Melissa Radke is a best-selling author, speaker, and television personality that has won hearts around the world with her funny and candid insights on life, love, and the complexities of the modern world.
Celebrate the strong, spirited Southern women who shape our lives in Melissa Radke's upcoming book, Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way. Pre-order now for its April 22, 2025 release.
About Melissa Radke
Melissa Radke is a best-selling author, speaker, and television personality who has won hearts around the world with her funny and candid insights on life, love, and the complexities of the modern world.
From navigating family dynamics to tackling women's issues with grace (and a little sass), Melissa’s voice is one that resonates with people seeking both truth and humor. Alongside her husband, David Radke, she brings a perfect blend of comedy, wisdom, and heartfelt encouragement to The Radke Show—a platform where real life meets real laughs.
Whether through her books, speaking engagements, or television appearances, Melissa’s mission is simple: to uplift, inspire, and remind people that they’re never alone in their journey. With an open heart and a quick wit, she invites audiences to embrace their imperfections, find joy in the chaos, and, most importantly, laugh along the way.
Chicken Fried Women
Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.
They’re our Chicken-Fried Women—battered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot. Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings us together, and how faith shapes us through it all.
Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who shaped us.
