Pastor and Faith Leader Alyssa Worrell Is Bringing Her Message of Courage, Resilience, and Rising to the Radical Women's Conference in Atlanta

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Alyssa Worrell is getting ready to take one of the biggest stages in the country. But she is already thinking about her.

Alyssa Worrell, the pastor, speaker, and community builder who has stood before thousands of women across the country, will take the stage at the Radical Women's Conference in Atlanta on March 19 and 20, and every word she will speak, every moment she has crafted, every prayer she has prayed over that message has been prepared for one person.

Not the audience. One woman. The one who will sit down in that room and feel, for the first time in a long time, like someone is speaking directly to her.

The one who circled the date on her calendar months ago. Who told her girlfriends she was going. Who packed her bag with intention, made her travel arrangements, and showed up ready to receive something she could feel was coming even before she knew what it was.

Alyssa knows her. Not by name. But by spirit. By the particular energy a woman carries when she is open, expectant, and ready for what God has next.

"I want her and every woman in that room to feel like God is about to meet us all in this moment," Alyssa explains. "I want them to feel like we are getting ready to have an intimate, sister-to-sister conversation. Whatever it took for them to get there, I want them to know it was worth it."

The theme of the Radical Women's Conference this year is Radical Awakening: From the Ashes. It is not a coincidence that Alyssa is on that stage. It is an assignment. And she has been preparing for it not in the weeks since she received the invitation, but over the full arc of her life.

AN UNEXPECTED EDUCATION AT HAMPTON UNIVERSITY

Alyssa Worrell was sixteen years old when she arrived at Hampton University.

Sixteen. On a campus of thousands. Surrounded by young men and women from every city, every background, and every story imaginable. She was not just the youngest student in most rooms. She was a teenager stepping into a world that had not slowed down to wait for her, and she had to figure out how to meet it.

That alone would have stopped most people. But Alyssa was not most people. She had arrived early because she was ready early. And Hampton, one of the most storied HBCUs in the country, had exactly what she needed even before she knew what to ask for.

"I had to learn how to be on my own and how to create community for myself," she says. "It helped me build confidence. It helped me learn from my mistakes. And it gave me an empathetic heart, because there were people from all walks of life. Their stories were all around me."

She was also studying to be a nurse.

Consider what that means. A sixteen-year-old girl, already figuring out how to build her own world from scratch, choosing a profession that requires her to walk into a room and immediately assess what a person is carrying. Not just what they present on the surface, but what is happening underneath. The fear they are not naming. The pain they are minimizing. The strength they are performing while something else entirely is going on inside.

A Bachelor of Science in Nursing does not just train the hands. It trains the eyes. It trains the instincts. It teaches a person to listen for what is not being said, to read a human being in minutes, and to respond with both precision and care.

"I was trained to see the person for what was going on with them and in them," she says.

Think about what that means in a room full of women who came to be seen. Alyssa does not wait for a woman to announce her pain. She does not need the full story before she knows where the wound is. The same instincts that trained her to walk into a hospital room and read what a patient could not articulate, she brings into every stage and every community she fosters. She sees the woman who is smiling and holding it together. She sees the one who came alone and is hoping nobody notices. She sees the one in the back row who almost did not come and has not yet decided if she is staying.

A nurse does not wait to be asked. She assesses. She responds. She meets the person where they are, not where it would be easier for them to be.

That is exactly what Alyssa Worrell does from the stage.

She did not know it then. But everything Hampton was building in her, the confidence, the empathy, the clinical instinct to see past the surface, was preparation for something far beyond any hospital room. A young woman learning to create community for herself, studying how to read people at their most vulnerable, surrounded by thousands of stories asking to be understood.

Hampton did not just educate Alyssa Worrell. It showed her exactly who she was being made to serve.

THE COMMUNITIES SHE BUILT

Alyssa Worrell built three communities because she understood, from nursing and from life, that every woman is in a different season and every woman needs a place where she is fully seen, fully supported, and never has to explain herself.

Thee Parenting Boot Camp became the home for parents navigating the real and sometimes messy work of raising children, built on grace rather than guilt. Mothering With Intention, which she co-founded alongside her sister, was built for the mother who wanted to raise children who were not just successful but grounded, faith-filled, and ready to show up for the world with both character and conviction.

And then there is Calling All Wives, Ph.D.

A community unlike anything else in the faith space. A place where the woman who is happily married and building something intentional with her partner belongs just as much as the woman who is navigating difficulty, questioning what she was told about love and commitment, or finding her footing after loss. Every season of marriage has a seat at this table. Every woman is met where she is, without pretense or performance, and without having to be further along than she actually is.

One woman came to Calling All Wives, Ph.D. having survived two abusive marriages. She arrived carrying what those seasons had written into her: that she was not valuable, that she did not deserve more. The community walked with her through the daily work of unlearning all of it.

Then came the day she received her divorce papers.

"We had a team that came over," Alyssa says. "The community being with her on that day was a big deal. Really changing the mindset of that moment, celebrating what was coming next, was life changing."

They did not treat that day as a defeat. They treated it as a beginning.

Years later, that woman is on the other side. She has found love. She calls herself worthy.

"Seeing her on the other side of that has been amazing," Alyssa says. "Community contributes to that."

RADICAL AWAKENING: RISING FROM THE ASHES 2026

The conference theme did not find Alyssa Worrell by coincidence.

She watched her mother fight breast cancer, not once but twice. She and her siblings stood in that season together, watching the matriarch of their family choose faith over fear without a roadmap. That season reshaped how Alyssa understood healing: not as the removal of suffering, but as something God does inside it.

Thirty-six months later, her father died suddenly from a heart attack. No warning. No preparation. Just a loss that arrived without permission and asked her family to keep standing anyway.

And then life asked her to apply everything she had learned about grief, about faith, about what people need when the bottom falls out, to herself.

There was a season when the ground beneath her shifted in ways she had not anticipated. The life she had built was tested in deeply personal ways that required something from her that went beyond what she had ever been asked to give. She could not control the narrative. She could not rush the process. What she could do was choose, every single day, to remember who she was.

The turning point was never the testing. It was the remembering.

She rebuilt, not back to what she was, but forward into something more anchored, more deliberate, and more true. The woman taking that stage in Atlanta is not standing there despite what she has been through. She is standing there because of it.

A GOOD COURAGE

There is a scripture Alyssa carries into every season, and it is the one she is carrying into Atlanta.

Be strong and of a good courage. Joshua 1:9

"What stood out to me was that it says a good courage," she explains. "Because that means there is a type of courage. And the beginning of the scripture does not have a prerequisite. It does not say be strong only if things are going well. It says be strong. To stand in that."

The command arrives without conditions. Not contingent on the circumstances improving, the narrative being corrected, or the grief being resolved. Be strong. Stand in that.

It is the scripture of a woman who has been tested and chose to stand anyway.

WHAT SHE REFUSES TO LET THEM LEAVE WITHOUT KNOWING

When Alyssa Worrell takes the stage in Atlanta, she will be looking at women who understand something about starting over. Women who came carrying questions they have not said out loud. Women who needed a reason to believe that what broke them was not the end of their story.

She is not coming with a program. She is coming with a presence.

The one thing she refuses to let them leave without knowing: the rebuilding is not punishment. It is preparation. What God reconstructs after collapse is not a pale version of what was lost. It is something stronger, more specific, and more true to who she actually is.

"I want them to feel like it was meant for them to be there," she says. "This is going to be the very next step to what they have already heard. And God is going to speak to them individually."

"I am coming to help women rise from the ashes."

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The Radical Women's Conference takes place March 19 and 20, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Alyssa Worrell leads with faith, serves with presence, and builds communities where women are met exactly where they are.

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