Women's Health in Motion Today - June 3

Hello to All Women in Motion!

We held our first event on Saturday, May 19th at Cottonwood Creek Church. The event was focusing on Melanoma Prevention, since May is Melanoma Month. We had great support from all the medical and beauty community in McKinney and Frisco. Our title sponsors were Medical Center of McKinney, McKinney Regional Cancer Center, Rene's Lagniappe Hair Design and Dr. Kathryn Wood with Dermalase. Also, many of our area not for profit organizations participated as well. We dedicated the day to Mya Spencer the daughter of my dear friends Cocoa and Mike Spencer of Sarasota, Florida. Mya was 23 years old and passed away 3 years after ago after a 4 year battle with Melanoma. Cocoa Spencer and Joanne Seaman flew in from Florida to support us in our effort to bring Melanoma in to awareness. It was a fun day for a very serious cause.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Theresa Summers for all her help with the admin work she did on the event. I couldn't have done it without her.

Also, Jean Schlipman and Celine Matthiessen of the Schlippman Foundation were valuable assets and a great help.

Our next event is schedule for July 20 on Hormone Replacement Therapy, Arthritis and Osteoporosis. It is to be a "Pajama Party" as part of my 55th birthday celebration. I am dedicating the event for July 20 to my mother, Evelyn Oliver, age 84 who is suffering from debilitating Arthritis.

I believe we will be able to have the event in the evening from 4 pm to 11 pm at the El Dorado Country Club in McKinney. I also want to have a wine and cheese party at the kick-off of the event.

The next event will be August 25 at the McKinney Performing Arts Center, the former "Old Court House" in downtown McKinney. The Ice Cream Crank-off will be taking place and we feel that we can "piggy back" on to this very successful, and heavily attended event with a Family Health Fair.

Our web site has been launched. It is in it's infancy and still needs many additions and upgrades that we are working on.

I have interviewed Sales Staff and have selected two very outstanding ladies to assist me in selling memberships and booth space for upcoming events. More about them in a later post.

There will be 4 components to our organization: 1) Our web site, 2) Membership - both individaul and business, 3) Expo and Seminar Events, 4) our own Women's Health in Motion Magazine. The sales staff will assist in selling all four components.

We have big plans and dreams in Women's Health in Motion. The plan is to take the organization state wide, and nationwide.

If you are not already a member, please do join and help us further the cause of optimum health. Individual membership is $29 and business membership is $99 for 1 year.

It is a well known that the wife and the mother of the family is the monitor and promoter of health for the whole family. When the wife and mother is more educated about health, the entire family is more healthy.

I look forward to meeting more health professionals and indivudals whose focus is promoting healthy living.

In Motion,
Toward Optimum Health,
Debra K. Pope
Founder
Women's Health in Motion