How This Accountant Started Transporting Horses

By Lucy M. Pritchett Natalie Roberts didn’t expect to experience a Turning Point when she agreed to make a trip across the border into another country.This was seven years ago, and she was working in an accounting position with a firm in Southern Indiana. An opportunity arose for her to transport race horses to Canada. The trainer of those horses didn’t have a passport and couldn’t travel out of the country, so he offered Natalie what she says was a “substantial amount of money” to transport the horses and handle them at the track for [...]

By |2017-04-24T08:30:00-04:00April 24, 2017|Derby, Turning Point|

What Works for Lisa Stevenson

By Lucy M. Pritchett If you happen to be at any one of the Kentucky Derby Festival events this year, look for a small woman with a big smile, bursting with enthusiasm and energy. That will be Lisa Stevenson, the 2017 chairman of the Kentucky Derby Festival. Please stop her and say ‘hello.’Lisa has served on the KDF board for nine years and served on the executive board the last seven years. During that time she has worked all the A events — the miniMarathon, Thunder Over Louisville, and the Pegasus Parade. “I was too [...]

By |2017-04-04T08:30:00-04:00April 4, 2017|Derby, What Works|

She Turned Toward the Flower Business

By Lucy M. PritchettSometimes a Turning Point is a turning toward something rather than a turning away. For Jill Doyle that was a turning toward the beauty of flowers.Jill is co-owner of J. Elizabeth Designs, a special event florist in Lyndon. While she was at the University of Louisville working toward a degree in liberal studies focusing on pre-law, she was also working for Nanz and Kraft Florist and later Colonial Designs, learning both the mechanics and the design principles of the floral business.“Once I graduated,” Jill says, “I really couldn’t face the three more [...]

By |2017-03-13T08:30:00-04:00March 13, 2017|Turning Point|

What This Makeup Fiend Loves to Wear

By Brittani Dick I’m willing to bet there aren’t many people who can claim they grew up on Squirrel Tail Hollow Road. Courtney Newby, 25, was born and raised in a small town outside of Owensboro, Kentucky, but there was always a part of her that craved the big city lights. She graduated high school in 2010, packed her bags, and moved to Louisville to attend college. She hasn’t looked back since.With that small town upbringing came some big dreams. Courtney has a passion for understanding and serving those with mental illness, so after completing [...]

By |2017-03-07T09:30:00-05:00March 7, 2017|Before She Goes|

What Works for Liz Everman

By Lucy M. PritchettWe recently caught up with Liz Everman, our 2004 Most Admired Woman/Media, and we’re glad we did. Liz continues to report on Wednesday’s Child with WLKY News Channel 32 and is chair of Wednesday’s Child Incorporated, which helps recruit and provide support to adoptive families of older foster children, some with special needs.Liz estimates that some 4,000 children in Kentucky have been adopted as a result of Wednesday’s Child, which is in its 37th year.This energetic woman has taken on another enthusiasm. She recently received her certification in Applied Positive Psychology from The [...]

By |2017-03-06T09:30:00-05:00March 6, 2017|What Works|

Kit Tossmann’s Artistic Path

By Lucy M. Pritchett Kit Tossmann didn’t have to think for long when asked about the Turning Point on her artistic path.“Someone wanted to pay me for my art,” she says. “Until then I never really thought of myself as an artist.”Kit creates with fabric: liturgical banners, stoles and other vestments, and art quilts using inspirational themes under her studio name Kit Tossmann InSpirit Designs.“What I really want to do with my art is to speak to the souls of others and reach them in a spiritual place within themselves; to uplift and possibly challenge [...]

By |2017-02-13T09:30:00-05:00February 13, 2017|Turning Point|
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