Defying the Narrative
How families can raise children to recognize the dignity of every person and respond to cultural pressure with courage, compassion, and hope.
Speaking · Faith · Family · Story
Invite Stefanie to encourage, equip, and inspire your audience.
Stefanie brings the perspective of an author, educator, wife, and mother of four to conversations about faith, family, children’s formation, storytelling, courage, and the dignity of every life.
Her presentations blend personal stories, practical reflection, and a message of truth delivered with grace and hope. Programs may be tailored to the audience, setting, and time available.
Featured speaking topics
Messages drawn from faith, motherhood, teaching, and the journey behind the books.
Each topic can be adapted for a keynote, retreat session, workshop, parent gathering, church event, or facilitated conversation.
The Words Children Carry
How everyday language, media, books, and offhand comments shape a child’s understanding of belonging, family, pregnancy, and personal worth.
When God Rewrites the Plan
Finding faith and purpose through waiting, disappointment, infertility, unexpected turns, and blessings that arrive outside our preferred timeline.
Called Before Qualified
Moving beyond self-doubt and taking the next faithful step when God places a dream, project, ministry, or message on your heart.
Ask One More Question
Faith, discernment, advocacy, and the courage to seek wisdom when advice, authority, emotion, and personal conviction collide.
Conviction with Compassion
Living a life-affirming message that is not about winning arguments, but about changing hearts through truth, grace, encouragement, and action.
ChurchesWomen’s groupsParent groupsPregnancy centersConferencesSchoolsHomeschool communitiesBook clubs
School author visits
Help students discover how stories begin, grow, and become books.
Author visits can be customized for elementary classrooms, school assemblies, libraries, homeschool groups, and faith-based communities.
Interactive Read-Aloud & Q&AA warm, age-appropriate reading followed by student questions about writing, illustrating, and publishing.
From Idea to Published BookThe true journey from noticing a missing story to writing On My Way and becoming a published author.
Writing with Purpose WorkshopStudents explore how personal experiences, questions, and observations can become meaningful stories.
Faith, Prayer & Family ThemesFor faith-based settings, visits can include themes from When We Pray, On My Way, and Defying the Narrative.
Content, length, faith emphasis, grade level, book sales, and signing options can be discussed when planning the visit.
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School author visit
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