Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Karen Maxfield Lunkin.
Dr. Lunkin, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I am as an ex-US Army officer, public school teacher, assistant principal, adjunct professor and now edu-preneur, I am passionate about education and building bridges to learning in any sphere that moves a soul from bondage to their best.
Dr. Karen Maxfield-Lunkin is a best-selling, award-winning, literary coach and visionary author, an educational entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience as a parent, teacher, pastor, mentor, school principal, professor, parent-coach and educational advocate. Described as a thought leader and innovator, Dr. Karen’s mission is to “guide people through writing to uncover – to discover and finally recover their God-given gifts and talents buried within to be about their Kingdom Business.”
Dr. Karen enjoys inspiring aspiring authors to write and publish. A guest lecturer and adjunct university professor and involved in numerous community initiatives, including chairwoman of the board of directors for an African Diaspora group in Austin, Texas, Dr. Karen finds inspiration to write in all things!
Known on social media as the #WriteRemedyCoach, Dr. Karen loves coaching authors to discovery, transformation and healing.
An ordained minister, Dr. Karen is also the founder of Bridge Kingdom Ministries, a nonprofit organization with the mission to actively explore and engage in opportunities for edu-preneurial connection between teachers and schools in Ghana and teachers of children in impoverished neighborhoods in the US; Inspire teachers and students to recognize that the Kingdom of God is already within and all we need is already in our hands.
Bridging all in the African Diaspora to face and heal from the past traumas our ancestral past with the “twist” of approaching the past with forgiveness, and creative determination to reframe present conditions through the lens of God’s Word.
Dr. Karen is a recent Amazon #1 Bestselling author of the book, Stories About Mama: Embracing Her Legacy & Honoring her Life
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Definitely NOT a smooth road. The greatest obstacle has been the reformation of my own mindset. I am a person who has many creative ideas – but soon battle the thoughts of my own past and the words of others. I had to make a decision and determination to guard my time, head and heart space. I have invested in my own self-development – paying more than I ever dreamed that I would (that revealed a poor self-identity even further). Making it a priority to connect and collaborate with like-minded people who also aspired for a different space and grace – I had to address my insecurities of working and allowing others into that space.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
With my business BridgeUcation, I specialize in being a Transformational Writing Coach; I am known as #theWriteRemedy Coach! As an entrepreneur who helps others to write their stories by using the #Write2Heal, #Write2Reveal and #BridgeWay methods- all of which I created to explore and view their entire lives as clues.
One of my proudest accomplishments was taking a group of folks to Ghana West Africa in December 2019, literally right before the global pandemic. I called it the African Roots Healing Project – which was designed to heal the African American soul first and all who are in the African Diaspora – but to also create streams of communication between the communities of color here and the people we met while in Africa.. What better way to do this than by traveling back to the Motherland where we engaged in reconnecting with our roots, impacting the education and economics of remote village schools, and hosting edu-preneur exchange summit – Writing about this experience afterward as the best writing comes from experience. Upon return, we created the nonprofit organization Bridge Kingdom Ministries to further extend the work and invitation to all who are interested in the cause. One of the initiatives of the nonprofit will be to build a healing retreat center in Ghana that returning diaspora can have a place to when we make the trek home – at the same time, hiring the local Ghanaians to run the center, transportation, etc., further boosting their economy. We are also currently exploring how to start poultry farms and village gardens in the remote villages by partnering with communities here in the US to create the same.
I host bi-monthly Write2Reveal 3-Day Challenges that are exceptionally created to Reveal one’s true Identity, explore their REAL origin purpose destiny and gifts.
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
That I also enjoy singing.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.storiesaboutmama.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewriteremedycoach/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWriteRemedyCoach
Image Credits
ARIEL AMIR PHOTOGRAPHY
