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Claim Your Voice: A Christian Women's Conference

January 25, 2025

For generations, women’s voices have been silenced, their stories overlooked, and their identities shaped by others. At Claim Your Voice, we believe it’s time for that to change. This isn’t just about speaking out—it’s about owning your voice, embracing your unique identity, and stepping into the strength God has placed inside you.

Relive the inspiring moments from last year’s event! Explore our gallery below to see powerful images of women embracing their voices and stories.

Claim Your Voice 2024 Gallery

Why This Conference?

In a world divided by fear and doubt, it’s more important than ever for women to speak with clarity, authenticity, and courage. Claim Your Voice is a call to action—a call to women to step into their divine purpose and speak with the authority God has given them. It’s about breaking free from limiting definitions of what it means to be a woman. Whether you’re navigating life as a young woman, a woman without children, a mother, or a seasoned leader, there’s a unique message only you can deliver—and the world needs to hear it.

Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Time: 8:30 am – 4:00pm
Location: Fellowship Hall – Floris UMC, 13600 Frying Pan Road, Herndon, VA US 20171,
Contact: Megan Dietrick | mdietrick@florisumc.org

Cost: 
– Early Bird Pricing: $40 – ends January 18th
– Regular Pricing: $50
– Volunteer Pricing: 50% off
*Scholarships available for students and anyone with financial need.
Childcare: Register here!

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What You'll Learn

  • Claiming Your Voice at Every Stage of Life: Just as a lioness matures into her role as protector, leader, and nurturer, your voice evolves too. Learn how to embrace every season of your life with confidence and power.
  • Identity in Christ: Understand who you are in God’s eyes, and how to embrace the full force of your femininity, your strength, and your courage.
  • Breaking Through Implicit Bias: Recognize the forces that have silenced us, and rise above them, knowing you are called to speak with the boldness and authority.
  • Speaking Your Truth: Learn how to speak your truth—whether it’s in your relationships, your work, or your community—with the strength and authenticity of a woman who knows her worth.
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Inspiring Stories,
Powerful Voices

You’ll hear from women who have stepped into their calling, unapologetically owning their space in a world that tried to diminish them. These women are lionesses—fierce, bold, nurturing, and strong. Women who embody the truth that you can be both powerful and feminine, soft and strong, kind and firm.

Claim Your Voice Speakers

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Megan Dietrick

Director of Modern Worship & Ministry Innovations
Megan Rae Coaching

The creator of Claim It women’s ministry. She serves as the Director of Modern Worship and Ministry Innovations at Floris UMC and has developed a variety of ministry initiatives, including: Spiritual Recovery Cafe, YABS Young Adult Bible Study, Story Church, Open Mic Night, and Neighborhood Pop-Up Concerts. She is a certified coach who is passionate about helping people find peace and belonging after experiencing church hurt. Now Megan is pursuing a Master’s of Divinity at Wesley Seminary in order to help others re-claim their spirituality from religious leaders who have used the Bible’s messaging for power and abuse. She is a certified candidate pursuing ordination within the UMC, and she hopes to create space in the church for women who do not fit the nuclear family model.  Megan was born and raised in Appalachia, and she now lives in Herndon with a very mixed-up modern family and a house full of pets.

Rev. Lauren Todd

Associate Pastor

An associate pastor at Floris UMC where she works with worship, diversity ministries, pastoral care, and young families. Across her work, she enjoys hearing the diverse experiences of faith and God that people bring into community. She received her Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School and her Bachelor of Arts from Bucknell University, where she met her husband, Eric, with whom she has one son.

T-Kea Blackman

MSP, CPRS, RPS
Mental Health Empowerment Agency

A passionate advocate and leader in mental health, recognized for her work as a transformational speaker, mental wellness training consultant, author, and health communications expert. As a certified peer recovery specialist and registered peer supervisor, she draws on her lived experience as a suicide attempt survivor to create impactful, healing spaces for others. T-Kea is the founder of the Mental Health Empowerment Agency, where she integrates over a decade of expertise in strategic communications, training, workshops, and program management consulting with an unwavering passion for advancing organizational and community wellness. She also serves as the executive director and co-founder of Black People Die By Suicide Too, leading strategic planning, fundraising, and stakeholder relations to drive the organization’s mission. Additionally, T-Kea co-hosts the BPDBST podcast, amplifying vital conversations around mental health in the Black community.

Claim Your Voice Panelists

Barbara Collura

President/CEO of RESOLVE

CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, she has led the organization since 2007. Barbara is a nationally recognized expert on infertility and the family building journey, with a special emphasis on advocacy, public policy, and access to care. Along with being a frequent guest speaker at medical conferences, Barbara has been a guest on CNN, TODAY Show, MSNBC, Fox & Friends, and Nightline. In 2014, Barbara received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Barbara was named by PR Week to the Health Influencer 30: Class of 2024. Barbara is passionate about RESOLVE’s mission as the organization was a source of support and information during her own battle with infertility.

Kaitlyn Kellermeyer

MSW

A music, nature, and book lover, she moved to Northern Virginia in 2017 and has been involved with Floris/Restoration since 2018. She has been working with the Claim It team since 2020 and is excited to share her voice in hopes it will encourage others to lean into their own authenticity. She works as a mental health therapist and volunteers with The BreadBreakers community dinner project to reduce division in the US.

Libby Guanlao

Owner of Provide Strong, LLC
Provide Strong

She works with women who want to reclaim their time energy, confidence, or goals at home or at the office. Libby is a full-time, working mom and secondary infertility survivor with the professional experience necessary in coaching, advising, managing, facilitating, and training to help women define success by their own reasonable standards, use time with intention, and align their actions with what they really want. When she is not with her husband, son, or dogs, you can find her at the barn with other horse enthusiasts, singing and enjoying music, or connecting with friends.

Kelly Johnson

MSW, PCC
Kelly’s Coaching

A counselor, speaker, author and leadership coach, Kelly is passionate about helping people build lives of deeper courage, curiosity, compassion and connection through inspirational teaching and powerful one-on-one and group coaching. After years in the mental health and addictions field, she made the switch to coaching in 2016. Her training includes a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Social Work (MSW,) and certification by the International Coaches Federation (ICF) at the PCC level.
Kelly coaches individuals who are spiritually minded and intellectually curious. She uses a variety of tools to integrate head, heart and body wisdom, believing that her clients are naturally creative, resourceful and whole. In addition to her training in emotional wellness, her favorite tools include the enneagram and neuroscience. She is an accredited Enneagram Coach, trained and certified by Integrative Enneagram Solutions, and often uses the Enneagram framework with individual clients and in her work training and coaching corporate and non-profit teams.
In addition to her coaching work, Kelly is passionate about social justice issues and believes Jesus calls us to advocate for a better world. She believes gun violence is a justice issue and serves in leadership for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the largest grassroots advocacy organization in the country. Kelly talks about her spiritual journey, including her activism, in her devotional book Being Brave: A 40-Day Journey to the Life God Dreams for You, published by Abingdon Press in December 2017.

Inspiring Stories,
Powerful Voices

You’ll hear from women who have stepped into their calling, unapologetically owning their space in a world that tried to diminish them. These women are lionesses—fierce, bold, nurturing, and strong. Women who embody the truth that you can be both powerful and feminine, soft and strong, kind and firm.

Claim Your Voice Speakers

Megan Rae Dietrick
T-Kea Blackman
Lauren Todd

Claim Your Voice Panelists

Barb L. Collura
Kaitlyn Kellermeyer
Libby Guanlao
Kelly Johnson

Breaking the Mold

It’s time to shatter the mold of what it means to be a woman, and to claim your authentic identity in Christ.

  • Be the stay-at-home mom who has a voice that shakes the room.
  • Be the working mom who balances career and family while staying true to herself.
  • Be the woman who’s child-free and unapologetically living her calling.
  • Be the lesbian in the church, standing firm in her faith and identity.
  • Be the “trad wife” or the breadwinner—because your relationship is yours to define.
  • Be obsessed with trains, sci-fi, or gaming.
  • Be the athlete, the girly-girl, or the girl who loves power tools.
  • Be the empty nester turned political activist who fights for justice with compassion and conviction.

Are You Ready to Claim Your Voice?

What do you have to say to the world? Who needs to hear your truth? What message are you holding back that only you can deliver? Your voice has power—and the world needs it.

Join us. Claim your voice. Let it roar. The world is waiting for you.

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Schedule

8:30 – 9:00 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:55 – Lessons from Lions –
Megan Dietrick
9:55-10:20 Break
10:20-11:15 Let’s Get Biblical –
Lauren Todd
11:15 – 11:45 Breakout Sessions
11:45 – 12:45 Lunch/Break
12:45 – 1:30 Let it Roar –
T-Kea Blackman
1:30  – 1:45 Break
1:45 – 2:15 Breakout Sessions
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.  – Lionesses Among Us – Panel
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Closing

Contact Megan Dietrick (mdietrick@florisumc.org) for more information.

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