Jen Hatmaker

Her message of inclusion, inner strength, and the power of community rings true for audiences of all kinds. While always entertaining and engaging, her natural gift is caring for the souls in the room. With a flair for connecting even in enormous settings, attendees leave feeling seen, heard and loved. Her approachable nature embodies Big Sister, Best Friend, and Wise Mentor energy as both a humorist and galvanizing leader, and audiences always leave changed and inspired to be their best selves. Jen also spends advance time with every event planner and customizes each keynote to fit their goals and audience. 

Drawing from her personal story of divorce and her journey from suffering to recovery, Jen inspires and empowers audiences with her authentic and hopeful perspective. Her vulnerability and wisdom give the audience a vehicle to look honestly at their own life story and provide insight into the rewarding healing work of coming back from the abyss. 

Jen uses the story of her community to encourage business leaders and organizations to build a culture of cooperation and excellence. When vulnerability and connection is your aim, you’re coming into every situation knowing your team embraces courage and purpose in their life’s work. “Better Together” is one of Jen’s North Stars. 

Jen shares her own story of “the wilderness” and grappling with her faith. She talks about her own spiritual deconstruction and reconstruction and how it has evolved from the faith of her childhood to a wider, kinder space. Using inclusive language and great care, Jen leads from a deep love of faith that continues to grow beautifully. 

In this inspiring talk Jen sets audiences free with the knowledge that they are enough. Shattering insecurities and the scarcity mindset, Jen extends the invitation to dream again because it is never too late. 

With five children and a close-knit community of family and friends, Jen Hatmaker has been sharing her love of cooking and food with her fans for years. Now she’s compiled all her favorite sure-thing recipes into one personal and highly entertaining cookbook,  jam-packed with easy recipes, big flavors, and Southern wit.

Why do we pursue more when we’d be happier with less? In this updated edition of 7, Jen tells the story of how she and her family tried to combat overindulgence — and what they learned along the way about living a truly meaningful life.

Stuck in people-pleasing or fear, many women hide and pretend, then end up sidelined in their own lives. But what they want is to be brave, to claim every gift, dream, quirk, and emotion inside, to stop performing and start living. So, with cheeky candor and fearlessness, Jen guides readers to a deep dive into how they are wired across five categories — who I am, what I need, what I want, what I believe, and how I connect — and provides them with the tools to walk in that identity with freedom and guts. Offering encouragement, challenge, and humor, Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire will help you identify everything that makes you tick and gain the confidence to live it all out.

Jen parlays her own triumphs and tragedies into a sigh of relief for all women everywhere. Whether it’s the time she drove to the wrong city for a fourth-grade field trip (“Why are we in San Antonio?”) or the way she learned to forgive (God was super clear: Pray for this person every day, which was the meanest thing He ever said to me. I was furious.), she offers a reminder to those of us who sometimes hide in the car eating crackers that we do have the moxie to get back up and get back out. There is enough abundance to go around. Each of us can choose to live undaunted “in the moment” no matter what the moments hold, and we really can lead vibrant, courageous, grace-filled life.

Jen knows how the squeeze of this life can make us competitive and judgmental; how we can lose love for others and then for ourselves; how the majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people. But she also believes life can be lovely and fun and courageous and kind — and she reveals with humor and inspiration how Jesus’ embarrassing grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: the people. In this raucous ride to freedom for modern women, Jen bares refreshing wisdom, wry humor, no-nonsense faith, liberating insight, and fearless honesty.