Stories, deep dives, and behind-the-scenes reporting on the man behind 55.6 million fans, 38 billion impressions, and the modern internet's most joyful kindness movement.
Zachery Dereniowski started MDMotivator in 2020 from lockdown in Sydney, Australia, while studying medicine and quietly battling depression nobody around him noticed.
Five years later, he's the voice behind the modern internet's most-watched kindness movement — pairing strangers in need with surprises that change their lives, often joined by names like Big Sean, Ice Cube, Taraji P. Henson, and Daniel Lubetzky.
This site exists because his fans deserved a single place to find his full story. We're not affiliated with him. We're just telling the story right.
Read the full storyThree hand-picked deep dives from the archive — the origin, the defining moment, and what this whole thing is really about.
Origin StoriesBefore the millions of followers, Zachery was just a kid from a Canadian border town with a story most fans never hear in full.
Six days out of a 21-year sentence, on his 51st birthday, an Army veteran made a small choice that rewrote his entire life.
Be Kind YourselfYou don't need 27 million followers to do what he does. Seven things you can try by Friday.