Strength & Glory
Contributors.
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Laureen
Founder of Strength & Glory and event host.
Laureen is a published author, has a background in Fitness, acting, and entertainment, and has a passion for sharing the gospel.
Her new book: Festival in the Desert shares her personal story of suffering/hardship and how God carried her through that season, refined her, and brought healing. It's interactive style of prompts along with interwoven biblical stories and scriptures will help anyone who is in a season of suffering encounter God and walk out healing with Him.
Previously, she worked in the fitness industry for over 8 years as a Certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor, making the transition from the acting world after feeling called by God to help women become strong and healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
Whether it's through writing, teaching, or training, her heart is to help others become the best and healthiest versions of themselves.
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Tara
Tara Armstrong, founder of She Shifts Culture, is a speaker and life coach that uses practical teachings that implement growth and breakthrough. Her spunky, upbeat, personality paired with her visual aids make her teachings exciting and easy to grasp. Tara is an expert in speaking on topics such as behaviors, identity, purpose, and taking her audience through sessions of inner healing. Tara has the gift of empowering people and putting tools in their hands to achieve their goals.
Tara grew up in Northern California then made her way to Los Angeles where she became a fashion stylist and Designer. She was a stylist for Nicky Hilton and her works have been featured in People magazine, The Tyra Banks show, ABC Family, LA Times, multiple commercials, magazines, documentaries, and charity events. Tara left the fashion industry to pursue her real passion of helping others. Tara founded She Shifts Culture to create space for women to truly be empowered. She holds yearly conferences and monthly meetings bringing in the best experts in different fields to give women a chance to become the best version of themselves.
Tara is able to speak to all multitudes of audiences from different backgrounds, ages, genders, ethnicities, social status, and industries. She loves to travel, meet new people and give back everything she has learned.
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Kyra
Kyra is a multifaceted leader with prolific levels of expertise and anointing. What she leads and puts her heart to, exudes the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The way she loves PĒØPŁËŠ is infectious and lights up any room she is in. Her constant fight for the lives of God’s children and the lost, keenly administers the Gospel to the current condition of an individual’s soul. She has a deep passion to train women in the Word spurring them on to embody what it means to be Warriors With alongside God fearing Ordinary Men.
She is married to Pastor Travis Gold, Senior Pastor of FTPC and they are both passionate about the local church engaging the communities that God has collectively entrusted to their care, working collaboratively with the entire Bride to strengthen the Global Church’s reach in the Great Commission.
They are committed to serving PĒØPŁËŠ for the sake of God’s Name, connecting them to Jesus through His Bride, the Church. They believe that it is by and through the Body of Christ, that the Holy Spirit unites us both to Jesus and to each other as a reconciled PĒØPŁËŠ, restored to Him.
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Brea
Brea Sharron Estep is an Integrative Health Practitioner, Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor, business coach and author of Amazon Bestseller “Holistic Health Clean Eating Cookbook.” With over a decade of experience in the health and fitness industry, she uses her health struggles and education to teach and coach others who feel like they have tried every diet, every workout and/or every doctor, find the underlying root cause to finally get their health and body back holistically.
Brea was born and raised in Greensboro NC where she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with her bachelor’s in business and became the owner of Foundation Fitness studio for 8.5 years. Brea recently moved to Morehead City NC with her husband Tim and two pups, to enjoy living their best life at the beach. She is proud to represent her home state as Mrs. North Carolina United States and now Mrs. United States 2021-2022 where she promotes her platform, her non profit Youth Fitness Link. Which shares her life’s mission statement “build health positive relationships on the inside and out in order to combat adolescent obesity and teach healthy lifestyle changes.”
Www.breasharron.com (free mini ecookbook)
Amazon cookbook:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HF3M2V3
YouTube fitness channel:
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Caren
Caren Elle is a Makeup Artist, Hairstylist, Personal Trainer, Nutritionist, Inner healing prayer minister, Zumba enthusiast and entrepreneur with a business in the works called Eye Am. After nearly 2 decades of health problems mainly surrounding her food allergies and digestion, she’s become passionate about counseling others through their health journey for all facets of their life. Her heart is helping women discover their identity and beauty in Christ, address root issues through SOZO, and optimizing their bodies through the different phases of their monthly cycle.
An overall wellness and vitality enthusiast with a passion for biohacking especially since turning 40, Caren is the queen of tips on a variety of topics from food, fitness, supplements, and recovery. But she’s most excited about sharing her story of how she found her “favorite anti-aging beauty secret” that’s not found in stores!
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Emily
Emily Hayden is the Founder of Evolve X, Podcast Host of The Evolve with Emily Show, a Lifestyle YouTuber Emily Hayden YouTube, IFBB Bikini Pro, 1st Phorm, Alphalete, & Icon Meals Alphalete.
She is one of the strongest women you will ever meet and has developed programs and platforms that help people become the greatest versions of themselves. She currently resides in Houston, Texas with her pups Vinnie and Frankiepassionately pursues all that God has called her to. Follow her here: @emilyhayden.
To check out her content, podcast, coaching program, and youtube visit: https://shopemilyhayden.com
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Dalia
Dalia is a holistic health nutritionist/practitioner. For most of her life she ate whatever she wanted until she turned 30. She began to workout consistently and eat better and healthier so she could keep her metabolism going strong.
Eventually, after continually reading and doing research in regards to health, wellness, and nutrition for her own benefit, she began to teach others about what it means to be a healthy individual. Now, she helps women over 30 boost their metabolism through holistic living and nutrition to create a balanced and sustainable healthy lifestyle.
Follow her: @thedalialoc
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Drea
Drea is a registered nurse & certified personal trainer. Located in Chicago the majority of her life, she recently moved to Tampa, FL. A few of her favorite things are: God, people, life, beaches, traveling/exploring, swimming, weight lifting, laughing and eating.
Drea rode the dieting rollercoaster for far too long. After a lot of trial and error, she finally discovered food freedom & built her dream body.
Her coaching program, Fit and Free with Drea (formerly Dream Body by Drea) was birthed in 2018 from pure passion and desire to empower, educate and encourage women to reclaim their dream bodies and power over food. She became certified as a personal trainer and created her own holistic coaching program for women to shed physical, mental and emotional weight. She’s had the honor of helping so many women find fitness and food freedom and can’t wait to help YOU do the same 🤍
She is passionate about Christian women feeling and looking their absolute best, so they can show up most powerfully and make the most impact for God’s kingdom. She believes Christian’s have a sacred responsibility to take care of their bodies and reclaim their power with their relationship with food. You can be a Christian AND feel and look sexy.
Follow her: @nursedreastella
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Sarah
Sarah is a Board Certified Christian Counselor (BCCC), Certified Christian Co-dependence Specialist (CCS), holds two certifications as a Christian Addictions Counselor (CDAAC), (CDAS), and is a State Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor (CATC). She is also a Class Group Leader at the Balm of Gilead, which is a ministry she serves at and also counsels women through.
God used biblical counseling in Sarah's own life to bring healing, restoration, and a radical transformation, and she credits it as being one of the major vehicles that set her free from so many of lies of this world that she was enslaved in and to for so long. She has a powerful testimony of how Jesus pulled her out of darkness and into His marvelous light, and it is her passion and desire to do the same for every hurting heart that He brings her way.
Follow her: @Sarah.jean.armstrong
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Shane
Born and raised in Southern California, Shane has grown up in the greater Los Angeles area. She loves sushi, Mexican food, beach days, hiking, comedy shows, 90’s R&B and FRIENDS. Her dad was a musician and her mom was in marketing, so it was only natural that she ended up in the creative world too.
After graduating from Westmont College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Spanish, Shane spent a few years living in Santa Barbara and enjoying the small town beach life. In 2014, the Lord called her back to Los Angeles to pursue fashion. After spending her nights and weekends taking classes to learn sewing, pattern-making, design, etc., she launched her online clothing store Let Height Arise.
The name Let Height Arise was born out of the bridge of the worship song Worthy Of It All. It is her ministry to women through fashion; to help tall women feel confident in who they are and what they are clothed in. Standing at 5’10” by age 14, Shane stood a head above the crowd and drew attention from people even though she wasn’t looking for it.
On Strength x Glory, Shane will be sharing about confidence, beauty, self-worth (and even fashion) through Christ. These were all areas that she struggled with that the Lord has healed her from. Now she wants to pass on that wisdom and knowledge to you, sweet sister. And fair warning, her messages are probably going to be delivered with a twist of sarcasm and sass.
Follow her here: @theshanesexton
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