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 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, [...]

Posted by Kathy on May 10, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments

SLO Down The Buses Will Wait: A Lesson in Doing Nothing

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949 WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG When Billy Graham did his big crusades and the altar call came he would admonish those that hesitated, “ [...]

Posted by Kathy on May 5, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

LESSONS FROM THE ROAD: Survivors Live “One Day at Time”

WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” Anthony Brandt Every family has a sweet spot, a part of the tree that has ripened to its peak—if we are smart we honor that place as something of great value. This past [...]

Posted by Kathy on Apr 26, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

DREAM MAKERS: First step is to draw a line in the sand.

WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG Meet Linda, an assistant wine maker at Polotai winery, Roseburg Oregon. She greets us out of breath in her high rubber boots and yellow bib coveralls. She throws us a broad smile as she tells us she and her assistant are in the middle of [...]

Posted by Kathy on Apr 21, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments

Dogs & Wine: A Pairing Of The Heart

WOW, WHAT A RIDE TOUR!: MY LIFE IN TRANSITION BLOG Peggy Becker and I agree, the love for our dogs and the appreciation of good wine go hand in hand. Both get us back to the earth. Both take tender loving care and an appreciation for what is at the root of life; simple stuff [...]