Edie Hand

About Edie Hand

Edie Hand is a businesswoman, speaker, media personality, filmmaker, international author, and Mom. She has authored or been a part of authoring 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. The first Women of True Grit Documentary aired on Alabama Public Television in November 2021 and media relationships have expanded since then. Edie has partnered with Sinclair Broadcasting of Birmingham, Alabama to share Women of True Grit Vignettes in 2022. In 2024 Gray Media Group in Huntsville will also be showcasing the Women of True Grit Vignettes.

Edie Hand’s Women of True Grit has developed a series of 30-minute documentary-style programs. Additionally, other media platforms in development are podcasts, radio interviews, and streaming. Reel Lumiere, (a publication of the Nashville Women in Film and Television), a national digital publication, features an article for Edie Hand’s Women of True Grit series monthly.

She has starred in National Commercials and 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.

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 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. One of the other initiatives of the Foundation is developing a workshop series “Grit 101” a program to help young people to develop personal skills that will benefit them throughout their lives.