Meet the Author
Chanel T. Rowe is an award-winning attorney, dynamic speaker, and leadership strategist who has steered Fortune 50 pharmaceutical companies and high-growth FinTech startups through some of the most complex legal and regulatory challenges of our time. Her distinguished career spans Senior Counsel at Johnson & Johnson, high-impact enforcement work at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and influential roles in BigLaw and the C-suite.
While rising in a high-stakes legal career, Chanel became the full-time caregiver for her mother, who battles an ultra-rare, unpredictable, and life-threatening autoimmune disease. Between boardrooms and hospital rooms, she was stretched and refined—ultimately sustained by faith, purpose, and the quiet power of grace under pressure. From that tension, she penned Finding Balance—a devotional and leadership guide for caregivers, advocates, patients, and purpose-driven souls navigating hard seasons while pouring from an empty cup.
Chanel made history as the first Black woman and youngest appointee to the Board of Trustees at Florida International University, where she chaired the Audit Committee. She continues to champion access and leadership excellence through her service in legal, educational, and philanthropic spaces. Recognized by Florida Trend Magazine, The American Lawyer, Super Lawyers, BLACK ENTERPRISE, and more, Chanel also founded a scholarship supporting first-generation law students pursuing judicial externships—advancing her mission to cultivate principled leaders who rise with resilience and grace.
Outside of her professional and caregiving roles, Chanel finds joy in travel, choreographed dance, and the vibrant pulse of live music.
Book Synopsis:
Finding Balance: A Devotional to Help Caregivers Move from Suffering to Strength is a soul-stirring, spiritually rich collection of reflections birthed in the trenches of caregiving. Written by Chanel T. Rowe, this devotional traces the raw, intimate journey of a high-powered daughter turned full-time caregiver after her mother is diagnosed with antisynthetase syndrome—an ultra-rare, unpredictable, life-threatening autoimmune disease.
Navigating over 20 medical specialists, countless misdiagnoses, over 25 prescription medications, and the relentless demands of round-the-clock care—all during a global pandemic—Chanel learned that it wasn’t strategy that saved her. It was surrender.
Through short, powerful devotions infused with Scripture, medical insight, and hard-won wisdom, Finding Balance speaks directly to the 53 million unpaid family caregivers in America—especially women silently carrying the weight of sacrifice, burnout, and identity loss.
This is more than a book.
It’s a lifeline.
A ministry.
A movement of grace for those who feel invisible—yet are fully seen and fiercely held by God.
