The director survived childhood trauma and the AIDS crisis to conquer both independent and mainstream Hollywood.

From facing the rough streets of West Philadelphia to losing his father at a young age, Lee Daniels has worked to become one of Hollywood’s leading writers, producers and directors. With Academy Award–winning films like Monster’s Ball and Precious, and critical darlings like The Butler, Daniels has managed to conquer both the independent and mainstream sides of Hollywood.

How did this gay Black man shatter stereotypes in the entertainment industry and overcome his own trauma to build a distinguished career that not only brought success, but also created a cultural phenomenon?

OZY Media’s third prime-time television show, Breaking Big, airs Fridays at 8.30pm ET on OZY.com, Facebook Watch and PBS. Join us as we explore the unexpected journeys to success of some of the world’s most influential stars.

From Detroit to Delhi, Santiago to Split, crypto ATMs are on the rise, sparking a fight over the new market.

Walk into a Prague subway station and chances are you’ll see an ATM. But you don’t need a debit card or even a bank account to use this machine. This is a cryptocurrency ATM. It’s the physical manifestation of a set of virtual currencies that have leapt out of the shadows of the underground to the mainstream of global finance. And it’s over these ATMs that the latest race in the cryptosphere is unfolding.

From Detroit to Delhi, and Santiago to Split, cryptocurrency ATMs are popping up around the world, catering to an interest that has been tempered by a crash in Bitcoin valuations this year. The first such ATM opened in 2013 at Waves coffee shop in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now, just five years later, more than 3,000 cryptocurrency ATMs populate train stations, factories, delis, hookah bars, tattoo shops, pubs and even pet clinics. These ATMs allow users to withdraw cash or cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. And crypto kingpins are now duking it out for control of that exploding market.

From regulating breasts in Georgia and banning plastic in Mayan towns to herding Italian cows, here’s the best of OZY this week.

In the past seven days, the world delivered plenty of stuff you haven’t seen before — a presidential assassination attempt by drone, in Venezuela; Saudi Arabia rapping the diplomatic knuckles of that troublemaker Canada over its thing about human rights in the desert kingdom; and a presidential admission that Junior met with Russians in the tower to get HRC dirt — who needs a Mueller grilling?

But now it’s time to chill — and check out the stories in this week’s best of OZY collection.