Hi! I\u2019m Kathy Hart.<\/p>\n
Similar to knowing the story and inspiration behind a song, I believe knowing the person behind this website will add to your personal experience with it. First, I have a confession\u2026 I often get bored reading \u2018About Me\u2019 pages so thank you for being curious. I will do my best to not bore you!<\/p>\n
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 70s with banana seat bikes, powdered milk, and the Bee Gees. <\/i>My passion for music during that time allowed me to escape a \u2018real\u2019 job and work in radio for 30+ years.<\/p>\n
I was a middle-child misfit who never felt like I fit in anywhere so I pursued life with a nothing-to-lose attitude. I was drawn to things girls didn\u2019t do back then. I got my first radio job when there were very few females on the air. Fueled by suddenly fitting in where I \u2018didn\u2019t belong\u2019, <\/i>I discovered martial arts and became the first girl at my karate school to earn a black belt, and in my career became the first female in my category elected into the National Radio Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
I know\u2026 sounds braggy! But please know my purpose in sharing this. I was the LEAST likely person to do these things. Never the popular girl, I was super shy and nauseatingly terrified the first time I talked on the radio, and far from the athletic girl \u2014 clumsy<\/i> and awkward<\/i> were words often used to describe me \u2014 I questioned my sanity when I signed up for martial arts.<\/p>\n
Blissfully ignorant, I chose a life of adventure. What I did not choose was a life-changing illness for myself or my kids. I was diagnosed with a serious mold illness and my two boys with Lyme disease. After years of us being misdiagnosed, I was determined to get answers. Helping my family heal has taught me many things but most importantly it has taught me that GRIT<\/i> continues to get me through things I never knew were possible.<\/p>\n
GRIT<\/i><\/b>: the perseverance<\/u><\/b> to stick with something even after experiencing difficulty or failure; the passion<\/u><\/b> to commit to a challenging task.<\/i><\/p>\n
We all have it. Some just haven\u2019t found it yet. Grit is not something you learn in a classroom. It\u2019s not even something you are born with. You develop it by experiencing hard things; challenges that make you want to quit…. like an illness, whether it’s with you or your children. We all have a path and sometimes we get lost, other times we hit speedbumps or detours. My mission with Gritology <\/em>is to help you along your path to healing with grit and grace!<\/p>\n Your dreams are on the other side of your grit!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n ~kathy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi! I\u2019m Kathy Hart. Similar to knowing the story and inspiration behind a song, I believe knowing the person behind this website will add to your personal experience with it. First, I have a confession\u2026 I often get bored reading \u2018About Me\u2019 pages so thank you for being curious. I will do my best to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gritology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}