She Started a Business After Divorce — Now She's Reshaping North Alabama
She Made Space for Herself at NASA — Now She's Making It for Everyone
She Lost Her Dad, Survived Cancer, and Never Stopped Shining
Coal Mines, Courtrooms, and Character Krystal Drummond's Definition of True Grit
She Almost Married a Poultry Farmer — Instead She Changed Alabama
From Cotton Fields to the Governor's Mansion — Marsha Folsom's Story of Grace Under Pressure
She Lost Her Daughter to Cancer and Her Husband on Christmas Eve — Then Chose to Serve
Her Father Marched With MLK — She's Still Carrying the Mission Forward
She Lost Her Son, Her Husband, and Her Father — and Chose Life Anyway
She Came to Alabama Power for a Paycheck — She Stayed 38 Years and Helped Reshape Birmingham
She Wanted to Leave Her Small Town — Life Brought Her Back to Change It
She Set a Goal in High School to Lead Her City — Then Did Exactly That
Her Son's Rare Diagnosis Changed Everything — So She Built a Studio That Leaves No One Behind
She's Spent 55 Years Protecting Helen Keller's Legacy — and She's Just Getting Started
She Left Law at 33, Moved to Alabama, and Started Over — and Never Looked Back
She Won Olympic Gold at 16 — Then Life Hit Harder Than Any Dive
Her Son Fell Through a Skylight. She Turned 23 Years of Fighting Into a Movement.
She Hit Rock Bottom in 2018 — Then Built Two Organizations to Pull Others Out
She Beat Cancer Three Times and Never Lost Her Voice — or Her Vision
She Grew Up in Fear, Became a Nashville Star, and Wrote Her Way to Healing
She Lost Her Sister the Week She Graduated — and Chose to Lean Into the Light
She's Helping Land the First Woman on the Moon — and She Learned Grit From Her Grandmother
She Wears a Tiara to Work — And She's the President of a University
She's Been Fighting Since Age 8 — A Double Transplant Survivor's Story of Faith and Grit
Molly Watts went from high school math teacher to NASA engineer on the Artemis program — but the road there nearly broke her.
She Turned a Nervous Breakdown Into a Ministry That Breaks Cycles of Poverty
She Survived Abuse & Lupus — Then Built a Safe Haven for Teen Trafficking Survivors
From Dinosaurs to Diagnosing Thousands: Dr. Nicole Shaw's Approach to Whole-Person Medicine
Family Legacy, Music, and Rising from the Ground Up
Growing Up a Phillips in Memphis
From Combat to Cancer: The Unstoppable Peggy Lee Wright
Embracing the Suck and Leading Through Adversity
Community Engagement Manager, Red Mountain Theatre
Advocate for prevention of domestic and dating violence. Lost her daughter Megan Mongomery to domestic violence, she is co-founder of www.megansfoundation.org
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Rep. Juandalynn Givan, Attorney and State Representative
Cathy Randall, PhD
One of kind trailblazer, she has served in all three branches of government and on the city council.
Gilda Ham-Batisa, PhD.
A born storyteller and her true passion lie in helping others tell their story. Experience in international sales and marketing, publications, podcasts and radio. An advocate with a heart for helping people.
A serial entrepreneur who speaks on marketing strategy, leadership and confidence for women.
Part II. Known for helping mission-driven organizations move from vision to execution.
Executive Director of The Lovelady Center
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