Wellness - Todays Woman

”My passion is not about myself anymore, but about encouraging others to move and enjoy it as much as I do.”

Over the past seven years Sandra Kelly has changed her whole view of herself. And, she keeps finding ways to invite others to join her. “At first I started with walking 30 minutes every day to lower my high blood pressure,” she says. She next added more time, then when that became boring, she started running intervals. Her running led her to participate in many 5K races, and a mini-marathon and she joined a team. In an effort to cross-train, Sandra started biking with a women’s group. “Anytime I can escape with a long bike [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-20T08:30:00-04:00April 20, 2017|Best Bodies, Exercise|

Kathy Bingham’s Survival Skills for Running the Fillies

By Megan S. WillmanWith more than 100 women at The Fillies’ meetings, I asked Fillies President Kathy Bingham if she found it difficult to step in as its leader. “When I agree to do something, I give it all I have. I love to talk to people and am willing to explore all sides of an issue. Sometimes, though, I do have to put on my warden voice,” says Kathy with a laugh.Kathy Bingham worked her first shift as a Kentucky Derby Festival (KDF) volunteer in 1988 and hasn’t stopped since. Named the KDF Volunteer [...]

By April Allman|2017-04-10T08:30:00-04:00April 10, 2017|Derby, Survival Skills|

Living With Lupus

By Ashli Findley It’s easy to greet Ebony Sykes, receive the warmth of her smile, and believe she’s having a normal day. Yet her normal, albeit a good day, may have included her husband helping her into the shower and her 9-year-old son grabbing her shoes from under the bed for her.Her normal is different, living with lupus. Ebony was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease at the age of 24. With lupus, the human body has difficulty differentiating between foreign tissue and necessary tissue. In return, the body attacks itself. Soft tissues to organs may [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-25T08:30:00-04:00March 25, 2017|Health Battle|

Kate Latts’ 10 Strategies for Managing Home and Business

By Megan S. Willman In 1935, the Shapira family opened a small distillery called “Old Heavenhill Springs.” Known today as Heaven Hill Brands, the 82-year-old business has become the nation’s sixth largest distilled spirits supplier. Three generations of Shapira family members have worked to see Heaven Hill expand in the U.S. and into 40 countries worldwide. Kate Shapira Latts joined the family business in 2001, and today serves as the vice president for marketing. The diversity of Heaven Hill’s brand portfolio means that there is no such thing as a regular work day for Kate. [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-17T08:30:00-04:00March 17, 2017|Survival Skills|

“There’s no reason we shouldn’t dedicate an hour for ourselves everyday,” says Kimberly, who has lost 80 pounds and is super fit.

By Brigid Morrissey“Stay committed and trust the process. Don’t overthink it. If you give and feed the body the things it was designed to have, it will give back to you.” — Kimberly Harrod. Photos by Melissa Donald235. That’s a number that makes Kimberly Harrod shudder. As a mother of four adult children, she had fallen victim to what many stay-at-home moms do: she put her family first and neglected herself. “Sometimes we’re programmed to do one or the other, either take care of our family or take care of ourselves. That was my biggest [...]

By April Allman|2017-03-03T09:30:00-05:00March 3, 2017|Best Bodies|

Wear the Red of Self-Improvement

By Carrie VittitoeRuth Devore, 52 of Jeffersonville, Indiana, who was awarded the American Heart Association’s Lifestyle Change Award in October 2016, says, “I don’t know where I’d be without my heart attack,” since it motivated her to completely change her life.Prior to her attack on October 20, 2015, she says she would avoid walking down the hall if she could. After her heart attack, though, she lost 60 pounds, stopped smoking and developed an exercise habit four days a week. Ruth says her doctor told her, “You are my model patient for taking it and [...]

By April Allman|2017-02-27T09:30:00-05:00February 27, 2017|Heart Health|

”My passion is not about myself anymore, but about encouraging others to move and enjoy it as much as I do.”

Kathy Bingham’s Survival Skills for Running the Fillies

Living With Lupus

Kate Latts’ 10 Strategies for Managing Home and Business

“There’s no reason we shouldn’t dedicate an hour for ourselves everyday,” says Kimberly, who has lost 80 pounds and is super fit.

Wear the Red of Self-Improvement

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