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Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives
True stories that change lives — cinematic retellings of real events, told by Sarah & David. A new episode every day. True stories that change our lives. Every day, Sarah and David bring you three inspirational true stories — unsolved mysteries, amazing survivals, historical dramas, and the strange-but-true moments they don't teach you in school. Emotional life stories, human kindness, and lessons in life, told for your ears. Watch the videos: https://www.youtube.com/@littlebitbetterdaily-i6n…
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Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 23: Courage Comes After Action, Not Before
Courage comes after action, not before. Day 23 of 30 Days of Hard Truths: Courage Comes After Action, Not Before.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesNovember 4, 2026 - Ibn Battuta: The Traveller Who Saw the World, Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Lamp
Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 for a pilgrimage of a few months and stayed on the road for twenty four years, judging in Delhi, sailing to the Maldives…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 22: Gratitude Turns What You Have Into Enough
Gratitude turns what you have into enough. Day 22 of 30 Days of Hard Truths: Gratitude Turns What You Have Into Enough. Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesNovember 3, 2026 - Harriet Tubman: She Escaped Alone, Then Went Back, Helen Keller: The Word That Opened a World
Harriet Tubman, born enslaved in Maryland, escaped alone in 1849, then made about thirteen journeys back to guide roughly seventy people to freedom, and later…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 21: Your Second Chance Starts Today
Second chances aren't given — they're taken. Day 21 of 30 Days of Hard Truths: Your Second Chance Starts Today. Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesNovember 2, 2026 - Marie Curie: Two Nobel Prizes, Two Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Moved an Empire With Salt
Marie Curie, barred from university as a woman, studied in secret in Warsaw, discovered polonium and radium in a drafty Paris shed, and became the only person…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 20: Starting Over Is Not Starting From Zero
Starting over is not starting from zero — you keep everything you learned. Day 20 of 30 Days of Hard Truths.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesNovember 1, 2026 - Martin Luther King Jr.: The Dream That Changed a Nation, Your Questions Our Stories
Martin Luther King Jr., a preacher's son from Atlanta who entered college at fifteen, led a 381-day bus boycott at twenty-six, wrote from a Birmingham jail…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 19: Let Go or Be Dragged
Day 19: Let Go or Be Dragged — holding on feels like loyalty, but it is a leash; free your hands for what's next by letting go of what's over.Get the book on…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 31, 2026 - Abraham Lincoln: Held a Nation Together, Muhammad Ali: The Crown He Gave Up
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught boy from a log cabin, held a breaking nation together, turned the Civil War into a fight to end slavery, and chose charity over…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 18: Other People's Opinions Don't Pay Your Bills
Day 18: Other People's Opinions Don't Pay Your Bills — the crowd is loud, but it is not living your life; take advice only from people living the life you…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 30, 2026 - Nelson Mandela: 27 Years, He Forgave, Cicada 3301 Unsolved Puzzle
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, refused an offer of freedom in 1985, and walked out in 1990 choosing forgiveness over revenge. Then: Cicada 3301, the…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 17: Rock Bottom Has a Basement — Stop Digging
Day 17: Rock Bottom Has a Basement — Stop Digging — things can always get worse; put down the shovel and stop making the hole deeper.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 29, 2026 - Frederick Valentich Disappearance, Aron Ralston 127 Hours
A 20-year-old pilot reported something hovering above his Cessna in 1978 — then vanished without a trace. In 2003, a climber trapped for 127 hours in a Utah…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 16: Rejection Is Redirection
Day 16: Rejection Is Redirection — that no felt personal; read it as information, not a verdict on your worth.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 28, 2026 - Flight 19, Steven Callahan Adrift 76 Days
Five Navy bombers vanished over the Atlantic in 1945 — and the rescue plane vanished too. Then, in 1982, one sailor survived 76 days alone on a six-foot raft…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 15: Failure Is Tuition, Not a Tombstone
Day 15: Failure Is Tuition, Not a Tombstone — failure is tuition, not a tombstone; keep the lesson, discard the shame.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 14: Boredom Is Where Growth Hides
Day 14: Boredom Is Where Growth Hides — the work that changes you is boring; mastery is just boredom that refused to quit.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 13: Keep the Promises You Make to Yourself
Day 13: Keep the Promises You Make to Yourself — every broken promise to yourself is a withdrawal from your confidence account; start making deposits today.Get…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 25, 2026 - Juliane Koepcke, Your Questions Our Stories
She fell nearly two miles from a plane that broke apart in a thunderstorm — and then survived eleven days alone in the Amazon. Inspirational true stories and…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 12: Patience Is a Superpower
Day 12: Patience Is a Superpower — everyone wants it now, and that is exactly why patience wins; stay in the game longer than your impatience.Get the book on…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 24, 2026 - Vesna Vulovic, The Watcher House
She fell 33,333 feet with no parachute and walked again ten months later, and a family bought a dream house they never dared to sleep in: two true stories…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 11: Say No Like Your Future Depends on It
Day 11: Say No Like Your Future Depends on It — every yes is a no to something else, so guard your hours like the currency they are.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 23, 2026 - Shackleton's Endurance, The Isdal Woman
Twenty eight men lose their ship to Antarctic ice and refuse to lose each other, and in a Norwegian valley a woman is found with every label removed from…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 10: Do It Tired
Day 10: Do It Tired — energy comes after you start, not before, so do the work tired and watch it show up.Get the book on Kindle…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 22, 2026 - The Blue Whale Panic, The Salish Sea Sneakers
A frightening number races around the world with no investigation behind it, and along one northern sea, running shoes keep washing ashore carrying a mystery…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 21, 2026 - The Great Boston Molasses Flood, The Momo Hoax
A wave of molasses races through Boston at thirty-five miles an hour, and a hundred years later a photograph races around the world as a monster that never…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change LivesOctober 20, 2026 - Tham Luang Cave Rescue
Thirteen lives, one flooded cave, and no safe way out: in 2018 the world held its breath as divers raced the monsoon to reach twelve boys and their coach…
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October 19, 2026 - The Carrington Event, The Carrington Story in Spanish, Messages Sent to Aliens
In September 1859 the strongest geomagnetic storm ever recorded set telegraph wires sparking, lit auroras over the tropics, and let operators send messages on…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 9: Win the Morning, Win the Day
Day 9: Win the Morning, Win the Day — grab the steering wheel in your first hour, before your phone hands your day to everyone else. Get the book on Kindle…
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October 18, 2026 - The Ahnenerbe Expedition to Tibet, The First Spanish Premiere, Your Questions Our Stories
In 1939 a five-man SS expedition entered Lhasa carrying real science — and hunting proof for an idea that was never true. At noon today that same story…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 8: Small Steps Beat Big Dreams
Day 8: Small Steps Beat Big Dreams — shrink the step until it's impossible to fail, then do it today.Get the book on Kindle…
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October 17, 2026 - The Summerland Fire, The Ronan Point Collapse, The Late Late Breakfast Show Death
Three thousand holidaymakers were inside Summerland when a discarded match found walls that could burn. One gas explosion tore a corner off Ronan Point in…
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October 16, 2026 - Kryptos K4, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Soyuz 11
Ninety-seven letters cut into copper at CIA headquarters still refuse to be read. The Edmund Fitzgerald vanished on Lake Superior minutes after reporting "we…
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October 15, 2026 - The Sunshine Skyway Disaster, The Cairngorm Survivors, Silk Road and the Pardon
A freighter struck the Sunshine Skyway and 1,297 feet of roadway fell into Tampa Bay. Schoolchildren bivouacked in a Cairngorm blizzard while rescuers searched…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 7: The Story You Tell Yourself Is Running Your Life
The story you tell yourself is running your life — Day 7 of 30 Days of Hard Truths. 📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK1JF39N?tag=boussad20-20 ✉️ Free…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 6: Stop Comparing Your Chapter 1 to Someone's Chapter 20
You're scrolling. They're winning. You're losing. That's the story you tell yourself in four seconds flat. Day 6 of 30 Days of Hard Truths is about the only…
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October 14, 2026 - Poon Lim, The Skyway Survivor, The Last Drive
A steward survived 133 days alone on an eight-foot raft in the Atlantic. One man fell 150 feet when the Sunshine Skyway collapsed — and was the only one who…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 5: Motivation Is a Mood; Discipline Is a Decision
Motivation is weather — discipline is the decision you made when you were clear-headed. Day 5 of 30 Days of Hard Truths, by Boussad Charchour.Get the book on…
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October 13, 2026 - Harrison Okene, Juliane Koepcke, The Princess Returns
A ship's cook survived sixty hours in an air pocket a hundred feet under the ocean. A seventeen-year-old fell two miles from a broken airliner and walked…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 4: You're Not Stuck — You're Scared
You've been telling everyone you're stuck. Your job. Your situation. Your life. You're not stuck — you're scared. Day 4 of "30 Days of Hard Truths" by Boussad…
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30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 3: Comfort Is a Slow Death
Day 3: Comfort Is a Slow Death — from the book '30 Days of Hard Truths'.Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK1JF39N?tag=boussad20-20Free 7-day email…
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October 11, 2026 - The Mothman, The Bennington Triangle, The Wedding of the Century
A winged creature with burning red eyes stalks Point Pleasant. Five people vanish in Vermont's cursed mountains. And a Philadelphia girl marries a prince…
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October 12, 2026 - The Oakville Blobs, The Greenbrier Ghost, The Gilded Cage
Jelly rained over Oakville in 1994 and everyone who touched it got sick. A mother said her daughter's ghost proved a murder in 1897. And Grace Kelly built a…
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October 10, 2026 - The Boy in the Box, The Circleville Letters, The Prince's Proposal
Three true stories: a boy found in a box in 1957 Philadelphia whose identity stayed hidden for 65 years, the poison-pen letters that terrorized an Ohio town…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 2: Your Excuses Sound Better Than Your Results (Pilot)
Day 2 of the serialized audiobook. Your excuses are excellent — polished, reasonable, almost convincing. Too bad your results don't match the presentation.Read…
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October 9, 2026 - The Hinterkaifeck Murders, The Green Children of Woolpit, The Oscar Upset
Three true stories from October 9th: the Hinterkaifeck murders of 1922 — six lives, a farm full of warning signs, and a killer who stayed; the Green Children…
Little Bit Better Daily | True Stories That Change Lives30 Days of Hard Truths — Day 1: Nobody Is Coming to Save You (Pilot)
A new experiment: the audiobook of my book "30 Days of Hard Truths," read aloud one day at a time. Day 1: Nobody Is Coming to Save You — the truth no one wants…
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October 7, 2026 - The Yuba County Five, High Noon
Two true stories from October 7th: the Yuba County Five — five friends who drove into one of America's strangest mysteries and never came home; and Grace…
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October 8, 2026 - The Tunguska Event, The Lead Masks Case, The Hitchcock Blonde
Three true stories from October 8th: the Tunguska event of 1908 — the largest explosion in recorded history, with no crater ever found; the Lead Masks Case —…
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October 6, 2026 - Amelia Earhart's Disappearance, The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Two true stories from October 6th: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart over the Pacific in 1937, and the Lost Colony of Roanoke — 117 people who vanished from…
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October 5, 2026 — The Dyatlov Pass Incident, The Springfield Three, Grace Kelly: New York Eats Dreams
Three true stories, one small step forward: the Dyatlov Pass Incident (1959), the Springfield Three (1992), and Grace Kelly's New York years — "New York Eats…
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2026-10-04 — Victor Lustig, The Dancing Plague of 1518, The Sodder Children
Three true stories. One small step forward. This episode: the con man who sold the Eiffel Tower, the city that danced until it dropped, and the children who…