Seeking wisdom, experience, and adventure, Hollie carved
an unconventional spiritual path. She traveled the world, pursued formal and
non-traditional educational opportunities, and explored numerous approaches for
expanding spirituality, creativity, health, and happiness. She gained valuable
experiences through her roles as a business owner, university professor, flight
attendant, and musician, among others. Her journey taught her that anyone can
create opportunities and abundance through well-established principles and
strategies, which she offers to others through informative books, articles,
blogs, and presentations.
Hollie pursued a Ph.D. in communication from Wayne
State University (2007) and taught at South Dakota State University, Colorado
State University, Wayne State University, and Schoolcraft College. She
specialized in teaching public speaking, debate, rhetoric and religion, conflict
resolution, and other rhetoric-based courses. She is a former chair of the
Spiritual Communication Division of the National Communication Association.
She developed a love for writing in her teens and shortly
after that began publishing articles in local, national, and international
music magazines. She also wrote songs for local music groups. In her late
twenties, she turned her attention to writing academically—speeches, articles,
book chapters, and a book. Since 2016, she devoted herself to spiritual writing.
She is the author of Creating Your Path: Harnessing Your Spiritual
Powers to Create a Vibrant Life (2018) and The Rhetoric of
Channeled Texts: A Genre Approach (2009). She is a contributing author
to Positive Communication in Health and Wellness (Pitts &
Socha, Eds., 2013) and American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of
Political, Social, Religious, and Artistic Movements (Misiroglu, Ed., 2008),
among numerous other published articles.
Even though she sometimes regrets not filling her
5-year-old self’s ambitions of becoming a nun or a race car driver, Hollie
thinks her younger self would approve of the path she has taken. She lives with
her husband and many rescued animals in a remote and peaceful midwestern town.
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