About The Authors

 Barbara Warren, Ph.D., and co-author twin sister Angelika Castaneda are international motivational speakers, counselors, consultants and eight-time record holding athletes in ultra-distance sports. They have been featured in Sport Illustrated, Regis and Kathy Lee, Good Morning America, BBC England and most major newspapers and magazines in Europe, South America and the US.

 Their history reveals a row of diverse activities from working on ships, as visual artists in Florence Italy, Barbara as a leading actress in 25 movies, Angelika featuring in 18 underwater documentaries, fashion models, fashion designers, choreographers and entrepreneurs. They speak four languages and have traveled extensively to over 60 countries. The sisters were blessed with raising nine children between both of them. Now they live in San Diego California, and in Cuyamaca in the Laguna Mountains.