People love to tell stories and learn from them. It is inevitable that every successful person at one time experienced hardship in their life. Nevertheless, sometimes success is created because of a hardship, such as loss of a job, a loved one, a home or one’s health. Regardless of the “lemon,” people currently facing a challenging time in their life can benefit from inspirational stories told by the people who not only lived through them, but found a better path forward. These inspirational people did not let their lemon define them, but their spark.