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A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 25, 2026 "True love requires the ego to fall silent so that something larger than ourselves can finally move through us." — Nguyễn Phương Lam A Wall Street Refugee Finds His Poetry Again He co-founded a global private equity empire, traveled to over 130 countries, and checked every box the world said mattered. Then, he looked inward and found, as he puts it, "the ego doing all of it." Nguyen Phuong Lam offers a unique reckoning written from inside the machine, by someone who helped run it. Born in Vietnam, Lam traces a ...

The Origin Point of Stories

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 24, 2026 "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." — Rumi The Origin Point of Stories There are two places a story can come from, remarks filmmaker Nic Askew, who has sat with thousands of people over decades, being an authentic witness to their stories. One is the calculating mind, which speaks *to* someone with the notion of giving or getting or contributing something. The other is a deeper source that speaks *through* a person once they set that all down. In a short piece of raw, unedited footage, Nic describes ...

How a Spinal Cord Injury Seeded a Platform for Dancing with Wheels

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 23, 2026 "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri Nouwen How a Spinal Cord Injury Seeded a Platform for Dancing with Wheels After a 2018 road accident left her paraplegic, Priya Sharma sat in her wheelchair at her sister's wedding and, at her siblings' insistence, danced. It was "the first time I felt joy after the accident," she observed. That moment became the seed of Dance With Wheels, a platform she founded in 2024 that connects women and girls with di...

A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 22, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 22, 2026 "Recognizing “enoughness” is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more." — Robin Wall Kimmerer A Minneapolis Cafe Removed Its Prices -- and Business Is Thriving Earlier this year, a Minneapolis café quietly removed the prices from its menu -- and profits are up. Owner Dylan Alverson transformed Post Modern Times into a donation-only restaurant in February 2026, initially as an act of social activism after a series of community deaths he witnessed up close. What happened next surprised even him....

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone." — Margaret Wheatley This Week's DailyGood Digest This week's inspirations remind us of the interconnectedness embedded in our existence. Storyteller Leena Wilde Ryan delved us into the power of standing at the  threshold of a new story , complete with plot twists and the punctuation of our intentions. Follow...

Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on?

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 21, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 21, 2026 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." — Pablo Picasso Ireland Is Now Paying Artists a Basic income. Will the Idea Catch on? When Cork multimedia artist Elinor O'Donovan was working part-time as a receptionist just to pay rent, an entire film career was waiting, unrealized, on the other side of financial precarity. Ireland's newly permanent basic income for artists -- the first such trial in history to become permanent -- changed that, and in doing so, raised a questio...

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jun 20, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jun 20, 2026 "We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go." — Judith Viorst Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go Maria Popova's meditation on Judith Viorst's Necessary Losses offers something quietly radical: the idea that loss is not the opposite of a full life, but its very architecture. Viorst maps the full terrain of what humans relinquish -- ...