Speaking
We’ve all discovered that where there is life, there is pain. As we struggle to gain coping skills to help us endure, survive, and overcome our past and present pains, who among us is satisfied with clichés—sugar-coated admonitions to “just pray and the pain will go away”? Kitty Chappell is an accomplished “where the rubber meets the road” international speaker who offers meat for the soul—something the mind can chew on. She is an award-winning author of three non-fiction books, Soaring Above The Ashes On The Wings Of Forgiveness, her riveting life story book, Good Mews: Inspurrrrational Stories for Cat Lovers, which contains true stories of how God enlightened her as she tried to train her cats, and Friendship – When It’s Easy and When It’s Not. Kitty is also the author of numerous articles, devotionals, editorials, and poems. Her inspiration and humor has encouraged audiences throughout the US and in Poland.
Topics:
Forgiveness, God Inspired Wisdom, Words and Poetry, Women’s Issues, and Inspiration
Kitty selected as one of the 2025 Women of Chandler.
This year’s issue of Chandler City Lifestyle Magazine cover features twenty women selected as the 2025 Women of Chandler honored for their outstanding service to their community. There were 130 women nominated, and Kitty Chappell was one of the twenty women selected and honored at their May 20 luncheon. Here is the article about her and a video of her interview.
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KITTY CHAPPELL This award-winning nonfiction author has had her books translated into seven languages and has a movie script in the works. She has also spoken to thousands nationwide and throughout Eastern Europe as an international speaker about the power of forgiveness. Having personally overcome a violent background of domestic violence, Kitty Chappell’s joy comes from “seeing hearts that have been wounded by life’s unjust circumstances become dynamic overcomers contributing to society instead of remaining mere survivors who sadly relive their past pain-because they don’t know how to become better instead of bitter.” Motivated to make a difference wherever she lives, she graduated from the Chandler Police Citizens Academy at the age of 81 and became an active member of the Citizens Police Academy Association. You might also see her at Sky Harbor Airport as she is a TSA K-9 Decoy, where she volunteers by pretending to be a passenger going through the lines with explosives or drugs hidden on her person or luggage to help train the canine units. |
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Kitty speaks at the Refresh Women of Faith Event at Faith Church of the Valley in Chandler, AZ on March 8th, 2025
“What I’ve Learned About Friendship in My First Ninety Years” was Kitty Chappell’s subject title when she keynote spoke at the Refresh Women of Faith event held at Faith Church of the Valley in Chandler, AZ on March 8th, 2025.
Interesting facts:
- The number of Americans who say they have no close friends has tripled in the last three decades.
- According to a review in the Public Library of Science Journal: “Good friends protect your health as much as quitting smoking and even more than exercising.” For more information watch her video.
Kitty speaks on Seeds of Abuse September 20, 2017 in Chandler, Arizona
Kitty Chappell was keynote speaker for the 9th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Event, hosted by the City of Chandler Domestic Violence Commission.
Kitty is Kick-off speaker at June 21, 2014 Testify World 2014 Conference
Kitty Chappell was kick-off speaker at the Testify World 2014 two-day Conference held at Azusa Pacific University on June 21, 2014. Just a few of other notable speakers at this event include the distinguished Canadian American astrophysicist, Dr. Hugh Ross, scientist Stephen Cunningham with PhD in Theoretical Solid State Physics, and author/speaker Eddie Spencer who was honored by USA Today as one of their fifty national drug-fighting heroes. (In 2007, Eddie was featured speaker in Dr. Bill Cosby’s “Call-Out to the Community Session” which aired on Public Broadcasting Television for four months.)
Watch Kitty at Testify World 2014
Testify World is a vision for the world’s servant leaders to share the amazing work the Lord is accomplishing through the medium of shared experience. It’s where the Art of Storytelling meets the Power of Testimony.
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