#425 Author/Adventurer Jim Bruton and Author/Entrepreneur Aaron McCormick

Jim Bruton has lived a life many people dream of but few experience. As a little boy, he lived within an active imagination including a love for wildlife filming, international travel, science fiction and vintage aviation. In adulthood, he checked every one of those off his list with internationally recognized achievements, an Emmy for a National Geographic wildlife film, traveling to all seven continents, the Titanic, the North Pole and Mt. Everest, shrinking a satellite TV truck into a backpack and transmitting live video from places before impossible and building and flying historical reproduction aircraft from World War 1 and the early 1930s.

Raised on the south side of Chicago, in poverty by a single mother with no education, deserted by a father who was likely an undiagnosed bi-polar schizophrenic, and tightly controlled by an extreme fundamentalist religion that allowed no personal freedom whatsoever, including getting a college education or playing sports, Aaron ultimately defied those expectations of failure. In his new book Unbounded, Journey to Your Within, Aaron takes readers through their own past
experiences to unequivocally prove their latent power and also identify and use their North Star—Joy—
for every decision and endeavor to create satisfying work, successful love relationships, and awaken
their inner power. It is a potent book of personal responsibility—from a man who stepped into his at a
very young age.