Unbound Speaker

RILEY MAAS

Riley Maas, a long-time resident of the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, combines her love of people and details as the accounting manager at Unbound while also directing her 8th year of high school theater. Her unique combination of skills was fostered at a young age through homeschooling, ultimately culminating in earning her bachelor’s degree at 19. With a passion for helping young adults to identify their unique gifts and challenges, Riley applies practical wisdom and experience to equip the next generation to live out their God-written stories.

Sessions by Riley Maas

Lessons From Backstage: A Director’s Not-So-Secret Manual for Teaching Practical Life Skills

This fresh and fast-paced session will pull back the curtain on eight years of insight from one theater director’s journey to equip her students with practical life skills through the art of performance. Whether you enjoy theater or not, you’ll hear constructive advice and humorous stories about learning to commit when it’s hard, showing up for your team on the good and bad days, and real-time problem solving when things fall apart. Spoiler alert: it’s never about the final performance, but who you are becoming before the final curtain call.

Independent Teenagers: A Firsthand Look at Growth, Grace, and Grit

Modern culture throws around the term ‘independent’ with very few guidelines on what it practically looks like. This session will help students ask thoughtful questions as they inch closer to adulthood, tackling issues such as growing in responsibility, extending grace in changing seasons, and choosing grit when the road gets rough.

When Opposites Attack: Learning To Embrace the Way God Wired You

Listen firsthand to the story of a young professional, struggling to reconcile the logical and prepared career path she had laid out for her life with the unexpected twist God dropped in her lap. Bringing seven years of accounting and theater directing experience to the table, Riley shares her own journey of leaning into the seemingly-opposite sides of personality and skillset only to discover that they go together more than we might think.

Diving Into the Deep End: Why Doing Hard Things Is Worth the Shock

No matter your age, calling, gender or location on a map, God is calling us to do hard things. But what does that actually look like, and does ‘hard’ sometimes look much smaller than we think? This session will challenge listeners to redefine what doing hard things might look like in their current season of life, and why taking the leap from thinking to doing is always worth the risk.

Media Inquiries

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