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Susie Shellenberger is an American speaker, author, and magazine editor.


Career

Shellenberger has a bachelor's degree from Bethany Nazarene College (1978). She taught high school speech and English teacher, and was a youth pastor. She created ''
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's publication for teen girls in 1989, and presented "realistic role models" while using magazines such as Seventeen magazine for ideas. She edited the magazine throughout its 19 years of publication. In 2001, she founded ''Brio and Beyond'' for girls aged 16 to 19. For seven years she co-hosted a national weekly call-in radio show for teens, called ''Life on the Edge Live'', also produced by Focus on the Family. When Focus on the Family ceased publication of ''Brio'', Shellenberger joined forces with marketing agency Premier Studios to create ''SUSIE Magazine'', a monthly print magazine, in 2009. Shellenberger shared the messages of the SUSIE brand with young people by speaking before music concerts played by
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. She also led teens on mission trips to different countries, including Brazil, Panama City, and the Caribbean. She has been featured as a keynote speaker for the Girls of Grace conferences with
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. Shellenberger has written multiple books, starting with ''There's a sheep in my mirror'' in 1985. Her books have been reviewed by several newspapers and by ''
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Honors and awards

Olivet Nazarene University Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) is a private Nazarene university in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Named for its founding location, Olivet, Illinois, ONU was originally established as a grammar school in east-central Illinois in 1907. In the late 1930 ...
awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.


Selected publications

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References


External links


Premier Studios
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