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: Fall 2022
For the Fall 2022 “Travel & Technology” Issue, publisher Karen Floyd gives her insight and reflection on everything travel and technology.
Our Publisher’s Style Secret? Luxury Consignment
Every woman has a fashion twist or secret. With so many options to navigate, we all need some way to make our style our own. So what is my secret? Luxury consignment stores are what give me some of my best outfits for less.
Letter From the Publisher: Summer 2022
For the Summer 2022 “Green” issue, publisher Karen Floyd gives her insight and reflection on her dedication to everything “green.”
Letter From the Publisher: Spring 2022
For the Spring 2022 Issue, publisher Karen Floyd gives her insight and reflection on the talented artists of various mediums.
ELYSIAN Insights from Publisher Karen Floyd
Content Warning – The contents of this article discuss depression, anxiety, and suicide. Scars to Your Beautiful But there’s a hope that’s waiting for you in the dark You should
Letter From the Publisher: Winter 2021-2022
We at ELYSIAN have ventured to capture the inspiration that comes from deep within to sustain inspiration that fuels creativity and the holiday spirit, the spirit of faith, and love.
Letter From the Publisher: Fall 2021
I am more convinced than ever before, that as women age, the best is yet to come. Reflecting upon over six and a half years of interviews, I now recognize why.
Letter from the Publisher: Summer 2021
Our summer issue focuses on literature and music through the personal and professional journeys of our cover model, country music star, Elizabeth Cook, best-selling author, Kristy Woodson Harvey, and vocalist, Tanya Blount Trotter.
Letter from the Publisher: Spring 2021
Our lives always become richer when we listen to the quiet messages from others’ acts of kindness, says Karen Floyd in this letter from the publisher.
Letter From the Publisher: Fall/Winter 2020
The year 2020 became synonymous with “visual acuity” (20/20 numerator referring to distance and denominator to size). As long as I can remember, 2020 represented the “year of vision” a
Letter from the Publisher: Summer 2020
It is our hope that the pages of ELYSIAN offer women of all ages a place to connect and find reprieve during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Our issue’s focus, Arts
Letter from the Publisher: Spring 2020
“THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT SOUTHERN WOMEN THAT IS SO UNIQUE YET SO UNIVERSAL . . .” – Connie Britton It is with the idea of universality that our Spring 2020 Issue
Letter from the Publisher: Winter 2019-2020
My earliest memories involve travel. My father was born and raised in New York City to first-generation immigrants who found refuge in America during the First World War.
Letter from the Publisher: Fall 2019
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new.” -Socrates
Letter from the Publisher: Summer 2019
Introducing the ELYSIAN Summer 2019 Women in Art & Finance issue.
Letter From The Publisher: Spring 2019
“To whom much is given, much is expected”