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Jack Canfield Net Worth

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10 months ago

June 15, 2023

Daniel Wanburg

Jack Canfield's Net Worth as of 2024
$25 Million

Jack Canfield, born on the 19th August 1944, in Forth Worth, Texas, is an American author and world-renowned speaker who became popular for his books like the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and “The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.”

So how much is Canfield’s net worth? As of mid-2016, it is reported to be $25 million, acquired from the sales of his books and the many motivational messages he has given throughout his career.

Jack Canfield Net Worth$25 million

Canfield spent his younger educational years at Linsly Military Institute and matriculated in 1962. He later attended Harvard University from where he graduated with a degree in Chinese History. He also studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for his M.Ed. and at the University of Santa Monica for his PhD.

Canfield’s career started as a high school teacher, teaching students at a high school in Chicago, Illinois. He then transitioned to working in different corporate jobs like the Clinton Job Corps Center and W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation in Chicago. His early years working in the corporate world started his net worth, and became an inspiration for his next career move.

In 1976, Canfield co-authored his first book “100 Ways to Enhance Self-Concept in The Classroom: A Handbook for Teachers and Parents”. He also opened a center in 1978, called the New England Center for Personal and Organizational Development. The center became the start of a new career for Canfield, and son he became a motivational author and speaker, traveling in various states. This helped his net worth immensely and also became an inspiration for his next book.

In 1993, Canfield co-wrote the book “Chicken Soup for the Soul” with Mark Victor Hansen. The stories they gathered from the different audiences they encountered in their speaking, engagements became the basis of the book. At first, the book was ignored by many publishing houses, but once released to the public it became one of the best-selling books of the ’90’s. The success of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” led to a series of books, including “The Aladdin Factor”, “Dare to Win”, “The Power of Focus” and “The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”. The sales of the books tremendously increased his wealth and made him a very well-known author and speaker.

With his desire to inspire and train other people, especially in the corporate world, Canfield has created plenty of groups to reach out to different types of people. He founded The Canfield Training Group that motivates professionals to achieve success in their personal and professional lives. He also founded The Foundation for Self-Esteem that provides resources for self-esteem and motivation. He also helped to create the “Goals Program” a video and training program. The success of his many businesses also attributed to his net worth.

In terms of his personal life, Canfield has been married to Inga Marie Mahoney since 2001. He has five children who are the product of previous marriages to Georgia Lee Noble(m. 1978–1999), and Judith Ohlbaum (m. 1971–1976).

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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.

So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.

Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million

Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.

Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.

In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.

In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.

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Robert Kirkman Net Worth

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.

So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.

Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million

Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.

The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.

In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.

In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.