She Magazine SEPTEMBER 2014 | Page 117

Get Ready to Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever... Saturday, January 31st Florence-Darlington Tech’s SIMT Building 9:30am - 4:00pm Join She Magazine and Professionals in the Fields of Health, Fitness, Beauty, Organization, and more at our 2nd Annual She Inspires - The Healthy, Fit & Fabulous Event! Last year’s event was such a hit, we designed Barbara Hemphill started her organizing career in 1978 this year’s with two lunch times and two keynote speakers, making it possible for more people to experience this fabulous day. From Health and Fitness to children, marriage and organization, we thought of everything! with a $7 ad in a New York City newspaper. Today, as the founder of the Productive Environment Institute, she leads an international team of Certified Productive Environment Specialists™. Her passion is helping people eliminate the physical, emotional, and spiritual clutter that prevents them from accomplishing their work and enjoying their lives. A respected expert in paper, information and time management, and work/life balance, Barbara’s books include Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger series, Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever, co-authored Bushido Business, her 2011 release, Organizing Paper @Home: What to Toss and How to Find the Rest and soon to be released Less Clutter More Life. Spanning a 30-year career on the cutting edge of a growing industry, Barbara has appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America, in Reader’s Digest, USA Today, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, The New York Times, Real Simple, and Guideposts magazine. An adventurer as well as an innovator, Barbara has lived in the West Indies, India, New York City, and Washington, DC. While living in India in the 1970’s, she and her husband adopted three orphaned children. Learn more at www.barbarahemphill.com. • Talk to the professionals at their vendor booths • Attend Interactive and informative seminars led by physicians and experts in their fields • Participate in fitness classes • Take advantage of the many beauty services offered by Betty Stevens Cosmetology School such as $5 hair cuts, $12 pedicures, $10 manicures, complete brow services, makeovers and more! OVER 15 SEMINARS & 2 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Come and spend the day. Leave equipped with the tools and inspiration needed to live your best life! Tickets are $25.00* *Includes lunch with Julie Hadden in the ballroom and Barbara Hemphill’s life-changing GET ORGANIZED seminar as well as any of the other seminars and activities. Tickets sales, a complete list of seminars, speakers, and registration available on-line September 30th at shemagazine.com. Tickets may be purchased at select sponsor locations October 5th. Group tickets call 664.0300. Tickets and booth space will sell out quickly. For vendor booth and business participation as well as other information call 843.664-0300 or e-mail Laura Trussell, Event Coordinator at [email protected]. Julie Hadden , one of the most successful and memorable contestants ever on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, struggled with her self-worth and her size for years. At age thirty-four she found herself at a crossroads: would she settle for staying ‘big’ the rest of her life, or would she insist on making big changes instead? Reality-TV fans know which path Julie chose. When she stepped on the scale at the show’s season-four finale, being named the “Biggest Female Loser” of the season and revealing she had lost an astounding 45 percent of her body weight, she simultaneously stepped into the world’s collective heart. Julie’s journey on The Biggest Loser chronicled her emotional battle with obesity on national television for the entire world to see. It was previously a private struggle that became very public. The experience helped birth her new physique, but the transformation went far deeper than that. From displeasure to conten F