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, Midlife Battle Cry, urging women to 
resist the pull of streaming television algorithms and get excited about ‘redefining the mighty 
second half.

Dawn speaks at conferences, churches, elevators, and just about anywhere anyone will listen to her 
thoughts on finding joy and humor in even the most difficult of circumstances.

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 the upcoming 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.