Author Biography

Reon Schutte is an internationally renowned inspirational speaker who has shared the story of his triumphant personal life journey in person with more than 1 million people around the globe. Originally from South Africa, Reon now is a citizen of the world, living and taking his message where he is called. This is his first book.

Maggie Kuhn Jacobus is an award-winning author, journalist, and freelance writer, with expertise in the areas of spirituality and wellness. This is her fourth book. She holds both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and is also a certified life coach. She currently resides in Milwaukee, WI with her three teenage boys, Ryan, Michael and Will.
 

Review

"Reon has a fantastic story and message.  You'll emerge...enlightened, enthusiastic and empowered to take control of your destiny."--Matt Stewart, business owner/former Global Chair, Entrepreneur's Organization

"As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Viktor Frankl's masterpiece Man's Search for Meaning--and its underscoring of one's personal power to choose--impacted me deeply.  Reon's story and message are a relevant, 21st century incarnation of that of Viktor Frankl, and have precisely the same effect.  What a gift to be able to revisit such profound life lessons through such a charismatic and fascinating person as Reon."--Wendy Heimann-Nunes, Partner Heimann Galen LLP

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"Reon has a fantastic story and message.

Excerpt from Book

Although my distant ancestors are from Europe, I am not. You could think of an Afrikaner the way citizens born in the United States consider themselves as being American. Unless they are Native American, their ancestors came from somewhere else. Yet the passport they carry, the flag they salute, and the nationality they list on their immigration forms is "American." Despite the common assumption that Afrikaners are simply displaced Dutch ("Dutchman" is a grave insult that the South African English kids liked to hurl at us), I actually could not claim to be Dutch or any other European ethnicity, even if I wanted to. I know this first hand, because as I lay captive in a Zimbabwean prison, I appealed to various European governments for assistance, as did Amnesty International and other human rights organizations on my behalf. The European countries all essentially said, "You are not one of us. You are an Afrikaner, your people are from Africa, and thus you can't claim citizenship by descent."

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