Speaker Information
“The choices we make change the story of our life.”©
About Allison Bottke |
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Inspirational Writer
- Fiction
- Non Fiction
- Screenplays
- God Allows U-Turns© Series
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Public Speaker
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TV/Radio Talk Show Host
- Baby Boomer Target Audience
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About Setting Boundaries
Allison’s Newest Non-Fiction |
| “Lack of boundaries with adult children is a world- wide epidemic with catastrophic consequences. Allison shares not only her experience as a parent who has traveled this painful road, but gives readers concrete tools to stop the insanity and start living a life of hope and healing. Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children is destined to be the official resource of hope for countless parents and grandparents.” -Heather Gemmen Wilson, author of Startling Beauty |
About Boomer Babes Rock
Allison’s Contemporary Women’s Fiction
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Allison Bottke is a fresh, honest voice in contemporary fiction of the chic lit style.
- Lauraine Snelling, best-selling author of The Red River of the North series |
Allison Bottke’s transparent vulnerability when addressing painful topics allows her to reach into hearts and change lives with a powerful message of hope and healing. Affectionately known as the “God Allows U-Turns Poster Girl,” Allison’s story is one of triumph over tragedy on many levels. As the Founder of God Allows U-Turns, she unashamedly shares her testimony of a changed life…a life highlighted over the years by Guideposts Magazine, The 700 Club, and CBN.com. Her writing career began with God Allows U-Turns, an inspirational book series many have called “the Christian Chicken
Soup.” The true-story compilation book series is available around the world with books in the U-Turns brand currently available for adults, kids and youth.
In 2006 Allison added fiction to her writing repertoire. A Stitch in Time and One Little Secret released in 2006 and 2007. Both are being considered for adaptation into major motion pictures. A trilogy of novels based on three baby boomer entrepreneurial women
will soon follow. Her novels are being called: “Contemporary women’s fiction with an attitude.” Allison has a passion to reach baby boomer women and does so via her international outreach www.BoomerBabesRock.com.
Following her first non-fiction project; I Can’t Do it All - Breaking Free From the Lies That Control Us, written with co-authors Tracie Peterson and Diane O’Brian, Allison’s newest non-fiction book is being heralded as a landmark resource for parents and grandparents. Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children – Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents, proves that Allison can seamlessly cross between writing non-fiction and fiction and has built a dual audience of readers for both genres—a true renaissance woman.
A frequent guest on national radio and TV programs around the country, she has appeared on the covers of such national magazines as Writer’s Digest, BOND, The Christian Communicator, CWO, and O.H. Magazine. Allison writes a monthly column for baby boomer women in Christian Women Online. Her international outreach includes over two-dozen non-fiction and fiction books, as well as blogs, e-zines, tracts, greeting cards, and logo merchandise.
| Allison Bottke has inspired and enlightened audiences throughout the United States with her transparent vulnerability combined with practical information. In high demand as the keynote speaker for events around the country, Allison’s messages can be presented in
either a Christian or secular setting. Biblical truths, including chapter and verse references, are only presented in the Christian setting. The message God Allows U Turns is Allison’s personal testimony and while always appropriate for Christian groups, can also be presented in the secular setting. Allison speaks to audiences of both women and men. |
About Allison’s Speaking Style |
| Captivating audiences with a mesmerizing tale of hope and healing, Allison’s journey from decades of New Age searching to a faith-filled life as a Christian enables her to connect with her audience in a very real and down-to-earth way. Her overall goal is to inspire and encourage attendees to make new direction life choices that will bring them closer to God. Allison speaks in a refreshingly transparent and vulnerable style, addressing controversial topics in a non-confrontational way. Uncommonly candid, Allison’s personal testimony is threaded throughout all of her talks and is the foundation of her outreach. Her ability to impart transformational change within the hearts of audience members comes from her ability to share an incredible life journey with honesty, integrity, passion and poise. |
"There is nothing coy about Allison's testimony. With absolute conviction, she relays the story of her personal U-turn and encourages others with warmth and sincerity to do the same. You will be moved beyond measure when you hear what God can do in one humble woman's life."
- Eva Marie Everson, Author / Speaker |
POPULAR TOPICS AND RETREAT PACKAGES
Each is ideal for a keynote message and can be tailored for a specific event, banquet, or expanded for a conference, retreat, or evangelistic outreach.
God Allows U-Turns
The Choices We Make Change the Story of our Life
Allison will share her powerful testimony and how the acclaimed God Allows U-Turns international outreach was born. With an inspiring message that it’s never too late to make life-changing U-turn choices, she will encourage and empower attendees toward a deeper relationship with God. This topic of redemption and hope is appropriate for virtually every event and audience.
Setting Boundaries with Adult Children
A Journey to Hope and Healing
It’s an epidemic with catastrophic consequences and one about which Allison is quite familiar. In an era when personal accountability has become more and more scarce, it’s often the parents who have spent years enabling their children who are now suffering. Feelings of guilt, shame, fear, anger, frustration, and the inability to trust our adult children invade our existence. How do these feelings play into the dynamic of not only accepting, but in some cases encouraging negative behavior in adult children? In the powerful message fashioned after this landmark book, parents will not only learn to recognize the negative behavior of their adult children, but more importantly, their own negative responses to it as well. Allison will guide audience members on the journey to establishing and implementing workable boundaries that will bring harmony and SANITY back to families. Visit: www.SanitySupport.com
I Can’t Do it All
Breaking Free from the Lies that Control Us
In our fast-paced and complex society, women are constantly barraged with hundreds of messages. But which are true and which are false? Based on the co-authored book of the same title, Allison addresses the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of life common to women. Allison will identify ways to eliminate the fallacies and break free—to rebuild life based on godly, grace-based truths as revealed in Scripture.
Writer’s Conferences
Allison often speaks and teaches at writer’s conferences.
Custom Developed Messages
Allison is happy to develop messages for your specific audience. Contact her speaking bureau below to discuss your needs.
A Note From 
What sets you apart from many
other speakers today?
I don’t have any formal training in theology—I’ve never been to seminary. In fact, I quit school after the ninth grade and ran away from home to get married at the age of sixteen. I’m horribly dyslexic and my Attention Deficit Disorder makes things challenging. What sets me apart, I think, is the sum total of my past and present. Like Paul’s dramatic U-Turn on the Damascus Road, my U-Turn life story is also dramatic, and God is using
my past trials and tribulations to open doors into the hearts of women. The fact is many women have walked the same path as I have in some form or another. Many women can relate to my story on some level—and it’s that connection that opens the door to change. It’s the shared experiences that can often bridge the chasm of distance from God as women see how God can use our brokenness to change lives.
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| "I will always be a girl from the Projects Cleveland, Ohio. I believe in my heart the Lord allowed me to live a turbulent life so I could stand as a firm witness that no sin is too great that you can't turn around. I'm a literal U-Turn Poster Girl!" CLICK HERE to read more about Allison's life here. |
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Writing from firsthand experience, Allison Bottke identifies the lies that kept her, and ultimately her adult son in bondage-and how she overcame them. Additional real life stories from other parents are woven through the text. Most important...six concrete steps to hope and healing are the key elements of this landmark book.
Addressing a worldwide epidemic, this important and compassionate new book from the creator of the successful God Allows U-Turns series will help parents and grandparents of the countless adult children who continue to make life painful for their loved ones.
Allison has launched the S A.N.I.T.Y. Support Group Nework, an international support group network in 2008. She will also be speaking on SETTING BOUNDARIES WITH YOUR ADULT CHILDREN in 2008-2009. |
Allison's presentations are appropriate for the following categories and event:
- Business/Corporate
- Christian Worldview
- Christmas Outreach Events
- Church Events
- Dramatic
- Presentations/Keynotes
- Education (Writers Events)
- Evangelism
- Inspirational
- Military Events
- Political/Patriotic Events
- Pro-Life
- Parenting / Family
- Teen/Youth Events
- Women's Retreats / Conferences / Events
- Young Moms' Events
- Writer's Conferences
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Note: Allison’s history includes early childhood molestation, extreme domestic violence, drug abuse, abortion, teen pregnancy, and a New Age Life style. Specific incidents are shared throughout her messages that may not be appropriate for younger children. Parent discretion is advised.
