Publishing Secrets

Joyce Addo-Atuah, PhD: Get Into A Community

Episode Summary

Can you use your success as an author to express your gratitude for what God has done in your life? This week’s Publishing Secrets guest has done exactly that. Joyce Addo-Atuah, PhD wrote her book on the topic of thanksgiving, for the specific purpose of expressing her thanks to God. As she shares her story of inspiration and success, she also speaks about something else she is thankful for – the community that helped make her writing dream a reality.

Episode Notes

In this episode, you’ll also hear:

• The many things in life Joyce thanks God for, including full scholarships for higher education and travel to more than 40 countries – and how she is using the proceeds from her book to “pay it forward” and bless others in her home country
• How to maintain an attitude of thankfulness even in a tense, fearful year such as 2020
• What Joyce says we have lost sight of in our society, and what she views as the true source of joy
• How a Facebook advertisement helped her finally get started on writing her book – and the community that kept her going
• A special song clip from the end of her audiobook 
• Why Joyce says it is essential that you get involved in a writing community – and exactly what kind of community you should join

BIO:

Joyce Addo-Atuah, PhD is a board member of the Pentecost Biblical Seminary of the Church of Pentecost U.S.A. Inc. and an ordained Deaconess of the Church. A trained pharmacist in Ghana and the United Kingdom, she has been a full-time college professor at the Touro College of Pharmacy in New York City since 2008. People who have known her for a long time have often asked her for her "secret" in staying "forever young" and she had always replied she didn’t have any such secrets. This response was totally true until she learned about the work of researchers who have established the connection between a lifestyle of gratitude and benefits such as a positive outlook on life, greater productivity, good health, generosity, and longevity. 

Suddenly, a light bulb lit up within her -- she is a living proof of the power and benefits of a lifestyle of gratitude and thanksgiving!! 

Having discovered this scientific evidence and armed with the scriptural basis of thanksgiving and its benefits, and confirmed by her own personal lived experiences, Joyce is on a mission to generously share these physical, mental, relational, and spiritual benefits of thanksgiving and gratitude with the world.

Her work in “The Power of Thanksgiving: A Blueprint for Contentment, Fulfillment, and Well-Being through Gratitude” has been recognized in the Christian and broader communities. 

Joyce is a passionate educator, speaker, motivator, and storyteller.  She has spoken and taught on several professional as well as Christian platforms. She is eternally grateful to God for her lawyer husband, four adult children, and two beautiful granddaughters and counting. 

GET CONNECTED:

Website: https://joycepowerbooks.com/

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/joyceaddo_atuah

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AtuahJoyce

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JoyceAAtuahAuthor