Julie Barnhill

Christian-Speaker Julie Barnhill

would be great for...

- Women's Topics
- Women's Retreat
- Parenting Topics
- Encouragement for Moms
- Spiritual Transformation

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Bio

Julie Barnhill is the author of seven books and the best-selling title, She's Gonna Blow! Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger. She has been a featured guest on Oprah (Moms Who Lose Control), CNN, NBC's The Other Half, and has been heard by millions on radio. Additionally, Julie’s international speaking engagements have allowed her to speak before audiences in South Africa, China, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Great Britain and tens of thousands each year nationally.

As the “Refreshingly Relevant” voice of authentic living for women across the globe, Julie is armed with a razor-sharp acerbic wit, and is dedicated to proclaiming the sublime, sentimental, and sometimes subversive, truths of life, home, and family. Coupled with a disarmingly charming self-deprecating sense of humor, she unapologetically sets herself apart as Author, Spokesperson, International/National Speaker, Popular Media Guest and Mothering Expert.

Her uncanny ability to both inspire and challenge audiences to action and change can be attributed to her consistently authentic presentation on stage, radio, television, and in her writing regarding who she is, where she’s been, and what she’s learned along the way to entertain, inspire, equip, and help others.

Julie tackles subjects from the sublime (learning to embrace ones cellulite) to the very serious and provocative (motherhood, anger, and abuse) and successfully melds wit and humor with bold expert directives.

Radio Producers can't get enough of Julie's keen talent & innate ability to present socially relevant content all the while acting as a catalyst for Talk Radio listener responses. Time and time again, she's proven she can be counted on to extract pertinent newsworthy material no matter the time frame she's allowed.

Television Producers know Julie delivers demonstrable expertise with lively and energetic sizzle!

Speaking Topics

One Tough Mother
Unapologetically raucous and refreshingly relevant, OTM gives you ten nonnegotiable ways to stand firm and be the mom. You’ll learn how to: say no like you mean it; stop overanalyzing every tiny detail; enhance the fun factor in your home; delight in your perfectly ordinary child; save yourself from scrapbooking madness, and more. You can be confident, loving, and in-charge.

She’s Gonna Blow!
Real help for moms (and dads and caregivers) dealing with the rewarding, yet challenging, task of parenting. Julie offers large doses of humor and practical strategies for coping with the big emotions of anger sometimes evoked by the spawnlings in your home. Get a handle on those emotions with “here and now” hope and help as you learn healthier ways of expressing anger, identify and let go your particular control issues, and implement strategic choices for a more peaceful home and heart.

You Go, Girlfriend
Do you want to laugh? I mean really life?! Would you like to be reminded of the outrageous blessing of being female and having wonderful women called girlfriends in your life? Are you ready to wave a hanky and take a trip down memory lane as Julie reminds you of all that unites us in XX chromosome glory!? Then sign on for this flat-out hilarious keynote and workshop which promises more laughs than you can handle.

Motherhood & Guilt
You can’t have Oreo’s without a glass of cold milk. There would be no Lone Ranger without Tonto. And where would Mary Kate be without Ashley? Alas, some things just go together and all too often (let’s say most often, shall we) motherhood is accompanied by the overwhelming, sometimes debilitating, emotion of guilt and second guessing. Julie explores its multiple layers and helps audiences distinguish true guilt from false guilt; identify the “peaks” of guilt they struggle with; recognize what they have done right as a parent; and spot the pitfalls of unrealistic expectations.

Radical Forgiveness
How do your forgive those who have hurt you? Why should you? And how do you forgive yourself for the dumb mistakes you’ve made? With typical gutsy humor and friendly, sassy style, Julie tackles the oft worn subject of forgiveness with fresh insight and startling clarity.

I’ve Never Told This to Anyone
Julie believes it’s way past time we talked about the secrets many of us have packed around from year to year. Time we came clean with ourselves and God about the choices we’ve made and their consequences. Drawing from hundreds of survey responses and intimate conversations with thousands of women over the past ten years, she gently but boldly states the truth of our past—the sexual secrets which have kept us tied up in shame and guilt—and challenges women to forgive themselves and others and lay hold of the hope we can all have for our future—no matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been.

Scandalous Grace
With tender vulnerability and uncompromising challenge, Julie joyfully initiates her listeners to the crazy, unpredictable, and scandalous—that is, the shocking, extreme, and outrageous grace of God toward women. It’s for those who aren’t perfect and who may feel they are a grave disappointment to God and others due to their weight, lack of talent, mental acuity, sexual mishaps, tarnished past, and stubbornness. Whew! That would cover about anyone and everyone. Scandalous Grace is all about wrapping our minds around the preposterous nature of divine grace, embracing it for ourselves, and then extending it to those around us.

Higher Up & Deeper In
Many women are anxious to increase their knowledge when it comes to prayer, Bible knowledge, and an overall understanding of how scriptural truth can shape and influence their lives in the midst of day-to-day living. Julie discusses effective and realistic ways to strengthen your faith and reveals seven core truths which will take you ‘higher up and deeper in’ with your relationship with Christ and the world around you.

Holi-dazed
Bring on the pumpkin pie, turkey, wassail, fudge, tinsel, and good times, as Julie instructs you on how to survive The Season without resorting to therapy, Prozak, or homicide.

Stretch, Woman, Stretch
It’s a Western Illinois agriculture fact: if corn stalk roots grow shallow, rather than deep, there’s going to be trouble when the predictable Midwest thunderstorms and winds come blowing through. So too our lives as women of faith. It’s imperative we attend to the ‘state of our roots.’ And this applies more than just the colored ones on our head. You’ll find practival live-it-out suggestions for women longing to be more rooted in what they believe.

This I Know to be True
Nearly two decades of mothering experience with three spawnlings laid the experiential groundwork for this powerfully poignant (and funny) keynote dedicated to proclaiming the sublime, silly, sentimental, and sometimes subversive, truths of home and family.

Credit Highlights

November 2007, iQuestions: safe and trusted video answers, videotaping for 2008 online release

Spring 2007, U. S. Army Garrison, Wiesbaden, Germany, She's Gonna Blow: Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger, Military moms and dads

September 2007, release of One Tough Mother, Revel Books a division of Baker Publishing Group)

November 2006, Focus on the Family Daily Broadcast, "Overcoming Guilt in Mothering," three-day broadcast.

March 2006, STAR 99.1 FM, Public Affairs in New York, radio host Michael Leach.

March 2006, KBJS 99.1 FM, “Take Five”

March 2006, WMBN Radio, “Midday Connection”

March 2006, KGMI 790 AM, “The Connection with Debbie Chavez”

April 2006, WMBI 90.1 FM, “AM Morning Show”

April 2006, Motherhood the Guilt that Keeps on Giving, (Harvest House Publishers)

March 2005, Updated edition, She’s Gonna Blow, (Harvest House Publishers)

April 2005, Exquisite Hope, (Tyndale House Publishers)

November 2005, Parenting Magazine, “Do You Yell at Your Kids too Much?” Contributing editor, Jeannie Ralston, references thoughts and advice gleaned from her interview with Julie.

Fall 2004, Publishers Weekly offers another fabulous review, (Radical Forgiveness)

September 2004, Radical Forgiveness, (Tyndale House Publishers)

March 2003, Focus on the Family Daily Show, "Help for Angry Moms": Voted one of three “Best of the Best” programming selections by listeners for the year.

Fall 2003, U. S. Army: Family Advocacy Child Abuse Treatment Course , San Antonio, TX, She's Gonna Blow!: Real Help for Moms Dealing with Anger

November 10, 2003, Publishers Weekly review raves, (Scandalous Grace)

July/August 2003, MOMSense Magazine, “Confessions of ‘Mt. Momma” by Julie Barnhill.

July 16, 2003, The Ledger: New York Times Regional Newspaper in Central Florida, Reporter cites interview quotes and portions of Julie’s book, She’s Gonna Blow! as she uncovers the “other” face of motherhood.

April 2003, ABC Family TV, “Living the Life”

April 2003, RED Magazine (London), "Money and Relationships": Freelance writer, Helen Gents, discusses money and couples and draws from Julie’s book, Til Debt Do Us Part, and a lengthy intercontinental phone interview.

January 2003, Scandalous Grace, (Tyndale House Publishers)

October 2002, Oprah, 40+ million viewers saw Julie as a featured guest.

December 2002, CNBC PowerLunch with Bill Griffith

May 2002, WMUZ 103.5 FM, “The Bob Dutko Show”

September 2002, FOX-News Dallas/Fort Worth

April 2002, 100 Huntley Street, Toronto, Canada

March 2002, Til Debt Do Us Part, (Harvest House Publishers)

October 8, 2001, NBC's The Other Half, "Avoiding Mommy Burn Out"

July 15, 2001, CNN World News Sunday, "Have You Ever Been Angry at Your Children?"

what others are saying

“THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for speaking for Clinton Christian Church's Ladies Night Out!!!!!!!! They so LOVED you!!!!!!!!!!! They are still raving about the evening and how great you were!!!!!! “
- Becky Glenn, Planning Team Member, Clinton, IL -

“I just wanted to let you know that Andy & I just went over the evaluations, & the women loved you! They appreciated your honesty, humor, experiences, practical advice, personal touch & the Scripture that you used. Many were challenged in their faith & refreshed by the assurance of God's forgiveness & grace.”
- Elizabeth Hewe, Conference Planner, Clearwater Lodge Women's Conference, Spokane, WA

“So, dear, vibrant Julie, thank you for blessing Illowa Women's Conference with your presence and words. You awakened in us the need for boldness and for communicating and articulating truth even in places where we least think of it!”
- Pam Thompson, Speaking Coordinator, Illowa Women's Conference, Davenport, IA

“I just wanted to thank you for the ministry you delivered to our town. Women are coming through my Wal-mart line telling me how much they needed the words you brought to them. Our new favorite saying is LET IT GO!”
- Michele McMinn, Evangelical Covenant Church, Community Event 2002, Ridgway, PA

“Well it is over and you have gone on your way but you have touched so many with your words and your encouragement. I have not heard any negative statements from any age group. I am very pleased at the way you were able to appeal to the ladies who are in their 80's to the ladies in their 50's to the younger girls in their 30's to even my daughter who is 24. I even heard that a hanky was waved during the sermon this evening!”
- Laura Davis, Women's Conference, Harrisburg, IL

“Thank you for the humorous yet challenging subject you presented. I saw mothers and daughters laughing and discussing some of the very things you spoke about for hours afterwards. God truly has given you something to say!”
- Dr. Karry Richardson, Dean of Women, Hannibal LaGrange College

Travels from: Illinois

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Travel Requirements: Airfare & Hotel for (1)