Mary Pierce
Mary Pierce is a keynote humorist for corporate and community audiences, women's health and wellness events, caregiver and senior gatherings, as well as church events and retreats. Speaking professionally since 1996, she offers an entertaining and positive motivational message to corporate and community audiences, inviting them to laugh along and learn with multi-media presentations filled with comic relief, practical teaching, and a powerful message of hope and encouragement.
Mary Pierce is the author of three books of inspirational humor for women, published by Zondervan/HarperCollins:
- When Did I Stop Being Barbie and Become Mrs. Potato Head?(2003)
- Confessions of a Prayer Wimp (2005)
- When Did My Life Become a Game of Twister? (2007)
Mary's been a humor columnist for Focus on the Family's LifeWise magazine, the Focus Over Fifty website, and is a frequent contributor to other Focus publications. She's been a columnist for the Quality of Life Times in western Wisconsin since 1995, and her work has appeared in numerous other publications and websites. She's also co-hosted a monthly radio interview program.
Trained in education and business (University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN, and University of Redlands in Redlands, CA), she's worked as a stockbroker, teacher, and corporate trainer, meeting life's changes and challenges with unfailing optimism, deep faith, and a lively sense of humor. She and her husband Terry share six children and seven grandchildren, and a fox terrorist named Izzy. They live in Wisconsin where Mary dreams of getting her act together . . . someday.
For more information, see www.laughlady.com.