Neil Petersen - Award Winning Author and Adventurer

South African-born Neal Petersen is an adventurer, solo around-the-world racing yachtsman, businessman and international speaker. PBS regularly airs a popular documentary about his life -- "No Barriers, the Story of Neal Petersen", and he wrote the award-winning auto-biography, Journey of a Hope Merchant.

Petersen has faced many challenges in life -- poverty, discrimination and other insurmountable barriers - and he always responded by looking for opportunities and solutions. His experience shows that imagination coupled with determination to achieve, can break through the toughest challenges.

 Neal completed the "Around Alone", a 27,000 mi yacht race, 9 months at sea, alone, and in a boat he built himself! In sharing his high-impact, unique and extraordinary adventure, Neal delivers a powerful message that "In life there are no barriers - only solutions!"