Shaunti Fledhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 1/28/2008 8:00 AM

This two-day trip was to go speak to an annual convention of the Baptist General Assembly for the State of Oklahoma and it was a real honor to be invited.

On Monday night, I was able to speak before the whole group, men and women, and share my story of how I came to faith and Jesus as a 21-year-old getting ready to graduate from college and the path, a very unexpected path that God led me on, to where I am today as an author and a speaker. And then in the morning, this Tuesday morning, 29th, I spoke to the women and this is all a group that was gathered together to be encouraged, and inspired, and equipped to be able to go out and love people in the name of Jesus, not just talk but really live our faith though our lives and pray for people and to help people and help them understand that the whole reason we love people is because of Jesus.

And so it’s very interesting that as I am driving back home from the ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 1/26/2008 8:00 AM

I am calling this blog entry in as I drive back from the airport on Saturday night, January 26th, at almost midnight. What an interesting trip for all sorts of reasons!

This is my first speaking trip of the New Year, and I added it up and I have 15 speaking engagements in the next 12 weeks, which should be kind of interesting. Then the speaking slows down a little bit, but the next three months are going to be very busy. But a lot of great places, and Omaha was a really neat place to go as the first of the speaking trips of the year.

One of things that was great about it, it wasn’t just speaking to the Women’s Conference that I was at, but also because the folks at the Women’s Conference had arranged two businessman interviews for me.

These interviews have proven to be extremely valuable as I have traveled to different parts of the country. I have asked whoever is doin ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 1/21/2008 8:00 AM

I’m not traveling today. In fact I’m sitting at my computer working on the scripts for my next round of radio spots instead of curling up with a good book before bedtime - which is what I’d prefer to be doing! And I just made the mistake of procrastinating on the radio spots by checking the Amazon page for my book “For Women Only.” All authors have a secret obsession with their Amazon pages for two reasons: “what is the ranking??” (627, a few minutes ago, in case anyone is wondering.) And “Has anyone posted a comment lately?”

Most of my Amazon comments are terrific, and I’m like a gleeful kid when I read them. I love hearing how something has changed a life or a marriage! But every now and then I get a posting that makes me sooo upset. Largely because it says that I say something in the book that I NEVER say and WOULD NEVER say. I don&a ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 1/7/2008 8:00 AM

Well, the New Year certainly started off with a bang. A few days ago we got an unexpected phone call from producers in New York for “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet”, which is the Fox 9:00 a.m. morning show, syndicated nationwide, asking me and Lisa if we would popup to New York at the last minute and appear on a segment about understanding teenagers on Tuesday, February 8th.

So, we put everything off on hold, scrambled a bit, flew off to New York on Monday afternoon and prepped for the show and went live on this major broadcast on Tuesday morning with several teenagers also on the panel with us to talk about our books for counseling and to talk about the things that parents need to understand about teenagers (ph) that they tend not to get. The experience was a really fun one and the producers were fantastic. It is such a pleasure to be prepped by producers who take the need for preparation seriously. So many ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 10/27/2007 8:00 AM

This trip was one I have been looking forward to for a long time, because   Christ’s Church of the Valley or CCV, is the last of the Churches that have been putting on a marriage conference and have invited me to participate in one of the weeks of speaking. When I arrived at the Phoenix Airport I was picked by a terrific lady named Kim who is the assistant to Senior Pastor Don and as we talked about the Church one thing that I realized was remarkable about this particular Church is that Pastor Don puts a huge emphasis on attracting and speaking to men. So many churches are so female-oriented that many men just don’t feel at home in Church. There has actually been books written about this, including one that I believe is called something like “Why Men Hate Church”. This p ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 10/25/2007 8:00 AM

I absolutely love speaking at colleges and universities and this one is a special treat, because I have     been there before about two years ago and I have like spoken on my own, and this time Jeff and I were invited back to speak not only to the college faculty, but also to a Question and Answer session of hundreds of students.

We spoke probably to 1,300-1,400 students, and it is always such a treat to be able to catch folks before they develop all the wrong ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 10/16/2007 8:00 AM

What a great group of people at Cypress Wesleyan Church. I had so much fun   with the women from this church. Three leaders of the women’s group at this church had been on the ‘Girls’ Getaway Cruise’ that I spoke on, last year, and they enjoyed it so much they tried to re-create a little piece of that cruise for everyone else! No seriously, it turns out that one of the pastors, Dale, ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 10/11/2007 8:00 AM

This was a wonderful family trip. Jeff and I have been trying to prioritize doing marriage conferences where we can actually bring the kids with us, and this was wonderful for many reasons.

First, the invitation happened to fall over a long weekend for our kids’ school, so we could get a little mini family vacation in, in a wonderful environment.

Secondly, the invitation also fell during the famous Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, where hot air balloonists from all over the United States come to Albuquerque. They have mass liftoffs of 700, 800, 900 hot air balloons at a time, each morning for two weeks. I had heard about this, but had never seen it.

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By Shaunti Feldhahn on 10/5/2007 8:00 AM

This event was a real treat for me because I was invited to speak by my college friends, Jean and Cheryl Foley. Jean and Cheryl have been close friends ever since we were all freshmen in college and meeting each other for the first time in the first few days of our college life together; and we all agreed it would probably be better for us not to tell the stories of the somewhat crazy things that we did in college now that we look back on and wonder, “What were we thinking?” But the reason that this was special for me is that I haven’t had as much contact with the Catholic side of the Christian world over the last few years, even though it was the Catholic students group in college that really nurtured and defended me; and really was where I had my real spiritual awakenings, and understanding of who God really is. So Jean and Cheryl are very special to me, and I was delighted to get this invitation to speak to the individu ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 9/29/2007 8:00 AM

The day after I got back from New York, Jeff and I took one of our first family trips to a speaking engagement under our new system. A year ago, we had realized that we needed to start prioritizing speaking engagements, where Jeff and I spoke together and could bring the children and a nanny with us.

Too often in the past when we have brought the children on our speaking engagements, they have been stuck in a church nursery somewhere probably with a very sweet volunteer looking after them, but still stuck in a nursery all day, which is obviously not really that much fun for them. So, we realized that we needed to start traveling with the children and a nanny; even though it’s more expensive for us, it’s very worth it in terms of our family priorities. So, we loaded our nanny Keri and the children up on the flight and flew out to Seattle, and it all worked beautifully. We had a lot of work to do on the airplane beca ... Read More »