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Women Worth Following | April 2020
Women Worth Following
As a business coach, writer, and speaker, I believe in championing women and celebrating each other’s success. I’m proud to announce a new project with you: Women Worth Following – Women Under 40 You’ll Want to Get to Know!
Every month, I’ll highlight ten women under 40 who make the world a better place by leading and loving well. Go follow and support them, they’re doing awesome things!
Meri Barnes
Meri founded The Shop Forward in 2014 with the simple idea of creating a platform to fundraise for important causes through apparel and accessories sales. Working with different charities has always been a huge part of Meri’s life, and after working for Marc Jacobs in New York City she decided to switch courses a little and combine her love of fashion and philanthropy. Since its inception, The Shop Forward has raised more than $3 million for various charities by selling items associated with a cause, including their popular 4 Things® tote bags. Every product sold on The Shop Forward supports programs and organizations that are effectively working to help others around the world.
Samantha Benko
Samantha is a military wife and a virtual health and wellness coach who lives in Clovis, NM. She finds passion in helping women to feel comfortable in their own skin and to create a life they love. She is also the owner of a handmade sewing business, Headbands by Sammy + Alex. After becoming obsessed with wearing headbands herself, Samantha started offering them as welcome gifts to her coaching clients. She and her husband are in the process of adopting siblings from Liberia in west Africa. Their journey to become parents is a sweet and adventurous ride, which she shares through her blog.
Liz Forkin Bohannon
Liz is the author of Beginner’s Pluck and founder of Sseko Designs, an ethical fashion brand that works to educate and empower women. By providing employment and educational opportunities, Sseko enables women to continue their education and become leaders in their country. Using her unlikely story of a journalist-gone-shoe-maker, Liz shares her passion for social enterprise, conscious consumerism, social justice, creative leadership, gender equity, risk-taking, and empowering women. She believes deeply that business is a powerful platform for social change and that girls are our future. She splits her time between Uganda and Portland, Oregon, where she and her husband, Ben, run Sseko Designs.
Jess Connolly
Jess is a woman who wants to leave her generation more in awe of God than she found it. She is a writer, speaker, coach, and church planter. Her most recent book, Take It Too Far, includes 100 devotions on topics such as peace, rest, purpose, hope, wonder, discipline, and courage. She has been part of starting various ministries and businesses, including She Reads Truth, All Good Things Collective, and Go + Tell Gals. Jess and her husband Nick live in Charleston, South Carolina where they’ve planted Bright City Church. They have four wild and hilarious kids and an unruly dog.
Rachel Kang
Rachel is a writer, editor, and the creaor of Indelible Ink Writers, an online writing community inviting every woman to write for the sake of her soul. She is also an amazing intern on the Alli Worthington Media team. Rachel’s writing has been featured on {in}courage, Fashion & Compassion, Charlotte Magazine, My Influence Circle, and Christianity Today. When she is not hiding behind the pages of poetry and paperback, you can find her cupping porcelain filled with tea and writing words that whisper into the thin tension held between faith and life. She and her family live in North Carolina, a blink away from The Queen City.
Aliza Latta
Aliza is a Canadian writer, journalist, and artist, who is a huge fan of telling stories. She writes mostly about faith and grief on her blog and is the author of the YA novel Come Find Me, Sage Parker. She’s probably having a dance party with her niece and nephew right now.
Jennifer Magnano
Jennifer, aka The Barefoot Preacher, is a postpartum and mental health advocate. She met her husband in 2006, and a well of life sprung forth: two precious kids from two complicated pregnancies. And while other things sprung forth too – an early and critically ill baby, postpartum depression and anxiety, a special needs parenting adventure, chronic disease, a mosquito-borne virus and cancer – so much good has come from it all. From the depths of wildness, Jennifer is on a mission in life to love women well. Today, she speaks life into families (wild rides) and faith journeys through musings, meditations, blog posts, desert meetups, and doula support. She is the co-founder of a community initiative called Moms for Mental Health in Gilbert, Arizona.
Sarah Martin
Sarah is a wife, mom, mentor, author, speaker, and wanna-be artist. Her life mission is to grab women by the hand and encourage them toward a vibrant life in the presence of Jesus. Sarah is the author of two books, Stress Point: Thriving Through Your Twenties In A Decade of Drama and Just RISE UP!: A Call To Make Jesus Famous. Lately, she has worked with excitement and diligence to launch The Vibrant Life Academy offering an invitation for women to develop holy heart habits that create space for God to move in them and through them.
Dianne Michelle
Dianne is a worship leader, recording artist, voice coach, and songwriter from Phoenix, AZ. Her joy is writing songs, serving the Church, and spending time with her family. She loves creating an environment to worship that clears barriers between people and Jesus. She is married to Cory and is mom to a one-year-old daughter.
Nicole Zasowski
Nicole is a licensed marriage and family therapist and author of From Lost to Found: Giving Up What You Think You Want for What Will Set You Free. As an old soul who wears her heart proudly on her sleeve, she enjoys writing and speaking on topics that merge her professional knowledge and personal experience. In addition to her private practice, Nicole works as a counselor at the Hideaway Experience – a marriage intensive experience. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young boys.
