Awareness is the key to freeing everyone. This book is about expanding and improving everyone’s awareness financially, mentally, heartfully, and experientially. Our hearts are overflowing with appreciation and rampaging gratitude for those who contributed to our deepening awareness, so we could serve greatly our ever-increasing number of readers.
We simply want to help every reader become abundant and enjoy greater freedoms. We acknowledge that these folks served us brilliantly in our quest; we are profoundly thankful for them and want you to know it.
Our agent, Jillian Manus, is the “go the extra ten miles” person. She has tirelessly worked with us, our ideas, our manuscript, our marketing ideas, and our publisher to create the greatest product ever. Theresa Van Eeghen is Jillian’s right and left hand and makes the impossible look effortless.
Shaye Areheart is our publisher at Harmony Books. Shaye loves books, writers, and especially us. We totally and absolutely love her and her care and consideration for the most important profession in the world, writing. Julia Pastore is the finest and most loving editor in the world. She has done an extraordinary job working with us and we lovingly thank her.
Eric DelaBarre, a writer for the TV show Law & Order, brilliantly helped us make the story side of our book read like a page-turning novel, for which we are deeply thankful and appreciative.
Daryl Allen, Bob’s wife, is forever cheering Bob on to the successful and happy conclusion of his great writing and thinking. He is eternally grateful to the wealth lessons that his three wonderful children have taught him: Amae, Aaron, and Hunter.
Bob’s right hand, Justine Painter, is indispensable at doing everything she can to keep Bob free to write. Bob’s business partners in his various businesses have taught him priceless lessons: Thomas R. Painter, president of the Enlightened Wealth Institute and all the excellent, enlightened visionary leaders of EWI; Steve Carlson; Jan Stephan; Sharm Smith; and Ron and Sue McMillan. Many thanks also to Richard Paul Evans, Meagen Bunten, Dave Wentz, Nick Essayian, and Ari Wasserman.
Mark is endlessly thankful to his entire team: Debbie Lefever, Mark’s executive assistant, who kept Mark free to pursue his endless efforts to make a bestselling book look like it was effortless ease, and kept away the endless parade of people who want to talk to Mark; Patti Coffey, his chief of staff, a Dream Team leader of leaders and a godsend who makes things happen; Stephanie DeMizio, head of clear thinking, editing, syntax, and writing of this book; Lauren Mastrodonato and Gina-Rose Kimball, working marvelously in marketing; Liora Mendeloff, courageously reading every word and commenting on how to make it ever better; Karen Schoenfeld, accounting; Connie Simoni, customer service; Josh Escamilla, the man who keeps our warehouse operation flowing with grace and ease; and Jeff Cohen, our abundantly wise and able attorney.
Mark’s daughters, who grew up reading and love the entire book process, are Melanie Hansen and Elisabeth Hansen Delgesso.
Chaz DeSimone is our accomplished and brilliant graphic designer and artist.
We offer our sincere thanks to our hand-selected support team of marketing and Internet experts: Rick Dearr, Simon Leung, Lee Collins, Robin Collins, Andy Huang, James D. Lee, and Alicia Ashley.
To all of these, and the hundreds of others not mentioned, thanks a million!
We also want to give thanks to each of our “Screaming Eagles” who helped us research the concepts in this book, and they are: Dave Aiken, Saquina Akanni, Giovanni Amadeo, David Anderson, Linda Anderson, Ross Arntson, Gaye Barker, Neil Basford, Rob Baxter, Brady Bradley, Tony Carino, James Christmas, Eileen Colony, Cherie Duncan, Sue Elliott, Cristy Emerson, Laszlo Fekete, Jonathan Freeman, Joanna Garzilli, Dorie Geniesse, David Gilman, Julie Gordon White, Heidi Hanseen DeRoest, Sonny Harrison, Bunny Hodas, Joan Kappes, Katie Krim, Sandi L’Amie, Kim Law, Mary Elizabeth Lenahan, Wendell MacRae, Carol Marturano-Becker, David Masters, Ann McIndoo, Pat McKelvey, David Mease, Cecile Miranda, Linda Moy, Ellen Myers, August Roberson, Kim Roman Corle, Kimball Roundy, Leila Samoodi, Albert Steven, Zoltan Vincze, Elizabeth Zachariah.