Joining the high school gospel choir was transformative for musician Zeshan B., the son of immigrants from India, who learned to sing his heart and soul out on stage. Now he's using his platform as an artist to speak out about racial unrest and injustice. Zeshan B. offers his Brief but Spectacular take on groovin' for change.

Holocaust survivor Reva Kibort remembers when the German soldiers came to Warsaw, Poland, and at first, she says, "they weren't so bad." But soon enough she was transported to a concentration camp, escaping the murder the other children suffered by hiding in a pile of dirty laundry. Kibort gives her Brief but Spectacular take on being a survivor and speaking out about injustice.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife found out their son had autism, they were crushed by the fear that they couldn’t communicate. But they began to realize that he was learning to tell stories through Disney movies. The realization made Suskind ask, who decides what makes life truly meaningful? Suskind offers his Brief but Spectacular take on finding everyone's story.

The content-creator online world is misunderstood, says author and podcaster Emma Gannon, who sees the future of work being rewritten by social media go-getters who don't necessarily work 9-5. Gannon, a self-described “multi-hyphenate” who hosts Ctrl Alt Delete and has written a book by the same name, gives her Brief but Spectacular take on the highs and lows of social media.