Born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, Jack Canfield serves people’s souls with his chicken soup and maintains a positive aura in the world. His business uses the power of storytelling to ingrain inspiration and beauty in readers’ minds.
Jack is a world-renowned celebrated author and motivational speaker – and is also the face behind ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series. Jack is a Harvard alumnus with all the brilliance needed to catapult a series of books to inspire and motivate people to go for big.
At the age of 48 and with the help of a co-author, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack completed his first book, but things didn’t work out as he planned. Although the book was full of inspiring stories and could be considered a self-help book, the publishers gave Jack and Mark around 144 rejections throughout the 14 months.
One published author claimed that the book would not sell even 20,000 copies. Jack Canfield replied that he was hoping that the book would sell around 500,000 copies, and the publisher laughed at him.
They compiled 101 stories from people who told them their life stories, which the duo often said in their motivational seminars. When they told a story, someone from the audience would ask, “Is that story from a book?” This inspired both, and they wrote 101 stories called ‘Chicken Soup for Soul’. The main purpose was to soothe people’s minds and comfort them in times of despair, just like grandmother’s cooking does.
Finally, after facing rejection from all major publishers in New York, they crossed paths with Peter Vegso, an owner of a small publishing house in Florida named HCI, who read and loved some of their stories from the book and loved them.
That was the time when the sun shone on the authors, including Peter, as 11 million copies were sold and included in the best-selling books list. The book earned pure love and attention from readers. More than 250 books have been published in the ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and it has become a $1 billion brand.
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