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Interested in having Mandy join your podcast, event, panel, or conversation?

Mandy Farris Woods is available for podcast interviews, speaking engagements, panel discussions, book conversations, and media opportunities.

Drawing from her personal journey and more than two decades of experience in operations and leadership, Mandy brings candor, humor, and a deeply personal perspective to conversations about perseverance, reinvention, servant leadership, career growth, self-advocacy, changing long-held beliefs, and learning to trust your own voice.

Her memoir, You Can’t Tell Me What to Do! A Memoir of Perseverance, Reinvention, and Becoming My Own, also opens the door to honest conversations about young motherhood, surviving domestic abuse, faith and religious identity, career reinvention, cancer, family, resilience, and what it means to become your own person at every stage of life.

Whether you’re interested in discussing the book, inviting Mandy onto a podcast, exploring a speaking opportunity, or simply reaching out, she’d love to hear from you.

Topics Mandy Can Speak About

Perseverance & Reinvention
Starting over, changing direction, navigating unexpected chapters, and building a life that doesn’t necessarily resemble the one you originally planned.

Leadership & Career
Servant leadership, operations, career reinvention, organizational leadership, and navigating a nontraditional path to executive leadership.

Self-Advocacy & Trusting Your Voice
What years of unexplained facial pain and an eventual cancer diagnosis taught Mandy about asking questions, pushing for answers, and trusting yourself when something doesn’t feel right.

Motherhood, Family & Relationships
Becoming a mother at eighteen, growing up alongside your child, surviving an abusive relationship, rebuilding, and learning that strength doesn't always look the way you expect it to.

Faith, Identity & Changing Your Mind
Questioning inherited beliefs, leaving a lifelong religious identity, allowing your worldview to evolve, and recognizing that changing your mind can sometimes require as much courage as standing your ground.

Writing a Memoir & Telling the Truth
Deciding which stories to tell, writing honestly about painful experiences, navigating the boundaries between your story and someone else’s, and finally finishing the book you kept telling yourself you were going to finish.

And yes, pugs and ancient coins are always fair game.

Get in Touch

For podcast, speaking, media, book, and other inquiries, use the form above to contact Mandy.