Tonight we meet Kalina Silverman, a storyteller who's transforming how we connect with each other.

Her make-big-talk project turns simple conversations into profound exchanges and has reached

millions through her viral videos. Recently, Silverman turned her attention to documenting the stories

of California wildfire survivors, helping to raise

millions in relief. Here now is Kalina Silverman's brief but spectacular take.

I feel that everything we do in life we have a limited amount of time should be meaningful.

Every conversation we have, every relationship, there should be something to it that keeps you moving

forward with a sense of human connection and purpose.

Every time I meet someone new and have a meaningful conversation with them, I get this

sense of a high, euphoria, more than anything, any drug you could ever take.

Just having a meaningful interaction with a complete stranger makes me elated.

I love people. I've always loved people.

I remember when I was in kindergarten, I visited China for the first time,

and my grandpa tried to convince me that he was friends with everyone in the whole wide world,

and he walked with me and he said hi to every single person we encountered

and started a conversation with them.

And I think little five-year-old me actually took a lot of inspiration from that.

One night I was having a deep conversation with a friend and he said,

screw small talk. So the name Big Talk popped into my mind and I didn't know what to do with it at the time.

And that following summer I had the opportunity to go to Germany, to work on a project

about the Holocaust. We had to meet new people right away, build trust with them, be invited

into their homes, into government offices, and have big talk instead of small talk. And that was

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