Howard Holley Presents Against All Odds: How Successful People Overcome Adversity

This is a recap of our episodes for the past quarter (April to July 2014). Hosts Howard Holley and Kristen Weitzel summarize each guest's show and call attention to the characteristics, habits, and tools each guest has used to overcome adversity and achieve success.

During this episode, Judge Hubert Grimes tells us about his passion for motivating youth by word and example. Listen as he talks with our hosts about his passion and his book, How to Keep Your Child From Going to Jail, in which he provides practical approaches to parents who desire to change their child's behaviors and point them towards a successful future. Retiring in 2013 with a twenty-five year career, Judge Grimes handled over 100,000 cases, dealing in many areas of law affecting the lives of untold numbers of people from all walks of life. During his last fourteen years, he specialized in family law delinquency, dependency and drug court cases. Judge Grimes was a "people's judge" who solved problems of human life on a daily basis. He saw human tragedies as well as victories. He terminated parental rights and created new families through adoptions and where necessary, sentenced others to jail or prison.

In this episode, Ken Mattison talks about how growing up as a missionary’s son in Latin America gave him a foundation of knowing that he wanted to accomplish God’s purpose for his life. Though he thought he might follow in his father’s footsteps, he realized that his gifts were better used in a different way. Ken talks with our hosts about his journey through the healthcare system and his commitment to building community relationships everywhere he goes. In 2012 Ken Mattison joined the team at Florida Hospital Flagler in Palm Coast, Florida, as President & CEO.

In April 2014, we interviewed Faith Coleman, co-founder of the Flagler County Free Clinic. On Sunday, November 30th, Faith, at the age 60, lost her battle with the cancer she had been courageously fighting for years. In this episode, Faith talks about how important her grandmother was to her; she inspired her to go into nursing. Later after her first journey through cancer, through establishing the clinic, she wondered if her grandmother would be pleased with the way her life turned out. She found the answer in a mistake engraved on a plaque given to her after a speaking engagement. The group offered to fix the engraving error after doing the photo op exchanging the plaque. Faith expected to see "Fay" or something similar. Instead she saw "Ruth Coleman" - it was her sign. Seeing her grandmother's name on that plaque, she new she had received a sign and chose not to change that plaque or divert her path. Listen as she talks about her journey, her courage and optimism shining through in this episode of Again