As a survivor of sexual assault, Jessica Ladd found the process of reporting the incident “more traumatic than the assault itself.” By creating an online reporting system, she is now helping survivors document their experiences, even if they’re not ready to go to the authorities. Ladd offers her Brief but Spectacular take on empowering survivors of sexual assault.

In the 100th episode of Brief but Spectacular, 92-year-old Richard Goldbloom offers his take on the things that have made his life spectacular, and what it’s like to begin losing your memories.

People working on the front lines of the opioid crisis at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation offer their Brief but Spectacular takes on addiction and recovery.

It took just 10 minutes to flip a switch in Ariel Levy’s body and mind to make her into a mother. The journalist was on her final major overseas reporting trip, in rural Mongolia, when her pregnancy ended prematurely and she gave birth in her hotel to a son who did not survive. Levy gives her Brief but Spectacular take on miscarriage and our inability to control Mother Nature.