Dawn Sprong lives in Chicago with a large blended family, a growing collection of animals, and loves to walk, collect crystals, dance, and read.

Dawn is a self proclaimed messenger. She decided that life was more than what she was being led to believe or had been taught.   She had to find out for herself why she had the nagging feeling she was missing the entire point of being alive. After 12 years in sports promotions and 15 years running a successful business, she withdrew from the rat race, and went in search of what is possible. This meant making every decision based on what her heart and instincts were telling her and ignoring pretty much everything she had been taught about life.

What is possible? That is the question that she believes every life must answer. Is anything random or are we just conditioned from birth to ignore what we are being called by our heart to respond to. After spending thousands of hours writing, studying, reading, and in silence with her own thoughts, a new life emerged. Dawn no longer feels that she is the person she once was, rather that she is letting life work through her.

The success of MAI Apparel, the blessing bracelets, her home, marriage, and what she sees as every gift of life possible are actually the result of her retirement from chasing money and materialism. The truth for Dawn is to seek peace, happiness, and affluence, and to bring those same gifts to others.  Everyone could have their heart’s desires. Finding the dream you were born to is a journey that is beyond what we are being told, what we are taught, or what you can even imagine.              

  http://dearreason.com

Has written the great American novel, volumes of picaresque verse, as well as several well-crafted short stories.  None of which has ever been published.  However, he has written many technical training manuals, user specifications, and engineering documents that describe the flow and configuration of industrial computers, and how to program the machines so they don’t catch fire and cause a ruckus.  Nearly all of this output has been published by the high-tech and aerospace firms that have employed him over the years.
 
It is this fusion of art and machinery that has enabled him to bring to life The History of a Safer World – a love story about business.  It is a beautiful story of men and machines that will inform and entertain you.  He has been a witness to the space and time in which these events have occurred.  He has recorded the voices of this stunning entrepreneurial triumph.  In these times, their story is more relevant than ever as a legacy on how to build and grow businesses as the story takes place during the global recession that followed the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.    
 
Mr. Wilkinson was born in the gritty river town of Chester, Pennsylvania, a few miles southeast of Philadelphia.  After a non-descript academic career, he joined the army.   During his military service, he continuously trained to defend his county, particularly if the expert application of mops and brooms were to be called upon.  
 
During the mid-1980’s he arrived at Huntington Beach, California.  At the time it was known as a center of the punk rock music scene, with skinheads and surfers warily skateboarding past each other on Main Street, which led to the pier.   There were scores of shops to buy booze and corners to buy drugs, and there was no Starbucks.  
 
Then, on January 17th, 1988, something happened.  The pier collapsed into the ocean.  The city fathers used the rebuilding of the pier as a fine reason to clear out the riff-raff, some still call it the character, from the city streets.  When the pier re-opened four years later, there were designer shops, high-end condos, and upscale restaurants.  And, of course, a Starbucks opened.
 
He began working for Triconex in December, 1995.   It was a magical place to work.   And, nearby, there was another magical destination called Wonderware.   In the evangelical sun culture of Orange County, the History of a Safer World began.

Gary's Blog The History of a Safer World

A highly successful business consultant and entrepreneur and the first blind person in history to win the prestigious National Ensign Sailing championship, Vince Morvillo embodies a lifelong belief that "what is is not all there is… nor all that can be." Anything is possible when you harness the power of the unimagined.

A long-time resident of Houston, Texas, he received his MBA from the University of Houston, graduating in the top 2% of his class.

Vince was born blind, but far from being defeated by his disability, he learned that blindness could be a catalyst for creativity. Not being able to see as others do forced Vince to approach even commonplace situations in a non-conventional way, literally to see things differently. Applying this way of thinking to other pursuits – replacing sight with vision – has led to extraordinary achievements in business and in his personal life.

Over a long and successful career in venture capital and as a business consultant, he has engineered several business turnarounds and helped many companies increase bottom-line performance.

With no outside financial support, Vince personally built one of the largest yacht sales organizations on the Gulf Coast, taking it to profitability in just two years. The business continues to thrive, even in today’s economic climate and despite devastating losses sustained in Hurricane Ike.

Reflecting on his approach, Vince has developed a practical, step-by-step method to help businesses and individuals redirect their way of thinking. As a motivational speaker to large audiences – and in workshops with small groups and business teams - Vince shows how to harness the power of the unimagined, break down the barriers and achieve success.

Passionately devoted to his sport, his community and to helping others, Vince was 1992's Yachtsman of the Year and received Houston's Good Skipper Award for community service. He was also named an Honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy for outstanding achievement and community service.

http://vincemorvillo.com/

A seasoned writer, Jill has authored four books and served as a featured columnist for a Western New York Christian news publication. Her first book, Messages of Hope, is an anthology of the articles she penned for the newspaper. Like pieces of her heart, every sentence was written from a place where God was willing to reveal Himself to her as she struggled to care for her dying son.

Jill writes with a tenderness and candor that has served her and her readers well in laying her soul bare on the page. Through deeply personal journal entries, she has written, Prayers for Those Who Grieve and Prayers of Hope for the Brokenhearted, sharing her most intimate struggles through the loss of her son, Hunter, and the many painful experiences that followed along her path of healing.

Her unique journey through life has been forever memorialized in Without a Word, How a Boy’s Unspoken Love Changed Everything, a memoir of hope and healing that shares the story of her son, Hunter’s, incredible impact on their family. The deeply human narrative chronicles the dramatic way God rescued the Kelly family and revealed Himself through the suffering of their son, turning their hearts to the suffering of His Son ─ and ultimately restoring their love.
“Oddly, I have been writing for years…in my journals.  Never did I ever think that God would allow my writings to touch people in the way they have,” Jill recalls. “I’m humbled and grateful though I will never fully comprehend why God chooses to use broken vessels, like me, to reveal His heart.”

“I’m passionate about the Word of God and can’t live without it,” she continues. “Truly, the more I hide it in my heart the more it fills the words I speak and put on paper.  The written word is a powerful tool; yet without His love and grace in every line and letter, what is penned can’t possibly change a heart or life.  My words are meaningless without the story of who God is woven throughout.  Ultimately, it’s what’s left unsaid that has the deeper, everlasting impact.”

www.jillk.org, www.huntershope.org