Karen Floyd
Founder/CEO of ELYSIAN
Karen Floyd is the Founder, CEO and Publisher of ELYSIAN Magazine.
Floyd is the founder and CEO of multiple businesses and the current publisher of ELYSIAN magazine. Floyd has long been a champion of women as a businesswoman and active philanthropist, supporting women and children-centric initiatives all over the globe. Throughout her career and travels, Karen often encountered a sense of disconnectedness among highly accomplished women. In 2015, Karen was inspired to publish ELYSIAN magazine, a space where self-reliant independent women could hear the stories and struggles of others and feel a sense of kinship with women around the world.
Karen's Articles
Letter From the Publisher: Summer 2025
“YOU CAN’T REALLY KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING UNTIL YOU KNOW WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN.” —MAYA ANGELOU TEN YEARS AGO, I wrote . . . ELYSIAN, our premise Greek in origin,
Letter From the Publisher: Winter 2024/25
“BY BLOOD AND ORIGIN, I AM ALL ALBANIAN. MY CITIZENSHIP IS INDIAN. I AM A CATHOLIC NUN. AS TO MY CALLING, I BELONG TO THE WHOLE WORLD. AS TO MY
Inspiring Women – Jessica Word
JESSICA WORD’S journey at Word & Brown General Agency began at a young age, working in the mailroom of her family’s company. Cofounded in 1985 by her father, John M.
Letter From the Publisher: Fall 2024
“At the end of the day, don’t forget that you are a person, don’t forget you are a mother, don’t forget you are a wife, don’t forget you are a
Inspiring Women – Anita Zucker
She is the daughter of Ukrainian Jews, a child born in the aftermath of humanity’s darkest hour, the Holocaust, under storm clouds that, even now, seven decades on, have yet
Inspiring Women – Kimmy Powell
A loving, joyful mother. A resilient, hard-working father. A teacher and mentor who recognized her potential and the promise in a young student who possessed a natural-born algorithmic mind. Meet
Inspiring Women – Dr. Tabasum Mir
How did a child born of Arab parents in Kashmir and raised in the Muslim faith, land in a small Midwestern town to grow up amongst blue-eyed, blond-haired Christian children
Letter From the Publisher: Summer 2024
“But there’s a hope that’s waiting for you in the dark You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are… She don’t see her perfect, she don’t understand she’s
Letter From the Publisher: Spring 2024
Why in the world would you travel to Ukraine and put your life at risk to film a documentary?” I was repeatedly asked. The question surprised me. As the founder
Letter From the Publisher: WINTER 2023/24
“ELYSIAN Strives to excite the imagination … to be aspirational and experiential. May ELYSIAN be the voice and not the echo.” – Karen Floyd as ELYSIAN’s eighth year draws to
Inspiring Women – Amy Green
AMY GREEN is a wife, mother, philanthropist, global ambassador, former (sports) journalist, and one of New York’s most fashionable women. She was born in California and attended Ohio State University.
Letter From the Publisher: FALL 2023
Creativity is a way of sharing your soul with the world. – Brené Brown Much like the romantic poets believed, I think the creative imagination is a spiritual force that
Letter From the Publisher: SUMMER 2023
“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read;
Letter From the Publisher: SPRING 2023
“You cannot buy love…you can rescue it…and it will save you” WE named him Kansas. My first and deepest animal love. He was THE rescue that changed our lives forever.
Letter From the Publisher: Winter 2022/23
“If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” As a former prosecutor and judge, I understand firsthand, sausage is both more predictable and controlled
Letter From the Publisher: Fall 2022
For the Fall 2022 “Travel & Technology” Issue, publisher Karen Floyd gives her insight and reflection on everything travel and technology.