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2025 WLA Annual Celebration

December 2, 2025 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CST)

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Pearls of Hope, with Edie Hand

“The way I see it is we are a True Grit sisterhood to give a hand up to others through Pearls of Hope!” 

Edie Hand is a businesswoman, speaker, media personality, filmmaker, international author, and Mom. She has authored and been a part of authoring over twenty-five books.

Edie is the founder of the "Women of True Grit” franchise that encourages women to share their stories of how they navigated through hard things to find beautiful situations. Edie has partnered with NBC/WAFF 48 Gray Television of Huntsville, ABC 33/40 Sinclair television of Birmingham, Alabama and Alabama Public Television to bring heartfelt and educational stories to help women and students not feel alone as they face the seasons of life. Stay tuned for "Women of True Grit Pearls of Hope" programming on Tuscaloosa's Town Square Media's Christian and country radio stations. Available now through Edie Hand Foundation and Alabama Sports Foundation of Montgomery is the "Grit:101 For Teens" program. Additionally, there are programs for college students and community leaders.

She was the CEO of a full-service ad company, Hand ‘N Hand Advertising, in Birmingham and Daphne, Alabama for over thirty years. In recent years she partnered with her Hollywood actor/businessman son, Linc Hand, to form Hand N Hand Entertainment to continue her writing for film, television, radio, and podcasts. Edie also founded the Edie Hand Foundation over fifteen years ago in memory of her three, young Blackburn brothers to help pay life forward with acts of kindness to others with broken hearts. Edie is a four-time Cancer survivor and understands living with chronic illness, but always finds the grit to keep moving onward and upward. She learned how to turn hard things into beautiful situations.

She also comes from a wonderful family heritage of songwriting, acting, and music from the Hood-Hacker-Presley Family. Her legendary cousin was Elvis Presley and she learned firsthand about paying life forward through charities in one's community. Edie Hand (formerly Edith Blackburn Hand) is an alumnus of the University of North Alabama. She and her friend George Lindsey founded scholarships for students pursuing a career in theater or communications. Edie lives near Birmingham, Alabama but her heart is in Hollywood, California with her only son actor, Linc Hand, and his singer/songwriter wife Victoria Renee Hand.

To learn more about Edie, her books, the charities she supports, and her speaking topics visit her websites:

EdieHand.com | HnHEntertainment.biz 

www.womanoftruegrit.org | EdieHandFoundation.org



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