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What is She Heels Her, She Heels the World?

Ladies, have you ever gone somewhere, met another woman, and before your exchange with her ends, she has somehow changed your life? Now imagine that happening, except in a room full of those life changing women! The She Heels Her, She Heels the World women's conference is an annual gathering of women who recognize the importance of healing, community and creating personal safe spaces. Over a 3-day span, my goal is to enrich every participant with a sense of comfort and stability as they walk their personal journey of healing. 

  

This year's theme is Behind The Mask! On October 24-26, 2024, we will be pouring into our participants the courage, strength, and vulnerability they need to close the door to all things that no longer serve them. It is time to take a look, Behind The Mask. Register now and take a peek from behind your mask with us this Fall!

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Why Should You Attend?

Growth and Opportunity

Growth and Opportunity

Growth and Opportunity

Meet and hear from purposeful speakers who have a special interest in your personal growth! Through sharing and teaching, all activities and discussions will create actionable progress on your healing journey. 


How you arrive will be elevated by the time you depart!

Mixing & Mingling

Growth and Opportunity

Growth and Opportunity

Be in the presence of like-minded women who support each other in healing! There will be multiple opportunities to learn more about your sisters in healing, as you learn more about yourself in healing! 


Come meet your sister circle in person and on purpose!

Registration

Growth and Opportunity

Registration

Registration is OPEN!


Your conference registration include, three days of an all-star speaker line-up, all meals, all conference activity materials and conference welcome bag! 


A la carte options are available. Registration starts at only $65!

Register Today!

Your 2025 Conference Speakers & Presenters

Crystal Samonica

 

Crystal Samonica is a Self-Discovery Coach, speaker, and spiritual guide committed to helping women heal, align, and rise in their God-given identity. With a voice that blends truth, testimony, and sisterhood, Crystal empowers women to navigate emotional healing, deepen their faith, and live with intention.


A proud mother, passionate storyteller, and first-generation college graduate, Crystal draws from her own journey of resilience—interweaving motherhood, womanhood, and God’s grace. Whether she’s teaching breathwork through yoga, leading a room in soulful reflection, or unpacking the power of boundaries and belief, Crystal creates spaces where women feel seen, safe, and spiritually recharged.

Through her online courses, workshops, and upcoming memoir, Crystal continues to lead women home to themselves—healed, whole, and walking boldly in who God called them to be.

 

Learn More About Crystal Samonica

Richara Warren

 

Richara Warren is a powerhouse leadership confidence coach, business strategy consultant, and mentor, with a fierce dedication to empowering women to lead with unshakeable confidence in industries where diversity is a challenge. With over 20 years of corporate leadership experience, she began her career in a male-dominated field, making her mark across finance, sales, marketing, and merchandising. Now, she channels that energy into empowering women to navigate, thrive, and lead with confidence.


Recognized as the secret weapon behind some of the most dynamic women in corporate and entrepreneurship, Richara is on a mission to break barriers that hinder women from realizing their true potential. After navigating her own journey of shattering the proverbial glass ceiling, she learned early on that having a seat at the table—or even creating your own—isn't enough. It requires Confidence, Clarity, and Aligned Strategies to truly make waves.


As the driving force behind Richara Warren & Company, she specializes in leadership coaching, strategic planning, and the soft skills that help women stand out and drive impact in any room they enter. Simultaneously, she pours her passion into empowering women entrepreneurs with strategies to grow, scale, and optimize their service-based businesses. Her upcoming release of personal development products, including journals and planners, is designed to help women reach their goals.


Richara is also working toward her certification as a Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker, Coach, and Trainer, a testament to her unwavering commitment to leadership excellence. This additional credential will allow her to deliver transformative training and speaking engagements that equip women with the confidence and skills to excel in their leadership journeys.

But Richara's not just about business. Beyond her professional journey, she’s a proud wife and mother who draws on her personal experiences to fuel her passion for helping women redefine their own rules of success.

Learn More About Richara Warren

Dr. Stacy Shepard

 Dr. Shepard is a dedicated educator, leader, and empowerment advocate hailing from Goldsboro, NC. She is a proud graduate of North Carolina Central University, where she earned her BA in English. Dr. Shepard began her teaching career in 2007 as a Language Arts teacher in Wayne County schools, and later served as a district coach, supporting beginning teachers throughout their first three years. In 2014, she earned her PhD in Educational Leadership and Administration from Capella University. Dr. Shepard’s career in education spans various roles, including academic facilitator, testing coordinator, and dean of students with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. In 2019, she joined KIPP North Carolina as an assistant principal and currently serves as the principal. Her leadership philosophy emphasizes building strong partnerships with families to ensure that scholars are college and career ready, equipped to lead choice-filled lives. Beyond her work in education,


Dr. Shepard is the CEO of AriseNOW, an Empowerment and Transformation Hub designed to inspire and uplift women. Through AriseNOW, she motivates women to embrace their potential, celebrate resilience, and foster positive change. Dr. Shepard is also a published author of Finding Beauty in Shattered Glass, a certified life coach, a public speaker, the podcast host of, A Note from the Principal’s Desk streaming on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, IHeart Radio and Amazon Music, and breast cancer survivor. Her passion for empowering young adults and women shines through both her educational work and her outreach through AriseNOW, where she helps others reach their fullest potential by sharing their stories and embracing the power within themselves. Dr. Shepard is committed to creating impactful partnerships with the community and helping everyone she serves to lead lives filled with purpose and fulfillment 

Learn More About Dr. Shepard

Santeresa Wilson

 

Santéresa Wilson, a NJ native, and CEO of Inspired By U LLC, and President of, Inspiring You Corp empowers people to become better versions of themselves wholly. With speaking engagements across the US and abroad (Canada and UK), she spreads a message of hope and survival through faith, the ARTs, and more.


Santeresa was spiritually raised at Asbury Park Deliverance Evangelistic Center, under the leadership of the late Apostle Herbert Sneed. She was baptized and received the Christ as her Lord and Savior at the age of 9. There was active and faithfully served on such ministries as the choir, praise team, usher, and outreach. She also served as a Sunday School Teacher, Bible Study Chaplain, and Altar/New Convert Worker.

In 2007, Santeresa felt the Lord calling her to go deeper in him which led her to Pentecostal Church of Christ, now Harvest International Pentecostal Church of Christ. She refers to this period of time in her life as her Abrahamic experience, where she would leave her family and go to an unknown place to prepare her for God’s promises for her life. This is the place where she would give God another Yes and be rebaptized. During this transition, she faithfully served under the leadership of the late Bishop Reginald Burl and then Apostle Alvin Bynum. She served faithfully as a worship leader and civic outreach leader, while she obtained her certification as a Trauma Recovery Coach as well as her BA in Divinity.

In April 2023, it was time for the promises of the Lord to come full circle in Santeresa’s life. With the blessing of Apostle Bynum, Santeresa went under the watch care of her spiritual parents Overseer Jussttinn and Pastor Cora Coleman in October 2023. She officially joined New Life Deliverance Worship Church, now Deliverance Prayer Revival Tabernacle in January 2024.


Currently, Santeresa serves as an intercessor on the Intercessory Team. an Armourbearer to the Assistant Pastor, and as the Director of Community and Outreach Department. She is also a Licensed Chaplain and currently a Minister in Training.


In the marketplace, Santeresa and her two organizations focus on providing adults with therapeutic services, which includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for adults, utilizing the ARTS. Domestic and Sexual assault support, Community Based Violence Intervention Programming, and more. She believes that helping adults to heal will bring a holistic effect producing healthy families. Her journey had led for her to provide services to the various cities such as Roselle, East Orange, and Newark. She also provides monthly therapeutic sessions to the staff of University Hospital and other corporate / educational organizations.

As an Author, this former teen mother’s survival of divorce, domestic violence/sexual assault, homelessness, and more, led her to write her debut manual of emotional freedom, “Releasing My Secret: A 30-Day 


Devotional to Support Your Healing Process."

Santéresa’s goal in life is to remind people that “healing doesn’t mean that the trauma never existed, it means that it no longer controls their life”!

Learn More about Santeresa Wilson

Vera Lotus Onatah

 Vera Lotus Onatah (also known as Lotus DeVille)

Spiritual Storyteller | Sound Oracle | Ancestral Alchemist


Vera Lotus Onatah is not just a speaker—she is an experience. A lyrical force, sacred voice, and Siouan-rooted soundweaver, she moves through this world as both witness and channel. Her presence blends soul truth, poetic rhythm, and embodied feminine power into every word she speaks.

Following her unforgettable 2024 debut as The Lotus Mother in the chapter “Closing Doors All of 2024,” she returns to the She Heels Her stage in 2025 in her next form—fully bloomed, unapologetically ascended, and devoted to telling the truth of the feminine in all her voices.

As the founder of Sacral Haus, Lotus bridges ancestral wisdom with modern storytelling through affirmation-based scrolls, voiceover ritual, and sacred performance. She is currently birthing The Recipe, a multidimensional body of work that includes her upcoming book, spoken word album, and visual diary series. Her work isn’t about performance.

It’s about embodiment.

It’s not motivational. It’s medicinal.

And when she speaks—women remember themselves.

Learn More about Vera Lotus Onatah

Jacqriot

JacqRiot is a genre-defying recording artist, empowerment coach, and visionary entrepreneur who uses every chapter of her life to awaken purpose in others. As a Black solo mother, survivor, and creative force, she brings raw honesty, resilience, and transformation to the stage. With a career that’s spanned collaborations with world-renowned artists like KoRn, songwriter credits with Chrysalis Music Group, and a recent rise as an independent artist signed to SME Live Nation and Audiosocket, 


JacqRiot is proof that reinvention is power.

At the heart of her work is a passion for helping others believe in themselves so deeply that they begin to awaken the truth of who they are. She teaches that the power to transform your life has always been within you—not outside, not in someone else’s approval, but already inside you, waiting to be activated. Her message is about radical self-trust, inner freedom, and the courage to live in alignment with your highest truth.

Through music, coaching, and her work with youth and women, JacqRiot helps people break free from limiting beliefs, reclaim their voice, and build lives rooted in self-worth, joy, and personal power. Her mission is to ignite the spark within others—to help them remember what they were always capable of.


Through music, coaching, and her work with youth and women, JacqRiot helps people break free from limiting beliefs, reclaim their voice, and build lives rooted in self-worth, joy, and personal power. Her mission is to ignite the spark within others—to help them remember what they were always capable of. Because when people realize what they’re truly made of, they don’t just survive—they rise. They lead. They love louder. And they start living the most unapologetically powerful, purpose-driven, and soul-satisfying lives imaginable.

Learn More about JacqRiot

Corine McGlown

 Corine is the Founder and Chief Wellness Advocate of CALMFIRMATIONS, a positivity platform for emotional wellness. She is dedicated to helping women find, speak, and maintain calm in their everyday lives through affirmation coloring journals, mindful coloring workshops and other self-help tools.


A Michigan State University graduate with a career in accounting and finance, Corine is a wife and mom of two. Inspired by her lifelong personal journey with anxiety, she creates mindfulness tools to support emotional well-being and is passionate about helping others find peace, reconnect with themselves, and feel supported — one calm moment at a time.


She voices positive affirmation videos and creates calming resources to help bring peace and balance to life’s daily chaos. She has designed and self-published seven CALMFIRMATIONS tracing and coloring journals to date, specific to the emotional needs of motherhood, college students, and anyone in need of a confidence boost.

As a speaker, Corine brings warmth, relatability, and real-life tools that resonate. Her mindful coloring workshops blend creativity with calm, giving her audience a hands-on way to reduce stress, process emotions, and leave feeling lighter, grounded, and empowered.


Through her social media posts, online videos, speaking engagements, and coloring workshops, she pours her energy into encouraging everyone to calmly affirm themselves with LOVE!

Learn More about Corine McGlown

Tanisha Tate, M.S.

 Tanisha Tate is  the founder of The Phenomenon Collective, a dynamic umbrella brand designed to educate, empower, and elevate Black women through emotional intelligence, confidence training, and leadership development.

With a background in psychology and criminal justice, I’ve created multiple platforms including BWP Consulting & Co, The Black Woman Phenomenon, and Planted in Purposese,Power & Prosperity, that center emotional awareness and authenticity in both personal and professional growth.

Her mission is simple but powerful: to help Black women own their stories, lead with confidence, and cultivate community while making impact. Whether I’m on stage speaking, leading a workshop, or creating safe spaces for transformation , she moves with grace, purpose, and power. 

Learn More about Tanisha Tate, M.S.

Regina Sunshine Robinson

Regina Sunshine Robinson is an Empowerment Specialist and the CEO of Regina  Sunshine Global Network. She is the author of two books, 3-Time Chicken Soup  for the Soul Author, Acclaimed Motivational Speaker, Award-Winning Talk Show  Host, National Workshop Presenter, Professional Business Coach, Certified  Educator, and Accomplished Publisher. Regina hosts the Finding My Way Back with  Regina Sunshine Podcast and The Regina Sunshine Show on the RSGN Channel on  Status Network.  Regina has been the recipient of many awards. In 2018 and 2019, Regina was  presented with resolutions from the Georgia House of Representatives, and in  2019 & 2020, she was recognized from the House floor for work in youth  empowerment and media. In 2019, she received the Distinguished Georgia Citizen  Award from the Secretary of State's Office and was inducted into Who’s Who in Black Atlanta.  


Regina’s motto is "It’s not over til I win,” and she wins when she sees others  WINNING! 

Learn More about Regina Sunshine Robinson

Meet Your Conference Host

Kanya Ford, MS

Meet Kanya Ford, best known as Coach Kay, your 360-lifestyle coach! 


Coach Kay is a wife, mother and serial entrepreneur who has a huge passion for seeing her clients succeed in life, love, and business. She has worked in the cooperate space for several years and during this time, acquired a number of valuable business skills and knowledge. As her career advanced, she was motivated to pursue more! This “more” came in the form of a BS in business, a MS in business management (HR concentration), certifications in clinical sexology, women’s entrepreneurship and doulaship; all of which have aided her on her entrepreneurial journey. While she appreciates and values the degrees and certifications, she recognizes that it is the lessons of life that has been most valuable while serving her clients. Coach Kay understands the necessity and connection of each of her educational choices when it comes to having a successful, productive, and healthy life and business. So, are you ready to create the lifestyle that you crave? Contact Coach Kay to get started! 

Learn more about Coach Kay!

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