Sam Horn

In today's tumultuous world, it is tempting to lose hope, easy to feel helpless. We are NOT helpless. We all have human agency to improve what happens to us, by us, around us. @ParisaKhosravi_ and her son Payam are shining examples of what we can do if we put our mind to it and our heart in it.

Parisa Khosravi left her job as SVP of International News at CNN to dedicate herself to find ways to "unlock" the brilliant man and mind she saw in her son.

After years of trying every treatment she could find, she found RPM, which allows Payam to use a keyboard to type out his thoughts, one arduous letter at a time.

He has now written speeches that have been delivered at the UN, Georgia Tech, at an international symposium in Australia, and via his mom's TEDx talk.

This week, Payam has published a book, Joy and the Moon, that shares his visionary voice with the world.

I've read it. It is a brilliant miracle and message for humanKIND.

There's so much more to this story, the years of frustration, the years of not knowing if Payam would ever be seen, heard, and valued for being the deeply caring, incredibly capable person he is.

You can hear Payam's story first hand from Parisa - who's featured in Chapter 36 of my new book - at our LIVE online launch party on Nov. 17

Parisa will be joined by 15 other Forces for Good who each share a 4 minute story of how they refused to passively accept an unacceptable WHAT IS.

They all asked themselves WHAT IF? and proactively created new, better options that have benefitted them and many others.

If you'd like to immerse yourself in real-life stories from people who all figured out a way to make their life and the world a bit better, join me and others all celebrating our ability to make life more of what we want it to be, more of what it can be. form.jotform.com/SamHornIntrigu…

Humorist Andrew Tarvin's Force For Good Superpower - @tarvintalks - is turning HA HA's into AHA's. In his #TEDx talk (which has 17 million views) he shares a wonderful story about his grandma. He taught her how to text and she would write him ittle letters with “Dear Andrew” at the top and “Love, your grandma” at the bottom.
When he texted her that he’d just gotten back from a speaking engagement in Switzerland, you can imagine his surprise when she wrote back …

“Dear Andrew, Switzerland? WTF!”

Surprised, he texted back, "Grandma, what do you think WTF means?"

To which she replied, "Oh, someone at my bridge game told me it means 'Wow, that’s fun.'”

Andrew said, “That is exactly what it means.”

Because wouldn't the world be a happier place if more people thought, "Wow, that’s fun?”

I’m delighted that Andrew will be joining us LIVE on November 17 for our Force For Good online launch party from 12-2pm EST.

Meet him and a dozen other Force For Good'ers whose stories are featured in the book.

This is not a "sage on a stage" type of event. This is an inspiring collection of people sharing 4 minutes stories of how they used their initiative and agency to create something new and needed.

Discover who else will be there sharing their uplifting story here ... lnkd.in/p/g98A4XfU

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I first met @DrBevYates at @jjvirgin @MindshareColla1 conference in Scottsdale. We found ourselves swapping life stories at the final night pool party under a full moon.

Beverly told me she had quit her career as an MIT-trained engineer to become a naturopathic physician after learning 12 members of her family had been diagnosed with Type Two Diabetes, (T2DM), and told they’d be on prescription medicine the rest of their life.

She said, "I witnessed firsthand how devastating this was for them and thought, 'That will not be my fate.'

I started researching how to proactively prevent that diagnosis instead of passively accept it."

I asked, "So what did your research reveal?"

"I discovered several root causes were not being addressed, and engineered a protocol to raise awareness and actions around them vs. ignoring them."

"What's an example?"

"The first is a surprise because it's not medical, it's psychological.

We need to remove the fear some people feel when they receive a negative medical diagnosis.

Many told me healthcare professionals (or family members )were treating them as if this was 'their fault.'

The inferrence was they had gotten T2DM because they were 'lazy, 'fat,' or 'undisciplined.'

That stigma was preventing them from getting treatment because they felt shamed and blamed.

I believe everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity."

"So, what did you do about this?"

"I started sounding the alarm about disturbing statistics and unfair stereotypes including:

* Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the U.S.
* Pre-diabetes has doubled in children in the past 2 decades
* Some prescription medicines actually perpetuate T2DM, they don’t improve it.

I said, "Beverly, I’m so glad you’re revealing the fact that many people hide their diagnosis because they're embarassed.

I remember Robin Roberts, @GMA host, saying she almost didn’t go public with her cancer diagnosis because she thougtht, 'I talk about exercise and why it's important to be fit all the time... yet I got cancer."

Beverly said, "Exactly! Shame and isolation increases stress, which actually worsens most diseases."

"So, what do you suggest?"

"Well, I've developed five steps anyone can use to proactively disrupt a diagnosis."

Want to know those five steps? You'll find them in Beverly's Chapter 28 in the FFGP book.
And if you'd like to meet other Forces for Good who determined their fate instead of letting letting fear, guilt, or shame decide it, I hope you'll join us Tues. Nov. 17 for our LIVE ONINE LAUNCH PARTY. Here's the link.

form.jotform.com/SamHornIntrigu…

I was thrilled when @JackCanfield, co-author of Success Principles and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, agreed to give the cover endorsement AND have his story featured in my Force For Good Project book. After all, his books have sold 500 million copies around the world and he knows a good book when he sees one.

If you love stories, you'll love this book. It features fifty real-life stories from individuals from all walks of life who share what they're doing to be a good person - no matter what.

And if you'd like to meet some of the people featured in the book for an uplifting online gathering where each shares a 4-minute FFG story in person, join us on our (free) LIVE LAUNCH PARTY on Pub Day - Nov. 17 from 12-2 pm ET.

You will be uplifted as they put you in the scene of what they've done at crossroads in their life to act in integrity, be kind and compassionate (even when others aren't), and how they saw a problem, need, or opportunity, thought "SOMEDAY should DO something about that. I'M as much a somebody as anybody, I'M going to do something about that."

You'll be inspired to think about the people who have made a positive difference for you, and the long-tail ripple effect of what happens when people step up to support us, stretch us and hold us accountable for being be our best self.

Here's the link to join us. form.jotform.com/SamHornIntrigu…

The biggest decision we have every day is, "Am I going to be a Force For Harm or am I going to be a Force For Good?" At dozens of crossroads throughout the day, we either give in to the urge to rant, rail, criticize and complain about what's wrong - or we choose to be resilient, resourceful, kind and create, collaborate, and contribute to what's right.
If you'd like support making choices you can be proud of - in the moment and in the long run - you'll love Sam Horn's new book THE FORCE FOR GOOD PROJECT.
Discover for yourself why it's been called "The Ted Lasso of agency," and why people listening to the Audible say they pull into their driveways and sit in their cars because they want to hear how the stories end. It is a life raft for human decency and integrity. If you want to feel hopeful about the future and your role in it - this is a good start. amazon.com/Force-Good-Pro…