Secret Millionaire

- Season 2

(2011)

Millionaire and successful entrepreneur Dani Johnson leaves her family and lavish lifestyle behind to spend six days in one of the poorest areas of Knoxville, Tennessee, in search of those most in need of her help. While there, she will survive on welfare level wages, volunteer her time and search her heart to determine how much of her own fortune to gift the community heroes she meets.

Real estate investor and multi-millionaire Marc Paskin spends a week living in a typical, run down, one-bedroom house on the east side of Detroit, an area with a reputation for crime, drugs and gangs. Paskin will have to survive on $50.00, the equivalent of one week of Detroit's welfare assistance for a single man over 55. During this time, he will find deserving people and organizations that are making a real difference in the lives of men, women and children, and will surprise these heroes with donations of thousands of dollars from his own fortune.

Motivational speaking mogul and author James Malinchak leaves his jet-setting life behind to live in Gary, Indiana, a city hit hard by the economic downturn. He will spend a week living on welfare level wages in a rundown neighborhood. While there, he will spend time volunteering where his help is needed most, searching for deserving people and organizations that are making a real difference, and will surprise these heroes with donations of thousands of dollars from his own fortune.

Following the deaths of two close friends, millionaire Internet entrepreneur John Ferber came to the realization that there was more to life than work. He took the loss of his friends as a wake-up call to live life fully and be more hands-on with helping others, eventually starting his online charitable website, Microgiving.com. For six days, Ferber will leave his luxurious Florida home and live on welfare level wages for a week among the 15,000 nightly homeless inhabitants of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, California. While there, he will search for people and ...

Gary & Diane Heavin, CEOs/founders of Curves International, Inc., the world's largest fitness franchise company, leave their thousand-acre ranch in Texas and spend a week living in Houston's "Third Ward," where 20% of the residents live in extreme poverty. Gary & Diane will stay in a rundown one-bedroom home in a neighborhood not far from where Gary was born, home to one of the highest crime rates in the nation. They will have to survive on $6.50 per day, the equivalent of food stamps for a two-person household in Texas. During this time, they discover three ...

Entrepreneur Ali Brown lives among the homeless in Venice Beach, CA.