Speaking
Honest story. Deep Scripture. Language women can carry home.
Jodi brings the honesty of the book into the room: lived story, biblical depth, and language women can use to recognize what is happening within them and turn again toward God.
What Jodi Speaks On
Built from the book. Shaped for your room.
Each talk grows from the book and is shaped to your gathering, from a single keynote to a full retreat weekend. Every one of them lands where the book lands: on trusting God and the freedom of becoming who He created.
Name the Swirl
For the room full of women holding everything together. Jodi gives language to the interior chaos she calls the swirl, the second-guessing and pressure a capable woman learns to hide, and shows how God kindly takes it apart. Told through her own story, with Scripture carrying the weight.
Best for: women’s events, retreats
The Ache Is Holy
For the woman who loves God and is unsettled by the quiet longing she cannot seem to resolve. Through the biblical picture of tikvah, hope as a cord or tether, Jodi explores the possibility that the ache is not always evidence that something has gone wrong. Sometimes it is an invitation to follow God toward what we cannot yet see.
Best for: women’s events, retreats, women in transition
The Hands That Made You
The gifts God placed in you are often the ones you dismiss as nothing special. True gifts appear whether or not anyone is watching. This talk brings the book’s discovery questions into the room. Jodi’s own answer led to Northeast Africa. Yours will look like your own life.
Best for: conferences, mission weekends
When Faithfulness Becomes Maintenance
“I was not abiding. I was maintaining.” Most high-capacity leaders have quietly made that trade without noticing, and the distance between the two is the distance between a branch connected to the vine and one propped up to look like it still belongs. Drawn from the book’s teaching on emunah and remaining, this talk names the trade and walks toward the connection that produces fruit.
Best for: leadership teams, ministry staff, staff retreats
What Your Team Can Expect
Prepared, warm, and easy to work with
Jodi is based in Lubbock, Texas, and travels from there. She arrives ready, honors your schedule, and tailors every talk to the people actually in the seats. She is glad to join a planning call in advance and to stay afterward for the conversations that matter most.
A one-page speaking sheet with talk details, bio, and photos is ready for planning teams. The clearest way to hear Jodi before you book her is the Saturday essay. Read a few here.
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