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February 26, 2023 30 mins

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Listen to today's episode, "How Passion and Mission  Can Create International Change with Shawnee Penkacik"  as Christian Nonprofit Strategy Coach, author, and mom of 12 Shawnee Penkacik joins Dori Durbin to share how bullying led to writing "Carleigh and the Bullies: I am Enough in Christ" as well as:

  • What is a Non-profit Strategy Coach
  • What is "Mercy's Light Family"
  • Life with 12 kids
  • How bullying was a writing trigger
  • Reading of "Carleigh and the Bullies: I am Enough in Christ"
  • Impact and profits of her book
  • How it works to collaborate with  other authors 
  • Advice to aspiring authors
  • Two reasons professionals should write kids' books

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More about Shawnee
Shawnee Penkacik is a best-selling author, key-team member at Infinitely More Life as the marketing and social media manager and more for Infinitely More Life and Mercy’s Light Family.

She is passionate about people knowing who they are in Christ and applying that to their daily lives to do great things for the Kingdom. 
She is a wife to her amazing husband Jason and a mom to twelve amazing children. She can often be found with her Bible and a cup of coffee in hand.

Buy her book:
https://a.co/d/jkjPnVV

Follow Shawnee:
https://www.facebook.com/177263589792650
http://www.christianrocketeers.com

More about Dori Durbin:
Dori Durbin is a Christian wife, mom, author, illustrator, and a kids’ book coach who after experiencing a life-changing illness, quickly switched gears to follow her dream. She creates kids’ books to provide a fun and safe passageway for kids and parents to dig deeper and experience empowered lives. Dori also coaches non-fiction authors and aspiring authors to “kid-size” their content into informational and engaging kids’ books!
 
 Buy Dori's Kids' Books:
https://www.amazon.com/author/doridurbin

Follow Dori
http://instagram.com/dori_durbin
http://www.doridurbin.com
http://www.facebook.com/dori_durbin
email: hello@doridurbin.com

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