Learn to Celebrate Your Uniqueness with Carol Cool

Who are you uniquely created to be? What fulfilling work has God crafted you to do?

When Carol speaks to your group, you learn to identify the passions and purpose that will give your life greater meaning. You’ll get to know yourself better and begin to live your life in a way that brings fulfillment and joy. You’ll discover techniques you can put to immediate use in your home, in your community and around the world.

With gentle wit and enthusiasm, Carol helps you find new insights from Scripture and learn new skills as she opens up her own life, drawing on her own experiences of discovering God’s design. You leave feeling more confident and eager to live the life God imagined for you.

So, if you'd like to learn more about who Carol can speak to, and what she can speak about, click on the list to the right.

Balance in the Circus of Life: Thriving Amid the Tension

Life is a circus. You’ve got so many things going on, so many opportunities to choose from. Is it possible your life feels overwhelming because you’re in the wrong circus act? Identify which circus act you’re currently performing in and discover God’s desired place for you. Learn to make intentional choices that focus your life, allowing you to find joy and rest amidst the tension.

I would highly recommend Carol as an effective, relevant speaker for any women’s event. Carol spoke at our Women’s Winter Retreat in 2006 and we benefited from her so much that we asked her back for our 2010 retreat! Women who attended our retreat used adjectives like ‘excellent,’ ‘well-prepared,’ ‘very fun,’ ‘insightful’ and ‘easily applicable’ to describe Carol. Recently I have heard several women refer to the principles Carol taught at the retreat four years ago. Norma Minnich, Bethesda E.C. Church, Schuylkill Haven, PA

Vanquishing the Vampires: Fighting the Fears That Suck the Lifeblood Out of You

Have you ever been afraid? Has worry ever kept you up at night? Whether we call them fears, worries, cares, or concerns, we all find them preying on our minds and hearts. Together we’ll explore how two familiar passages—The Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23—offer practical help in slaying fears and living in God’s security. Discover how to keep joy-suckers at bay and live confidently.

Antiques and Heirlooms: Crafting a Legacy of Faith

We all have items we cherish from parents or loved ones, or a treasure we discovered ourselves. Some of the most precious heirlooms we can offer our children and grandchildren aren’t things at all. Uncover ways to leave a legacy of faith, of character, of a life well lived for those who follow in your footsteps.

Power Cleaning for the Soul: Getting Your Life Aired Out

Feel like your spiritual life could use a little power cleaning? Learn God’s plan to clean out the dirt, remove the excess clutter and remodel your inner “house.” Find out how you can simplify your life and beautify your spirit. Feel refreshed and ready to welcome the guests God brings into your life.

Being the Friend I Need: Discovering the Secrets of Great Friendships

Who doesn’t need friends? But friendships don’t simply happen. How can we ensure that we find the friendships we crave? How do we become the friends others need? Discover the secrets of profound friendship as we look at the life of Jesus and learn how to create lasting, meaningful relationships.

Atta Girl!: Turning Dreams into Reality

What are your dreams? Which ones refuse to die? What impedes them? Learn how to define your God-given dreams and visualize them as realities. Practice seeing a world in which you cannot fail and money doesn’t dictate your choices. Learn techniques to turn dreams into goals and goals into accomplishments.

Thermostat or Thermometer?: Dealing Positively with Anger

Ever react inappropriately when angry? When the heat is on in our relationships, we make choices on how to respond. But are we making informed, constructive choices? Discover whether you react to tense situations as a thermometer or a thermostat. Learn how to avoid being a thermometer, simply registering the heat of the moment. Practice being a thermostat, moderating the temperature to influence a positive outcome.

Just as They Are: Loving Your Friends to Jesus

“If I just can’t accept this faith of yours, will you still like me?”
How can you overcome the natural fears of your coworkers and friends outside of the church in order to gain the chance to share the gospel of Jesus Christ? Master the Zacchaeus Principle. Discover how to live an accepting, attentive, authentic and available life that draws nonbelievers to the place of curiosity about your beliefs.

I’m No Mother Teresa: Serving the Way You Were Designed

Do you want to make a difference in your world but have no desire to move to the slums like Mother Teresa? Are you tired of responding out of guilt to the needs you see around you? Uncover your own unique design for service in the world. Learn how to avoid guilt and the good intentions of others so you can serve passionately and freely.

Atta Girl, Atta Boy!: Encouraging Your Children’s Dreams

Children are full of dreams. Parents can either encourage those God-given dreams or stifle them. Learn ways to assist your children in recognizing the unique way God made them and to begin at a young age to live with purpose.

Carol was truly an amazing speaker. She helped me see how listening to my children tell me about their dreams will help shape them for the future and how we can do little things to help them achieve those dreams. Rebecca Hoffman, Coordinator MOPS at Grace, Kutztown, PA

Raising Global Christians: Teaching Your Kids to Care

You’d like your children to be able to locate Laos on a map, yet most days they can’t even find their flip-flops. How can you turn your children into global citizens? Learn practical ways to begin where your children are, with the things they enjoy, to introduce them to the world. Discover easy ways to expose them to other cultures and help them learn to understand and pray for people who are different from them.

The Mother-Heart of God: Seeing the God Who Loves You

God, who is complete goodness, possesses all good qualities, whether we tend to deem those qualities masculine or feminine. As we look at a few of his characteristics that remind us of mothers, we can take comfort in his care and learn to exhibit those same qualities to enhance our relationships with others.

Bloom Where You’re Planted: Celebrating the Seasons of Your Life

Nature has its four seasons. Our lives have seasons as well. But while the seasons of nature feature only one blooming season, as children of God we are meant to bloom in every season of our lives. Celebrate the different blooms of each season and discover how to work with the soil and seeds God has given you in this season.

Spring Cleaning for the Soul: Getting Your Life Aired Out

Feel like your spiritual life could use a little spring cleaning? Learn God's plan to clean out the dirt, remove the excess clutter and remodel your inner “house.” Find out how you can simplify your life and beautify your spirit. Feel refreshed and ready to welcome the guests God brings into your life.

The Joys of Christmas: Bringing Jesus Joy

The Christmas season brings us many joyful experiences. But how, when we’re celebrating Jesus’ birthday, can we fill his heart with pleasure? Discover ways you can make this a joy-filled Christmas in heaven as well as on earth and enrich your own Christmas at the same time.

Antiques and Heirlooms: Crafting a Legacy of Faith

We all have items we cherish from parents or loved ones, or a treasure we discovered ourselves. Some of the most precious heirlooms we can offer our children and grandchildren aren’t things at all. Uncover ways to leave a legacy of faith, of character, of a life well lived for those who follow in your footsteps.

Searching for the perfect speaker for 'Ladies Night Out,' the kick-off of our church's 175th anniversary celebration, Carol Cool was highly recommended by a friend. Carol coordinated her speaking topic with our theme—Treasures, Antiques and Heirlooms. The audience was moved from laughter to the shedding of an occasional tear as she explored with us what we each have to offer as a legacy that can bless loved ones for generations. As an accomplished author and speaker, Carol Cool excelled and made all the right touches for our special night. Carolyn Kocher, Secretary, Salem UCC Women's Guild, Elizabethville, PA

Balance in the Circus of Life: Thriving Amid the Tension

Life is a circus. You’ve got so many things going on, so many opportunities to choose from. Is it possible your life feels overwhelming because you’re in the wrong circus act? Identify which circus act you’re currently performing in and discover God’s desired place for you. Learn to make intentional choices that focus your life, allowing you to find joy and rest amidst the tension.

Power Cleaning for the Soul: Getting Your Life Aired Out

Feel like your spiritual life could use a little power cleaning? Learn God’s plan to clean out the dirt, remove the excess clutter and remodel your inner “house.” Find out how you can simplify your life and beautify your spirit. Feel refreshed and ready to welcome the guests God brings into your life.

What Kind of Girl Are You?: Becoming the Woman You Want to Be

Ever feel that someone else’s attitude could use an adjustment? How about your own? It's easy to let “respectable” sins like gossip, materialism and jealousy be ways we get what we want in life. Understand the qualities God desires to implant in our lives that enable us to be women of power, abundance and attitude who change the world for him.

Being the Friend I Need: Discovering the Secrets of Great Friendships

Who doesn’t need friends? But friendships don’t simply happen. How can we ensure that we find the friendships we crave? How do we become the friends others need? Discover the secrets of profound friendship as we look at the life of Jesus and learn how to create lasting, meaningful relationships.

I’m No Mother Teresa: Serving the Way You Were Designed

Do you want to make a difference in your world but have no desire to move to the slums like Mother Teresa? Are you tired of responding out of guilt to the needs you see around you? Uncover your own unique design for service in the world. Learn how to avoid guilt and the good intentions of others so you can serve passionately and freely.

Vanquishing the Vampires: Fighting the Fears That Suck the Lifeblood Out of You

Have you ever been afraid? Has worry ever kept you up at night? Whether we call them fears, worries, cares, or concerns, we all find them preying on our minds and hearts. Together we’ll explore how two familiar passages—The Lord’s Prayer and Psalm 23—offer practical help in slaying fears and living in God’s security. Discover how to keep joy-suckers at bay and live confidently.

30 Seconds Till Shutdown: Crafting Your Pitch to Raise Interest

You’ve got a great idea for a book. Now all you need to do is find someone interested in publishing it. You’ll only have about 30 seconds to catch an editor’s attention. This interactive class will teach you how to craft your “elevator pitch,” the two or three sentences that encapsulate your idea and make an editor or agent ask you to fill in more of the details.

Analyze This: Breaking a Magazine’s Secret Code

If you understand what makes a magazine or e-zine different from its competitors, you can more easily craft a query an editor will respond to. How can you analyze a magazine without spending hours reading back issues? This hands-on workshop will include a magazine/e-zine evaluation sheet and an opportunity to evaluate one magazine in class, so you’ll know how to analyze any magazine and increase your article sales.

I learned a lot at Carol’s great workshop ’Analyze This: Breaking a Magazine's Secret Code.’ It was one of the most useful ones I attended.Sheryl H. Boldt

Your Passion in Print: Writing About What Matters to You

You really want to write about the things that matter to you, the things that break your heart or get you excited. But how do you do that for markets that are not quite as passionate about your topic as you are? This workshop talks about identifying passions, earning trust, and building bridges and platforms, as well as knowing when to cut your losses.

Grab Them by the Throat: Writing Magazine Queries That Get Attention

Envelopes overflow your in-basket. No matter how many you open, more magically appear. And the ones you do open contain letters that are mind-numbingly dull. Ah, the glamorous life of a magazine editor. So what do you do if you’re an author whose query is going to wind up in that pile? How do you startle an editor out of the tedium? (Hint: It’s not with neon green stationery.) Learn to craft queries that grab the attention of editors from the first words and convince them that you can capture their readers’ attention as well.

Making It Flow: Organizing Your Piece for Effectiveness

It all sounds great in your head, but once you try to put your article on paper, that’s another story—and not a pretty one. When writing nonfiction, how do you organize the information you wish to communicate so that it all hangs together and your readers get the point while enjoying themselves? We’ll talk through the basics of the process, give you some skeletons to hang your work on and help you craft pieces that sell and minister to your readers.

Break Out of the Writing-Rules Prison: Knowing When to Break the Rules

Attend a writers’ conference or read writing magazines, and you’ll hear all sorts of rules—Write what you know. Study several issues of a magazine before querying. Query the little publications first to get experience. Write for free to gain clips. But in order to be successful, some of these rules need to be bent or even broken. You’ll discover ways to expand your writing as you flaunt the rules, and you’ll pick up some tools to help you make your way “over the wall” to freedom.

Make the Big Bucks: Copywriting for Fun and Profit

It can be tough to make a living as a full-time writer, especially in the Christian market. You can increase your income by writing marketing copy for corporations, educational institutions, nonprofits and small businesses. Learn about the opportunities and how to identify stakeholders, craft an effective call to action and develop your business.

Self-Editing for the Grammatically Challenged: Correcting Your Own Work

So you flunked fifth-grade grammar. Get over it! Editors don’t have time to rewrite your work. Learn editing techniques from a professional copy editor who had no formal grammar training. No talk of subordinate clauses and dangling participles, just solid advice and easy-to-remember tips. You’ll also learn secrets for professional proofreading and receive resource recommendations.

Grammatically challenged, that's me . . . After 12 years as a scientist and medical writer, I took Carol's enjoyable and fun class at The CLASS Christian Writers Conference to get up to speed with writing from my heart as a Christian author and editing my own work. Thoughts and ideas come fast and furious, and Carol teaches you easy methods to rein them in correctly.Anne Arvizu

6 Secrets of Effective Advertising

Advertising can be costly, so you want to make it count. Using social media to “advertise” can be free, but you need to cut through the clutter. How do you do that? In this interactive seminar, Carol teaches you six key factors that advertising professionals use so you can ensure your advertising is the strongest it can be. You’ll have a better grasp on whom you are targeting and how best to reach them, and you’ll know what the core of that message should be.

6 Secrets of Effective Advertising

Advertising can be costly, so you want to make it count. Using social media to “advertise” can be free, but you need to cut through the clutter. How do you do that? In this interactive seminar, Carol teaches you six key factors that advertising professionals use so you can ensure your advertising is the strongest it can be. You’ll have a better grasp on whom you are targeting and how best to reach them, and you’ll know what the core of that message should be.

Balance in the Circus of Life: Thriving Amid the Tension

Life is a circus. You’ve got so many things going on, so many opportunities to choose from. Is it possible your life feels overwhelming because you’re in the wrong circus act? Identify which circus act you’re currently performing in and discover how to be an effective tightrope walker. Learn to make intentional choices that focus your life, allowing you to find joy and rest amidst the tension.

Why Are They Like That?: Recognizing and Relating to Differing Personalities

People can be so frustrating. Why does that guy have to keep talking when you would rather just get started solving the problem? Why does she seem unwilling to take a chance on a new idea? Learn how you and others fit into four personality types; then turn that knowledge into power to work well with others and achieve results.

30 Seconds Till Shutdown: Crafting Your Pitch to Raise Interest

You’re passionate about what you do, or what you dream of doing. Now all you need to do is convince others to hire you. You’ll only have about 30 seconds to catch someone’s attention. This interactive class will teach you how to craft your “elevator pitch,” the two or three sentences that encapsulate your idea and make others ask you to fill in more of the details.

Atta Boy!: Turning Dreams into Reality

What are your dreams? Which ones refuse to die? What impedes them? Learn how to define your dreams and visualize them as realities. Practice seeing a world in which you cannot fail and money doesn’t dictate your choices. Learn techniques to turn dreams into goals and goals into accomplishments.

Finding Your PACE: The Secret to Long-Term Success

Does your current job leave you somewhat unsatisfied? Or have you found yourself at a crossroads, looking for a new career and wanting more than just a job? Take some time to examine your PACE—the attributes that make you uniquely you—to discover work that will energize you and in which you’ll find success.