Shaunti Fledhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/26/2007 8:00 AM

April 26th - 28th , 2007
This was the first stop on my four-day, three-city trip that was a whirlwind of activity. It was pretty tiring, but also pretty exhilarating because I got to speak to so many people in such a short period of time. April 26th, 2007 First Baptist Church of Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky
First, I flew to Nashville and someone was kind enough to pick me up and drive me to Paducah, Kentucky two hours away. Because I am on a deadline, trying to finish something for the preparatory discussion guide, I ended up working the whole way. I was hardly able to talk with the woman who was kind enough to drive me. The event that night was at Paducah, at the First Baptist Church of Paducah, and it was just a wonderful suite. It was a women’s night out, Spring Fling kind of event and it was just a lot of fun. 600 women came, paid $20 each to come and hear this discussion and I was just amazed that so many women would ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/21/2007 8:00 AM

Today was a very interesting event! Almost a year ago, Mary Frances Bowley had invited me to be a part of a major event to introduce the work of Wellspring to the women of Atlanta. Wellspring was going to put on a big stadium event at the Georgia Dome that would really encourage women to step out and take a risk to do those things they felt they were being called to do by God. This event had quite a few well known speakers, and I was honored to be invited to be one of the people on the platform. I shared my story of how I came to be an author, and how I felt so strongly that I was supposed to write a book on a particular subject. I once felt certain that there was absolutely no way that I could ever accomplish getting published, yet I felt like I was being urged to just start something in the midst of my doubts and see that God would get the glory for His hand in my endeavors.

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By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/8/2007 8:00 AM

Easter Sunday, in the afternoon, I flew with my column counterpart, Diane Glass, to Kansas City, Missouri where the headquarters of our press syndicate is located. As many of you know, in addition to the books that I write, I also write a weekly opinion column that appears in somewhere around 50 papers nationwide. It’s actually not just me writing it. It is a debate column where I take a perspective that tends to come from the conservative, safe based Christian world view and debate a subject with my column counterpart Diane who comes at life from a liberal, feminist, agnostic world view. People always ask “What is she like?.” And I always say the same thing, “We get along great.” In person and we have to, because we’re business partners, because we’re syndicated in this debate column together by Universal Press Syndicate for five years, so we better work well together.

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By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/3/2007 8:00 AM

Today my co-author on “For Young Women Only” Lisa Rice and I flew to Dallas, Texas to tape the popular television show ‘LIFE Today’ with James Robison and his wife Betty Robison. This is a wonderful couple that is fulfilling a very important process and I’m always delighted to be invited on their show to share the latest message that I’ve worked so hard to research and investigate to communicate to people.

The thing that always strikes me so much about being with James and Betty Robison is that they are doing things after God’s own heart. They are not just the founders of an incredibly successful, Christian television program. They are also the founders of an organization called ‘LIFE Outreach International’ that enlists the many millions of viewers of their television program to go meet the needs of some of the most needy people around the globe ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 4/2/2007 8:00 AM

This entry wouldn’t usually be found in my travel blog, but it was a big day for me and my co-author Lisa Rice. Today we turned in the final edit on our upcoming book …“For Parents Only - Getting Inside the Head of Your Kid”. We are absolutely thrilled that we have finally met the deadline amidst all the travel craziness. We think this book is going to end up being very eye opening for parents to help them understand the things that they just cannot forget about their kid. We have been working on the book and the research behind it for over a year and I hope and pray that it will touch parents in much the same way that “For Women Only’ and “For Men Only” have touched thousands to understand the key surprises about each other. So, if you listen closely you can hear a big woohoo! from Atlanta as the sound of me and Lisa celebrating that the book is done.

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/23/2007 8:00 AM

This large multi-state conference is the type of event that I have grown to love to do. In this case, 500 women came together from probably a dozen states around the Midwest and elsewhere. We had a wonderful time together on Friday night, all-day Saturday and Sunday morning before parting and going back home.

I was the main speaker for this conference and Kim Bolton was the worship leader and it was just a delightful group of ladies. This is one event that I can say with absolute certainty was covered in prayer from start to finish, and in fact, had been covered in prayer for over a year.

The Illowa Christian Women’s Groups takes prayer very seriously which is wonderful to see. Every few weeks in the month leading up to the event, I would get a little note, or a card, or an email, or a phone-call from one of the organizers saying that they were looking forward to the conference and that they were on their k ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/17/2007 8:00 AM

This weekend, I unexpectedly got a delightful surprise. I was looking forward to being up in Bangor, Maine with a great group of women at the this women’s event, however I was feeling very “traveled out”. The major snowstorms that unexpectedly hit the Northeast all the way from Michigan to New York to Maine ended up giving me an unexpected snow day. The event planners felt that it was best to re-schedule the conference because many women had not been able to get to the conference through the two feet of snow that fell.

We ended up re-scheduling the conference for May and I unexpectedly got a snow day and was able to stay at home with my kids. It was a lot of fun and we ended up being able to go do some fun ‘mommy-kid’ things and enjoying a surprise weekend. I was able to join my daughter on her opening day of her key ball season and that was a lot of fun. So, all-in-all, I was very ble ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 3/4/2007 8:00 AM

Wow, I got out to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs and could hardly talk, the location was so intensely beautiful. The Rocky Mountains swoop down to a mountain lake that is surrounded by multiple beautiful buildings of this luxury hotel. I miss my husband and kids, but I couldn’t resist sending Jeff - and my staff! - an email with the view from my room of the lake and the mountains. Not that I WANT to make them jealous or anything..

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By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/24/2007 8:00 AM

This was the first marriage conference that I had done on my own in a while, and I realized how much I missed having Jeff with me! He is so good at relating to the guys as an “average knucklehead” (his words, not mine!), and really seems to help them ‘get it’ about how simple it can be to truly understand their wives and make them happy.

Although I was missing my husband and kids, I really enjoyed this visit. The pastor, Georg Karl, is an old Michigan guy and had a shrine in his office to the Michigan Wolverines just like Jeff does! Which in Indiana, of course, is NOT very popular.   [LINDA - see if you can get the picture from the event site of me between two of the pastors who were wearing Michigan sweatshirts!] Georg had actually met his wife, Jeanne, in Flint, MI, which is where Jeff used to own restaurants with his brothers before he went to college. And Jeff was blown away to hea ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/20/2007 8:00 AM

I was delighted to be able to do this women’s night out-type event and not have to get on an airplane! This was a terrific church up near the Mall of Georgia, which made for interesting driving in rush hour traffic,
as anyone who knows Atlanta traffic might guess! But once I actually got there, what a fun group of ladies! There were probably about 350 women packed into the old sanctuary, and they had brought friends, neighbors, co-workers, and so on. The organizers had told me that they were hoping this would be a good event for church members to invite their friends to, and that is exactly what happened. I had at least three women stop me in the bathroom and tell me privately that they had brought a neighbor who was really struggling with her marriage, or had invited a co-worker who wasn’t as interested in hearing about men but wanted to hear me speak because she read my column in the paper every week, or so on. Read More »