helping you experience
wholehearted breakthrough and
authentic life transformation
Elisa Pulliam is a gifted teacher and inspirational speaker, engaging audiences through the practical, personal, and winsome ways she communicates life change principles.
Lisa, as she prefers to be called, is passionate about simplifying the way forward by helping her listeners understand how the heart, mind, soul, and body function as an integrated whole and in the context of relationships.
Her messages pour out of her own transformation journey combined with nearly twenty years spent mentoring teenage girls, a decade of coaching women from around the world, and her training as a trauma-informed equine-assisted coach as well as her pursuit of a MA in Clinical Counseling with a trauma focus.
Lisa believes that wholehearted breakthrough and authentic life transformation are possible. She's committed to helping young and old alike discover how to move forward through taking small steps out of their comfort zone and reaching for the life they were made to live.
To hear Lisa's heart and teaching style, listen to the More to Be Podcast or hop over to the More to Be Sisterhood for a taste of what she'll bring to you.
Retreats • Keynotes • Workshops
BeLoved, Be Free
embracing the life God created you to live
What keeps a woman from experiencing the life God intended for her? Elisa believes the greatest obstacles is hidden within her heart and mind.
She knows first-hand what happens when a woman lives with a hardened, stony heart. She knows what it is like to do all the "Christian things" but not feel God's love personally. She spent years running from her past, shoving down the pain that comes from a legacy of emotional and physical abuse. She couldn't relieve the guilt over her destructive ways. She couldn't get control of her anger, no matter how much she vowed to not be a yelling mom or a temperamental wife.
Elisa describes her salvation moment in that London dorm room more than 25 years ago as her exit strategy with no expectation of what life on earth could look like. She had no idea that Love would fill her soul and change her life . . . that Jesus was able to free her to live the life she longed for . . . a life in which could be the wife and mom and friend she always wanted to become.
Through Christ, there is healing and wholeness and freedom for all of us as God's beloved daughters.
When Elisa finally let God into the deepest part of her heart and mind, He completely changed her from the inside out. She believes that's what He wants to do for every single one of His daughters starting right now. Not when they get it all together. Not once justice has been done. Not once they have it figured all out. But now, so that they would know they are God's beloved, set free to lead the life He intended.
Invite Elisa to bring her testimony and teaching steeped in John 13 and 14, 1 John 4, Ezekiel 36:26, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Romans 12:2, and Colossians 3 to your women. Portions of this message can be found in her book, Meet the New. She can customize this message for a keynote, conference, or retreat.
Walk with Me: Because We're Better Together
simplifying biblical mentoring and cross-wiring the generations together
Inspired by her personal testimony of being wooed to Jesus and the beautiful work God accomplished in her through 18 years living as a faculty wife at a boarding school, Lisa brings forth a message of biblical hope, transformation, and kingdom impact.
She unpacks the beauty of cultivating parakaleo relationships -- a Greek word that reveals the heart of a Biblical mentoring through teaching the whole of Titus 2. She simplifies biblical mentoring through debunking the myths, addressing the excuses, and laying out the six simple steps of mentoring.
Lisa also brings her passion for multi-generational communities to play with her thorough teaching on generational differences, a focus on how to develop life-giving, healthy-working relationships within a family, church, school, ministry, or organization.
This message, built from the principles found in Impact Together, can be shared as one session, one-day conference, or full retreat experience or customized into a training workshop for launching a mentoring ministry.
Unblinded Faith: How to Gain Spiritual Sight Through Believing God's Word
helping women discover how to read the Word, believe the Word, and live it out
What does it look like to live with spiritual sight, full of unblinded faith and unshakable hope? Yes, it is possible. There is no need to live defeated, downhearted, and discouraged. There is no need to live overwhelmed chasing down the tyranny of the urgent.
It is possible to experience a fresh encounter with God and His word in such a way that everyday trials and challenges don't steal your joy and peace, but rather inspire you to look to the Cross for your strength and purpose.
This message is inspired by Elisa's own journey will include her testimony as well as teaching from 2 Corinthians 4. It's perfect for any kind of event created to encourage, equip, and breathe hope into the lives of women!
Embrace Retreat Experience
The Embrace Retreat: Discovering Your God-Given Impact is specifically designed to make a place for refreshment and refueling through a discipleship style of ministry for a small group of women in a home setting. The four sessions -- Be Made New, Be Refreshed, Be Transformed, Be the Impact -- provide a solid Scripture foundation for embracing God-given purpose and developing an action plan for spiritual growth and impact. Elisa uses her unique combination of teaching, coaching, and story-telling to provide a safe-haven of connection and authenticity.
Feel free to ask Elisa about serving with her friend and ministry partner, Stacey. In addition to leading worship, Stacey also happens to be a fabulous massage therapist and kindly offers 10-minute complimentary massages as a part of her ministry for a retreat of 10 women or less. Yes, the Embrace Retreat is perfect for a small group of friends, ministry team, or church women's retreat.
The entire Embrace Retreat weekend was simply wonderful. Your stories were especially unbelievable whether difficult or inspiring. Please know you blew us all way on how the power and grace of God at work in you, and how He is using you to heal, restore, and strengthen others in their walk with the Lord! ~ Kim S.
Messages for Women and Teen Girls
Beloved, Be Free: Becoming Who You Were Created to Be {for women and teen girls}
Holy Whole: Discovering How to Care for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul {for women and teen girls}
Wired that Way: Embracing Your God-given Personality {for women and co-ed youth}
It’s hard to feel good about the way you’re made if your weakness and issues always seem to get the upper hand. In this session, Lisa explains the different personality assessments, what to do with the results, and how to use your strengths as well as weaknesses for God’s glory. She shares how she came to embrace her own personality — recognizing that her greatest weakness today were actually the very things God used to enable her to survive a childhood marred with abuse and dysfunction. With her passion for helping women, students, and organization unlock their God-given purpose and potential, Lisa believes that the first step is to understand how individual wiring works and how to utilize it for the benefit of the whole community — whether that is in a family, a church environment, a school, or workplace. In this workshop (which can be easily turned into three to four in-depth sessions), she unpacks the nuances of personality type, spiritual gifting, and learning styles with a focus on practical application and lasting impact.
Redefining Beauty: Living Beautiful in the Skin You’re In {women and teen girls}
Through sharing her own struggles in finding her Christ-centered identity, Lisa reveals how she discovered that she’s fearfully and wonderfully made in a way that is relatable and applicable for living a beautiful life in the skin you’re in.
Messages for Moms and Mentors
Mentoring the Hearts of Your Tweens and Teens
This message is steeped in practical application Lisa uses a biblical foundation, mentoring principles, and life coaching insights to equip moms to mother, mentor, and minister to the tweens and teens on purpose and without regret.
Seven Strategies for Navigating Social Media and Screens {with Your Tweens and Teens)
Can be tailored for a youth leader’s workshop or a joint workshop with parents and tweens/teens.
While it may be normal for every Millennial to grow up in a world of social media and screens, the reality is that their devices serve as both tools and weapons in their hands. The dopamine loop addiction is a dangerous experience for nearly every user, so it’s time face this reality and make necessary changes. This workshop is designed to educate, challenge, and encourage the implementation of safeguards and habits for responsible usage for all of us, especially as we’re tasked with training up and preparing the next generation for their future.
Motherhood 101: Training Up On the Go {MOPS and mom-focused groups}
Elisa unpacks seven key lessons for the journey of motherhood, with each point of wisdom leading to one profound truth: becoming the best mom God designed is really about becoming the woman God intended.
Connected Motherhood {MOPS and mom-focused groups}
We are designed by God for connection, with Him first, and overflowing into our relationships with our spouses, children, and beyond. Yet the enemy’s desire is isolation, which he succeeds at doing through connecting to us the world, our worries, and even our screens. This message, built upon Deuteronomy 6, carefully considers the importance of nurturing a vibrant relationship with God, being steeped in the Word, and pinpoint ways to speak life into our families while safeguarding from addictions, distractions, and fatigue.
The Real Deal About Dating and Relationships {co-ed youth group and teen girls}
Lisa’s perspective on relationships and dating comes through 20 plus years mentoring teens. She shares a Biblically-rich and culturally-relevant truth equipping moms, mentors, and youth leaders to guide the next generation through this season of life. She loves sharing this message with tween and teen girls, with their moms present, too.
Trainings and Special Events
A Hope Anew: Seeing of Mentoring through Mary and Elizabeth's Story {Christmas Message}
Lisa unfolds the beauty of the Christmas story and the incredible impact of biblical mentoring through looking at the relationship between Mary and Elizabeth in Luke 1. She weaves into this short message her testimony of God's great rescue of her life and His transforming work, providing a backdrop for the significance of women stepping into the lives of the next generation as modern-day Elizabeths.
The Call of a Message Bearer {for Writers, Speakers, and Ministry Leaders}
Wouldn’t you agree that being a message bearer is no easy thing? It’s a responsibility and calling. It’s a burden and a privilege. It is full of blessing and too many trials. But have you considered how it’s been this way since the very beginning? Oh yes, since the days when Jesus’ followers first step forth to bring the Good News forth to listening ears and longing hearts, being a message bearer meant saying yes to rejections and trials and uncertain futures. All we have to do is look deeper into Paul’s letter to the Corinthians to find the tension points and wisdom for how to approach the calling of being a writer, speaker, or ministry leader in today's culture.
Sweetspot Leadership Training Workshops
Lisa combines her life coaching experience with expertise in administering the Highlands Company Ability Battery to give your team a crash course in effective communication through teaching how to listen well and ask good questions. She’ll equip you to lay the groundwork for establishing a clear vision with actionable goals. Combined with the Wired Up Workshop, this is a great opportunity to grow a team or an organization.
