Our Contributors
A. Margot Blair
A. Margot Blair has emerged as a resilient leader after a past marked by adverse childhood experiences and teen incarceration. Now a Bible teacher, leadership consultant, and event curator, she equips Christian entrepreneurs to step into authority, execute signature events, and scale through strategic collaborations. A sought-after speaker, she’s been featured on YouVersion, The 700 Club, Forbes, Fast Company, and more. Most significantly, she is a wife, a bonus mama to two, and an autism mama.
Akinyi Maggie
Akinyi Maggie is a loving wife, devoted mother, motivational speaker, and writer. She has authored numerous articles about powerful women in the Bible to uplift women of faith and is currently working on her first book. She is also a financial consultant and has written articles concerning banking, finance, health, and lifestyle. Maggie is the co-founder of My Baby Is Healthy, which focuses on children's health and products.
Amanda May
Amanda May is a wife, author, podcaster, and founder of Champions of Faith ministry. Her experience as a corporate trainer for Varsity Spirit and the women’s ministry director of her local church reinforces her passion for mentoring and helping others reach their full potential. She and her husband live in Louisiana, raising their small but mighty team of three beautiful children to love Jesus and cheer on the LSU Tigers and New Orleans Saints!
Angela B. Reed
Angela B. Reed is an orator, writer, corporate leader, and business owner, but her most coveted titles are wife and mom! As a “chief connectioneer,” Angela exercises her gift of communication by engineering connections with people through the power of storytelling, seeking common ground, and infusing inspiration with action. A native Georgian, she is a sucker for a welcoming front porch, the sweet smell of honeysuckle in the summer, and charming old buildings that breathe stories between their bricks.
Brittany Ann
Brittany Ann is an ECPA bestselling author and founder of Equipping Godly Women, a popular Christian website dedicated to helping busy Christian moms create a strong faith, a close family, and a life they love. She’s also a Christian speaker, podcaster, and conference host. Her work has been featured on numerous TV, radio, and online ministries, including CBN, MSN, Christianity Today, Evangelical Alliance, Patheos, Crosswalk, and more. She and her husband have four fun-loving kiddos.
Dana Carrington
Dana Carrington loves Jesus and words. As a freelance editor and the content and communications editor for Esther Press, she is overjoyed that her work combines the two. After having lived in the national capital region for fifteen years, she has happily made it back home to Georgia where she enjoys being closer to family. Her husband and four kiddos are her greatest delight.
Debbie Alsdorf
Debbie Alsdorf is an author, speaker, life coach, and literary agent who has been featured in media outlets, including CBN, Focus on the Family, The Today Show, and 100 Huntley Street. When she’s not on the road touring with the Aspire women’s event team or speaking at conferences and retreats, she loves hanging out with her hubby, serving her local community, having dance parties with her ten grandkids, and chasing after her two little dogs.
Jean Thomason
Jean Thomason brings more than forty years of experience as a musical performer, worship leader, songwriter, author, and conference speaker. Jean is best known for her role as Miss PattyCake, a vibrant children’s musical character. In 2024, Jean earned an MA in worship arts and leadership. Jean's published book is Sharing God’s Big Love with Little Lives. She and her husband of nearly forty years live in Franklin, Tennessee, and have two grown children.
Jessica Grace
Jessica Grace is a born-and-raised Kansas City native who loves family, friends, and a great cup of local coffee. She is a mother/daughter relationship coach helping women heal, build, and create lifelong relationships with each other. She has written for multiple magazines, produced a self-published devotional on Amazon, and spoken at local non-profits. In everything, you hear her passion for the power of words.
Joni Rosebrock
Joni is passionate about helping women stay rooted in God’s truth. Through speaking, writing, and coaching, she encourages women to break free from the lies of a self-focused world and to live with joy and freedom from a Jesus-centered heart. Joni’s work includes her book and the weekly podcast, WRAP Yourself in the Word. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, sipping tea, or reading a good book.
Krystal Ribble
Krystal Ribble is an author, producer, and CEO of Told You So Media, where she serves as voice talent and writer across multiple podcasts, including Deposit Your Doubt, which explores questions of faith. A three-time author with an Independent Publisher Association award for Best Gift Book, her writing and voice have been featured on TBN's Better Together. Krystal brings fresh perspectives to timeless biblical narratives while raising five boys with her husband, Jared, in Nashville.
LaTan Roland Murphy
LaTan Roland Murphy is a multiple award-winning author, established speaker, and lover of people and strong coffee. Her books have received the Selah, Director Choice, and 2024 Christian Market Devotional Book of the Year awards. She and her husband, Joe, recently celebrated forty years of marriage but are still growing up together. LaTan feels her greatest influence begins with their three adult children, son-in-love, daughter-in-love, and three grandchildren.
Liz Cobo
Liz Cobo is a Christian apologist, writer, and speaker. Her ministry is focused on helping women learn to properly study Scripture and gracefully defend their Christian faith and biblical worldview. Liz is the host of the unBibled podcast and is working on an MA in Christian apologetics at the Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.
Mandy Johnson
Mandy Johnson is the online studies host for Esther Press. She is passionate about encouraging women in their faith and has written devotions published by Proverbs 31 Ministries, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), and The Truly Co.'s magazine. Mandy lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee, where you’ll find her trying to keep up with her two kids, leading a fitness class at Fit Factory Nashville, or cheering on the Clemson Tigers!
Maribeth Dodd
Maribeth Dodd is a sought-after speaker, executive coach, and business accelerator who believes the marketplace is a powerful place to do ministry. She’s a radio cohost and leads the women’s ministry at Gateway Franklin Church. For over twenty years, she has been leading by investing in people—helping them grow so their businesses and ministries thrive. She and her husband, Chris, live in Tennessee with their four boys, who keep life loud, messy, and full of love.
Monika Kirkland
Monika Kirkland is a Christian writer, host of the Inner Revival podcast, wife, and mother of four who knows what it’s like to walk in the trenches of motherhood, marriage, and ministry. She is passionate about encouraging and equipping women to cultivate intimacy with Christ and experience the transformative power of the gospel from the inside out.