Holding the Light | Jessica Roehm Mays
Speaker | Spiritual Leadership Coach | Founder of Holding the Light
Helping audiences transform grief, disruption, and broken places into resilience, meaning, and light.
About Jessica
Jessica Roehm Mays is a speaker and spiritual leadership coach who brings honesty, hope, and grounded wisdom to conversations around grief, resilience, faith, and rebuilding life after loss.A bereaved mother, widow, firewife, nonprofit leader, and coach, Jessica speaks from lived experience — not polished platitudes. Her work invites audiences to stop pretending they’re “okay” and instead learn how to live fully, faithfully, and resiliently in the midst of life’s hardest seasons.Jessica has spoken at conferences, faith-based gatherings, and on podcasts addressing grief, resilience and spiritual leadership.Through storytelling, humor, and deep compassion, Jessica creates spaces where people feel seen, safe, and strengthened.
What Jessica Speaks On
Each talk is grounded in lived experience, faith, and the belief that even broken moments can become something sacred and whole again.
Holding the Light: Finding Hope After Loss
A deeply human talk on grief, resilience, and the quiet strength it takes to keep going when life doesn’t look the way you imagined.
Resilience That Isn’t PerformativeA grounding conversation about strength that doesn’t require pretending everything is okay.
Beautifully Broken: When Life Shatters and Faith Holds
Using the imagery of stained glass, Jessica explores how broken pieces can be held together by light — not erased, but transformed.
Faith When the Story ChangesWhat happens when the life you planned disappears — and faith must meet you somewhere new.
Leading With Light Through LossFor leaders, caregivers, and those holding space for others while carrying their own grief.
Talks can be tailored for conferences, faith-based events, retreats, podcasts, and intimate gatherings.
Audience Experience:
Understanding how loss changes leadership — and deepens it
A sense of reverence for the story they’re still living
Practical ways to stay present through hard seasons
Language for loss that feels gentle and true
Why Organizations Invite Jessica
Jessica Roehm speaks from lived experience at the intersection of grief, faith, resilience, and leadership—bringing language, presence, and hope into spaces often left unspoken.
Founder of Holding the Light, a platform and movement centered on hope, resilience, and rebuilding after loss
Trusted voice in conversations around grief, faith, and leadership following trauma
Experienced speaker and podcast guest, known for creating spaces that are both reverent and human
Nonprofit leader and advocate supporting families and women navigating high-stress, high-loss environments
Spiritual Leadership Coach guiding individuals through identity shifts, loss, and renewal
Let's Get Connected
Booking & Media Inquiries:📧[email protected]🌐www.holdingthelightco.com📍 Available for keynotes, retreats, conferences, podcasts, and workshops
🎙 PODCAST & BOOK — COMING SOONWhat’s Coming:Holding the Light is expanding beyond the stage.Podcast — Coming SoonA space for honest conversations about grief, faith, resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to keep showing up. Featuring real stories, reflections, and voices walking through life’s most tender seasons.Book — In ProgressA reflective, hope-filled exploration of loss, faith, and becoming whole again — written for anyone learning how to carry both grief and light at the same time.
