Joe Ciccone is an author and entrepreneur of several businesses. He has been very successful in competing and teaching Martial Arts. He is credited in creating his own style Yee chi kwan which is a realistic fighting system. He has been featured in many magazines including Who's who in the Martial Arts elite being inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame He was involved in music and owned a Christian record label. He wrote several songs and was producing a Christmas album. Life happened and after his mother died he never finished the album but left music all together. He developed a personal relationship with God in his early twenties, but tribulations in his life helped him realize that he was not living a Godly life. After his faith was tested through trials, he was led to share God's gift of faith through the written word. Through his life changing journey he has been invited to speak at several venues about his book "Not Your Average Joe's Journey to Faith". Many people have been touched and blessed by the message conveyed in his journey. He is happily married with three grown children.