You may or may not know that when I am not engaged in my day job of coaching and speaking, I am an actress. Yep. I am privileged to be part of the acting company of an award-winning regional playhouse. In our most recent production, I play the leading lady. This particular director conducts his…
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On Receiving the Visionary Award From Women Leading Kentucky, May 2019 I never thought of myself as a visionary. I just had a lot of dreams. Dreams of leaving the coal camps in WV. Dreams of going to college, going to New York, running my own business, being my own boss, getting away from home. I…
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On a Saturday night last August, Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Andrew Luck, announced his retirement from professional football stating, “For the last four years or so, I’ve been in this cycle of injury, pain, rehab — injury, pain rehab. I’ve been stuck in this process. The only way I see out is to no longer play…
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What made you passionate about creating opportunities for women? Well, to start with, I’ve always been a willful child! Always had my own opinions and ideas whether others supported them or not. I watched my mother try to fit into the cultural norms of the day, in the 1940’s and ’50’s, being a housewife, raising…
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I LOVE my red rain boots. I wear them often on walks in the woods of my quaint farm. I especially love tromping in the creek in them. Creek tromping takes me back to my childhood when summers meant being barefoot from morning til night playing in small streams, catching salamanders and playing tricks on…
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Tell us about what you do at your company I am the president of VisitLEX. How do you define leadership? Leadership, for me, is all about service: service to others, the community, to God. There is a particular verse of Scripture that has been my primary inspiration as a leader: do justice, love kindness (mercy),…
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Tell us about what you do at your company As the president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK), I lead an amazing team of nearly 8,000 team members at Toyota’s largest manufacturing facility in the world – which can produce up to 550,000 vehicles a year. Our talented team builds the Camry, America’s best-selling sedan…
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It has been quite awhile since I have posted anything here on Peppy Writes Chronicles. There have been many times over the last several months I have questioned why I haven’t simply pulled the plug and let it go. Yet interestingly, such a thought would leave me cringing inside. Once again I started to ponder…
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Women Leading Kentucky offers a directory for business professionals who are connected to our mission, attend our events or want to be accessible to our network of professional women. Why join a local online directory like ours? Joining our directory is a way to show your support for our mission and events. If your…
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You’ve been noticing the signs — lack of direction, passion or forward momentum. You want to be challenged more (or maybe less) and you need a deeper sense of purpose in the day-to-day. These could be signals it’s time for a career change. Nowadays workers want more diverse experiences, which has led to more frequent…
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