Run Like a Girl | Igniting The Spark For Your Next Great Adventure!

Meet the Coach

My journey to this place began in a high school hallway lined with young men holding cards with numbers that they were using to rate the teenage girls coming through the door. I remember standing at that doorway feeling stuck and very alone. Suddenly, my creative writing teacher appeared at the other end of the hall. He was the...

Tell Your Run Like a Girl Story

Tell us about a defining moment in your childhood. It might be a humorous lesson you learned the hard way or a time in your life when you conquered a fear. Keep it short, 300 words or less. Include a photo if you would like. Let us know whether you want to share it with Kathy or everyone. Have fun! Example: "I cried the day I had to jump...

Reinvent.U

Long ago, your life lay before you like a limitless horizon. You couldn't have known all the turns, dips, and switchbacks your life would take. Today, you stand with a full view of where you have been, and a new horizon, and you are once again filled with a mixture of anticipation and uncertainty. A familiar voice whispers...

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When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". -Mary Ann Radmacher You can't test courage cautiously. - Annie Dillard Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking. -Katharine Hepburn Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. - Susan Longacre If you talk enough, you don't feel you have to do anything. - Linda Grace Updike Making your unknown known is the important thing. - Georgia O'keefe You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. - Barbara Colorose Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. - Susan L. Taylor Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. - Ernestine Ulmer It's never too late in fiction or in life to revise. - Nancy Thayer To love what you do and feel that it matters; how could anything be more fun? - Katherine Graham Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. - Corita Kent Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. - Marsha Norman We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history, but to shape history. - Madeleine K. Albright When in doubt, wear red shoes. - Bill Blass

Posted by Kathy on Jan 10, 2012 in Blog | 3 comments

Dancing Around The FIre

In the Summer of 1999 my family was camping on the Canadian border of Northern Idaho. Pat and I were in one tent, our kids and friend in another. I woke up to the sound of a bear huffing and snorting at the door of our tent. I shoved my elbow in my husband’s side [...]

Posted by Kathy on Jan 9, 2012 in Blog | 5 comments

Where is Your Tribe?

Quote: “A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~Lois Wyse Women find strength in each other—we are born collaborators who need each other to be at our best. Our weakness is our inherent need [...]

Posted by Kathy on Jan 1, 2012 in Blog | 1 comment

2012, THE YEAR OF THE TRIBE

Happy New Year! We can all feel and see changes afoot — in climate, in cultures, in the global economy, in politics, etc. We wonder will this be a time of challenge? Will these challenges bring new birth? I believe that we are at a crossroad of choice, that we are being given a great invitation [...]

Posted by Kathy on Nov 23, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

Thanksgiving Is Getting Down To The Pink

It’s the day before Thanksgiving, the leaves scream by on fire. The rhythmic strumming of the season is wild with change. Everywhere you look things are shifting and altering. It is God’s ridiculously, ruckus party. Yet inches away, children ache for food, women covered in bruises can’t remember how they got there and soldiers who [...]

Posted by Kathy on Aug 28, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

Not Just A Pretty Face Conference

You know her…she’s got it all together, and her life is perfect. Anyone that can make the dress you saw last week on Wal-Mart’s clearance rack look that good must have the perfect life, right? Wrong! And we’re going to prove it to you this weekend. Eight ladies are going to open their hearts and [...]

Posted by Kathy on Jun 22, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments

Hand Me A Rock

WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG The ancient people of Israel kept rocks to remind them of God’s gifts to them. In this way they marked God’s actions so they didn’t forget.Stones piled were highly symbolic used to keep out enemy armies and mark boundaries between neighbors. But for the Israelites, [...]