Karen Ehman
Author, Speaker, Gospel Clinger
Karen Ehman’s greatest passion is to help believers apply biblical truths as they reflect the gospel to a watching world. She individually coaches writers and speakers, helping them develop messages and craft attention-grabbing book proposals.
Get To Know Karen
Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, a speaker, and a contributing writer at Encouragement for Today, an online devotional that reaches 4 million women daily. She has written 21 books and Bible studies including Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All and the 2020 ECPA devotional book of the year Settle My Soul. She has been featured on TODAY Parenting, Redbook.com, Foxnews.com, Crosswalk.com, YouVersion.com, FaithGateway, and Truly magazine. She is also a monthly columnist for two different LifeWay publications and contributes to online places such as Christianity.com, Club31Women, and her.bible.
Her greatest passion is to help believers apply biblical truths as they reflect the gospel to a watching world. Over the past 30 years, she has granted more than 350 podcast, television, and radio interviews and has spoken to over 400 audiences at such diverse places as intimate retreats, church conferences, arena events, and women’s prisons. She individually coaches writers and speakers, helping them develop messages and craft attention-grabbing book proposals. Karen is a graduate of Spring Arbor University and serves as President-Elect of their Alumni Board of Directors.
Married to her college sweetheart, Todd, she is the mother of three adult children and Grandma Kit to three-year-old Jasper and baby Magnolia Rose. She enjoys second-hand thrifting, cheering for the Detroit Lions, and spending her days feeding whoever happens to be gathered around her mid-century dining room table, processing life while enjoying her county fair blue-ribbon winning cooking.
Breakout Session
Finding and Organizing Your Own Unique Content
As a communicator, you have a continual need to create new content. Don’t let this reality unnerve you or – worse yet – tempt you to merely compile and tweak material you find in books or online or employ AI to ghost write for you. This workshop will empower attendees to unearth relevant material in their own daily lives that will not only make it unique but will punctuate their messages in a memorable way. Key topics covered in this workshop are:
• How to live life as a “noticer”, looking for impactful lessons in your ordinary life
• Ways to revisit the past via a simple timeline exercise that will help them identify lessons that they have already learned in life but may have forgotten about.
• Daily questions to ask themselves that will help to keep the content flowing in a natural manner
• How to categorize and organize different writing ideas, as well as identify where they could best be used whether it be in a book, social media, in a spoken message or for a piece of bonus content they might offer to their readers
• Ways to maximize content, using it in several areas to various degrees, and how to keep track of what you have used and where it was presented.
• The importance of not going to Scripture just to find material to speak or write about, but going to scripture to deepen your walk with Christ, and then let the lessons naturally flow later, when God gives you permission to take them from private to public
15-Minute Appointments
Karen loves to help both writers and speakers to zero in on their areas of expertise and then create content that will not only benefit their audiences but will also position them for effective future ministry. If you’re stuck on crafting a message, developing that book proposal idea, or finding places that might feature your content, grab an appointment with Karen. Your brainstorming session will produce an effective and doable plan that you’ll be excited—and equipped—to implement.
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