Herb Stepherson was born in Jonesboro, Georgia. He is the middle child of three boys. He is thirty-one years old and spent his youth like most young boys in central Georgia, riding bikes and playing sports—baseball in particular.

Since 2002, he has been involved in the fight for his life. He has been battling the nightmares of addiction for the past fourteen years. His first drug use was at fifteen, which was alcohol and from there quickly progressed to prescription pain medication and ultimately cocaine and heroin.

Heroin and cocaine took him to the absolute edges of humanity. He ended up homeless, eating food out of dumpsters, and strung out in some of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago, in the dead of winter. The winter months are brutal in the Midwest. Herb slept in abandon buildings, airport terminals, and under bridges clinging to two basic needs: more heroin and to be numbed from the wreckage that this drug was creating in his life. All the while trying his best to keep hope alive that maybe one day he would finally be able to conquer this demon of addiction and recover.

Today, Herb celebrates life as a young man in recovery! He is an intervention coordinator, a budding young writer, a loving and active father to his five-year-old son, Lucas, and speaks on behalf of numerous agencies in his community hoping to shed some light on the true battles with heroin addiction.

Herb Stepherson, NCFRC
Intervention Coordinator
Recovery Specialist
Featured on: A&E/ TEDX
Chicagoland & beyond
Public Speaker
Author: Junkbox Diaries
219-916-7236
Hstepherson85@gmail.com
http://www.genesisofrecovery.com

LeRoy Thompson is the Senior Pastor of Global Truth Ministries in Springfield, Virginia. He is a gifted Bible teacher with a passion for revealing the truth of the innocence that Jesus provided to us by his death, burial, and resurrection. He and his wife Rita have served as missionaries in Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, and Haiti. LeRoy is a much sought-after national and international conference speaker, award-winning author, radio, and television personality.

At Harvard University, he received a Bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language, and a Master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. LeRoy received his Doctor of Divinity from Master’s International School of Divinity and his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Trinity Theological Seminary.

For more information on:
Global Truth Ministries
Rev. LeRoy Thompson, Ph.D.
www.globaltruth.us

Timothy Trainer was born in Japan and is an Army brat and served in the Army. After earning multiple degrees and studying in Japan, he moved to the Washington, DC area. As an attorney, he has focused on intellectual property issues and has been engaged in that work since 1990. He has worked in government agencies and in the private sector. His work has taken him to roughly 60 countries around the world. He has worked with INTERPOL’s Intellectual Property Crime Action Group, the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe and, as a former attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, represented the U.S. at meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization. He was a cleared industry advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 2000 to 2020.

Improving service may be included on many businesses list of goals, but taking service to a level where “customers for life” are created requires dedication and a commitment to excellence that is often sought but rarely achieved. CREATING GUESTS for Life focuses on experiences from the hospitality industry. However, the principles within this book are relevant and easily incorporated into the business plan or training program of any business in any industry interested in improving service.

As a writer, I have come to believe that the things I write actually write

themselves, using my hands to do so. It seems that I am informed what to

write and how to write it by some source other than my conscious mind. I

attribute the aforementioned to the universal mind which is evidenced by

the universe.

Marcell Smith is the author of METHAMORPH Life In Poetic Meter.