This week's Pep Talk: "Progress from Pain"

I would suspect most have heard the old adage "adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it." It's easy to say, easy to affirm, but let's be honest, much more difficult – when the storms of life come along – to live it, right? But people do it. Somehow, someway they find the guts to, as I like to say whenever giving a Pep Talk: "Refuse to become a victim of circumstance, instead choose to become a student of experience."

That is certainly Thelissa Zollinger's story. Gary, her darling and d...