Hi! I'm Anna Szabo
My speaking ministry is focused on encouraging and empowering Christian women. I help women see themselves the way God sees them. As a Christian speaker, I always engage my audience with thought-provoking questions and inspire them with my powerful testimony. My speaking topics are all experience-based and relatable. While I bring up real issues, my focus is on solutions to everyday problems, the human condition, specifically, the mindset, attitude, and habits. I show Christian women that creating a joyful life by embracing God's word is possible for them. Identity in Christ is the foundation of everything I teach. I share authentically about my story of childhood abuse, mother-daughter incest, rape, teen pregnancy, growing up fatherless, having a miscarriage, going through divorce, addictions, binge-eating, and other challenges. I testify that, despite all the trials and tribulations, it's possible to live out a story for God's glory!
Inspiration for Transformation.
I deliver energy, experience, and empowerment. I teach faith, felicity, and fortitude.
FAITH
To experience genuine joy in life, we have to have strong and steadfast faith. Your audience members are going through a lot. It's the human condition. Everyone's life sometimes rocks and sometimes sucks, but God's mercies are new every morning. Faith helps us remember who we are, whose we are, why we're here, and where we're going. I suffered a lot in life. Yet, I have faith. That's why I feel joy and live at peace. Let me encourage your audience and help them create a joyful life by embracing God's word!
FELICITY
To remain hopeful, optimistic, and enthusiastic about the future, we have to have a positive mental attitude. Where there's no vision, people perish, the Bible says. To have a vision, we need optimism so that we can dream, set goals, and take faithful action. Optimism doesn't come from toxic positivity or the happiness illusion. It comes from hope, which is in Christ. Let me show your audience how to be hopeful and create a joyful life by embracing God's word!
FORTITUDE
To persevere no matter how hard life gets, we must never give up. The Bible says God's grace is sufficient for our circumstances. God's word explains why we have trials and tribulations: to grow in faith and share hope with others. The Bible guarantees that we will have trouble in this world. Without it, how would we practice faith? God prunes us so that we can be more fruitful. Let me share my testimony of persevering through adversity to help your audience create a joyful life by embracing God's word!
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Anna Szabo - Christian Speaker for Women
I help women see themselves the way God sees them. My mission is to help alleviate suicide among women globally by sharing hope in Christ. I am a TEDx speaker and an award-winning "Wonder Woman" speaker. My wonder power is my baggage: childhood abuse, domestic violence, suicidal depression, various addictions, and other difficult life situations that I had to overcome. My story helps me relate to your audience. My ability to be authentic helps entice your community to show vulnerability and connect. Authentic connections spark creativity and give birth to unthinkable possibilities. I engage my audiences on a very deep, heart-to-heart level. My approach helps people experience genuine transformation. Here's a little preview into my life so that you can see how uniquely equipped I am to help empower your community.
I was born in Soviet Russia and endured unimaginable poverty, as well as brainwashing through propaganda. Growing up, I didn't know who I was or why I was even alive. My father was in jail. My mother hated me. I experienced betrayal, bullying, and beatings at home regularly. Seeking acceptance and feeling confused about everything, ultimately, for me, resulted in some really bad decisions. In 2008, I came to America as a mail-ordered bride. That marriage resulted in domestic violence. I was rescued by the police in 2009 and lived in a shelter for battered women "International Women's House." In a foreign country, without speaking the language, I was homeless, hopeless, and helpless. Listening to Frank Sinatra, I taught myself English in 18 months and passed the academic English test (IELTS) on January 24th, 2011. After that, I was accepted to the Georgia State University Professional MBA program. In 2013, I published a book about my life story called "Turn Your Dreams And Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!" which was recognized by Indie Excellence Awards and International Book Awards. That same year, I graduated with an MBA from Georgia State University with a 3.74 GPA. In 2014, I gave my life to Christ. In 2017, I founded Online Discipleship For Women, a Christian ministry dedicated to encouraging and empowering women.
It's been a difficult but divinely-ordained journey. I've learned a lot. Today, I share my story to give God all the glory. Invite me to speak at your next event!
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ABOUT ANNA SZABO
About Online Discipleship For Women
John 16:33 says in this world we will have trouble
When we come to Jesus, we get excited about going to heaven, being sanctified, loved, and accepted. Yet, we don’t get excited about the trouble in our lives. I was excited to follow Christ and enjoy His unconditional love, but when unimaginable trouble broke my world, I was devastated. And I was confused: “God, didn’t you say that you’ll protect and defend me? Didn’t you promise me lots of good things and beauty? This, what I’m going through, can’t possibly be good or beautiful. So, are you even real, God? Are you there?! Hello? Can you hear me?”
Online Discipleship For Women was founded in 2017. I was struggling with severely suicidal depression. God grew my faith and hope. He asked me to share the Gospel with you. My mission is to alleviate suicide among women by encouraging YOU to grow in faith and hope. My vision is to help YOU live a joyful life by embracing God's word. My goal is to make the Gospel practical and applicable to YOUR daily experiences.
Share this message with a woman who needs to hear God's truth right now.
HOW I BECAME A CHRISTIAN SPEAKER AND MINISTER
Troubles in my world were what aspired me to build Online Discipleship For Women. Through those worldly troubles, I grew closer to Jesus - the real God, not the Santa Claus kind of God, but the risen savior who has a special plan to use my story for His glory. I never had imagined starting a ministry for Christian women. Not only because I myself wasn’t even a Christian but also because something like this would be the last thing on my mind. The typical things I was excited about for most of my adult life were sex, alcohol, travel, night clubs, hairdos, and shopping.
How And Why I Gave My Life To Christ
I came to Christ in 2014, and He’s been working in my heart ever since, drawing me closer one day at a time. In the beginning, I did believe in the Santa Claus kind of God though: I’ll check the boxes for being nice and He’ll give me a fairytale kind of perfect life. Well, that’s not how things turned out for me.
I discovered the depths of the Gospel listening to the teachings of Randy Pope at Perimeter Church and reading the book of Laura Story called “When God Doesn’t Fix It.” Interestingly enough, the book was a gift for graduation from premarital counseling in 2016. And as I walked down the aisle a few months later, I was wondering why such a book would be given to me because my marriage - I was confident - was going to be God-glorifying and perfect since all the proper boxes were checked and I was marrying a good Christian man.
How My Faith Matured Through Trials
See, I had a performance-based view of God. However, He wanted me to be in an intimate relationship with Him and be completely dependent on Him. That fantasy ended as my new husband filed for divorce four months after our wedding. That’s when I read Laura’s book. I read the Bible, too. I dove deep into the Gospel and found hope and healing. And I finally accepted the “troubles in this world” realizing that God’s plan is good.
Just a few months after my wedding, I was divorced and discovered that there’s no Santa Claus God.
I also discovered that I have a sovereign, loving, kind, and understanding Heavenly Father who has a perfect plan I can’t see since I'm too close to my life circumstances. I don’t have His infinite intelligence and can’t comprehend how divorce, depression, and other “troubles” can possibly be used for good. Yet, I must trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not on my own limited understanding.
Becoming A Christian Motivational Speaker
God placed this ministry in my heart. Online Discipleship For Women was born.
The desire to share the Gospel has been burning on the inside every day ever since. I launched my Christian podcast and started speaking openly about my story giving God all the glory. The feedback was so encouraging, and after the podcast was downloaded 30K times, I decided to also publish Christian videos on YouTube. My channel grew fast, and women were sharing how encouraging my content was and how it helped their life situations. I started speaking at events as well, and Johns 7:38 was the best explanation of what was happening:
"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them" - John 7:38
Uniquely Equipped And Prepared
I do see how God uniquely equipped and prepared me to minister to women just like me: those who didn't grow up in church but do want to follow Christ, yet feel unworthy because of their past mistakes. I did fight God for a long time as I felt extremely insecure about my heart's desire for ministry. God won the battle with me, so welcome to Online Discipleship For Women!
I am here to be your community: to pray for you, to encourage you, and to follow Jesus together with you.
Please don’t think I’m perfect. I’m still a human with flesh fighting the Spirit daily. But I do love Christ and I want to share His good news with YOU. Jesus is my strength and guide. He inspires all this content. Enjoy my Christian podcast, watch my YouTube videos, explore my Biblical wall art, check out my collection of Christian apparel, download the free book of the devotionals I wrote for you, and send me your prayer requests.
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