Episode list

Leon Panetta is one of the most distinguished and most accomplished public servants in American history. Leon was born and raised in Monterey, California, the place where his father an Italian immigrant and the youngest of 13 children ultimately settled.

Maya Wiley is a brilliant and powerful woman who has spent her professional life at the intersection of law, education, and policy. Born into both privilege and poverty the child of two prominent civil rights activists, Maya grew up in a loving and intact home and, yet, in a broken educational system.

Vivek Murthy is a doctor and an author a deeply thoughtful, interesting, kind, caring, and reflective medical professional, who served as the Surgeon General of the United States.

Kathy Sullivan is an explorer and a pioneer, an oceanographer and a scientist, an astronaut and an American hero.

Carol Lam grew up in New Jersey, and was educated at Yale and Stanford Law School. Soon after law school, she found a job she loved in the Justice Department as a federal prosecutor in San Diego where she handled complex health care fraud cases.

Jim Miller is the former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

Fiona Hill is the former Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council. A highly respected scholar on Russian history and culture, Fiona was born and raised in the industrial northeast of England.

Amy Hess dreamed as a child of being an astronaut. A star student and athlete in high school, she studied aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue though poor eyesight dashed her NASA dreams.

Mike Leiter grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where his extraordinary public service career began early in high school, when he worked as an Emergency Medical Technician.

Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III (Sully) was born in Denison, a small North Texas town on the Oklahoma border. There, as a teenager, he learned to fly a single engine prop plane off a grass strip. A serious and talented but shy and introverted high school student, Sully was admitted to the highly competitive United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.