About the Authors
Jack Canfield is the cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and has received international recognition. An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he is also the CEO of the Canfield Training Group and the founder of the Transformational Leadership Council. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to having won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has been nominated multiple times for the prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, and she also narrates audiobooks under the name Jane Brown.
Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash’s guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney’s Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renée Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.
About the Narrators
Amy Newmark is publisher, coauthor, and editor of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. She has edited or coauthored the last
one hundred books in the series. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University where she majored in Portuguese, and spent her senior year editing a
newsletter about telecom sales in Brazil and also traveling in northeast
Brazil, collecting poems and stories of local writers for her thesis. She went
on to run her own hedge fund, specializing in telecommunications and technology
companies and stepped in as publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul in 2008. She
is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career. Amy is married to
Chicken Soup’s CEO, Bill Rouhana.
Phil Gigante has narrated more than two hundred audiobooks, earning ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and three of the prestigious Audie Awards for best narration. An actor, director, and producer with over twenty years of experience in theater, film, television, and radio, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children’s Theatre.