Women of True Grit

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. The 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 at ages 19, 23, and 46. The Blackburn boys' lives cut short changed her path and life's work 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 share the many colors of pearls' meanings through storytelling to be able to relate to all ages. Photos you have of events, a 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 that 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 younger Blackburn brothers she lost too soon. Having gone through irritations such as loss, grief, illness, and setbacks, 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 heartwarming; it's 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!”

Grit: 101

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