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
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: Autumn 2026
“FOOD IS A GREAT STORYTELLER. IT TELLS US WHERE WE’VE BEEN AND WHERE WE’RE GOING.” —MASHAMA BAILEY food has always been more than sustenance; it is memory, ritual, heritage, and
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd, Blue: Summer 2026
“IN A WORLD OF ‘RED AND BLUE,’ WOMEN ARE HARDWIRED TO WEAVE THE THREADS OF PURPLE INTO A TAPESTRY OF SHARED HUMANITY.” —KAREN FLOYD Red and Blue: A Call
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd, Red: Summer 2026
“IN THE WHISPER OF A SINGLE DAY, BIRTH AND DEATH DANCE TOGETHER, REMINDING US THAT OUR FRAGILE LIVES CALL US TO UNITY RATHER THAN DIVISION.” —KAREN FLOYD On March
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: Spring 2026
“YOUR BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT HAVE ONE COMMONALITY – YOU” —KAREN FLOYD It was almost debilitating growing up with the family I so desperately loved engulfed by illness . .
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: Winter 2025/26
“INTO THIS CLIMATE OF FEAR AND APPREHENSION, CHRISTMAS ENTERS, STREAMING LIGHTS OF JOY, RINGING BELLS OF HOPE AND SINGING CAROLS OF FORGIVENESS HIGH UP IN THE BRIGHT AIR. THE WORLD
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: Autumn 2025
“BRASS SHINES AS FAIR TO THE IGNORANT AS GOLD TO THE GOLDSMITHS.” —QUEEN ELIZABETH LETTER (1581) I was drawn to Queen Elizabeth’s words, written five centuries ago, because of her
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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,
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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.
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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
The Bigger Picture by Karen Floyd: 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