Lisa Baue Publishes Memoir for Women in the Deathcare Profession

Parker, Colorado — Lisa Baue’s first book, Wake-Up Calls: A Journey of Learning to Lead and Succeed in the Funeral and Deathcare Profession, will be published on September 3. Baue recently established the Funeral Women Lead Foundation, the first nonprofit dedicated exclusively to advancing women’s leadership in the funeral profession.

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I still remember the sharp ring of the telephone in the dark hours of April 11, 1987. I was 30 years old when I heard the words no daughter ever wants to hear: “Your father died.” My dad, Dave Baue, was the owner of our family’s funeral-home business in St.

When Lisa Baue, the former owner and CEO of Baue Funeral Homes, Crematory & Cemetery in Missouri, decided to sell her company to Park Lawn Corp. in 2019, she knew she didn’t want to step away from work – and deathcare – completely. In 2021, she founded Your Funeral Coach,

As an author, podcaster, and public speaker with over 45 years of experience as as funeral director, Lisa Baue’s approach of next era, heart-based development recognizes women are the future- and she’s challenging the funeral profession to support them. Read more…

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Wake-Up Calls: A Journey of Learning to Lead and Succeed in the Funeral and Deathcare Profession

Lisa Baue recounts her transformative journey from a grieving daughter to a successful business owner in a male-dominated industry.
Through a series of pivotal “wake-up calls,” she learns invaluable lessons of the heart, the head and becoming a woman of courage and grit in grief, empathy, resilience, mentorship, and leadership, eventually turning her family’s modest funeral home into an industry-leading firm.

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