The Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of The Little Flower

Todd Hopkins is founder and CEO of Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services, a multimillion-dollar janitorial franchising company. Todd is one of the top speakers in the building service contracting industry and serves on the board of directors of the Building Service Contractors Association International, the industry's top association.

St. Therese of Lisieux, also known as "Therese of the Child Jesus" and "The Little Flower", was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin, at France in 1873. She was often anxious and depressed in childhood, as she suffered the early death of her mother. After she converted interiorly and began to read Thomas a Kempis' The Imitation of Christ, she joined 2 of her sisters in a discalced Carmelite convent as a nun at just 15 years old. After her oldest sister was elected prioress, Therese became a permanent novice to allay suspicions that her family was dominating the small community. She lived humbly, concealing her intense prayer life and countless sacrifices Therese is the author of her own popular autobiography entitled The Story of a Soul, which she began writing in 1895, and she instituted a simple path to holiness now widely known as the "Little Way". She died of tuberculosis on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24 and was canonized only 28 years later, in 1925, by Pope Pius XI. She was later installed as the thirty-third Doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

Ray Hilbert is cofounder and CEO of Truth@Work, a not-for-profit organization that specializes in developing products, programs, and services that help Christian business owners and marketplace leaders integrate their faith into their daily work. Prior to establishing Truth@Work, Ray was a regional director for Promise Keepers.