Sat, Jun 14
|Online until further notice...
Guest Speaker - ANDREA COUREY
Award-winning Entrepreneur, Author, Lecturer, M Ed., Dobson Fellow, Sound Meditation Facilitator
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2025, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Online until further notice...
About the Presenter
In 1997, Andrea founded Grandma Emily’s Granola in Montreal, Quebec. Starting from her home kitchen, she grew the company and the product line to include granola cereals, bars, snacks and gifts. A single mother with three children, little money and no child support, her business plan was one line: ‘don’t give up’. Eighteen years later, with sales from coast to coast, the company was sold.
Andrea imagined lazy days of retirement ahead filled with nothing but time, but a larger role awaited. That of caregiver to her daughter Chloe who fell ill with cancer. After a difficult and also blessed year, Chloe passed in 2016. She was 28.
About six weeks after Chloe's death, Andrea sat down to write her a letter - the kind of letter a mother writes to help express her grief. Fully expecting to burn the letter upon completion, her world changed when Chloe answered back.…