Aurea McGarry: EMMY Winning TV Show Host - Creator - Executive Producer of the "Live Your Legacy" TV series and PBS specials. Featuring the hero’s and stories of non-profit organizations nationwide.

Speaker, Author, Best Selling Co-Author, Actor, Entrepreneur, Mrs. US Beauty of Georgia 2003, Cancer and Domestic Violence Sur-THRIVER!

As a six time TV award winner Aurea has been a featured guest on over two dozen TV News shows nationwide and over 200 radio shows worldwide. She travels the country speaking her message of faith, hope, laughter and success to inspire others to overcome any obstacles in order to live your legacy now.

A great entrepreneur success for over 15 years earning seven company cars, including two pink Cadillacs as a top Senior Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics.

Aurea was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma on her birthday in 1999. After surgery and grueling chemotherapy, which almost killed her, the surgeon told her she'd never be able to speak above a faint whisper because they had to remove a major nerve to her vocal cord. Besides the vocal cord the surgeon removed half of her left lung, part of her right lung, the lining around her heart, her Thymus gland and disconnected half of her diaphragm.

She has been cancer-free since 2000 and can speak again despite the grim diagnosis. Her miracle story was featured on The 700 Club TV show worldwide.

Aurea faced many struggles in her life including the murder of her father, spouse abuse, divorce, single motherhood, cancer and she wrote a book about how to overcome them staying positive titled “I Won’t Survive, I’ll Thrive!”

Aurea now resides near Atlanta with her prince charming husband Brian and family.

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” (Pericles)

• Discover what your best legacy really is.

• Identify what’s standing in your way.

• Develop a plan to make changes today.

• Commit to being inspired by legacy legends living in your backyard who impact lives around them exactly the as they were born to do it.

• Celebrate your local LIVING LEGACY HONOREES. Who are they and how you can be one too.

• Create your personalized action plan to achieve the most powerful legacy for you. Not only will you impact yourself and your inner circle right now, but the seeds you plant will allow future generations to learn from your lessons.