David graduated from The University of South Florida with a degree in Speech Communication. His adult career started as a Stock Broker in New York City where he quickly became the Sales Manager of one of Wall Street's largest firms. Battling multiple addictions since age nine when he started gambling, David found that as his success on Wall Street escalated, so did his addictions. He ended up on a one-way ticket to Minnesota to get clean and sober. David is now a Nationally Certified Recovery Coach (NCRC) and Intervention Professional (NCIP). He took his experience as a leader, motivational speaker and sales trainer to the recovery communities and has been speaking on a national circuit in recovery rooms, conventions and schools across the country for over 25 years. He has touched thousands of people with his message of hope, inspiration, and freedom from addictions as he has lived and lived through an opioid addiction. With the help of Dana Golden, he now brings his 5-Action Process to recovery from addiction of any kind, along with his story of hope and redemption to a wider audience in the book Addiction Rescue; The NO-BS Guide to Recovery. Dana attended both Colorado State University and the Art Institute MN for Interior Design and has been a serial entrepreneur for over twenty years. Her greatest role in life has been as a single mother of two beautiful daughters and putting them both through college. She is a major manifester, seeker of personal development and a practitioner of the Law of Attraction. Having been involved with addicts her entire life, starting with her father; she has great insight into the addict mind. She started attending Alanon in 1989 and brings that experience into writing Addiction Rescue; The NO-BS Guide to Recovery. Dana is an unpublished author having written poetry and children's stories for over thirty years and is excited about being a first time published author.