Singleness & Work
Ages & Stages: How Women Work & Lead Across Seasons of Life
Single professionals lead and grow careers without the built-in support of a spouse. While many faith communities treat marriage as the default model for adulthood, they often miss the tremendous freedom that comes with being single and stewarding a career. It’s one of many assumptions that can be reframed by a clear sense of calling. In this session, we will explore:
How can you build a sustainable life and healthy career boundaries when leading solo?
How do you embrace your work as a place of full spiritual agency right now?
How can you hold career opportunities and personal grief or loss in healthy tension?
Which practices help you attune to God's presence and ground your identity in Christ?
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Speakers
Marketing & Strategic Communications, Breakthrough Collaborative
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Tieler Giles is a strategic communications and marketing leader who shapes strategy and storytelling to advance purpose-driven organizations. She currently serves as Managing Director of Marketing & Communications at Breakthrough Collaborative. She is also the author of How to Ditch the How-to: Embracing Grace in Place of Self-Improvement, which explores self-help culture through the lens of the gospel. A graduate of Florida A&M University and the University of Georgia, Tieler lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Training & Professional Development Specialist, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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After a short stint in the banking industry and college ministry, I have spent the rest of my career in higher education. I now work with training and professional development for academic advisors and other student support professionals at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Throughout my career, I've encountered burnout, struggled to attend to and work within my limits, and found profound fulfillment, blessing, and joy at work. I've navigated the "placelessness" of being single within the church and in my fifth decade am starting to embrace where God has placed me as very good. When I'm not working or doing church things, I like coffee dates with friends, glamping, watching volleyball, reading, or heading to the farm to spend time with my family.
Spiritual Formation Director, Pray Chattanooga
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Micki Ann Harris is the Spiritual Formation Director at Pray Chattanooga in Tennessee and also serves with the Maclellan Foundation through prayer and formation. Leading retreats is one of her greatest vocational joys, and she spends much of her time creating spaces where men and women, ministry leaders, nonprofit and business leaders, and people from all walks of life can slow down, listen, and encounter God.
Client Service Associate, UBS
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Loralei Bruce is an executive assistant in the wealth management industry, supporting a high-performing team of executives through calendar and travel management, professional certification tracking, hiring, and day-to-day operations. Her career has also included managing specialty coffee shops and working in medical offices. These experiences shaped her love of service, hospitality, and meaningful work.
Following a divorce in her twenties, Loralei has wrestled with questions of identity, calling, and what it means to build a full life outside the expected timelines of marriage and relationship. Today, she approaches both work and singleness with contentment and hope. She is passionate about helping women discover that their identity and worth are rooted in Christ—not in achievement, ambition, marriage, or relationships—and believes true joy and purpose flow from a heart at rest in Him.
Loralei is active in her church in downtown Denver and is an alumna of the Denver Institute for Faith & Work’s 5280 Fellowship. She lives and works in Englewood, Colorado.
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Dive Deeper
Listen to Mission Single Podcast Episode
Listen or watch the Mission Single podcast episode where WWC founder Joanna Meyer talks about what single women get wrong about calling and what Scripture actually says.
Read Single Ever After: A Biblical Vision for the Significance of Singleness
Singleness is often viewed as a “plan B” by our culture and the church, and sometimes by single people who feel they’re missing out on their “happy ever after”. Author Dani Treweek offers a thought-provoking reframing of popular conversations around singleness.
Practice the Examen Prayer
A guide to the Examen prayer for noticing God's presence in your day. A simple version of the Prayer of Examen can help us to pay attention to God’s presence with us at work. Just before or after lunch and again at the end of the workday (perhaps during a commute) pause with a prayer such as, “Father, help me to see the ways you were present to me today.“
Read Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity
Staying busy is easy. Staying well rested-now there's a challenge. How can you keep your energy, happiness, creativity, and relationships fresh and thriving in the midst of never-ending family demands, career pressures, and the stress of everyday life? In Sacred Rest, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine doctor, reveals why rest can no longer remain optional.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Ages & Stages
HOW WOMEN WORK & LEAD ACROSS SEASONS OF LIFE
Many of us know the pressure of balancing professional ambitions with personal calling. Yet standard workplace advice often misses the real tensions Christian women encounter across different life stages.
Whether you are navigating unpaid labor, leading solo, managing a dual front of family care, or bridging generational divides at work, your calling is a whole-life response to God.
Join Women, Work, & Calling as we host Season 2 of Ages & Stages—a four-part webinar series exploring the challenges and opportunities unique to distinct life seasons. Each webinar features the experiences of women who are living and leading through these seasons.
