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A Mother-Daughter Love Story – Giveaway!

10/15/12 | Advice, Mom

On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy — self- made principal of infomercial marketing giant Guthy-Renker — Victoria’s most treasured role was mother to three beautiful, beloved children, Evan, Ali, and Jackson.

Suddenly, Victoria’s dream life is broken as she begins to battle a mother’s greatest fear. In 2008, her daughter, Ali, began experiencing unusual symptoms of blurred vision and an ache in her eye. Her test results led to the diagnosis of a disease so rare, the chance that she had it was only 2%. Neuromyeltis Optica (NMO) is a little understood, incurable, and often fatal autoimmune disease that can cause blindness, paralysis, and life-threatening seizures, and afflicts as few as 20,000 people in the world. At the age of 14, Ali was given a terrifying prognosis of between four to six years to live.

Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story begins just as Victoria and Bill learn of Ali’s disease, starting them on a powerful journey to save Ali, their only daughter, including bringing together a team of more than fifty of the world’s leading experts in autoimmune and NMO-related diseases to create the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation.

Told in alternating viewpoints, Victoria and Ali narrate their very different journeys of coming to terms with the lack of control that neither mother nor daughter have over NMO, and their pioneering efforts and courage to take their fight to a global level.

Bringing their story to light with raw emotion, humor, warmth, and refreshing candor, Saving Each Other is the extraordinary journey of a mother and daughter who demonstrate how the power of love can transcend our greatest fears, while at the same time battling to find a cure for the incurable.

To purchase: Saving Each Other: A Mother-Daughter Love Story

JBF is giving away 2 copies of Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy’s Saving Each Other! (ARV $25.99) to two (2) lucky people! To enter, leave a comment letting us know why you’d love to read this book.

We’d LOVE for you to send out a tweet for an extra chance to win: I entered to win the book Saving Each Other from the @guthyjacksonfdnon & @JBFFranchise blog!

You can follow us on Twitter @JBFFranchise and on Facebook at Just Between Friends Franchise Systems, Inc.

A winner will be chosen at random on October 19 at 11:00 EST and announced here.

Good Luck!

Having achieved success as a Hollywood makeup artist, cosmetics entrepreneur and television infomercial pioneer, Victoria Jackson prefers to think of herself as “a goodwill ambassador for makeup.” Jackson altered a global beauty aesthetic with her “no makeup makeup” — a foundation that was the cornerstone of her eponymous line Victoria Jackson Cosmetics. Jackson has also garnered a devoted following through her two books: Redefining Beauty: Discovering Your Individual Beauty, Enhancing Your Self-Esteem and Make Up Your Life: Every Woman’s Guide to the Power of Makeup, a deeply personal account of her experiences in business. Today, Victoria’s primary focus is the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation, which is dedicated to funding biomedical research in the search to understand the pathophysiology and biochemistry of Neuromyeltis Optica (NMO) Spectrum Disease.

Ali Guthy, a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has kept a journal since she was a young girl. At The Buckley School in Los Angeles, she served as co-editor-in-chief for her high school’s award-winning newspaper, The Student Voice. She is also the managing editor of The Spectrum, the newsletter she created with the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. Ali also received Buckley’s coveted Head of School Award — given to a student who demonstrated leadership, academic achievement, character, and service on behalf of the school and community. Ali has also been honored with numerous awards and in the media for giving a public face to NMO and for her leadership in reaching out to newly diagnosed patients and their families.

Congratulations to our winners Rachelle freeman and Trisha McKee!

 

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Comments

  1. Rachelle freeman says

    October 15, 2012 at 7:21 am

    I would love to read this book because my son who is just over a month old is in the NICU. He has completely changed my life. I never thought I could love so completely. And the hardest thing I have had to do is watch my son fight for his life!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer Martinez says

    October 15, 2012 at 7:41 am

    I would do love to read this book, and how it demonstrates the power of unity between a bond only a mother and child can have …

    Reply
  3. Emily says

    October 15, 2012 at 9:01 am

    This sounds like a interesting read.

    Reply
  4. Shannon Baas says

    October 15, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    I like the sounds of this book.

    Reply
  5. Kerri S says

    October 15, 2012 at 7:04 pm

    Sounds so powerful, would love it!

    Reply
  6. Diane Baum says

    October 15, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    I ‘ve been reading reviews on this and it sounds like a very good read

    Reply
  7. renee walters says

    October 16, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    This book sounds like a good read.

    Reply
  8. renee walters says

    October 16, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    I follow you on Twitter as ReneeWalters1! Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
    Reneewalters3@yahoo.com

    Reply
  9. renee walters says

    October 16, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    I like you on Facebook as Renee Walters! Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
    Reneewalters3@yahoo.com

    Reply
  10. Beth Ball says

    October 17, 2012 at 6:32 am

    I would love to gain strength from this book to help my mom in her struggles…especially when it’s harder than other days. Sounds so inspirational!

    Reply
  11. Charlotte Padgett says

    October 17, 2012 at 11:39 am

    This sounds like a wonderful book.

    Reply
  12. susan varney says

    October 17, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    i love to read this would be good mverno@roadrunner.com

    Reply
  13. Stephanie L. says

    October 17, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    This book sounds amazing, a wonderful journey I’d love to read!

    Reply
  14. Karen Gonyea says

    October 17, 2012 at 7:56 pm

    Sounds very interesting 🙂

    Reply
  15. Angela Neynaber says

    October 18, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    I want to win this because it seems like a great mother and daughter story.

    Reply
  16. Ed Nemmers says

    October 18, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I love to read non-fiction!

    Reply
  17. Trisha McKee says

    October 19, 2012 at 1:53 am

    I’d love to win this book because it is about fighting for your daughter.

    Reply
  18. Trisha McKee says

    October 19, 2012 at 2:01 am

    I tweeted as @wordromancer

    https://twitter.com/WordRomancer/status/259187247193128960

    Reply
  19. kathy pease says

    October 19, 2012 at 6:33 am

    id love to read this it sounds very heart warming

    Reply
  20. kathy pease says

    October 19, 2012 at 6:34 am

    https://twitter.com/klp1965/status/259256206592458752

    Reply
  21. Susan Smith says

    October 19, 2012 at 9:15 am

    Sounds like a great book

    Reply
  22. susan smoaks says

    October 19, 2012 at 9:24 am

    i would love to read this book because i love to be inspired!
    https://twitter.com/fdp4life/status/259297756873625601

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  23. lknott says

    October 19, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    I want to read this book because my daughter and I have not always had the same thoughts on life and this looks like a good book to share with her and try to make things work!!!

    Reply
  24. James Coyne says

    October 19, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    I like to read new books

    Reply
  25. James Coyne says

    October 19, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    i follow you on twitter

    @JCoyne1031

    Reply
  26. James Coyne says

    October 19, 2012 at 6:53 pm

    i like you on facebook

    Reply
  27. Daniel M says

    November 14, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    sounds like an inspiring story

    Reply

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