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.
D’ette Corona
began working as a full-time Production Coordinator for the Chicken Soup for the
Soul series in 2003. Born and raised in California, Corona received her
bachelor of science in business management in 1994. She is now Assistant
Publisher for Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC and is proud to
continue to “change the world one story at a time.”
Barbara LoMonaco
is a writer and speaker who grew up in Los Angeles. She received her bachelor’s
degree in education from the University of Southern California, and taught at
the elementary school level when she had her first child. LoMonaco has served
as editor and webmaster for Chicken Soup for the Soul since 1998. She lives in
Santa Barbara.
About the Narrators
Laural Merlington is an audiobook narrator with over two hundred titles to her credit and a winner of multiple Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks. She has performed and directed for thirty years in theaters throughout the country. In addition to her extensive theater and voice-over work, she teaches college in her home state of Michigan.
Jim Bond is a writer and audiobook narrator who has voiced nearly two hundred titles including Blood Is the Sky, Escape the Rat Race, A Thousand Country Roads, and many of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books.