Shaunti Feldhahn

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/9/2008 8:00 AM

Early on Saturday morning after having gotten back from Kansas City late the night before, I went again to the airport and flew out for Virginia to be one of several speakers at the Love4Life Conference put on by the Association of Christian Counselors. I am so glad that there is an organization like this one that focuses not just on counseling for those who really need it, but on bringing a Christian perspective that can help people narrowly address their emotional and mental and behavioral issues, but also the spiritual roots of those issues as well, it’s such a valuable perspective. And this conference is one that they hoped to make an annual conference and I was honored to be invited and it was fascinating for me to be at this conference with people who I have watched and respected so highly ... Read More »

By Shaunti Feldhahn on 2/8/2008 8:00 AM

We found out a few days ago that my beloved Grandpa Bob passed away. He was 88-years-old and a World War II veteran, so there were a lot of people who came from around the country to his funeral. I flew in first thing Friday morning and had literally to run out after the funeral was over in order to catch the last flight out Friday night. But in between it was so wonderful to see extended family, some who I haven’t seen in years, and wonderful to be able to hug each other and cry and remember Grandpa Bob. It was very, very touching to me especially and very poignant to see my grandmother.

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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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