Empowered Women Book Club

About the Book Club

Personal stories of women defying patriarchal expectations, overcoming significant challenges, and finding their voice and agency incite us to think about what makes an empowered woman. What choices do they make or fail to make? How do they recover and become who they want to be?

We meet women memoir authors online about once a month and chat about their bold, thought-provoking stories.

Join us! We'd love to have you with us!

Events are free. Join our private Facebook group for meeting information and replays or contact me directly at joelle@joelletamraz.com.

Upcoming Author Interview – 12pm EST / 5PM UK time
August 12 - How to Plant a Billion Trees: A Memoir of Childhood Trauma and the Healing Power of Nature with Nicole Walker

Meeting Authors since 2025

I co-host the book club with my mother and fellow memoirist, Dr Djenane Nakhle, who published her memoir, Finding Home: From Cairo to New York in December 2024. You can view our interview here.

Previous Meet the Author Events

2025

February 27 - Finding Home: From Cairo to New York with Djenane Nakhle

April 30 - Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived with Karen DeBonis

June 25 - A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy with Tia Levings

July 22 (Tuesday) - Henry's Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood with Amy Mackin

August 27 (Wednesday) - The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga with Joelle Tamraz

October 8 - Tap Dancing on Everest with Mimi Zieman

November 5 - Uncultured with Daniella Mestyanek Young

December 3 - Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage with Heather Sweeney

2026

January 28 - The Strength of Water: An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir with Karin K. Jensen