About the Authors

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Greg Hicks is a Certified Financial Planner and owner of Financial Resource Management, Inc. He and his staff of six, with offices in three North Carolina cities, provide advisory services to over 800 clients across 16 states. He hosts three weekly radio shows in Raleigh , High Point and Morehead City , NC , and sponsors several seminars across North Carolina , all under the banner, “The Financial Fair”.

Greg is a graduate of NC State University with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering and has a Masters of Religion degree from International Christian Graduate University .

Athletics played a big part in Greg's life, and his accomplishments include winning two Atlantic coast Conference championships in Wrestling. He competed as a wrestler for Athletes in Action, and represented the United States in the 82 kg. (180.5 lbs.) weight class at the 1973 and 1974 World Championships in Istanbul , Turkey and Minsk , Russia respectively. In 1975, Greg won the Gold Medal in the Pan American Games, and was a silver medallist at the World Cup Tournament.

After college, Greg served as a staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ for 15 years, and was an assistant national director of the Athletes in Action division. He was one of the founders of Crossroads Fellowship Church , in Raleigh , NC , where he resides with his wife, Sue. They have two grown children, Nathan and Cari, who is married to Dr. Eric Warren.

Linda Talbert is an ordained minister and popular international seminar speaker in Europe and Great Britain . She is currently a counselor and Human Resource Consultant for Campus Crusade for Christ (AGAPE in England ) in the United Kingdom .

Linda graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in English Literature, and earned a diploma in Counseling from the University of Birmingham in England . She is one of the founders of the Emmanuel Christian School in Oxford , England .

Linda and her husband, Tom, live in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire , England . They have three children: Amy, Ryan and Tami: a son-in-law, Pete; and a granddaughter, Annabella Grace.