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"What
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About the Author... Heather Iannone
Heather began her community service work early in life and by the time she graduated high school had already traveled outside the country to help others. Fundraising, building a school in Mexico, cooking for and feeding the homeless were some of her initial projects. After college she became involved with a nonprofit organization, PSI World, and with them has traveled around the globe helping children. To date she has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, has done art projects with homeless Americans, built homes in Mexico, brought computers to children in a government school in Koh Samui, Thailand, brought food to Indonesian orphans, running water to Quechua children and a day of happiness to them all. Her dedication to make a difference in the world is unwavering.
Heather Iannone graduated from the University of San Diego in 1995 with an English degree. She is a dedicated single mother who believes that her daughter is her hero. She currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her seven year old daughter, Peyton. She makes her living as a writer and spends as much time helping others as possible.
A description of What One Can Do
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate... Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, to be gorgeous, talented, and fabulous. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God within us. And as we let our light shine, we consciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
What One Can Do (One) will be the first book to show readers how they are connected to every other person, and then gently challenge them to rise above and beyond any circumstance in their life and make a difference in their world by perusing their own dreams.
In One, the author takes the readers on an international journey through her own soul. Yes, she takes worldly journeys visiting the poorest children of Mexico, Thailand, Peru, Indonesia, Fiji and the United States, and along the way she finds herself in all of them. As she travels, she meets people from foreign countries, different cultures, unfamiliar religions, and tragic poverty levels yet she always feels connected to each person she meets. In exploring her own troubled past, she realizes that the pain she lived through was the very thing that drives her to help children all over the world today. She recognizes the pain she sees in their eyes as it is merely a reflection of her own. Because of the familiarity, the connection between all human beings becomes undeniable. In realizing she is not alone in her pain, she's no longer destined to walk alone.
One explores the many circumstances a person's life can hold. Whatever your struggle, the person to your left and the person to your right have suffered too. In accepting our similarities, we embrace our connectedness. In our connectedness is our peace. In our peace is our leadership, and once we've found that courage, we'll lead ourselves towards each of our personal dreams ... just as it was meant to be.
Regardless of what challenges you've faced you have something to share. You have that one special gift that only you can give. If you let what has happened to you become you, then you cheat the people in your world of who you really are. It is each person's right to be happy, and sometimes that takes more courage than anything else.
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