The Writing at the Red House Podcast

Do you feel undersupported or defensive about your speaking or writing ministry by people you love? Does your spouse struggle to understand your ministry or fight envy regarding your ministry? This episode was made for you! Hosts Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp explore these murky waters with hope and practical steps. Both are passionate communicators and want to provide encouragement and wisdom to...

Are you ever discouraged by the statements and questions you hear from event planners? Are you an event planner that wants to honor the speakers you want to hire? In this episode, speakers and authors Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp, candidly approach some of the questions and remarks that speakers often hear, equip you how to process and respond to that which you hear, and help you to create a win...

Have you ever been crushed by a thoughtless comment? Have you ever gotten your feelings hurt due a negative conversation with an event planner? All speakers face this at one time or another and this is the perfect cure for such an experience. Seasoned speakers, Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt, help each of us navigate through the complicated, messy, and emotional roller coaster that speaking and in...

Do you want to serve your readers and audience with a personal touch? Do you want a way to add value to each subscriber without the stress of a blog? A newsletter may be just the thing to enhance your ministry! In this episode, Hosts Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp explore newsletters and how to do them well. They share insight from their newsletters, tips of the trade, and even a list of things to...

Have you ever wondered when it is right to tell a hard story? Are you afraid of oversharing with your readers and/or audience? God allows us to go through difficulty to make us stronger and give Him glory, but how to effectively tell one's story can be tricky. In this episode, hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt provide a list of rules and warnings when you are trying to discern when and how to t...

Is your speaking ministry in need of a lift? Does your website lackluster in the area of your speaking page? In this episode, hosts Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp, tout the benefits of a speaker page and how you can create this fabulous tool for your speaking ministry with 8 essential components. This episode is both practical and empowering. You and your website cannot afford to miss this awesome...

Are you embarking on a new partnership in your ministry? Are you dissatisfied with the ministry partnership in which you are currently serving? Hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt have both enjoyed rich partnerships that have fostered their success and pointed them to Jesus. They have also both struggled through partnership challenges and offer amazing hope and encouragement in this episode (as w...

Are you a true road warrior or just a budding speaker/ traveler? Either way, you cannot miss this episode! Hosts Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp cover the last 19 of 33 must-haves for the traveling communicator. With years of experience, missteps, and victories, the ladies provide traveling tips and secrets to foster your success. This is part two of a practical and engaging podcast.

In this episode, Kathi and Michele Cushatt share practical tips to help speakers who travel frequently to travel lightly and wisely. In this podcast, learn 13 of 33 savvy tips in part one of two episodes discussing travel tips.

Are you overwhelmed by the juggling act of being a communicator? Do you struggle to balance and navigate a speaking ministry and the ministry of being a parent and spouse? This episode, hosted by Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt, is full of advice to navigate the rigors of juggling real life and honoring God as one grows a communicating business. You do not want to miss the opportunity to learn from...

Do you ever find yourself praying for more time in the day? In this enlightening episode, hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt, provide four huge steps on the road to productivity. They cover the four major productivity pillars of making the most of one's time using the acronym "STEM": space, time, energy, and money. No matter the season in your life, you do not want to miss this episode!

Have you ever wondered how to decide which gigs are a "thumbs up" and which are a "thumbs down"?  In the second part of this 2-part episode, hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt are joined by Cheri Gregory, author and speaker, as they approach the topic of discerning which speaking gigs to accept and which to leave for another speaker.  Cheri Gregory even provides a criteria list to help one decid...

Are you bogged down with too many speaking engagements? Or weary from saying "yes" to the wrong ones? Are there wrong ones when one is doing Kingdom work? In this episode, hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt are joined by Cheri Gregory, author and speaker, as they approach the topic of discerning which speaking gigs to accept. Part one of this episode contains engaging stories of mishaps and mayh...

Producing and sharing content that is relevant is critical to your audience. In this episode, hosts and experienced communicators, Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt, share how to determine whether your content is evergreen and how to recycle content to best serve your audience and to make the best use of your time, as well. Come listen in and determine what content meets your audience's felt need bes...

Is it really work if I enjoy doing it? Glynnis Whitwer, Author, Director of Compel Training and She Speaks, explores this question with successful author, Kathi Lipp, along with the motives and challenges that arise and keep us from observing a Sabbath. For ministry workers, we can sometimes not recognize that we are constantly working and not creating important time for rest. To be more productiv...

When God calls us, we can get sidetracked by our insecurities. Worse yet, we try to placate our insecurities with busyness. In this podcast, Kathi Lipp and Glynnis Whitwer guide us into recovery for the writer and speaker in the public eye. Getting down to the root of our insecurities helps us to identify the faulty belief that we are attaching to our insecurities and overcome them by dependence u...

Do you have a story to tell?  Have you had some experiences that have forever shaped your life and your speaking ministry?  In this episode, hosts and experienced communicators, Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt provide insight on how best to avoid being pigeon-holed into a certain niche and how to leverage the story God has given you to make the greatest impact.  You do not want to miss this encoura...

Feeling called to speak but don’t know where to begin? In this Communicator Academy episode, Kathi and Michele guide you through the groundwork that needs to be laid to establish and kickoff a successful speaking career. Come learn how to connect your assets with the message God has placed on your heart and learn valuable ways to get the word out.

Today’s episode is part two of “A Podcast on Podcast”. Join Kathi and Michele as they share six tips along with a discounted podcasting course to help you get your podcasting off the ground. If you have ever thought about podcasting, this podcast will help you work through the many details involved and get a strong start to your podcast. As promised, we have a great offer on a resource for how to...

In this episode of Communicator Academy, get the skinny on podcasting from Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt. The first in a series of two episodes on podcasting, learn whether podcasting is for you and get tips to help guide you in setting up your podcast. Serious about starting your own podcast? We have a great offer on a resource for how to set up your podcast: the course, 7 Days to a Published Po...

In today’s episode, Kathi and Michelle breakdown the process about writing a blog post quickly. Need to tighten up your writing process? Agonizing over days over a single blog post? Michelle and Kathi will help remove obstacles and make the process of blog creation a quicker, less “cluttery” process. Today’s episode offers four essential components and bonus tips that you can use as a template to...

Are you considering writing a book with a friend, colleague, or acquaintance?   Are you facing a project you think better tackled by two?  In this informative and candid episode, host Michele Cushatt puts co-authors (and co-host) Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory in the hot seat as they discuss their adventures as co-authors.  They discuss three major questions to ask before diving into such a project...

For some people, the idea of blog writing is daunting and frustrating. For others, it is a constant opportunity to share thoughts and idea with one's audience. No matter where you stand on this issue, this podcast episode is for YOU! Hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt share from their treasure chest of ideas, insights, and illuminations on the topic of blog ideas. They uncover how we can best dr...

Do you consider yourself to be a creative person? Do you struggle with creating blog posts, material for talks, or even recipes for dinner? In this amazing episode, Communicator and author Bob Stromberg, joins hosts Kathi Lipp and Michele Cushatt and cheers listeners to be masters of creativity. Author and comic strip creator Scott Adams once said: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes...

Are you in a rut as a speaker or have a block as a writer? Creativity is the cure for that which often ails us as communicators. Hosts Michele Cushatt and Kathi Lipp are joined by the incomparable Bob Stromberg. Bob is an author, teacher, speaker, comedian, and creativity guru. Do you ever feel "uncreative"? Bob reminds us that we are made in the image of the CREATOR and charges us with the idea t...