From Rape, Heroin & Prison to Multimillion Dollar CEO
Bestselling author, speaker and evolutionary coach Marni Spencer-Devlin triumphed over tremendous adversity – molestation, rape, drug addiction, even homelessness and prison and miraculously, went on to a twenty-year career as the founder and president of a multimillion dollar marketing company – only to be stopped in her tracks by a deadly diagnosis.
This, however, became her greatest gift. She gained insights into the purpose for our existence, our health, and wealth, which she shares with her audiences and coaching clients.
Marni Spencer-Devlin is the founder and former President and CFO of a successful Southern California direct marketing company, which she built from the ground up and turned into a multi-million dollar company with seventy employees. For twenty years she was on top, then she got sick and in 2008 she was given only a year to live.
She wrote her first book, Crawling Into The Light where she shared her secret: As a child, she had been molested and raped. She had been a heroin addict, a prostitute, 
homeless and in prison before her rise to power. While writing her story, Marni made a mind-blowing realization. Everything had always turned out for the best even, and especially when, she thought she had reached her end. What if this was not the end either? Would she be able to commute her own death sentence?
She began identifying seven laws that had shown up over and over again. The information was paradigm shifting and – this will shock you – she did not die! Instead, she wrote another book, The Iceberg Principles – the Truth about the Universe and Your place it. Today she coaches successful professionals about the importance of absolute authenticity in business and personal development.
The Iceberg Principles
Marni offers this illustration of who we are as human beings in her coaching to help her clients clearly see what their next steps should be in any given situation.
Human beings are like icebergs because what shows on the surface is only the smallest part. Our body and mind make up only 
four percent of who we are. It is how we describe us but it is not what defines who we are. What defines – our talents, strengths, and capacities – are the real reason we exist; they are what we are meant to share and express.
We gain confidence when we become aware that there is not the way we could ever be inadequate. There is not another, better version of us anywhere because each of us is unique. We learn to honor ourselves when we realize that the things we desire are driven by the authentic self within. Our desires tell us who we are meant to be. It is the evolutionary impulse that has driven mankind forward, which expresses in us, through us and as us and drives us to want to be ourselves and this is the only way we can ever find true happiness and fulfillment.
This is not about rah-rah motivation; it is about knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt the Truth of who you are.
