What does it look like when two people spend a lifetime quietly making everyone around them better? For Tom Barnes - sports media executive, endurance athlete, and one of a handful of people to have ever rowed an ocean - the answer is Paul and Linda. His parents.

Long before Tom and his rowing partner Rich pushed off from the Canary Islands into 72 days of open Atlantic, it was Paul who said six words that changed everything: "What can I do to help?" No hesitation. No doubt. Just a quiet, unconditional yes - and then years of relentless behind-the-scenes work to get two full-time working men to a start line that cost over £60,000 to reach.

And Linda? She was the energy in the room before Tom even knew what energy meant. A PE teacher who made her own school feel like home. A volunteer who never stopped - Brownies, Citizens Advice, furniture runs for strangers in need. A woman who, at 73, is still moving sofas for people she'll never meet again - and who has never once called her son to say she's having a bad day.

This episode is about what happens when you grow up surrounded by people who lead with generosity, faith, and an instinct to show up. And what it means to carry that forward - as a father, a friend, and someone trying to figure out what kind of person he wants to be.

Colonel Ray Rider flew F-16s, survived Vietnam, graduated top of his class at the Air Force's elite Fighter Weapons School — the real-life equivalent of Top Gun — and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the United States' premier decoration for extraordinary achievement in aerial flight. He served his country for 30 years. Then Alzheimer's disease tried to take the rest.

In this episode, Kristen Rider honours her father — a man whose brilliance wasn't just found in a cockpit over Vietnam, but in the way he returned a shopping trolley, anticipated what the person next to him needed, and held everyone around him to a standard rooted in love, not fear.

Kristen shares what it was like growing up as a military child across three continents, the quiet devastation of watching a high-performing man fight a disease that robbed him of himself, and how losing her parents within years of each other led her to spend 12 years working alongside the Alzheimer's Association.

This is a story about service in its fullest sense — the kind that shows up in war, in marriage, in parenthood, and in a car park where everyone else has walked away.

Alzheimer's resources: 🇺🇸 USA: alz.org 🇬🇧 UK: alzheimers.org.uk

What happens when a brilliant coach sees potential in the kid everyone else wants to kick out?

Coach Ed Harris didn't just teach Steve Price how to play American football — he saw something in a hyperactive 11-year-old British kid who didn't know the rules, didn't respect authority, and was more interested in causing chaos than playing the game. While teachers suspended Steve, Coach Ed did something radical: he stayed.

Through relentless discipline, fourth-quarter punishment runs, and an unexpected moment of recognition, Coach Ed transformed Steve from the team's biggest liability into one of its captains. He channelled Steve's energy, backed his progress, and showed him what it means to be someone worth following.

This episode explores how one coach's refusal to give up on a difficult kid didn't just change Steve's relationship with sport — it changed the entire trajectory of his life. From Portsmouth school fights to American football stardom, this is a story about discipline, belief, and the power of seeing people for who they could become.