Al Carraway

Al Carraway is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ, writer, multi-award-winning international speaker, and author of the best-selling books, "Wildly Optimistic," "More Than the Tattooed Mormon," and "Cheers to Eternity!

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She has spent the last 13 years traveling Worldwide inspiring others of her conversion and faith through difficult times. As well as traveling by boat or by bus with church history tours or seminars at sea.

Her passion is to tell everyone that happiness exists, and it comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ. That He's real. And how to find and love Him in the hard, in the unwanted, and the unexpected. Because through it all, with God, we have every reason to be wildly optimistic. 

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Originally from New York, she is now living with her husband, Benjamin, and her three kids, in Charleston, South Carolina.

2023 — Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner
2023 — Illumination Book Award Bronze Medal Winner
2022 —Amazon Best-selling overall Book #6 out of over 33million title

2016 — Woman + Biz Award.
2014 — Donald C. Sloan Speech Award.