Dr. C. Thomas Anderson has been in active ministry for more than forty years in Mesa, Arizona, where he and his wife, Maureen, founded and pastor Living Word Bible Church, an independent ministry that has grown to more than 12,000 members and is one of the largest and fastest growing churches in the Southwest. Dr. Anderson has become renowned worldwide as an author and for his easy-going teaching style as well as the practical, positive, life-changing information he presents. He has a Doctorate of Ministry, and PhD in Religious Studies.
Robert Kiyosaki was born and raised in Hawaii, and is a fourth-generation Japanese-American. He attended college in New York, and after graduating, joined the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam as an officer and helicopter gunship pilot. After the war, Robert worked for the Xerox Corporation as a salesman. In 1977, he started a company that brought the first nylon Velcro 'surfer wallets' to market. In 1985 he founded an international education company that taught business and investing to students throughout the world. In 1994 Robert sold his business and retired at the age of 47. During this somewhat short-lived retirement, Robert, collaborating with co-author Sharon Lechter, a C.P.A. and… his business partner, wrote the bestselling book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".