Before her first bout with breast cancer, Christine Clifford had definitely cracked the glass ceiling. At the age of forty, she was senior vice president for SPAR Marketing Services, an international information and merchandising services firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Christine is currently president and chief executive office of The Cancer Club®, a company designed to market humorous and helpful products for people who have cancer. She speaks to organizations worldwide about finding humor and getting through life's adversities. She lives with her husband, Dan, in Bonita Springs, Florida and Minneapolis, Minnesota where she is a loving Grammy to two grandchildren.

Christine is also author of Your Guardian Angel's Gift, a poem for anyone seeking hope in the face of challenge.