Publisher's Synopsis
Burt Nordstrand has been in recovery from compulsive overeating for thirty-six years. While struggling with food and other dangerous addictions, he started SSG Corporation in 1971 and transformed the gas-and-convenience-store industry nationally. In 2016, he sold the company he founded forty-five years earlier for more than fifty million dollars. Along with his continued successful ventures in real estate development, Nordstrand is an athlete and avid sailor. He and his wife, Yvonne, live in Florida and travel widely. The couple has five children and eleven grandchildren. They are active in philanthropy through the Burt Nordstrand Family Fund. In 2011, Burt created COR Retreat, an affordable, residential, 12-Step recovery program for food addicts. By 2018, COR had served more than 1,000 people from around the United States and the world. Burt turned eighty in 2018.
