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 ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
9/25/2007 8:00 AM
Our old stomping grounds… How i miss this city 
On Tuesday, I flew to my old stomping grounds in New York City to meet with my publisher about the new business book I will be working on for the next year. I had not realized how much I missed New York City until I got back into the City. I realized along the way that this would be the first night I had ever stayed in a hotel in New York. Obviously, when we lived there for four years, we had our apartments about ten blocks North of Gramercy Park on 27th and 2nd, and since we had an apartment, we were the hotel for all of our ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
9/21/2007 8:00 AM
My assistant Leslie and I flew out today for this large marriage event at a Church in suburban Minneapolis and I was fascinated to see that like many of the Churches I go to this was a fairly large and growing Church where the average age of the attendees was in their 30s and 40s. I was also fascinated to see that these marriage events which they do twice-a-year attracts 1500 people - one thousand five hundred people roughly at each one of them and that basically represents 700 or more couples which is just a huge response from a Church that apparently takes Marriage Ministry very seriously. The interesting thing was that this was actually arranged by the Small Groups Ministry of the Church as a way to try to get people interested and connected and realize their need for fellowship with other couples and use it as a way to connect people in. They also did something that I wish more Churches will do. In the lobb ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
8/25/2007 8:00 AM
On Saturday morning, I flew out again for the Phoenix area. I had been at Cornerstone Christian Church almost exactly a year ago to do a Women’s Event. They had wanted to have me in to do a pastoral interview as part of a sex series, like so many churches that I have spoken at in the last three years. CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH ATTENDANCE GOES FROM 2500 TO 6000 IN ONE YEAR! 
They were doing a series of five or six weeks on sexual issues and had want ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
8/23/2007 8:00 AM
I flew out Thursday morning to do a women’s night out event at a church in McAllen, Texas last night and it was a really sweet group of people. They had a full dinner and it was one of those great events that I love so much were the men of the church serve the dinner for the women of the church and give their wives a fun, relaxing time. The other thing that I always find really amusing about those scenarios is that, while I’m standing up on stage talking to the girls about what’s going on in the lives of their men, you can see the heads of the men peeping over the windows and the doors to the kitchen or peering around the sides of the room or standing in the back of the room just happening to take a long time to clear dishes just because they want to hear. Last night, I was standing on stage sharing some of these issues and I noticed that there seem to be more men than normal filtering into the room when ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
8/18/2007 8:00 AM
Saturday morning I did a women’s event for a church at Chicago, Bethel Community Church. That was interesting because we had a great question and answer time. One question really struck a chord with me. A woman stood up and said she’d be starting work with her husband in his business this fall, and she was very cautious and seemed to have a strong personality and asked, “what can I do, what’s the one piece of advice you can give me for helping to ensure that I don’t mess this up, how I approach my husband, now that he is not just my husband but my co-worker and boss? I told her that I thought she was absolutely astute to ask that question, and I shared with her from my own experience of working with my husband that the one thing that you need to do most of all is to think about everything that you say before you say it while you are in the process of learning how to work together.
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
8/16/2007 8:00 AM
This was a three-day trip that had some terrific highs and some terrific lows. On the highs, my husband and I traveled on Thursday to Colorado Springs and I started some meetings and interviews for the next book that I’m going to write. It is a corporate version of ‘For Women Only’, and I think it will be really helpful to a lot of women who by not understanding how men think, sometimes sabotage their careers without realizing it because of how they interact and treat the men that they work with. So, I’m starting the research on this and I’m really excited about this one. The next day, Friday morning, Jeff and I had an absolutely fantastic time. The reason we were out there was because we were invited sometime ago to speak at Focus on the Family’s monthly chapel service. August was marriage month for Focus on the Family. They had invited Jeff and I to come speak to all 1200 e ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
8/10/2007 8:00 AM
This weekend, I did a marriage conference for 415 people on a Friday night and a Saturday morning; and this was a really interesting group, because it was a marriage conference that wasn’t just for married couples. They actually encouraged a lot of singles to come to this and to learn a lot of the stuff, these truths about men and women before they get married, which I thought was a very productive way of handling this. Something funny happened near the end of one of the sessions when I tell the men that the way women are wired in a sexual way that women have such physiological differences, physical differences, that they need anticipation time. They need to know what their husband has on the menu for the evening before they get to the bedroom. This is one of the principles, one of the main differences between men and women; and any male, I was telling them that men that can learn this can understand how to give their wife anticipation time b ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
7/30/2007 8:00 AM
My column counterpart and friend of four years, Diane Glass, died today. This has been a very difficult month, as Diane only learned that she had cancer 5 weeks ago, and because the family wanted to respect her privacy, we couldn’t really share with others all that was going on. Even though those of us who cared about her were hurting with her, and her family. Yesterday, however, it became public knowledge, as her ‘farewell column’ ran in the AJC and dozens of other papers. (You can see that here: http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/woman/entries/2007/07/29/ whats_important.html) A ...
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By Shaunti Feldhahn on
7/9/2007 8:00 AM
The giant ICRS convention every year is one of the highlights of my year. It is when all the people in the Christian publishing world get together in one place and have a giant convention where all the publishers and other exhibiters show their new product line for the fall season. All the buyers come and walk around and look at what is coming out in the next few months to determine what is going to be at the top of their list or what they are going to promote to the consumer.  The ICRS show is also a time to see old friends and I love it for both of those reasons because it is also ...
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