Thrive! Speakers

Featured Speakers

Wil and Meeke Addison are the founders of Straight Edge Ministries and Culture Proof, a movement to equip followers of Christ to resist wicked cultural trends by applying God’s Word—the straight edge. As the co-hosts of the Culture Proof podcast, you’ll hear Wil, Meeke, and their hand-picked guests discuss the cultural issues of the day filtered through a biblical lens. The Addisons are conference speakers with a specific focus on culture and its impact on Christian families. Married twenty years, they are raising six incredible children, equipping them to live for the glory of God. They disciple and educate their children at home—around the kitchen table and on the sofa.

Davis and Rachael Carman are the co-owners of Apologia. They homeschooled their seven children and are passionate advocates of homeschooling. Motivated by their faith and experience, they love encouraging homeschooling parents to stay the course and rely upon God to supply all they need to thrive in their homeschool journey and enjoy the adventure of a lifetime.

Sarah Collins, MSOT, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist, author, and homeschooling consultant dedicated to helping parents align homeschooling with their children’s unique needs. Through HomeschoolOT, Sarah helps families learn, connect, and grow through courses, group coaching, the OT Is IN podcast, and the OT Is INsiders community. She speaks on topics including executive functioning, sensory processing, handwriting, and homeschooling, providing practical, OT-informed strategies that help children be successful in what they need. Sarah is the author of A Chameleon Tale: A Colorful Sensory Story, a children’s picture book designed to help families understand sensory processing. Her work empowers parents to build learning environments that support their children’s development and passions. Find Sarah on her website at homeschoolOT.com, her podcast The OT Is IN, or on Instagram at homeschool_OT.

Mike Schutt has served students as a Worldview Academy faculty member since 2002. Before taking the executive director role at Worldview in 2020, he served as director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies, a cooperative ministry of Trinity Law School and the Christian Legal Society where he directed CLS’ Law School Ministries. Mike taught at Regent University School of Law for twenty years, and his book, Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession, is an exhortation to law students and lawyers on Christian vocation. Before entering academia, Mike practiced law in Texas. He still teaches on justice and the role of the state, and he loves to challenge students to think well about their calling to work and to play. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas, with his wife Lisa, where they homeschooled their three children K through twelve. They have eight grandchildren.

Sonya Shafer is a popular homeschool speaker and writer, specializing in the Charlotte Mason Method. She has been on an adventure for more than thirty years, studying, researching, practicing, and teaching Charlotte’s gentle and effective methods of education. Her passion for homeschooling her own children grew into helping others and then into Simply Charlotte Mason, which publishes her many books and provides a place of practical encouragement to homeschoolers at simplycharlottemason.com.

Todd Wilson is a dad, Pops to nine grandkids, writer, conference speaker, and former pastor. Todd’s humor and down to earth realness have made him a favorite speaker at homeschool conventions, retreats, and churches across the country. As founder of Familyman Ministries and the Smiling Homeschooler, his passion and mission are to remind dads and moms of what’s most important through weekly emails, podcasts (The Familyman Show and The Smiling Homeschooler), seminars, and books and products that encourage parents. Todd, and his wife, Debbie, still homeschool two of their eight children (six have graduated with four married) in northern Indiana.