Our History

From The Life of a Single Mom to Unstuck Ministries

Unstuck Ministries (formerly The Life of a Single Mom) has been serving women for almost two decades cresting over one million women served in December 2022. We serve as a catalyst to life change for women who find themselves stuck in one of 3 core areas: Parenting, Finances, and Mental & Spiritual Wellness. We offer a robust array of women’s services, including focusing on maternal mental health, women’s trauma recovery, and single mom services.

Services include, but are not limited to national & local events, books, eBooks, articles, newsletters, podcasts, videos, workshops, conferences, Single Mom University®, boot camps, counseling, resource referrals, product distribution, and single mom support group launches. We focus on removing loneliness, stress, and unhealed trauma with effective methods that provide positive long-term outcomes.

Our history begins in 1999.

1999
Founder Jennifer Maggio was a struggling, stuck, single mom of two.
2000
Maggio began climbing corporate ladder, winning multiple awards.
2007
Established a single mother’s support group in living room in LA with 3 women.
2011
The Life of a Single Mom formed 501c3, launching support groups & curriculum.
2015
National TLSM Single Moms’ Conference launched serving more than 1,000 attendees.
2017
Launched Single Mom University®, becoming largest online life skills classroom in U.S.
2022
Organization crested over 1,000,000 women served.
2025
Launched Unstuck Women’s Conference for all women who felt stuck.
2026
Renamed organization to Unstuck Ministries to expand services.

In 1999, an exhausted, young, single mom of two children found herself huddled on her bathroom floor, contemplating suicide, certain that no one could understand the magnitude of her devastation. Financial struggles, parenting challenges, personal failures, and mental stress culminated into an almost unbearable plight. She felt stuck. While on the floor that day, that young single mom made a decision to surrender her life to Jesus Christ. Although the road was riddled with highs and lows, the single mom learned much and became an 11-time Circle of Excellence award recipient in Corporate America, securing $55 million in accounts, achieving financial, mental, and parental success. She never forgot that moment on the bathroom floor, however, and what it felt like to be parenting alone, with little money and no hope. That young, single mom was our founder, Jennifer Maggio.

In January 2007, Maggio launched a support group for single mothers. Three single moms attended. The meetings grew more than 1000% in the first year, eventually growing into one of the nation’s largest single moms’ support groups. Its success and growth, as well as the best practices uncovered during its development, led to The Life of a Single Mom becoming a formal 501c3 in 2011. The rapid growth that followed included launching the largest online classroom in the U.S. for single moms in 2017, Single Mom University®, releasing hundreds of books and podcasts, and implementing single mom support groups in thousands of churches nationally and beyond.

By 2022, the organization had served over 1,000,000 single mothers, beginning to slowly expand services to other women in hopes of preventing future single motherhood by providing trauma recovery to young women, counseling to married women, maternal mental health, and other support services. By 2025, the National Single Mom’s Conference was renamed the Unstuck Women’s Conference and expanded to reach more than 12,000 in one event – the largest in the organization’s history. In 2026, the organization officially rebranded Unstuck Ministries with one goal – that no bound woman would remain stuck.

Today, Unstuck Ministries offers a variety of both single mom and general women’s programming, including working with thousands of churches to form single moms’ support groups, hosting Single Mom University, and providing the Unstuck Women’s Conference and Boot Camps. In addition, hundreds of thousands of women annually engage in Unstuck’s videos, podcasts, eBooks, articles, and workshops. We are award-winning and fully accredited for our financial transparency by several nonprofit-governing organizations.

AWARDS & ACCREDITATIONS

Unstuck Ministries works diligently to accrue industry-leading accreditation to ensure our stakeholders of high levels of accountability and integrity. We’re honored to have also been recognized for several awards. Here are a few of the highlights:

Support & Resources

We offer a variety of initiatives to support women, including maternal mental health, single mom services, trauma intervention, and more. Support services impact thousands of women annually and vary from year to year.

Find a single mom support group

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Start a single mom support group

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National Resource Guide

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In addition, Unstuck Ministries offers:

Please note, counseling is currently only available for Louisiana women. To learn more about either of these services, please reach out to us directly at info@unstuckministries.com or call our office.

Education & Curriculum

Each week, we release fresh, honest, educational content on women-centric topics in the areas of Parenting, Finances, and Mental & Spiritual Wellness. Whether it be our print curriculum or vast array of digital services, we have something for you! Single Mom University® is one of our most popular educational offerings, as the nation’s largest life skills classroom for single mothers. However, we also offer weekly articles, newsletters, podcasts, videos, and live feeds, receiving hundreds of thousands of downloads by women weekly. Be sure to follow us on all media to stay informed and check out our newsletter HERE.

Single Mom University

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Books
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Blog
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Podcasts

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Newsletter

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National & Local Events

We host a number of local and national events, including our life-changing boot camps, powerful conferences, education workshops, & outreaches.  Visit our events page HERE for more info on upcoming events near you.  We offer both virtual and in-person options.  And the great news? They are always free!

  • Boot Camps
  • Conferences
  • Workshops
  • Webinars
  • Holiday Outreaches