"It started with finding Dawn’s devotional on the You Version Bible App… I read day 1 and thought I must look her up! Her words are the encouragement I need! I thought I must be the only woman my age thinking these thoughts about where I am in my life. What a relief to hear I’m not alone (sorry to all those out there like me though!) Thank you Dawn for pulling yourself out of the hard stuff so that God could use you to inspire the rest of us! Now it’s my turn to do the same! Great, timely book!"

Dawn Barton left a thirty-year career in sales marketing, despite being pretty darn good at it (like #7 Sales Director in Mary Kay Cosmetics good), to follow a calling and write. Her first book, 2020’s Laughing Through the Ugly Cry, became a bestselling success, garnering the prestigious ECPA Christian Book Award for New Author of the Year. Stunned to be entering her fifties as a successful author, she was inspired to write her second book, My Midlife Battle Cry, urging women to resist the pull of streaming television algorithms and get excited about ‘redefining the mighty second half’.

When she’s not smiling at blank pages pretending to write, Dawn is a speaker giving talks about cancer, joy, female empowerment, and direct sales, podcast host of Porch Ramblings with Dawn Barton, and the founder of the Retreats at Trinity. She’s living the sandwich-generation dream with her husband, daughter, parents, mother-in-law, and too many animals to count in Cantonment, FL.