Impact: Inspiring Stories On Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs Impact The World
- nicolasmercadovald
- Oct 8, 2025
- 3 min read
5 Star Review

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Editorial Book Review:
By TJ Brown
Natasha Duswalt and Craig Duswalt bring together a remarkable chorus of voices in Impact: Inspiring Stories on Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs Impact the World, a transformative collection that celebrates purpose-driven success and the power of authenticity. From its first pages, the book establishes a tone of inspiration and significance, honoring the entrepreneurs who lead with empathy, courage, and integrity. It stands as both a tribute to human resilience and a roadmap for creating lasting, positive change in the world.
The writing is distinguished by its sincerity, warmth, and clarity, which is indicative of the heart-centered leadership it promotes. Despite the fact that each contributor's narrative possesses its own emotional weight and rhythm, the editors maintain a cohesive narrative throughout. The natural transitions between voices in each chapter contribute to the reader's understanding of the importance of aligning personal calling with professional impact. Duswalt and Duswalt's editorial guidance ensures that each perspective is regarded as crucial and each insight is significant.
At its core, Impact explores themes of authenticity, service, and conscious entrepreneurship. It serves as a reminder to readers that leadership is not determined by titles or profit margins, but rather by an individual's capacity to inspire others. The book emphasizes the interdependence of passion and purpose, demonstrating how empathy and integrity can serve as the catalysts for sustainable success. Each narrative encourages contemplation of the extent to which personal transformation can ripple outward to affect families, communities, and industries.
The reader is profoundly affected. It challenges assumptions about success and fulfillment intellectually, while it inspires emotionally. The tone remains empowering and optimistic, inspiring readers to act with intention and compassion. Impact is not merely a collection of success stories; it is a movement of ideas that motivates readers to lead with compassion, creativity, and courage.
Impact: Inspiring Stories on Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs Impact the World shines as a deeply moving and motivational work, guided with grace and vision by Natasha and Craig Duswalt. It is a celebration of what happens when business, purpose, and humanity unite—and a reminder that the truest measure of success lies in the difference we make.
About the Author
Natasha Duswalt

Natasha Duswalt is an entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker based in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder and president of Peak Models & Talent, a leading modeling and talent agency that has connected clients with major brands across fashion, commercial, and print industries. A former model herself, Natasha turned her on-camera experience into a thriving business, mentoring aspiring models and entrepreneurs through her books and workshops.
A cancer survivor and advocate for purpose-driven living, Natasha shares her journey of resilience and empowerment in her inspirational works, including Women Who Rock and Impact: Inspiring Stories on Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs Impact the World. Through her writing and speaking, she encourages others to lead with heart, courage, and authenticity in both business and life. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, speaker and author Craig Duswalt, and their three sons.
About the Author
Craig Duswalt

Craig Duswalt is the creator of the brands RockStar Marketing and Rock Your Life.
Craig's background includes touring with Guns N' Roses, as Axl Rose's personal assistant, and Air Supply, as the band's personal assistant.
In his presentations, Craig shares numerous stories of his days with Guns N' Roses and Air Supply, and behind-the-scenes encounters with some of the biggest names in entertainment; people like Bono, U2, Metallica, Queen, Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Liz Taylor, Liza Minnelli, George Michael, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Robert Plant, Elton John, Gianni Versace, Rolling Stones, Nine Inch Nails, Dave Navarro, Rick Springfield, Eddie Money, Michael Hutchense, and a bunch more.
Craig was also an award-winning copywriter, working as a Creative Director for a Los Angeles-based ad agency until opening up his own ad agency, Green Room Design & Advertising, which was named the 2002 Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year.
Craig combined his backgrounds in both music and marketing, and is now a professional speaker and author, promoting his RockStar Events all over the country, teaching entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, coaches and info-marketers how to promote themselves and their business by thinking outside the box at his 3-Day RockStar Events every spring and fall in Dallas and Los Angeles.
Craig Duswalt also speaks to corporations on how to market like a RockStar, to colleges about drug awareness, and at numerous seminars, associations and conferences on how to use outside the box marketing techniques to attract clients, and how to stand out from the competition by throwing televisions out hotel windows — Like a RockStar.



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