Formation & Faith
Identity, calling, discernment, spiritual formation, and the inner work required to live faithfully in changing seasons.
Faith · Formation · Leadership
Rev. Dr.Tasha M. Brown
I help women understand who they are, what God has been forming in them, and how to steward what comes next.
Pastor. Spiritual formation leader. Author. Entrepreneur. Founder of Purple Ladies Group. My work lives where faith meets the real decisions women make about leadership, work, calling, stewardship, and what comes next.
Rev. Dr. Tasha M. BrownChicago · Faith · Formation
✦ Spiritual Formation ✦ Leadership ✦ Stewardship ✦ Work ✦ Entrepreneurship ✦
✦ Preaching ✦ Teaching ✦ Writing ✦ Clarity ✦ Strategy ✦
✦ Spiritual Formation ✦ Leadership ✦ Stewardship ✦ Work ✦ Entrepreneurship ✦
✦ Preaching ✦ Teaching ✦ Writing ✦ Clarity ✦ Strategy ✦
The Throughline
Helping people make sense of what God is doing in the middle.
In ministry. In leadership. In work. In entrepreneurship. In seasons when the old language no longer fits and the next assignment has not fully come into view.
My work is about understanding before urgency, formation before visibility, and faithful stewardship before performance.
The Work
Four expressions. One body of work.
Different rooms ask different questions. The throughline remains the same: clarity, formation, and faithful action.
Leadership & Work
Helping women understand how they are wired to lead, decide, advocate, build, and navigate systems without disappearing inside them.
Entrepreneurship & Stewardship
Faithful selling, economic agency, readiness, business formation, and the stewardship of ideas, resources, influence, and opportunity.
Preaching, Teaching & Writing
Biblical teaching and public thought leadership that connects theology to the real decisions women make in church, work, leadership, and life.
Clarity changes how you move. Formation changes who does the moving.
Strategy matters. But strategy becomes far more powerful when it grows out of a woman who understands herself, her season, her convictions, and what she has actually been entrusted to steward.
About Dr. Brown
Pastorally rooted. Practically experienced.
Rev. Dr. Tasha M. Brown is an ordained minister, spiritual formation leader, author, entrepreneur, and founder of Purple Ladies Group. Ordained in 2002, she has spent more than two decades equipping women through ministry, leadership development, entrepreneurship education, prayer, and pastoral care.
Her work spans pastoral ministry, higher education, nonprofit leadership, economic development, entrepreneurship support, and public advocacy. Across those settings, the question has remained remarkably consistent: What changes when a woman understands who she is, how God has formed her, and what she has been entrusted to steward?
She is the author of Seller of Purple: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Entrepreneurship, a contributing author to the Handbook on Poverty and Entrepreneurship, founder and president of ARISE Prayer and Outreach Ministries, and host of the Seller of Purple podcast.
DMinPastoral & Spiritual Care · McCormick Theological Seminary
MDivNorthern Seminary
BAHuman Resource Development · Northeastern Illinois University
2002Ordained Ministry
The Work Became
Purple Ladies Group
Clarity. Formation. Strategy.
Founder
Purple Ladies Group
Formation is the method. Faithful movement is the outcome.
Purple Ladies Group is a formation company serving Christian women whose calling is tied to their spiritual identity. The work helps women understand their wiring, their season, their formation, the convictions shaping their choices, and the next faithful action.
PLG is not a hustle brand or a traditional small-business development center. It is a place where spiritual depth and practical strategy belong in the same conversation.
Explore Purple Ladies Group
A Signature Movement of Purple Ladies Group
A Certain Woman™
She was somebody before anyone knew her name.
“A Certain Woman is an ordinary woman whom God chooses for an extraordinary purpose.”
A Certain Woman™ is built around a simple conviction: God knows women long before the world notices them. Formation precedes visibility. Identity is received. Purpose is stewarded.
It is the movement where Scripture, formation, beauty, community, and courageous stewardship come together.
Discover A Certain WomanSelected Work
Ideas worth carrying forward.
Seller of Purple
A Christian Woman’s Guide to Entrepreneurship.
Handbook on Poverty and Entrepreneurship
Contributing scholarship at the intersection of poverty, economic agency, and entrepreneurship.
Seller of Purple Podcast
Conversations about faith, work, identity, entrepreneurship, leadership, and women building at their intersection.
Speaking & Teaching
Bring depth into the room.
Dr. Brown speaks in churches, conferences, classrooms, leadership settings, women’s gatherings, and professional spaces where faith and practical life need to meet honestly.
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Spiritual formation & identity
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Faith, work & stewardship
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Women, leadership & calling
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Entrepreneurship & faithful selling
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Transition, discernment & next faithful action
Invite Dr. Brown
For the rooms where formation matters.
Speaking · Preaching · Teaching · Interviews · Partnerships
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