CEO, Right to the Heart
Linda Evans Shepherd
Founded AWSA on September 11, 2000. Founder of Right To The Heart Ministries (1999). Bestselling author of 36+ books. Publisher of Leading Hearts Magazine. Based in Colorado.
Serving AWSA since 2000
Membership
AWSA Steering & Board
The eleven women of the AWSA Steering Committee guide the association. Seven also serve on the Right to the Heart board.
President, AWSA Steering Committee · RTTH Board
Dawn Scott Damon
AWSA President. Speaker, author, and coaching director.
RTTH Board · AWSA Steering Committee
Joy A. Schneider
Joy A Schneider – AWSA Power Speaker Joy is passionate about equipping and encouraging people to stand in the spiritual battles they encounter in life. Her first book, Identifying the Hierarchy of Satan: A Handbook for Wrestling to Win! has been a resource book for many in the Body of Christ. Her newest book is How to Keep Grief from Stealing Your Destiny. This book is the first in her Battle Over the Anointing series. Joy is a Board member of AWSA. She also works with the Cyrus Foundation, a ministry to Israel. She has two awesome daughters and their husbands, and eight amazing grandchildren.
RTTH Board · AWSA Steering Committee
Linda Goldfarb
Director of the AWSA P.O.W.E.R. Speaker Certification. Podcast host and board-certified Christian life coach.
RTTH Board · AWSA Steering Committee
Sharon Norris Elliott
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok
AWSA Steering Committee
Amy Williams
Author A.C. Williams is a coffee-drinking, sushi-eating, story-telling nerd who loves cats, country living, and all things Japanese. She’d rather be barefoot, and if she isn’t, her socks won’t match. With fifteen published books in both fiction and non-fiction, she is a Realm Award winner and a Selah Award finalist, as well as the 2022 Arise Daily Writer of the Year. She is also a popular monthly contributor to two blogs ranked in Writer’s Digest’s Top 101 sites for authors. Follow her adventures at her website, www.amycwilliams.com .
AWSA Steering Committee
Cynthia L. Simmons
Cynthia L. Simmons – AWA Certified Coach Cynthia L. Simmons is the mother of five grown children, past president of Christian Authors Guild, and columnist for Leading Hearts magazine. She produces and hosts Heart of the Matter Radio each week to encourage women who seek the elegance of God’s wisdom. A certified writing and media coach, Cynthia has conducted writing workshops, led a writing conference for six years, and offers “Cynthia Chat” videos for young moms. In 2008 she was nominated for Georgia Author of the Year and speaks at events nationwide. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and her fondness for history provides lively anecdotes for her speaking. She ministers to women of all ages but has a special place in her heart for young mothers and homeschool mothers.
AWSA Steering Committee
Evelyn Johnson-Taylor
Evelyn Johnson-Taylor Ph.D. – AWSA Certified Coach and P.O.W.E.R. Certified Speaker As a ministry leader for several decades, Evelyn lives to encourage, empower, and equip women to WIN. She loves to share God’s Word and her life experiences through speaking, coaching, mentoring, training, and writing books showing women how to apply biblical principles so that they can walk in the fullness of all that God created them to be and accomplish. Her practical teaching affirms women, builds their confidence and reminds them they can produce fruit, even in a dry season. One of her greatest joys is to help women set goals and develop the necessary plan needed to succeed. Evelyn is an Ordained Minister, Theology Professor, Award Winning Author, Mentor, a P.O.W.E.R. Certified Speaker, Certified LINKED Personality Coach and Certified Writer Speaker Coach. She served as founder and president of Women of Promise International Ministries Inc. for 14 years, a nonprofit outreach ministry offering hope and healing to women. She also served with her late husband Pastor Scott Taylor as the founding pastors of Good News Bible Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Good News Global Ministries in Wesley
AWSA Steering Committee
Tina Yeager
Award-winning author, media host, licensed therapist, creative journey mentor, and holistic emotional wellness coach, Tina Yeager hosts the Flourish-Meant podcast, Flourish Today radio show, and publishes Inkspirations Online. Licensed as a counselor since 2005, she has decades of experience teaching parenting to at-risk families, writing skills, communications, inner healing, and spiritual growth. She has counseled and taught adults, teens, and children in academic, clinical, and faith-based settings. Tina enjoys working with diverse populations and has practiced in community mental health settings and private practice since 2000. She specializes in ADHD, stress management, purpose definition, abuse recovery, and esteem-building, faith-based motivation, creative content skills, purpose fulfillment, family relationships, holistic emotional healing and wellness, and more. Tina is also familiar with shame’s oppression at a personal level. She wrestled with isolation from peers, body image, and low self-esteem issues, even trending into eating disordered behavior. The Lord sustained her through a desert-like journey of character transformation, training, and effort. Yeager serves in leadership with multiple professional and nonprofit organizations, including Christian Women in Media Association, Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, and Word Weavers International. Look for her award-winning title, Beautiful Warrior: Finding Victory Over the Lies Formed Against You. Access her online courses on mastering anxiety, sustainable healthy weight loss, and more, at Divine Encouragement. Contact her at tina@tinayeager.com for · Event Speaking · Life Coaching · Prayer-Led Mission and Vision Mapping · Shero Purpose Coaching · Media Coaching · Psychological Manuscript Reviews · Creative Journey Coaching
Serving AWSA since 2018