After being diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer, Gwen was given a dire expiration date. Rather than abandon hope, Gwen took the news as a challenge. After so many years of misdiagnoses and incorrect information, she finally knew what was wrong. Gwen could finally take action to survive. Not only survive but thrive. Since learning the truth about her condition and creating a system of improving her health, mindset, and relations of living life to the fullest, she has become a survivor. In fact, Gwen is one of the only 25% of women with her particular cancer who have lived well beyond their expiration date.

Gwen's goal—her mission—is to share with others the solutions that have worked for her. It doesn't matter if you're healthy or not; you can always improve your situation and make your own luck through a series of calculated actions and smart behaviors. You can always improve your luck by doing what Gwen has done to make her life rich with possibility and happiness.

On November 6, 2012, Gwen was given the definitive diagnosis of stage four metastatic breast cancer and given little chance of surviving beyond five years. She spent the next six months organizing a plan of action to take advantage of her time remaining and, in the process, developed what would become the “5% Solution”.​ As her health improved, she became one of the 25% of women with her type of cancer to survive well beyond their expiration date.

In December 2014, she launched “The Gwen Marie Collection - Purses With A Purpose," which honors cancer survivors and raises funds for cancer research. Gwen has worked every day to continue to survive her diagnosis, and in co-writing “Stop Complaining - Make Your Own Luck,” she is offering a program of insight and understanding for everyone to live with meaning and, in turn, learn how to build a “Legacy-On-The-Go.”

On July 27, 2023, Gwen succumbed to breast cancer. She survived nearly six years longer than expected. She is survived by her husband, Adam, and their four children, Teddy, Rachel, Max and Danny. Teddy is now a traveling trauma nurse. Rachel resides in Arizona. She is a paramedic and is now married with a six-month-old daughter. Max is now a senior resident in internal medicine through the University of Chicago, and Danny resides in Texas as a mechanical engineer specializing in bio-pharmacology. Gwen’s legacy continues through her life’s work as a wife, mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother, as well as through her book and the work she did as an “educator.”

For the last decade, Adam has been Gwen's partner in defying the odds. Through the years, when Gwen was constantly misdiagnosed, Adam devoted much of his time to researching medical conditions, healthcare options, and lifestyle approaches as a problem-solver to determine the best course of action for Gwen's health.

Since her correct diagnosis, he has not only supported her efforts to create luck for herself by taking small but significant actions to improve her health and mindset. He has teamed up with her to build the Rich Solution Community. It has become Adam's passion to make sure that the world can benefit from Gwen's message of actionable hope and put into place her personal survival system for creating luck, improving health, and building a “Legacy-On-The-Go.”

He met his wife Gwen in the spring of 1987 on the trading floor in Chicago, six months before the stock market crash, which he barely survived, professionally speaking. Adam and Gwen married in the winter of 1989. Adam traded at the CBOE for roughly 15 years before he moved across the street to the Chicago Board of Trade and formed Redmann & Rich, a trading group specializing in the soybean crush trade in the grain room.

Adam and Gwen have four children, each pursuing their own career paths. Their eldest son, Teddy, is pursuing a career in nursing. Their daughter, Rachel, a 2015 graduate of the University of Kansas, works as a critical care paramedic. Max, a 2017 graduate of the University of Kansas, is currently applying to medical schools. Danny is completing his senior year at the University of Kansas studying mechanical engineering - Rock-Chalk-Jayhawk!

Adam's Story

After Gwen‘s cancer diagnosis in 2012, the couple struggled to find meaning and purpose with the time they had left together. Ultimately, through trial, error, and research regarding Gwen’s ongoing cancer battle, they developed a strategic plan of action that has paid off in Gwen's becoming one of the 25% of people who survive her particular cancer beyond their planned “expiration date”.

In the process, they developed the “5% Solution”, seeing that what worked for Gwen would also work for others, regardless of their health. It turned out that Gwen and Adam had made their own luck by being determined, observant, and willing to seize the opportunity. This is the basis for ”Stop Complaining - Make Your Own Luck” and their shared passion for helping others live their legacy and create a richer life.