Mary E Knippel, Book Mentor, best-selling author, inspirational speaker, and founder of YourWritingMentor.com, helps entrepreneurs develop their unique voice into a book for powerful business growth
If you are looking for a proven professional who uses her 35 years of experience as a journalist to ask provocative questions to uncover the heart of your message with clarity and compassion, help you craft the compelling story of your business, and put you on the path to being recognized as an expert in your field, you've come to the right place.
Mary's clients come to her when they are paralyzed about where to begin, what to say and how to make sense of the life-changing message they know they are here to deliver. Mary is someone who believes passionately in her clients and the importance of their message. If you work with her, Mary will not only help you gain confidence in your writing abilities to find the words and the way to share your unique story, she makes it fun!
Mary began her path to becoming Your Writing Mentor by writing in her own journal at the age of 11 and progressed to Humor Editor for her high school paper with visions of becoming the next Erma Bombeck. Marriage, raising a family, moving across country...twice...and breast cancer...twice...have given her plenty of journal material and the basis for her upcoming book, "The Secret Artist," part memoir and part self-help as it chronicles the pivotal role creativity played in her recovery from breast cancer.
As a speaker, Mary calls on humor and compassion to inspire audiences to stop hiding in the shadows, living life in the safe fringe, and to step out into the spotlight to be seen. She stresses the importance of each individual and not to live a life of regret. Mary shares the story of how her family came to her with an unusual request. Her older brother had passed away and they wanted her to write the eulogy. She not only wrote the eulogy, she delivered such a heart-felt story about her brother the entire congregation was smiling through their tears.
Speaking at the funeral solidified Mary's confidence as a speaker. Several years later (after facing down her own mortality with a breast cancer diagnosis for a second time), she fully embraced the message "you matter...your story matters," giving talks, such as her signature talk entitled, "Pearls, Pot Roast and Perpetual Motion," and workshops to inspire audiences with the desire to live their best life.
What lights Mary up about this work is knowing that through our work together your words will sparkle and shine and compel the audience you are meant to connect with to take action because they know your core message, who you are and what you do. You can feel confident engaging Mary to guide you and your organization to solve these problems.
What sets Mary apart from other service providers is that she has been where you are in struggling to find the words and to string them together in just the right order. She knows the triumph and that feeling of joy when you find the right combination of exactly the right words to convey exactly what you what you want to say, and to evoke the response you are looking for. She can help you avoid the pitfalls of an aspiring writer and the challenge of a solo-preneur who fall prey to becoming overwhelmed with details and inundated with the many steps of building this new endeavor.