DIANE CANADA - LADY UP AMERICA
Nashville, Tennessee

Bio
Diane is a national TV Commentator, podcast host, speaker, and writer. Her storied journey has resulted in a fierce and unshakable faith in Jesus. Healing is the common theme in Diane’s entire body of work. She initially helped heal companies in crisis as a Consultant, with expertise in women-owned businesses. She developed and hosted a TV show, focused on songs that heal, that was syndicated in 100 million US Households and 3 countries. She ran for the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 2020 to help heal a broken system for Veterans after the loss of her brother to the mental scars of war in Afghanistan. She is now laser-focused on the healing of our American culture and its restoration to Christian conservative values.
Diane has been honored with an extraordinary citizen award for 2 consecutive years by the TN State Legislature and the She Leads America/She Leads Tennessee organization. Her podcast has featured guests including Senator Marsha Blackburn, Riley Gaines, Lee Greenwood, Kevin Sorbo, Dr. Ming Wang (the movie SIGHT), Dr. Carol Swain, among other important voices. She’s a frequent panelist on Newsmax, News Nation, and Scripps News. She has contributed to Fox News Digital, The Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. She is a Keynote Speaker and has been a Panelist for prominent conservative conferences, such as the American Dream Conference by Dr. Carol Swain featuring Dr. Ben Carson.
Beginning with a tour ahead of the 2022 midterms, Diane's training techniques have reached numerous cities in battleground states and ignited thousands of women through training workshops for Republican and conservative women’s clubs across the southeast. She recently launched her self-guided Lady Up America Global Course, available on demand on her website, and is being translated into multiple languages.
Diane is a graduate of the Heritage Foundation's Political Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., and she is the former Nashville Political Advocate for the National Association of Women Business Owners. Diane has served on the Mayor's Minority and Business Advisory Council in Nashville, is a Founders Club member of the American Bible Project, and served on the Board of the Tennessee Immigrant and Minority Business Group.
She authored her first book, Lady Up + Don't Quit: How To Look Any Leadership Challenge In The Eye and Give It A Little Wink, in 2020. Her second book, Lady Up America: Training Christian Moms For The Toughest Spiritual Battleground of Our Lifetime, was released in 2024. She is currently writing her third book, Lady Up In These Last Days, to be released in the spring of 2026.