Diane K. Houghton is an author, public speaker, and entrepreneur in California. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Irvine, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law.
Since she was fourteen years old, she has served the community in various volunteer capacities ranging from hospital candy striper, convalescent caregiver, and Sunday school teacher to leading a book club for the women at Becky’s House—a two-year rehabilitation program for women through the YWCA. Holidays were often spent devising and implementing holiday outreaches for the homeless and single mothers in need.
Diane is a storyteller, a skilled conversationalist, and a careful observer of human behavior. As an author and public speaker, much like a surrogate parent, her words are designed to encourage, nurture, enlighten, and exhort her audience to aim for excellence in all things. She accomplishes her influence by reminding her audience they were made for more.
Diane feels that she was created for times like this, to help pull back the numbing fog that has settled into millions of people’s lives in the form of complacency, atheism, apathy, and blame. She wants her audience to understand their role, influence and potential impact. Her prayer is that an uncommon boldness overtake her audience so they begin sounding the trumpet as to the danger that is changing the face of our communities. Her seminars are designed to show her audience how to dismantle the thought programs that center around a growing sense of lack, which in turn has brought on a personal identity crisis and suffering for millions of people. As someone once said, our biggest victory in life will not be what is on the outside, but what is on the inside. She does this by making them understand the misinformation they’ve attached to so they can step into their truth and the truth thereby giving them a different life experience. One filled with peace, joy and impact.
At Ursula Street, starting with our youth, we set the foundation for great leadership by helping people formulate a vision for their future. With multi-day immersive programs starting with middle graders to seminars for older audiences, they are taught the life skills to implement it. Having a purpose centered life, one that is aligned with God’s plan, is seminal to keeping the faith, fighting the good fights and finishing the race (2 Timothy 4:7). Diane’s prayer for her audience is that they gain wisdom and revelation as to their calling, divine and glorious inheritance and God’s power to all who believe (Ephesians 1:17-19).
God doesn’t leave us where He finds us, and we can’t leave our youth where they are at. We must remind them that they are made for more and exhort them to aim for excellence in everything, under the leadership of the Almighty.
I send you to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.
Acts 26:17–18