Meet Our 2026 Unstuck Conference Speakers

Our national speakers are coming to inspire and encourage you in the season you are in with an anointing equipped to break chains. You will have the opportunity to select one breakout session throughout the event. Learn more about each speaker below!

Jennifer Maggio 2020 Headshot

Meet Jennifer // keynote session

location:  main sanctuary   //   Breakout: Ministry Leader Workshop, balcony

Jennifer Maggio is an award-winning author and speaker, whose personal journey through homelessness, abuse, and multiple teen pregnancies is leaving audiences around the globe riveted. At 19, Maggio was pregnant for the fourth time, living in government housing on food stamps and welfare. She shares with great openness her pain, mistakes, and journey to find hope in Christ. She ultimately became an 11-time Circle of Excellence winner in Corporate America. While a vocal advocate for abstinence, and sustaining today’s marriages,  Maggio recognizes that single parenthood exists and is passionate about seeing these parents thrive. She left her corporate successes behind to launch a global initiative to see single moms living a life of total freedom from financial failures, parenting woes, and emotional issues.  Her passion is contagious and her story has been used to inspire thousands around the globe. For more info, visit her website at jennifermaggio.com.

Meet Robbie // keynote session

location:  main sanctuary

Dr. Robbie Cade Furdge is a national speaker, restaurateur, life coach, and singer. Being wife to Maurice and mom to Mike are her biggest ministries. A former English teacher, assistant principal, and educational consultant, Robbie carries a hunger for God’s Word to teach the body of Christ effective Kingdom strategies. Robbie has served as life coach to several professional athletes and spiritual mother to a larger number of teens and young adults. She is founder of Sound of Warrior prayer ministry, director of Team Experience, and associate pastor of Word of Faith in Natchez, MS. She carries an assignment from the Lord to preach with fire, boldly declaring God’s Word, compelling the body of Christ to unapologetically and swiftly fulfill their Kingdom assignment.

Meet Christa // keynote session

location:  main sanctuary 

Christa Smith has a passion to see God unleashed across the nations and across generations. Whether through revelatory preaching, prophetic ministry, or evangelistic outreach, she has given her life for the Gospel. Making her home in the San Francisco bay area, Christa is wife and mom first. But her passion for the Lord has likewise led her to experience incredible moves of God throughout the nations. She is always dependent on God’s Presence to show up. She is author and creator of several projects, including Singled Out in a Couples World, Breaking Cycles, and The Art of Getting Unstuck. For more info, visit https://seanandchristasmith.com/.

Meet Jennifer // overcoming heart wounds

location:  Discover room

Jennifer Wendy Brown was born in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands but today makes her home in Chicago. She is a graduate of Chicago State University and is currently pursuing a master’s in Christian Ministry at Regent University. A mother of three and grandmother of two, Jennifer calls these her greatest gifts. Well-acquainted with waiting seasons, Jennifer’s new book, The Grace of Waiting, is slated to be released in late 2026. Jennifer’s Single and Souled Out singles ministry touched lives across the U.S. for several years, before launching a national prayer ministry called, United We Stand: Together We Pray. Her journey through motherhood, singleness, business, ministry, disappointment, and broken-heartedness has spanned decades and will bring a wealth of wisdom and Holy Spirit-led healing to many who are hurting.

Meet Ashton // Renewing the mind

location:  main sanctuary

Ashton Maggio Turcios is writer, speaker, and founder of Prayers & Promises, an online daily prayer ministry. With more than a decade of women’s ministry experience, Ashton’s servanthood has taken her as far as Tanzania. As a licensed master social worker, Ashton counsels hundreds of women each year. She has a particular interest in teaching women strong mental health through God’s Word, including how to renew the mind, tear down strongholds, receive complete freedom in Christ, and biblical ways to promote mental well-being. As a wife, mother, and former single mom, Ashton is dedicated to empowering women and creating positive change in families and communities.

Meet Holly // Spiritual warfare strategies

location:  upstairs youth room

Holly Wright is an ordained minister, speaker, and founder of For The Brokenhearted, a Christ-centered ministry rooted in Isaiah 61:1. For more than a decade, Holly has dedicated her life to teaching, writing, and ministering freedom through biblical counseling, inner healing, and deliverance. Based in Houston, Texas, her ministry has reached internationally into some of the darkest places. Holly also hosts Underbelly,  a bold podcast that shines light on the reality of spiritual warfare and the demonic. Holly's latest initiative, Operation 16:17, is a six-week, mission-style boot camp designed to train and equip Believers to operate in deliverance ministry. She is married to the love of her life, and they share two children. 

Meet Kristy // Redefining "I Can"

location:  cafe // for single moms only

Kristy Angelee is an inspirational speaker, author, businesswoman, and personal chef who daily balances career, ministry, and family in Austin, TX. She has a passion for empowering single moms to overcome obstacles through a life in Christ. Her personal testimony only brings God glory, as she truly lives out Jeremiah 29:11. Whether through her writing, speaking, or business, she delivers transformational messages through the power of the Holy Spirit.  She has used her pain for God’s glory and has a passion to inspire women, single moms, and all who would hear of God’s goodness and restoration.  

ministry leader workshop // Leading others well

with jennifer maggio & Robbie Furdge

location:  Balcony

Jennifer Maggio is the founder of Unstuck Ministries, formerly The Life of a Single Mom®, which has launched, improved, and grown thousands of single moms’ Bible studies, ministries, and support groups in churches with one goal – to see that no single mom walks alone. We are the largest provider in the U.S. for Christian curriculum, training, and best practices for ministry to single mothers and their children. We offer both online and print curriculum, phone consultations, ministry kits, events, and much more.  With over 1 million single mothers served, let us help you as you serve single mothers. In this workshop, our ministry experts, Jennifer Maggio and Robbie Furdge, will host a Q&A to answer all of your ministry questions.