For more than twenty-five years, GJ Barbato has built a career around one question: How can a story leave people better than it found them?
From Hollywood boardrooms to today's streaming landscape, he has helped bring inspiring stories to millions of viewers. He is Co-CEO of Best Ever Channels, a network of streaming television channels available across major platforms, and has held executive leadership positions with MGM Television, STARZ, and other entertainment companies throughout his career.
But Hacking Heaven represents something more personal.
A lifelong student of human potential, spirituality, and the invisible forces that shape our lives, Barbato explores the intersection of love, destiny, free will, and personal transformation through fiction. His essays on Substack have attracted readers seeking hope, wonder, and a deeper understanding of life's everyday miracles, reflecting the same heartfelt philosophy that lies at the center of this novel: that life is happening for us, not to us.
A recipient of multiple marketing awards and a founding member of Jack Canfield's Association of Transformational Leaders, Barbato continues to write stories that entertain while inviting readers to see themselves—and their own lives—with new eyes.
Hacking Heaven is his debut novel.