Meggie Lee Calvin (Meg) is an Amazon Bestselling Author, Wife, Mom, Master Air-guitar Player, Speaker and Coach who helps Spiritually-Attuned Go-Getters write, market and sell their Amazon Bestselling books on Kindle, paperback and Audible. She is best known for her intuitive gifts, unconventional practices that help writers become creatively unblocked, and her award-worthy performance as a tree in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a third grader.
Formerly in the non-profit world as a minister to children and families in the mainline protestant church, Meg spent nearly 15 years studying how the brain works toward her aim of building, catalyzing and comforting strong volunteer teams. In seminary, she studied curriculum writing and pastoral care.
It was during her time in this role that she began coaching fellow ministerial leaders in professional sustainability with the International Network of Children’s Ministry. She was blown away by how many ministers had limiting beliefs around self-care, their talents, relationships, money and ambition.
This led to her second book and to her first podcast with friend, Miranda Priddy, ‘The Listening Chair‘.
Upon the release of the second book, she began to notice that some of these ministers (“over-committed Christians”/ “recovering holy-rollers”, as she calls them) had amazing book ideas within but were being held back by the above limiting beliefs along with a paralyzing limiting belief around marketing.
Meg’s heart was broken by this as she envisioned the healing and positive impact that their books could have on others. She noticed that the same religious doctrines that they had committed their lives to had grown into their main stumbling block in serving others well with the message that had chosen them through their book idea.
She then stepped away from serving in the church, invested in marketing coaches for her own growth and began coaching Christian content creators in their marketing with BeADisciple.com for nearly three years while serving authors on the side. In the summer of 2021, she became a full-time writing and marketing coach. Now she and her team provide nonfiction and memoir writers with everything they need to write, market and sell a bestselling book on Kindle,paperback and Audible. Meet some of the amazingly talented and service-oriented authors that she has served here and see exactly all that they offer here.
Her podcast, ‘An Uproarious Profundity: Unconventional Wisdom for the Spiritually-Attuned Go-Getter’ feels like trivia at a party with a nun, a comedian, and a publicist that sometimes gets interrupted by a guest whose toast is good, but a lil’ lengthy.
The Bluebonnet Child: Finding Grace in Poor Soil with Wipf & Stock is her first book. It seeks to equip us to offer hope to kids whose homes seem hopeless and equips churches, schools and other non-profits to be the supplemental family to kids of troubled homes, i.e., bluebonnet children. Her second book and Amazon Bestseller, I Am My Own Sanctuary, with Quoir Publishing reads like Seth Myers and the Benedictine nun, Joan Chittister conceived a book-baby.
This, “Full-steam comedic rant”, as Dr. David Dault of the NPR Show, Things Not Seen called it, was written for other “recovering-people-pleasers” and encourages them to take back the power over their lives from others by tapping into the power of the Divine within. It’s available on Kindle, Audible, and paperback. There is a supplemental I Am My Own Sanctuary Journal that guides readers into deeper reflection with ten questions per chapter and fancy-lined pages.
Meg has been featured on NPR, and has served as a workshop presenter at state-wide and national conferences. Fellow spiritual satirical writer, David Hayward (the NakedPastor) had this to say of Meg’s latest book,
“If you want to read a book
about taking good care of yourself that is approachable, honest, wise, and funny,
then read this one.
It’s an enticing, educating,
encouraging, and entertaining read.
Actually, all those adjectives describe Meg, too!”
Meg is obsessed with Saturday Night Live and loves to play air guitar, actual guitar, play with her local improv troupe, and act in musicals with her daughter. She and her husband spend most of their free time by their chimenea on the back patio, trying new fancy food, or walking their two other “children”: Rod and Libby (the best pups in all the land).
She can be reached at Meg@Megcalvin.com.