be happier.

Early on, Dan put a legal education to work by learning how to ask the right questions. It’s a skill he used extensively as an attorney, an accountant, in the Peace Corp, and now, as a globe-hopping facilitator promoting the gospel of financial literacy in third world countries. Join us as he reveals how loneliness propelled him into recognizing and pursuing the value of human connection and the need to live without regrets and with compassion and kindness. As Dan says, “I hit something magical here.”

He wants you to find your own magic too.