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 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.
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