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Welcome to Something Happened. This is where I talk about things that happen in our lives and the stories we make up about what happened... and about ourselves. I talk about how these stories limit us and how we can break free of these limitations. Join me!

Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family - a tailor named Savvas and his daughters - from the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war. Years later, Yvette decided to track down the man's descendants - and eventually found them in Israel.

Something Happened Talk Show brings the stories and experiences of seniors who have had an epiphanous moment in their lives and want to share their stories and nourishing wisdom with the world.