Edie Hand

The Women of True Grit brand is perfectly timed and represents a unique opportunity for anyone seeking to help empower, encourage, and educate women. We believe all women can find the strength to embrace who they are, navigate their direction in life, and possess the potential to impact themselves and those within their communities and beyond. Women of True Grit stories have a recurring theme that highlights great resilience and its transformative power.

We Strive to reach women through sharing stories of hope and lessons of life to push through hard things and find beautiful situations. B. Mission of The  Edie Hand Foundation is to help people and communities in need to make life better for others Edie understands great loss after losing her 3 young brothers in separate tragic situations from ages of 19,23 and 46.The Blackburn boys lives cut short changed her path and life works to have empathy to help the broken know they are not alone. See her work through the below programs and how schools, churches, communities and corporate leaders seek her “Pearls of Hope” programs based on the metaphor of a Pearl and shares the many colors of pearls meanings through storytelling to be able to relate To all ages. Photos you have of events and few endorsements visible and results of  other donations to reach the masses.

Edie Hand is the founder and international author of Women of True Grit, a sisterhood and community stemmed from The Edie Hand Foundation that takes stories and turns them into empowerment for women to succeed in business and in life. The Edie Hand Foundation started over fifteen years ago in honor of her three young Blackburn brothers she lost too soon. Having gone through irritations such as loss, grief, illness, and set-backs Edie exemplifies “True Grit” and has built a movement transforming challenges into Pearls of Hope.



GRIT stands for “Great Resilience Is Transformative” and Edie is passionate and devoted to supporting women and providing them the tools to do hard things and turn them into beautiful situations. The message she shares is not heart warming, its heart moving and aims to build strength in whichever audience is listening and encourage them to know they are not alone in facing their hardships with “Pearls On, Swords Up!”

Residing in Birmingham Alabama and having worked as an entrepreneur in an advertising agency for 30 years, a media personality, filmmaker, philanthropist, a mom, and speaker personality, Edie has a wealth of skills and life experiences that have made her a force to be reckoned with in the business world. She has authored or collaborated on over twenty-five books. She is a sought-after speaker around the world with decades of keynote speaking experience at events, conferences, community centers, churches, and educational entities.

Edie Hand seeks always to create the right partnerships and relationships to expand her mission and inspire people from all walks of life.

Grit: 101

These are the strings that form  our unique pearls of life.