Jack Canfield is the co-creator of the Chicken soup for the Soul® series, which includes 40 New York Times bestsellers. He is a leader in the field of personal transformation, peak performance and human potential and is the Chief Executive Officer of The Canfield Training Group, President of Self-Esteem Seminars and Founder and Chairman of the Board of The Foundation for Self-Esteem. Jack has conducted intensive personal and professional development seminars for more than 1,000,000 people worldwide. An internationally renowned corporate trainer, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk show guest, he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Mark Victor Hansen is a co-founder of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Randy Rudder is an author, speaker, and documentary producer. He has an MFA in creative writing and an MA in literature.

For nearly 20 years he worked an an arts and entertainment writer while teaching at Tennessee State University, Nashville State Community College and Aquinas College. During that time, he wrote for The Nashville Business Journal, Bluegrass Unlimited, American Profile, The Washington Post, Script Magazine and many others. He later became a writer/producer for the Christian Broadcasting Network and recently produced the documentary 40 Years on The Farm, a historical retrospective of The Farm cooperative community in Summertown, Tennessee.

He is also the author of Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music edition, published in May and distributed by Simon and Schuster. The book contains interviews with the songwriters of 101 classic country songs. He is currently writing a screenplay and finishing a collection of essays.