Stephanie Wilde, founder of The Success Journey, hails originally from Medford, Massachusetts. She attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School and Girls Catholic High in Malden, then graduated from Medford High. Books and melodic music, such as "Faraway Places," and "Don't Fence Me In," were her dream themes. Reading before she started school, Wilde finished Gone With the Wind at age 10, making the grownups pay more attention to what they left lying around.

She got her first Library card the Tuesday after she turned 6. Her first job was in that same Library, where she became acquainted with geology, astronomy, fantasy, and then Science Fiction. She was writing poetry early on and was class poet at her graduation.

Writing assignments were not work, but fun. She was Managing Editor of her High School magazine, The Little Giant, and Class Poet at graduation. Though she tried other venues for work through the years, she was constantly drawn back to writing and publishing, finally ending up as a tech writer and web designer.

Wilde learned to fly, and for awhile wrote for the 99's news; she also became a commercial pilot and flight instructor.

In the late '70s, she gave in to the Faraway-Places dream and began working as a "road shopper" doing tech writing contracts around the country. She has frequently driven "to the ridge where the West commences" and back.

In the early 80s, she took some human potential classes, which introduced her to the concept that you are in charge of your own life. This added a new kind of writing, motivational and self help, as well as workshops on self-help subjects such as Goal Setting, Resume Writing, and Interviewing and other good stuff.

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