Holiday gatherings and office parties are great for teams and groups to come together… sometimes. But for all the fun and excitement, these events can also bring us together with people we may not know or people we know well but don’t enjoy engaging in conversation...
Each year, the 2nd Sunday of October is set aside to honor pastors, ministers, and leaders. We forget to honor and see how difficult their work often is and instead only step back to see them when they fail. As we celebrate our pastors and ministers on this day, let’s...
We were delighted several years ago to host Sheila Hart, one of the producers of the then just released film, Unplanned at an Influence Lab Women’s Gathering in Hollywood. The film told the story of Abby Johnson and her multiple abortions, her 13 years as a site...
They were tied in their beds. The story I was reading gripped me since I was about to dive to see the wreckage of the historic RMS Rhone, a UK Royal Mail ship embedded since 1867 in the depths of the Caribbean Ocean. The site of the Rhone, now a National Park, is...
My mother was grieving but didn’t want me to know the depth of her pain. But I did know. My father had died six months previously, and I wanted to give her something to look forward to. She and my dad had always wanted to visit some of their good friends who were...
Drenda Keesee is a speaker, life coach, and pastor of Faith Life Church along with her husband, Gary. She hosts the daytime television show Drenda and is the author of The New Vintage Family, Better Than You Think, and She Gets It! Drenda has ministered on television...
Kathleen Cooke is a media executive, Hollywood Screen Actor’s Guild actor, speaker, writer, and a founding partner and Vice President of Cooke Pictures, a media production company based in Burbank, California. She also co-founded the nonprofit organization The Influence Lab where she leads and mentors Christian professionals in the entertainment industry. READ MORE
