History of She Steps Forward

In 2014, Elaine started out with a simple mission – serve God and serve others. Having recently wrestled with God and her faith (Genesis 32:22-32), she began to focus on finding her life’s true God-ordained purpose. In 2016, Elaine established Transforming Love Ministries to empower everyday women (like herself) to chase God-sized dreams. What she discovered is that God’s call on her life was to motivate other women to not only reach for the dreams God had placed on their hearts, but to encourage, inspire, and mentor them that God wanted to expand their visions beyond what they could see (2 Corinthians 5:7). She believes she is watching God begin to raise up the next generation of female entrepreneurs and leaders that will carry out His work.

In 2019, She Steps Forward began as a small, community-focused conference. The thought behind the conference was to simply build a meeting ground for women who wanted to share the vision God had placed on their hearts and be supported in moving forward with those visions. The conference was also designed to provide an open platform to women who had already stepped forward with their God-sized dream and were willing to share with other women their faith and the inner workings of how they built their businesses, ministries, and nonprofits. Through this synergistic effort, Elaine hoped that others would be encouraged that anything is possible with God (Matthew 19:26).