But ever since he was nine years old, Bill always had a dream.  A dream to travel a lot faster than the garbage truck he rode the back of each morning as it went flying around the streets of Millburn-Short Hills, New Jersey --- and a whole lot faster than the elevator that dropped him 5000' underneath the Arizona Desert. 20 years later --- at the controls of a dual seat F-18 --- Bill Goss went on to fulfill that dream by blasting through the sound barrier off the coast of Florida. And you might have even guessed he would earn enough money as a garbage man, an underground dynamiter and a Navy man to start college, continue on to an MBA and even attend the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program in Boston.

Bill's book, The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive, received lengthy and favorable reviews in the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, The Detroit News, The New Jersey Star Ledger, The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, The Dallas-Fort Worth Star Telegram, Florida Today, The Daily Word, The Las Vegas Review Journal, The Chattanooga Times, The St. Petersburg Times, The Florida Times Union, Maxim Magazine, The London Sun and countless other national and international publications. Since then Bill Goss has been a featured guest on hundreds of popular radio and television shows around the world including The Discovery Channel's Animal Planet, EXTRA, Maury Povich, Sally Jesse, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Ted Nugent in Detroit and Rick Dees in Los Angeles. He even worked with actress Demi Moore as an extra in the movie GI Jane. And he's the only man alive to have successfully survived a live interview on both The Howard Stern Show and The 700 Club. 

As a speaker, Bill Goss's upbeat, inspiring and sometimes hilarious message on how to overcome great challenges and adversity appeals to an extremely wide-ranging audience. These audiences has included the people of Great Britain, Germany, Malaysia, Israel, Australia, China and Japan, as well in the United States and Canada and with other speakers such as Bob Dole.

A dynamic and very popular speaker on change, resilience, and personal and professional fulfillment, Bill Goss is also a contributing author to the #1 New York Times bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers Soul.

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