Sherri Martinelli

Sherri Martinelli, a motivational speaker and dramatist, is a woman of contrast and variety. Sherri graduated from Michigan State University in Communications and Mathematics planning to be a teacher, but her first job after college was selling new and used cars and trucks. She represented the State of Michigan in the Model of the Year Pageant but after modeling in New York, she lived in a tent all summer with 2nd graders as a counselor on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

Her business background has been primarily in sales, marketing and event planning, but her heart's desire was to be a mom. But after facing the prospects of infertility she instead gave birth to an original cable TV show in 1982 much like the Shopper’s Network and YOUTube combined called VideoValues. Yet, her dream came true when God blessed them with children who are presently 38, 35 and 32 and is now a grandmother of two.

She created and hosted two weekly Christian Radio shows for moms in California and Georgia, called Mother-to-Mother, and wrote a best-selling perpetual calendar parenting book in 1992 but just published her latest book, an expanded version of the first, called Mom’s Moments ~ Smiles to Remember, a 3 in 1 book : a Keepsake Memory Journal, Daily Devotional and Parenting Book with 366 original poems on parenting with 4 FREE downloadable parenting tools.

She speaks live or virtually to women and teen groups across the country and also has written and performs one-woman dramas of women of the Bible. She has been married to her husband Ken for 40 years and little did she know, when she grew up in the Denver area, that it would take nearly 50 years and 7 states to return to her beloved state. Colorado is now their home living in a small but tall new home with a roof-top patio, and a panoramic view of the Rockies.

For videos, parenting tips/tools and more go to her website: www.joyinparenting.com