About Sherry Maysonave

Author of The Year — International Impact Book Awards — Historical Fiction 2025

Hemingway Hall of Fame — 20th Century Wartime Fiction —  Chanticleer 2026

Winner 30+ book awards. Motivational speaker. Expert in nonverbal communication.

Passionate about helping others achieve success, Sherry is the founder and president of Empowerment Enterprises and Empowerment Productions. Her clients include business professionals as well as nationally known political figures and entertainers. Her corporate clients are wide-ranging, including US and international companies in technology, finance, fashion, law, energy, pharmaceutical, and professional-services.

Sherry Maysonave has been interviewed by over 200 TV, Radio, and print publications across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. This includes multiple appearances on NBC’s Today, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NPR radio. Sherry has been featured in the USA Today, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, InStyle, and BusinessWeek.

Most recently, Sherry published a breathtaking, powerful, and inspirational biographic historical novel, Tatae’s Promise: You will live… you will tell, an Amazon best-seller with 14 Awards, including the 2024 HFC Hemingway Award.

Sherry’s first book, Casual Power ─ How to Power Up Your Nonverbal Communication and Dress Down for Success, quickly became an Amazon category best-seller in non-fiction. Also the author and producer of the DVD series, Brand a Positive Business Image, Sherry traveled nationally and internationally speaking and teaching workshops.

After retiring from the corporate circuit, Sherry felt a clarion call to express her creativity and write outside the nonfiction genre. Her first children’s book, an Apple iBook, EggMania ─ Where’s the Egg in Exactly?— won five awards. Sherry’s debut novel, The Girl Who Could Read Hearts ─ A Family and the Power of Intuition, has garnered fifteen awards, including Gold Medal in the 2017 Readers’ Favorite International Awards.

Intuitive as a child, Sherry has had mystical experiences throughout her life. At the mere age of five, she had a direct experience of her soul existing separately from her physical body, which forever changed her perception of God, life on Earth, and life in Heaven. Sherry says she doesn’t just believe there is an afterlife, she knows there is.

Sherry has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from East Texas A&M University. She has studied psychology at the graduate level, and she has multiple credentials in image, communication, and personal development.

Sherry and her husband, Stephen, live on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas. They both enjoy spending time with their seven grandchildren, traveling, and participating in angel investments that support social-impact companies.

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