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One Small Step participants Harris Vaughn (49) and Bob McLaughlin [no age given] talk about their upbringing, the losses and mentors that have shaped their lives, and their experiences starting their own business.

Joe O'Geen (32) has a conversation with his mom, Mary Jo Peed (64), about her childhood, education and career path.

Margaret "Marty" Harding (84) talks to her friend Ann Davison (57) about her childhood as a sharecropper's daughter in rural Virginia, what it was like being the first member of her family to attend college, and her experience working on...

One Small Step conversation partners Joseph "Dennis" Delaney (84) and Jean O'Sullivan (76) connected and reminisced about days past in the Vermont Legislature. They talked about childcare, taxes, education and the Build Back Better plan.

Amy Coulliette (51) interviews her father, Richard Allen (70), about his childhood in the Tunas, Missouri, his experience serving in the U.S. Navy, his retirement in the Ozarks region, and the characters that he has met along the way.

One Small Step conversation partners Michelle Mercurio (46) and Ron Shamashkin (65) discuss pivotal political moments in their lives, healthcare, education, and media that has deepened their understanding of the world.

One Small Step participants David [No Name Given] (53) and Bill [No Name Given] (76) discuss how conversations feel more like debates these dates, politicians are more concerned about having issues than solving them, and the great need for hope.

One Small Step Partners, Justin Cummins (32) and Brian Baker (66), talk about how the military touched each of their lives and affected their political perspectives.

Laura Peterson (52) talks with fellow Delta Gamma Fraternity member, Tracy Kelly Solheim (61), about her youth as a military kid as well as her subsequent writing career.

Stephen Simonds (98) tells his daughter, Laura Simonds-Rumpf (63), about his time in the Navy during World War II and also describes his career in Social Welfare and Human Services.

New friends Harold Bell (84) and Kiplyn Primus (61) talk about Harold's early life and how those experiences led him to a career in sports talk radio.

One Small Step conversation participants, Tom Hanlon (76) and Jennifer Trotter (32), talk about being raised Catholic, what they are passionate about, and health care.

Dawn Heath-Fiedler (58) and her friend and colleague Heather Brewer (53) talk about their work caring for victims of human trafficking and educating young people to avoid being victims.

Michaela Shafer (68) interviews her friend Patricia "Pat" Davis (65) about her service in the Air Force, how she balanced her military service with her family life, and her transition to civilian life.

Siblings Caitlin Sigal (37) and Stephen Ginley (31) talk about their relationship over the years as well as their hopes for the future.

Crayton Robey (50) interviews his friend Tom Ciano (66) about his experience during the AIDS epidemic, being a caretaker to his partner Tom Morgan and their relationship to Fire Island Pines.

One Small Step conversation partners Sean McKell (53) and Erik Hendrickson (65), strangers, have a conversation about their backgrounds, families, careers, and beliefs, finding commonalities despite differences in age and life experiences.

One Small Step partners Stephen Dareing (58) and MG Anderson (66) have a conversation about divisiveness created by the media, feeling patriotic and unpatriotic, and wanting a government that represents them.

One Small Step partners, Andrew Burnham (50) and Brendan Daly (59), share their political beliefs, their shared experience of the non-profit world and come to reminisce about how politics didn't used to be such a touchy subject.

One Small Step conversation partners John Hisle (81) and Eric Spivack (45) discuss parenting, their vocational paths and changing systems of government.

Sisters Alexis Roberts McMillan [no age given] and Enid Roberts MD [no age given] talk about how growing up alongside Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as with their family’s pharmacy, Economy Drug Store, impacted...

One Small Step conversation partners Joann Keyton (70) and Charles "Charley" Mullin [no age given] talk about trauma, war, and Dalmatians.

Colleagues Bryan Buckley (34) and Olivia Umoren (29) discuss growing up as the children of immigrants and their careers in health equity.

Kristin Mawhinney (68) and her daughter Kate Holmes (39) share a conversation about their careers working in education.

Patricia Larrabee (85) is interviewed by friend, Connie Harrison (68), about her life as a daring young woman and her time in the Marine Corps.