Jennifer Dukes Lee is the author of many bestselling books, including How to Love Your Morning, It’s All Under Control, and Growing Slow. A former metro news reporter, Jennifer still loves to chase a great story. Her favorite one of all: the Good News of Jesus. She’s a self-appointed morning evangelist, helping people discover that mornings really can be worth waking up for. She speaks all over North America, sharing messages of hope, spiritual renewal, and what happens when you finally stop hitting snooze on your soul. Jennifer and Scott live on the fifth-generation family farm in Iowa, where they’ve spent their lives raising crops, pigs, two beautiful daughters, and an enduring faith. She loves queso, Netflix binges, and singing too loudly to songs with great harmony. (Apologies to anyone within earshot.)

Mary Carver is a writer, speaker, and recovering perfectionist. She lives for good books, spicy queso, and television marathons, but she lives because of God’s grace. Mary writes with humor and honesty about giving up on perfect and finding truth in unexpected places on her blog, MaryCarver.com. She is also a regular contributor to incourage.me, MomAdvice.com, and MothersofDaughters.com. Mary and her husband live in Kansas City with their two daughters.

It was a mandatory highschool public speaking class that convinced Michele Cushatt to find a career that didn’t involve delivering presentations. She never wanted to do that again, if she could help it. With a heart for hurting people and a deep faith, she pursued a career in service rather than speaking, and graduated Cum Laude from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing.

But life seldom goes according to plan. In the years that followed, Michele experienced several unexpected personal losses that led her to leave hospital rooms for board rooms. A young, rising talent on a national telecom sales team, she discovered a new love for business strategy, growth, and team culture and development. Eventually, this business-savvy would lead her to start several businesses of her own, including a thriving executive and presentation coaching business that continues to this day.

And, much to Michele’s surprise, these experiences—both the gains and the losses—led her back to the world of public speaking.

For more than 15 years, Michele Cushatt has inspired and challenged both corporate and faith-based audiences with her story of trauma, faith, and resilience. She has spoken internationally to a wide variety of audiences including Ramsey Solutions, Women of Faith, Compassion International, Michael Hyatt & Co (now Full Focus), Cru, LifeToday TV, Belay, Colorado Christian University, Family Life, John O’Leary Inspires, Dynamic Communicators International, as well as numerous other business, church, and ministry events. In addition, she has appeared on hundreds of podcasts, radio, video, and audio recording mediums. With this wealth of experience, Michele coaches hundreds of speakers on how to design and deliver powerful and memorable presentations (oh, the irony).

From 2014 to 2016, Michele partnered with Michael Hyatt as the weekly co-host of his popular podcast, This is Your Life With Michael Hyatt. In addition, she and Michael produced Get Published, a 21-session audio program for aspiring writers. Then, from 2017 to 2020, Michele co-hosted the hilarious and practical Communicator Academy podcast with her good friend Kathi Lipp, “helping writers and speakers become the communicators God made them to be.” And from 2019 to 2022, Michele worked as a consultant and then executive at Full Focus, a performance coaching, achievement and productivity company known for their Full Focus Planners.

Pulling from her uncommon story, Michele has authored four books with Zondervan Publishing (a division of HarperCollins Christian) including Undone, I Am, and Relentless. Her fourth book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, is due to release March 2023.

Michele lives with her family, including her six children, on eight acres outside of Denver, Colorado. She enjoys historical fiction, a long hike in the Rocky Mountains with her black lab, and a kitchen table filled with people.

Now graduated from her role as a homeschooling mom of eight, Dawn Camp devotes her time and love of stories to writing her first novel. She contributes to DaySpring’s (in)courage website and writes about family, faith, Photoshop, and life in an ever-emptying nest on Substack. Dawn has been featured on Adobe’s website for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. She enjoys movie date nights, cups of Earl Grey, and cheering on the Braves. Dawn lives with her family in metro Atlanta.

Whether on the page or in person, author and speaker Robin Dance exudes a warmth and winsomeness that makes you feel like an instant friend. A lifelong Southerner now living in the heart of Georgia, she's written or contributed to over 20 books and has work featured in Guidepost, Parent Life, Everyday Faith, Mature Living, Crosswalk, and HomeLife magazines. Robin is also a regular contributor to DaySpring's popular (in)courage community. She often writes about faith, family, and aging purposefully, and as an established Life Plan Advisor, she's committed to serving those in life's Third Act.

Married to her college sweetheart, mom to three children, and now an empty nester, she's passionate about educating seniors about their options and on important decisions they need to make in retirement. Recovering people-pleaser, Gospel-loving ragamuffin, and celebrator of (extra)ordinary miracles, Robin hopes you, too, thrill to the magic of life.

Grace P. Cho is a Korean American writer, poet, speaker, and the editorial manager at (in)courage. Through her words, she creates space for people to be nurtured, challenged, and transformed and believes storytelling can create movements that change the world. Grace mentors leaders, coaches writers, and desires to elevate women of color’s voices in the publishing industry and the church. Learn more at @gracepcho and at gracepcho.com.

Hi there! Here's a little bit about me: I'm a girl who loves to garden (both veggies and flowers) create beautiful spaces both indoors and outside, and stay up way too late! Im a enneagram7w6 and an HSP, so I love all the fun things and sharing deep feelings and stories, too. I love adventure, variety, trying new places and foods, being spontaneous and being outside! And, typical to an enneagram 7, I avoid pain and disappointment like the plague.

I'm also a Word-lover, Jesus-follower, heart-encourager, story-teller, and grace-needer. I can go from really smart to really not-so-smart in less than 60 seconds. I've accidentally taken my dogs seizure medicine before, and have been knowing to call the fire department more than once. Bless my husbands heart, we've been married 27 years and we have two grown sons, one daughter in elementary school and two daughter-in-loves.

My passion is to equip women with soul-confidence and courage so they can "overcome life's obstacles in faith instead of tip-toeing around them in fear!" Have you ever struggled with self-doubt or battled with discouragement? If so, I've been there and I'd love to encourage you!

I hope you'll visit my website and blog at www.ReneeSwope.com. Be sure to sign up for my my FREE 7-day Doubt Diet devotional email series and subscribe to my blog for more encouragement. See you there!

Becky Keife is a Bible teacher, speaker, and author of books and Bible studies, including her new 100-day devotional, A Verse a Day for the Anxious Soul. Becky is passionate about helping people hear God’s voice, embrace their true identity, and see God’s kindness even when life is messy. As a mental health advocate, Becky equips individuals and churches to understand anxiety biblically and experience Jesus wholly. She loves long naps, puffy clouds, and shady trails. Becky lives in Southern California with her husband and three always-hungry teenage sons.

Dorina chases God’s glory as a mama of three girls, foodie, runner, podcaster, and a weaver of words. With an MFA in Children’s Literature, Dorina has published four multicultural children’s books with one more releasing in Spring 2024. Her book, Cora Cooks Pancit, received the Asian American Librarian’s Association Picture Book of the Year. Dorina also has experience teaching college students, speaking in elementary schools, and coaching youth.

Dorina is passionate about raising up women from diverse backgrounds to thrive in their God-given callings. Dorina writes for (in) courage and Proverbs 31 devotional teams. Her essays have been published at Kindred Mom, For Every Mom, The MOPS blog and in more than 20 newspapers. She specializes in helping people discover God's glory through adversity and flourish in community. Her gift is delivering authentic, Biblically-sound messages that engage audiences through story. She has published two Bible studies, Glory Chasers: Discovering God's Glory in Unexpected Places and Flourishing Together: Cultivating a Fruitful Life in Christ with two coming, Create in Me a Heart of Mercy and Reclaiming Ruth. Dorina is the president of the Redbud Writers Guild and the director of the Lead Loved ministry.

Dorina is the granddaughter of Filipino-Hawaiian and Italian immigrants. Raised in Chicago, she was transplanted to Fresno, California in 1999. She considers herself a California girl now as she raises three daughters to love the cultural diversity, wonder-filled landscapes and unique food of the state. After her husband died from cancer in 2014, Dorina married a long-time friend, Shawn Young. When Dorina is not writing or traveling with her family, she’s out on the trails running and chasing God’s glory.

Connect with Dorina at www.DorinaGilmore.com, where you can sign up for her Glorygram. You can also find her as @DorinaGilmore on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

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Jill received her doctorate of ministry from Gordon Conwell Seminary in 2020 with a focus on intergenerational faith learning. She also holds a Master of Divinity from Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, and a Bachelor of the Arts in English and Secondary Language from Washington University in St. Louis. She currently serves as senior pastor at Real Hope Community Church in Oswego, Illinois.

She is passionate about bringing together the oft-maligned millennials and baby boomers to worship and learn together. Currently, she is working on releasing a podcast titled Reframed: Picturing Faith with the Next Generation.

Jill has published six books and award winning articles in places such as Christianity Today publications, Christians for Biblical Equality, (in)courage, MOPS, Disney’s Family Fun, and Chicago Parents. She is represented by Karen Neumair at Credo Communications.

She also enjoys travel, gardening, musical theater, reading, kayaking, sitting near the ocean, and spending time with her husband and three daughters. She believes in Jesus, grace, restoration, kindness, justice, Earl Grey, and dark chocolate.

Kaitlyn is a storyteller, book launch manager, and Virtual Assistant. She is the author of Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between. For over a decade, she has blogged at KaitlynBouchillon.com about discovering God's goodness in the ordinary and His faithfulness in the difficult. Kaitlyn loves good books, deep conversations, and iced vanilla lattes.

Aliza Latta is a twenty-something Canadian writer, journalist, and artist who is a huge fan of telling stories. She writes about faith and young adulthood on her blog, alizalatta.com, and is a monthly contributor to Dayspring's (in)courage. Find her on Twitter or Instagram as @alizalatta.

Stephanie Bryant, the cofounder of incourage.me, enthusiastically encourages women to follow hard after God, listen to His voice and be brave enough to do His will. She is a Courage Coach, Business Consultant and a Marketing Mentor. Listen to Stephanie's podcast, The Jesus Led Adventure on iTunes. Follow along with her daily life at www.stephaniebryant.me and on instagram @StephanieSBryant as she teaches how to know your calling, journey with God and dwell in your Promised Land.

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(in)courage welcomes you to a place where authentic, brave women connect deeply with God and others. Founded in 2009 by DaySpring, the Christian products subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, Inc., (in)courage is a vibrant community that reaches thousands of women every day. Through the power of shared stories and meaningful resources, (in)courage champions women and celebrates the strength Jesus gives to live out our calling as God’s daughters. In the middle of your unfine moments and ordinary days, you are invited to become a woman of courage.

Tasha Jun is an author who has spent her life navigating cultural collisions and liminal space. She believes the middle spaces and the margins teach us how to see one another as poetry and treasure. She is passionate about stories, curiosity, and helping others embrace themselves as wholly beloved image bearers. She writes about ethnic identity, belonging, and everyday life, with nuance, melancholy and grace. Writing has always been the way God has led her out of hiding and towards the hope of shalom.

She lives in Indiana with her husband and three kids.