SPEAKING
Speaking
KARLA EQUIPS CHRISTIAN WOMEN TO STEP OUT OF BURNOUT, RECLAIM THEIR IDENTITY, AND BUILD A LIFE OF PEACE, PURPOSE, AND A FAITH-CENTERED HOME.
Through powerful storytelling, biblical truth, and lived experience, she helps audiences navigate seasons of transition—from career to home, exhaustion to renewal, and confusion to clarity about calling.
Audiences leave with renewed faith, practical insight, and a clearer sense of purpose for the season God is inviting them into.
Ideal For:
Women's Conferences
Church Retreats
Homeschooling Events
Motherhood Gatherings
Signature Topics
Unbraided
Transforming Your Pain into Purpose
Karla shares her powerful testimony of healing and restoration, guiding women through the journey of facing emotional wounds with honesty, faith, and courage. With biblical truth and lived experience, she helps audiences acknowledge past pain, release shame, and surrender their story to God’s healing.
Women leave with renewed hope, deeper freedom, and the confidence that their past does not disqualify them—it can be redeemed for purpose.
Discovering Home
When God Calls You to Slow Down
This message speaks to the woman discerning a shift from career-driven life into a slower, more intentional season centered on home and family. Karla offers spiritual insight and practical encouragement drawn from her own transition out of a long-term career into motherhood and home life.
Audiences are invited to reimagine success through a biblical lens, trust God’s provision, and embrace the peace of a life aligned with His pace.
Faith After Burnout
Resetting Your Life’s Pace
For high-achieving women carrying exhaustion beneath their success, this message reframes burnout as an invitation to return to God’s rhythm of rest and renewal. Karla shares her personal journey of stepping away from hustle and performance to rediscover peace, identity, and spiritual clarity.
Women are encouraged to release pressure, reset their pace, and rebuild their lives from a place of rest instead of striving.
From Career to Calling
Redefining Success, God’s Way
This message is for women sensing a shift away from career identity into a new season of purpose and obedience. Karla equips audiences to release titles that no longer fit and trust God’s direction in the unknown.
With biblical encouragement and personal insight, she helps women step out of fear and into peace, clarity, and faithful obedience in their next season.
You Were Made for More
Understanding Purpose, Calling, and Vocation
When life slows down, many women are left asking, “What is my purpose now?” In this teaching, Karla brings biblical clarity to purpose, calling, and vocation—and how confusing them creates unnecessary pressure and comparison.
Audiences gain freedom from striving and discover that their current season—especially at home—is not a detour from purpose, but a place where it can deepen and flourish.
Not Just a Mom
Reclaiming the Holy Weight of Motherhood
This message confronts the quiet cultural lie that motherhood is less than other forms of work. Karla challenges the language of “just a mom” and reframes motherhood as meaningful, influential, and spiritually significant work.
Women leave with renewed dignity for their calling, a deeper sense of purpose in the home, and confidence that their influence matters eternally.
Through her story of emotional healing and spiritual renewal, Karla inspires women to embrace a life centered on faith, family, and their God-given purpose. After nearly 20 years in municipal government, she left her career to focus on her home and family. That bold step began a transformative journey of healing, faith, and purpose. Today, Karla homeschools her daughters and lives a life of impact, helping women move from burnout to peace and from pain to purpose.
Karla Teaches Christian Women to:
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Reset their lives through rhythms of rest, spiritual renewal, and creativity
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Explore creative ways to have influence and impact from home
- Trust God’s provision and timing in seasons of transition
- Walk in freedom, identity, and purpose as daughters of God
- Overcome their past through faith and intentional living
About Karla
Karla B. Monterrosa is a wife, homeschooling mom, author of Unbraided, and the voice behind the Discovering Home podcast and blog. After nearly 20 years in government service, she followed God’s call to slow down, focus on family, and pursue healing and purpose from home. She now encourages Christian women to do the same—by helping them discern the season they’re in and take faith-filled steps toward a life of intentional motherhood and creative purpose.
Interested in inviting Karla to speak at your next event, retreat, or podcast?
She’d love to serve your audience with encouragement rooted in Scripture and real-life transformation.