Edie Hand
Edie Hand is a businesswoman, speaker, media personality, filmmaker, international author, and Mom. She has authored or coauthored over twenty-five books. The Edie Hand Foundation’s brand “Women of True Grit” encourages women to share their stories and passion from the trials they face to their triumphs. Edie has partnered with Sinclair Broadcasting of Birmingham, Ala. to share Women of True Grit Vignettes through a television series. She has starred in National Commercials, daytime television soaps, hosted national TV programs and developed several radio shows and vignettes across the country. 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 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.
