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.
Mark Victor Hansen has been using his dynamic personality to spread the message of unlimited possibility, for all people, everywhere, for over thirty years. He is most recognized for being one the co-founders of the beloved, and world record breaking Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He is a bestselling author and an accomplished entrepreneur. He is highly respected, and has been inducted into the Sales & Marketing Executive International Hall of Fame and accepted the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans Extraordinary Life Achievement in the area of Free Enterprise Leadership. Today, he is still passionate about ending poverty and illiteracy and continues to make an indelible mark through his writing, speaking, entrepreneurial, and philanthropic efforts.
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.
Dean Karnazes has been called an “ultrarunning legend” by Men’s Journal and “one of the sexiest men in sports” by Sports Illustrated for Women. Winner of the 2004 Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley, he is the author of Ultramarathon Man. A columnist for Men’s Health, he lives with his wife and two children in San Francisco.
About the Narrators
Christina Traister, Earphones Award–winning narrator, has worked nationally as a professional actor for over fifteen years with a career focusing on classical theater. She teaches acting, voice, and stage combat in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University.
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.