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
http://www.tastingroomwines.com/
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.

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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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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/27/woman.uae.north.pole/index.html