Author Spotlight
Donna Marie has helped these authors bring their stories to life with Book in a Weekend.
Dr. Elizabeth Freas
The Female Framework: Redefining Feminine Leadership
With a Doctorate in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Management, complemented by dual Master's degrees focusing on educational leadership and literacy, Elizabeth blends practical experience with academic rigor. She is committed to shaping the future of education through innovation and excellence. Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for equity, education, and women's leadership, with a deep commitment to community and professional service.
Email Elizabeth | Visit Website
Dr. Kelly Hastings
Leading Change That Lasts
Dr. Kelly Hastings is a leadership coach, former principal, and the founder of a leadership coaching company, Enlightening Leadership. With over two decades of experience in education, she has supported countless school leaders in transforming their campuses through practical leadership strategies and collaboration. Known for her ability to blend clarity with compassion, Kelly equips principals and leadership teams to shift from top-down decision making to collaborative, sustainable systems that empower teachers and improve student outcomes.
Dr. Marcy Roan
Stronger Schools By Design
Under her leadership, schools experienced substantial growth gains and witnessed a commendable reduction in disproportionate discipline measures. Within a span of less than three years, she successfully elevated her schools’ performance through a focus on instructional excellence and reflective practice.
As a principal leadership coach, Dr. Roan's expertise has extended to guiding elementary, middle, and high school leaders in enhancing instructional leadership and fostering sustainable student achievement. Coaching leaders using high leverage strategies led to significant progress, achieving or exceeding growth standards in the last two years.
Naomi Green
Plants Over Pills
Naomi spent the last decade investing in herself and studying the elements of successful weight loss and behavior change and developed her own coaching frameworks to help women achieve life-changing results.
Through her Plants Over Pills programs and retreats, she has coached over 300 of women to reverse high blood pressure, normalize cholesterol, regulate blood sugar, come off daily medications, and finally feel proud of the woman they see in the mirror. She's built a thriving community...a REBELLION of women ready to rise above the status quo diet and health advice that isn’t working for them and reclaim their lives.
Email Naomi | Visit Website
Rachel Tenpenny McGonigle
The Truth About Healing After Loss
Rachel Tenpenny McGonigle is a grief expert, coach, and speaker who has spent over 15 years guiding others through loss and life’s hardest transitions with honesty, experience, and hope. Her work began in 2008, after the devastating deaths of her twin daughters, Aubrey and Ellie, just weeks after they were born.
Through her holistic approach, she helps grievers restore their bodies, reclaim their identities, rebuild their lives and relationships, and rediscover meaning after loss no matter what kind of loss they’ve faced. Her work serves those navigating traditional grief, such as death and divorce, and those carrying less visible losses like identity, health, faith, and shattered dreams.
Email Rachel | Visit Website
Shira Woolf Cohen
Leading Future-Focused Schools: Engaging And Preparing Students for Career Success
As the co-founder of Innovageous, Shira focuses on building partnerships, designing innovative programs, and enhancing instructional practices in both school-based and out-of-school settings. She believes that opening opportunities for students is essential to their growth and success, and she works closely with leaders to create learning environments that connect academic content to real-world experiences.
Cynthia Schwartz
Lessons On Life, Loss And Rediscovery
Cynthia is a true Southern California gal, being born and raised with strong Christian family values. Her family would celebrate the sunrise if you would let them! Cynthia is an amazing and vibrant person with a big heart and a zest for life! From her early days in youth organizations like Girl Scouts, Jobs Daughters, and Toastmasters to her successful career in human resources and payroll, she's someone who believes in hard work, lifelong learning, and leadership while giving back wherever possible.
Email Cynthia | Visit Website
Deja Mantel
Echoes Within: Uncovering The Silent Wounds That Shape Our Lives
Deja Jantel is a writer, speaker, and faith-centered coach dedicated to helping individuals heal from unprocessed experiences and reclaim their God-given identity. With a background in nursing and mental health, Deja blends clinical insight with spiritual wisdom to create a safe, honest space for reflection, growth, and restoration.
Her work is deeply rooted in lived experience navigating trauma, motherhood, faith, and personal transformation and she writes with vulnerability, clarity, and purpose. Deja believes that healing begins not by avoiding pain, but by understanding it, processing it, and releasing what was never meant to be carried.
Email Deja | Visit Website
Tanya Peterson
Love Doesn't Have To Feel So Hard
Why does love feel so overwhelming—so fragile, so reactive, so painful—when all you want is closeness?
In this groundbreaking and compassionate guide, trauma-informed Occupational Therapist, board certified sexologist, and somatic practitioner Tanya Peterson introduces the H.O.L.D. Method, a body-based, nervous-system-attuned framework for transforming your relational patterns from the inside out.
Email Tanya | Visit Website
DMC
Dr. Donna Marie Cozine
Best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach helping high-achieving women write their books, grow their influence, and lead with joy.
Best-selling author, speaker, and leadership coach helping high-achieving women write their books, grow their influence, and lead with joy.
YouTube
Inspiration in your Inbox!
Free Sign-Up