Made Beautiful By Scars - Transformation stories Meet some of our writers from this best selling book just released on paperback..
MO GAWDAT
Mo Gawdat is the Chief Business Officer for Google X Labs, a serial entrepreneur and author of “Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy” (2017). Through his 12-year research on the topic of happiness, he has created an algorithm and a repeatable well engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of the circumstances of life. Mo’s happiness model has proved highly effective and, in 2014, was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali to preventable medical error during a simple surgical procedure. Solve For Happy is the pillar for a mission Mo has committed to as his personal moonshot, a mission to deliver his happiness message to a billion people around the world.
KATE DOUGHTY Interviewed by Veronica Farmer, images by Arnaud Domange Kate Doughty is an Australian elite athlete, motivational speaker, and psychologist who knows no limits when it comes to adversity and achievement. Kate was born without a right hand, and at the age of 8, she was already making her mark receiving awards for violin and equestrian achievements. Kate represented Australia at several international equestrian events, including the World Equestrian Games. Late 2014, Kate made the dramatic change to triathlon. This was an ambition born from personal loss, with the death of her mother spurring Kate to make a fresh start within a new sport. The results of this transition has been astonishing with Kate winning Bronze at 2015 World Para-triathlon Championships and several gold and podium finishes on the ITU Para-triathlon circuit to date. Kate successfully competed at 2016 Rio Paralympics in triathlon, placing 5th in the world.
These real human tales by our Writers below are vulnerable, insightful and real, from men and women who share how a life scar did not break them but made them find a newer more powerful version of themselves.
READ OUR LATEST STORY by Author, Talk show host and Professional keynote speaker Johnny Tan
Johnny Tan is the author of the best selling book "From My Mama's Kitchen.' His FMMK Talk Radio show has amassed over one million listeners and ranks in the top 1% of all 73,000 shows on Blog Talk Radio. Guests have included New York Times bestselling authors, publishers, artists and experts in the field of personal and professional development and relationships. Johnny recently shared his own life story in an interview from the heart with Australian based author and therapist Veronica Farmer from www.madebeautifulby.com
"Finding out that I was a replacement child shocked me. At the time I was 14 years old, and was beginning my journey to discovering life as a curious teenager coming of age. In an instant, I was paralyzed with these questions; “Who were my birth parents?” “Why didn’t they want me?” “Why did they give me away?” The last question was immensely significant because in the Chinese culture, it was extremely rare for a baby boy to be given away." READ MORE NOW
Made Beautiful by Scars - Real Women's stories
This book of 23 women's stories is a more personal offering of stories covering topics from infidelity, infertility and grief and can be purchased HERE