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.
Laura Robinson
is a Canadian actress, inventor, and producer. She has enjoyed a successful and
varied career as an actress with many roles in film and television, both in Los
Angeles and Toronto. In 2009, Laura was a guest author for the bestselling book
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your
Blessings. Robinson co-invented the classic, best-selling board game
'Balderdash', which has sold over twenty-five million copies worldwide. A
gifted singer-songwriter, she is married with two children.
Buck Schirner’s professional
career has primarily been on stage as a character actor. He is currently active
in the theater scene in Philadelphia. Buck also appears in the
independent film In the Woods.
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.
Buck Schirner’s professional
career has primarily been on stage as a character actor. He is currently active
in the theater scene in Philadelphia. Buck also appears in the
independent film In the Woods.