Kim Bady, Bestselling Texas Author 'Authentically ME'

“I try to be as authentically me as I can be” – First Lady Michelle Obama

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Authentically ME

July, 2010 (Houston, TX) – Seeking to embrace the authentic self and live in your own unique truth? Bestselling Texas Author Kim Bady shows her adoring readers how do just that in her newest literary creation ‘Authentically ME.’ Come join your favorite author

Kim Bady as she embarks on a Texas wide book tour, celebrating the launch of her book with fans.

This latest work details Kim’s struggle to come to terms with her early childhood of growing up on government assistance programs in a one bedroom apartment with her family, to the quest to find her own identity while being a pastor’s daughter. She shares the experiences of going through a very public divorce, from being a pastor’s wife to being a single mother trying to raise her son while going back to school to finish her degree.

“Readers will be touched by struggle of a woman who fights to find and keep the unique voice God created for her and walk the path He set out for her.” – Rev. Della Reese, Touched By An Angel

Kim Bady is an inspirational speaker, an author, a consultant, a full-time university student who is finishing up her degree, and a loving mother of her son Brice. Kim’s passion is empowering women and girls of all ages. Kim resides in Houston, Texas where she is very active in the local Woman’s Rights community. www.KimBady.com wwwwww.michelescott.com.

AUNTHENTICALLY ME
May 2010
Xulon Press Publishing
ISBN: 9781609570897

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“Authentically ME” By Kim Bady, Author

As she journeyed through life, Kim learned to wear many different masks, be they the mask of a pastor’s wife or a pastor’s child. In ‘Authentically ME’ Kim removes her masks layer by layer and shares the stories from her life that are sure to invoke laughter, tears and most importantly reflection that will lead you to your own authentic self.

In this book you learn how to –

• Live your truth
• Embrace Authenticity
• Remove the layers of things used to define you
• Discover the beauty of who God created you to be

Kim Bady is an inspirational speaker, an author, a consultant, a full-time university student who is finishing up her PHD, and a loving mother of her son Brice. Kim’s passion is empowering women and girls of all ages. Kim resides in Houston, Texas where she is very active in the local Woman’s Rights community.

For more information visit www.kimbady.com

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Authentically ME Book Tour Dates 2010

Looking for your chance to meet Texas’s favorite Empowerment Speaker Kim Bady? Well here it is, your chance to meet Kim Bady, Author of ‘Authentically ME’ for an intimate event built around the classic Salon format.

Come listen as Kim shares the life experiences that lead to the writing of ‘Authentically ME’ as well as what the projects she is currently launching like her new TV series “Making a Difference with Kim” which can be in the Houston area on www.ggavglobal.net.

Please visit www.KimBady.Com

August 1st- Dallas Tx  Jubilee Church – Come meet Kim Bady as she signs her newest book ‘Authentically ME’ and speaks on the subject.
August 10- Spring, TX  Palace of Praise Church – Come meet Kim Bady as she signs her newest book ‘Authentically ME’ and speaks on the subject.
August 14- Houston TX  Book signing, Culturally Yours Event-benefit to orphans in Kenya – Come meet Kim Bady as she signs her newest book ‘Authentically ME’ and speaks on the subject.
August- 27th Spring, TX
Meet and Greet featuring Author Kim Bady and 315th Juvenile District Court Judge candidate Keith Branch for a Social Exchange at The Wing Cafe & Daiquiri Bar on August 27th at 6pm -11pm. Wing Cafe 5200 Louetta Rd. Spring, TX 77379
Saturday Sept 18th Kim Bady, Author of ‘Authentically ME’ Houston Book Signing
2pm-4pm The Tasting Room 1101-18 Uptown Park Blvd. Houston, Texas 77056
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Sept 11th- Houston, TX First Ladies Colaboration Luncheon – Come meet Kim Bady as she signs her newest book ‘Authentically ME’ and speaks on the subject.
October 12- Speaking and Booksigning
National Council for Negro Women, GNWS Presents : Platinum Black Tie Affair, Fundraising benefit honoring our late President Emerita, Dr. Dorothy Irene Height (1912-2010)
CWA Hall 1730
1730 Jefferson
November 12-  ME&WE Conf.  Hosted by Sonya Sloan, MD and The Luke Church of Humble Motivating and Empowering Women to Excel, Ashton Gardens,  21919 Inverness Forest Blvd Houston, TX 77073

Visit www.KimBady.Com for more tour dates.

Taylor Sweitzer, 15-Year-Old New Trier Student, Becomes Youngest To Ski ‘Last Degree’ To North Pole

Chicago Sun-Times:

Enduring some of the planet’s harshest weather, a 15-year-old New Trier High School student has become the youngest person to ski the 60-mile “Last Degree” journey to the North Pole.

London, England (CNN) — A woman from the United Arab Emirates was literally on top of the world after becoming the first Arab female to reach the North Pole.

Elham Al Qasimi braved temperatures of minus 22 F (minus 30 C) and coped with frostbite to fulfill a lifelong ambition by making the Arctic journey.

“I wanted to stand on top of the world and I wanted to put myself into the diametrically opposite environment to what I had ever experienced in my life,” Qasimi told CNN.

Upon reaching her destination, Qasimi scattered a handful of sand she had brought from her home country.

Qasimi began her journey on April 16 at precisely 89 degrees latitude, setting off from a temporary Russian base set up on drifting ice in the Arctic Ocean.

She then skied 80 miles with a 41-kilogram sled in tow, and finished her expedition on April 23 at 90 degrees North — the geographic North Pole.

Qasimi and her team of two guides and three other trekkers carried all their own food and equipment. Qasimi dealt with a minor case of frostbite on her nose and frostnip in her fingers.

“You’re facing one of the harshest environments in nature,” Qasimi told CNN.

Video: Elham Al Qasimi training in the Alps

Before the trip she underwent an intensive six-month training regime, including a stint in the French Alps, where she kept a video diary for CNN. But the merciless reality of polar trekking still came as a shock.

“You are too cold to feel your fingers. If you can’t feel your fingers you don’t want to take them out of the mitts in order to pour some food out or drink some water, but you’re burning so many calories that if you don’t, you will collapse.”

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Meals included calorie-dense delights like deep-fried bagels and “polar pizza,” made with reindeer salami.

In it, she described the sight of ice blocks jutting out from the snow like “blue kryptonite,” seeing “sundogs” — an optical illusion “somewhere between the northern lights and a rainbow” — and crossing “floaties, which are loose but large pieces of ice that sink into the ocean if you stand on them too long.”

Mental toughness was just as important as physical endurance, according to Qasimi.

She told CNN: “My legs, arms and back held up fine. My joints were hurting from the constant grinding — eight hours a day with barely any breaks — but the mental challenge was the most important part of it.”

When morale was low Qasimi read letters from loved ones to give her strength, she said.

The support of members of the public — particularly Middle Eastern women who often said her story had inspired them to try to fulfil long-held ambitions — also helped her push on.

“Prior to my departure I got really inspiring messages from women throughout the Middle East — from Saudi, Syria, Morocco … There were a whole lot of people who wanted to see me make it, so it wasn’t just personal anymore,” she said.

First wild cheetah cubs born in UAE in four decades

Qasimi, a former investment banker who was born in Dubai but lived in the Unites States until she was 12, is believed to be the first Arab woman to set foot on the North Pole.

Qasimi wasn’t aware of this when she started planning her journey, but it became very important once she realized.

“Women in the Middle East are half the population,” she said. “They’re half the human capital, and they’re half that hasn’t been invested in properly.

“Universities and all these things are important but they’re not what makes a productive society, per se. It’s people with opinions, with viewpoints, preferences and experience.

“Women in the Middle East need a bit more of that, whether it’s in fashion, art or sport. That was the most important message for me, that made it worth sharing.”

The expedition raised money for PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.

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Today, the Arctic environment is more threatened than threatening, even as the team endures -50 below temperatures on 300+ mile journey.

FROM THE NORTH POLE TO THE UNITED NATIONS
Sebastian Copeland and Keith Heger Start Trek to Change the Future of the Arctic

300+ Mile Journey Will Gather Data for UN Forum

Resolute Bay, Nunavut – March 29th, 2009

Arctic adventurer, explorer, and activist Sebastian Copeland was glad to get off the ground on Tuesday; bad weather had kept him and his partner, Keith Heger,

overnight at the remote arctic outpost of Eureka. As weather cleared, they were able to board the plane to take them to an unlikely rendezvous on the ice.

“Another team was intersecting with us so we could resupply their expedition at the same time we embarked on ours,” Copeland explained. “So we were able to unite on the ice for a short time.” But now Copeland and Heger are on their own for the rest of the 300+ mile journey over the ice. The destination

? The North Pole – before it’s too late to call in air support to get them back off of the ice.

“We’ll be moving as quickly as possible,” Keith Heger, a veteran Polar guide for PolarExplorers, says. “But ice and weather conditions can’t always be predicted. And, of course, there are other factors as well.” Those “other factors” may include polar bears, something that the team they met had already encountered in the form of large pawprints across their trail.

But the arctic environment these days is more threatened than threatening, and that’s what Copeland hopes to focus on.Copeland is embarking on this trip (his fifth to a Polar region in the last four years) to raise awareness of the alarming rate of ice melt due to Global Warming. Scientists predict that in less than five years, the Arctic sea will be ice free in the summer months. In 1909, the average depth of ice at the North Pole was 12 feet while today it averages just 5.5 feet. Just twenty years ago, 80% of the Arctic sea ice was 10 years old or more. Today, just 3% of the ice is a decade old.

Copeland’s adventure is the continuation of the Pax Arctica mission started last summer with the Young Ambassadors of the Arctic. Copeland, Luc Hardy and Global Green partnered to raise awareness on the need to establish a charter of protection for the Arctic as the sea ice melt is opening the region to the exploitation of its natural resources. “One oil platforms has a 33%-55% chance of a major spill in the Arctic environment; that is just one platform!” Copeland says. “In the Arctic, they are virtually impossible to clean up. The pack ice spreads the spill to thousands of square miles, spelling assured death to its surrounding wildlife, and adding one more challenge to the endangered Polar Bears. New maritime sea-lanes emerging in the Arctic are also challenging its biodiversity.”

This mission will lead to a forum at the UN in November chaired by Sebastian Copeland aimed at establishing an international charter of protection for the Arctic similar to the treaty of Madrid for Antarctica which declared it “land of science, land of peace”.

On the journey, Copeland and Heger will be skiing and pulling 200 to 250 pound of equipment and supplies in specially designed sledges for 8 to 12 hours a day — the equivalent of running a marathon every day for over 40 days. Frigid mean temperatures range from -50C to -5C. Ten knots of wind at -50C can drop the overall temperatures to -70C.

Additional challenges the men will face include frostbite; open leads of water; swimming with specially designed suits when leads are too large to cross; Polar Bears; hypothermia; and exhaustion. Sebastian and Keith are expected to lose around 15 pounds in spite of a 7000-calorie rich diet. Sebastian has subjected himself to eight months of rigorous training involving core and strength, hiking with a 100-pound vest, and yoga.

A daily blog of the expedition will be posted on MySpace at myspace.com/sebastiancopeland. The outfitting company Polar Explorer will be running logistics. The team is anticipated to exit out of Longyearbyen in Svalbard around April 28th, through the support of the Arctic floating station Barneo.

About Sebastian Copeland
Sebastian Copeland is a renowned photographer and environmental advocate. He is also an author and lecturer to audiences around the world, including at the UN, the World Affairs Council, the Google and the Apple headquarters, and the DLD in Munich among others. His books have been translated to international markets. Antarctica: The Global Warning won him multiple awards including the prestigious 2007 IPA Professional Photographer of the Year. Copeland is on the Board of directors of Global Green USA. Copeland will produce a personal documentary of this expedition, as well as document photographically this exotic and endangered landscape. This will be his fourth trip to the Arctic in preparation of his follow-up book on the area due in Fall 2010.

Sebastian Copeland – photo@seabassprod.com
www.sebastiancopeland.com
www.antarcticabook.com

ABOUT POLAR EXPLORERS – polarexplorers.com
Named one of the “Best Outfitters on Earth” by National Geographic Adventure Magazine and recommended in the “Rough Guide to Ultimate Adventure”, PolarExplorers is the premier polar guiding company successfully guiding many amateur and experienced adventurers to the North and South

Poles, across the Greenland ice cap, and on other Arctic adventures.

Antarctic temperatures meet their match in Maine, Chicago, and elsewhere in the States. “In my hometown of Chicago it was colder than here in the Antarctic. And at least we’re well-equipped and mentally and physically prepared for the challenge,” PolarExplorers guide Keith Heger says.

(Antarctica January 17th)
One thing self-confessed victims of “Polar Fever” Keith Heger and his international team of South-Pole-bound international trekkers were insulated from was the news of the exceptionally cold winter weather much, much farther North.

The experienced polar guide for PolarExplorers.com found the weather in Antarctica chilly as it dropped into the minus-degree teens, twenties, and thirties below zero but he imagined his compatriots back home were enjoying warmer weather. “It was a shock to hear the temperatures ordinary people were encountering in the U.S., even reaching -50 in Maine! Even in my hometown of Chicago it was colder than here in the Antarctic. And at least we’re well-equipped and mentally and physically prepared for the challenge.”

Some school districts in the United States closed schools because they were afraid that children waiting for school buses might suffer from frostbite and hypothermia. Would the kids have been better off in Antarctica?

“Here, our intense cross-country skiing while pulling a sledge tends to keep us warm enough. At times, it can actually get hot, which is why we manage and layer our clothing and other gear so carefully. And of course, we have the goal of reaching the South Pole, which keeps us inspired.”

Heger is now going on to lead a group to climb Mount Vinson, the highest point on the continent of Antarctica. He is providing a daily audio blog and Antarctica photos at polarexplorers.com/blogs/; select “South Pole Expedition”. Phone interviews via satellite phone can be arranged by calling company founder Rick Sweitzer at 847-828-8388 or 847 256 4409 for scheduling.

Polar Explorers is recognized as one of the “Best Outfitters on Earth” by National Geographic Adventure. Part of The Northwest Passage, Polar Explorers has been leading trips to the North and South Poles since 1993.

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15-year-old Polar Explorer Endures Icy Near Miss

Polar Explorer Taylor, 15 year old

Taylor Sweitzer is used to skiing over the chilly arctic ice fields, enduring temperatures of -25 degrees Celsius and more. But as hard as it is to get over the rough ice fields, where steep pressure ridges often form as ice pans crash together, it’s even harder to get to the North

Pole if you try walking on water.

“Lucky me, my foot slipped but the water didn’t go over the top of my boot. If it had, tt would have been a little more of a problem.” Taylor says nonchalantly. Once the icy water touches the flesh, frostbite can swiftly follow. In those cases, the team would rush to get him to solid ground and race to replace his wet sock and boot. If Taylor seems unnaturally calm in the face of a frigid emergency, it’s because he’s seen it all before – he rehearsed just such a scenario in the Minnesota wilderness during the extensive pre-trip training period.

This season, in addition to pressure ridges, polar adventurers have been encountering many open leads, areas of water which must be crossed or skied around, a process which can add many miles to the quest to reach the North Pole. Taylor is part of a Polar Explorers expedition led by his father, Rick Sweitzer, an experienced polar veteran who has reached the North Pole over 18 times. This time, the team was dropped on the arctic ice a full degree (about 69 miles) from the North Pole, and left to ski the remaining distance. Since the ice floats on top of the Arctic Ocean, it sometimes pushes against the direction they are skiing, adding many more miles to the task in an effect called “The Polar Treadmill”

If Taylor successfully reaches the North Pole, he will be among the youngest in the world to do so, though he has already accepted that he won’t be the youngest in his family to reach the North Pole. “My dad flew in my my mom and my brother Christopher when he was a baby to the Pole to greet him when he completed his first Polar Explorers expedition in 1992. I wasn’t even born yet. At that time there were no age restrictions to be allowed on the flight to the Pole -there are now- so he’ll always have the family record!” Taylor admits. “But I’ll be the one who actually skied there under my own power.”

To hear Taylor’s audio report from the ice for April 20th, go to polarexplorers2010skiexpedition.blogspot.com/

Interviews with Taylor by satellite phone from the ice are available on and can be arranged by contacting Annie Aggens, Director of Polar Operations, or Nancy Vedder, Program Manager, at Polar Explorers: 1 800 732-7328 or 1 847 256-4409. Annie Aggens cell phone is 1 847 651 0524.

MORE ABOUT POLAR EXPLORERS
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Annie Aggens
Polar Expeditions Director
PolarExplorers – a division of The Northwest Passage
www.polarexplorers.com
1.800.732.7328 (in the U.S. & Canada)
+1.847.256.4409 (worldwide)

“One of the Best Outfitters on Earth” – National Geographic Adventure Magazine

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