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“I nominated her in the spring of 2018 for the KMEA District 12 ( Jefferson County) High School Teacher of the Year,” she says. “Any KMEA member is allowed to nominate colleagues within their district for a number of awards. The district-level recipients are then able to apply for the state-level awards.” Knapke received her award at the KMEA Professional Development Conference. She received $500 which will be used at school. “With Eastern being a business and information technology school, I’m always trying to keep that in the classroom,” she says. “I use a lot of Google Classroom and the students do online submissions for their singing tests from home, which is nice so they don’t have to get nervous in front of their peers. I’m considering either purchasing an updated computer or an Apple TV device. But I know the award will be used for some sort of technology.” Cox first heard of Knapke when she was a college music education major. “She is a well-respected and frequently observed teacher in the area,” Cox says. “We officially met when I student taught with her in the spring of 2011.” Cox says that Knapke inspired her passion toward becoming a music educator in a number of ways.

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Teachers’ lives are pretty much non-stop. They hold hours of instruction daily, plus they often take on advising afterschool clubs, coaching sports programs or tutoring students who may be falling behind academically. Lori Knapke, the Director of Choirs at Eastern High School, is certainly a teacher who gives her all to her pupils. Knapke has

“Student teaching with Lori and continuing to watch her work with kids has been one of the most defining points of my career,” she says. “She leads with the philosophy of ‘know thy students,’ and it’s apparent how she makes her students’ well-being a held this position for 21 years and she works priority. As a young music education major, days, nights and often weekends. This past I thought I was getting into the field to teach February, her dedication was recognized as music, but Lori taught me the importance of she received the High School Educator of teaching students first.” the Year award from the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA). In order Knapke’s journey towards education as a to be eligible for this award, music teachers career began when she was younger and are first nominated to win a regional award, knew she wanted to work with children. which she received. She was nominated by her cohort and former student teacher, “I was a swimmer and coached a lot in the Lydia Cox, who teaches choir at Crosby summer,” Knapke says. “That really fostered Middle School. my love of working with youth.” 6 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / MAY 2019 / atMiddletown.com

She says she always wanted to become a teacher but wasn’t sure what she wanted to teach. When she was preparing to go to college she auditioned at the University of Louisville’s School of Music and they offered her a full-tuition scholarship for piano, so she accepted the opportunity. She received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music and her Master of Arts in Teaching from the university. After college, Knapke applied for the choir director position at Eastern High School. Although she had no teaching experience, other than student teaching, the principal at that time, Jim Sexton, was ‘brave enough to hire a rookie,’ as she puts it. “He tried several transfers and was ready to do something different by hiring someone who was local,” she says. “I was lucky enough to be in the right spot at the right time.” Before she was hired at Eastern there had

been a successful choir program up until the early 90s. She ended up being the fourth director in three years when she arrived at the school in the fall of 1998. “There had been a lot of turnover and not a lot of consistency with the program,” Knapke says. Knapke’s days are extremely busy, starting from before the bell rings until well after

school ends. She begins her day with her planning period and then goes on to teach different choral sections from second through seventh period. Her second-period class is the Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory. “This class is a lot of fun because it’s with kids who are pretty serious about music in their future,” she says.

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She also teaches two sections of beginning women’s choir which is designed for those who’ve never been in a high school choir class. They perform Renaissance as well as contemporary music. In addition to these classes, Knapke has a beginning men’s choir and a concert choir that consists of 40 young ladies and one male student, but she says the mix varies from year to year. She also has a chamber singers class which performs their music a capella. After school she works with two groups, E-Major, a contemporary pop ensemble, and one for freshmen, sophomores and juniors called Out of the Blue.

“I like how Mrs. Knapke has control over the class but she doesn’t treat us like children,” Drane says. “All of the kids in her classes respect her as a teacher.” Knapke also offers her students ways to shine outside of school performances.

“She has always been great at finding her students amazing opportunities to sing,” Drane says. “This winter, I got to sing with the University of Louisville orchestra. There were only about seven that got to sing from Eastern. The rest were from the U of L choir. We were conducted by Teddy Abrams.” “Lori is passionate about kids and choir is One of Knapke’s students is Taylor Drane, a her chosen avenue for reaching them,” Cox junior, who’s been in the Eastern choir classes adds. “She believes in the power of shared for all three years. She started in the women’s experience through the performance of choir her freshman year then advanced to music, but the kids are what keep her the chamber singers for her sophomore and going strong.” junior years. Drane is also in the after school group E-Major. She and her classmates love The Eastern choir students are fortunate their teacher and are impressed by the way to have a teacher like Knapke, and they she treats all of her students. certainly benefit from her dedication and

the many hours she puts into her classes, every day, from morning until night. Congratulations on your award from the Kentucky Music Educators Association.

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Designing more comfortable wheelchair handles. Caps to apply sunscreen. Grips to hold fitted sheets. Just some of the past projects for “Design The Future,” a weeklong design and engineering program for high schools students by DC Design, a small social impact design firm in Oakland, California. The University of Louisville is hosting the program for the first time this June, along with Stanford University, Boston University, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin –Madison and Sacred Heart University. The program began five years ago at Stanford. The immersive STEM summer program was developed with the Institute of Design at Stanford and K12 Lab by creator Durell Coleman of DC Design. The program teaches students a college environment,

engagement to effect social challenges and about looking at abilities and creating products to improve daily life and the world around them.

Design The Future and lead designer at DC Design. Johnson is an alumna of Stanford and University of Kansas. “It’s getting to know the partner, understand what life is like.”

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“I’m not just making a product to make a product but making a product for a person,” says one student, in the “Design The Future 2018” video.

The program also teaches students to design with project partners, not just for them, in the process learning ways to help people in future and learning to persist to find solutions, keeping the user in mind.

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The program hires local high school teachers and facilitators and college students as coaches. Local students pay to participate but scholarships are available for low-income students and students from under-represented groups.

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The University of Louisville was chosen because the school’s social engagement and community focus on design. “It fits well to expand,” Johnson says. “The University of Louisville cares about social impact when wanting to bring programs to the Midwest.” Johnson is from Lawrence, Kansas but has contacts in Louisville. The program teaches students to “take challenges, in engineering or other fields, while figuring out who they’re going to be, what to do and about going to college.” Some program participants plan to go into engineering or design, some to education and social work. “The common thread is to show concern for others, and to help others, in math or science or languages,” Johnson says.

“Design The Future allows kids to believe in the idea they change the future, and they can change the world,” described a project partner.

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Looking at Sarah King’s life on paper makes her seem as normal as any member of the general population. She’s a police officer who was born and raised in Louisville, attended NKU on a softball scholarship and graduated 2004 with a degree in criminal psychology. King has a wife, Brittany, an attorney for the court of appeals, and a two-year-old son named Asher. She’s also an officer and sniper for the Jeffersontown Police Department’s Special Operations Group (SPO, commonly referred to as SWAT) and the only female sniper in the state of Kentucky.

“As of right now, there’s only a certain amount of schools here in Kentucky that host basic sniper courses and talking to them and people in the NTOA (National Tactical Officer Association) and KTOA (Kentucky Tactical Officers Association), I am the only one,” King says.

“I always thought this field is really interesting,” she says. “In college, with my criminal justice classes, I did some ride alongs with the police that I thought this was a career path that I wanted to go in. The reason I went into this kind of work is because I’ve always really enjoyed helping people.”

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And if you’ve ever seen Hollywood portrayals of snipers, such as Mark Wahlberg’s in “Shooter”, King admits that some parts of it aren’t all that different in real life. “We also learn different math formulas to help for windage and elevation,” she says. “At different distances you’re going to have to make adjustments in order to be on the target.” More than simply a sniper, King has also learned many other elements of what it takes to be a good SWAT team member. She prides herself on being able to carry out any duties she might be called upon to perform. “I’m still new,” she says. “But we have training once a month. A full day. It varies each time what we do, what task. I still work on entry stuff. I’m also an entry guy. We’re not always going to be able to deploy snipers so with that I still have to keep my skills honed when it comes to entry.”

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This desire for King to understand every aspect of her job, to be a successful leader, she says, comes from an unlikely source: softball. “From back in my days of being a catcher in college when I was playing softball, I liked to be a team leader, I like to lead the field,” she says. “As a catcher, you’re running the field. You’re making sure everyone’s good, the team knows what’s going on and has control of the situation. When it comes to snipers, it’s kind of the same thing. You are the overwatch. So when they’re making entrance into a house you always have eyes on the house to make sure they’re going in safe. I think of it like a manager. You want to know how to do everyone’s job. I really like that aspect.” A great feature of being on SWAT is that King gets to put her SWAT-learned tactics and knowledge to use on the beat in Jeffersontown. Another good thing is, we can expect police officers like King, ones who hold the responsibility of their job in serious regard and labor to be the best they can be both for themselves and the people they protect, to be on the streets protecting us for quite some time. “I don’t like sitting behind a desk,” she says. ‘I like being out here doing things.” MAY 2019

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THE ROAD TO SUCCESS Meineke of Louisville Owner Bryan Brown Talks Family & Passion For the Automotive Industry Writer / Shannon Siders . Photography by Patricia Longmire Photography

If you had told Bryan Brown when he graduated from high school a little over 30 years ago that by 2019 he would own and operate one of the most successful chains of Meineke stores in the entire country, he would not have believed you. Brown always had the energy and enthusiasm necessary for an entrepreneurial lifestyle but did not take a particular interest in school. Growing up in Indianapolis, Brown always had a passion for working on things and was often found tinkering with bicycles and go-karts. By his teenage years, that interest migrated over to cars, and Brown decided to forego college and enter the workforce. By 1994, he had landed a role in Meinekeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corporate office, helping franchisees launch stores around the region. Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s client load had increased to 38 stores across three states when opportunity struck.

“I saw how I was helping other franchisees make money, and I thought why don’t I do it myself,” he says. Brown found the perfect opportunity to go into business for himself in Louisville, which at the time was a wideopen market. He and his wife Carla moved to Middletown in 1997 and have called the area home ever since. Their success and growth in the Louisville market can be described as nothing less than explosive. The Browns now own and operate 14 stores in the Greater Louisville area, including locations in Elizabethtown, Radcliff, New Albany and Charlestown. They have opened two new stores in the last calendar year alone, with another opening this spring.

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“I’m always looking for good opportunities for growth,” Brown says. “If we find good locations, we’re going to jump in there and open stores.” The Browns chain of stores generate the second-most revenue out of more than 900 Meineke locations across the United States. They trail only slightly behind one other organization under the Meineke umbrella, an operation with 25 stores. Along with the 14 Meineke locations, the Browns also own Mighty Auto Parts (located at 4172 Bardstown Road in Buechel), a wholesale company that provides many of his franchises with parts and supplies. An employee who has been with Brown for sixteen years runs Mighty Auto Parts, and the Browns have been lucky to experience excellent staff retention rates across all areas of their business over the years. One of their technicians, Mike, started with the Browns when he was 23 years old and is celebrating his 22nd year with the company.

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“Our staff means the world to us,” says Brown, noting that his locations employ around 75 people. “We are the biggest family-owned multi-unit automotive group in the city, and we look at our staff as family. We do whatever we can for them.” The Browns make it a point to get to know every employee in the company, and birthdays are celebrated with homemade treats from Carla. The pair hosts regular company outings and celebrations that include their staff ’s family members, fostering a sense of family across their large network of stores. One of the Brown’s three children is even involved in the operations and serves as the store manager for their new location in La Grange. While Brown was happy that Stephan, his son, wanted to join the family business after college, the role was not simply handed to him. “I told him to go out and get a job in this business, get some experience and then I

would interview him and see what happens,” ensure all staff — from technicians to sales — are armed with the training and tools Brown says. necessary to excel in their jobs and provide the best overall experience for customers. His other employees were shocked, but he said, “I respect them too much to bring in someone just because of their last name.” “Anytime we have a new initiative, we look at it through the customer’s eyes first,” Brown Stephan gained experience with a says. “Everything has to be about the customer competitor before he earned a spot in one of — customer first, company second.” Brown’s Meineke stores. He has followed in his father’s successful footsteps ever since. The Brown’s approach has garnered recognition at the national level. In 2016, “I’m really looking forward to seeing how he he and Carla became the only three-time progresses in the business,” Brown says. winner of the Meineke Franchisee of the Year award (also taking home the honor in Holding employees to a high standard 2008 and 2012), and their individual stores across the board is a must for Brown and are often recognized as top performing another reason why he believes he has been centers. The Franchisee of the Year is so successful. chosen based on sales numbers, customer satisfaction and time spent helping other “We really expect a lot out of our people, and franchisees successfully grow their own we compensate them accordingly,” Brown chain of stores. says. “We set our expectations high and don’t accept mediocrity or complacency.” “It feels awesome and it’s great recognition for our efforts over the years to receive An in-house training coordinator helps these awards,” Brown says. “Meineke as a

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company really focuses on the franchisee and their profitability, and we’ve had a great partnership over the last 22 years.”

organization that helps the local homeless population, and volunteer at Wayside Christian Mission.

Their organization is also making an impact outside of their stores. The Browns were just awarded the Meineke Philanthropy Award for the second year in a row and makes giving back a priority.

“We go down to Wayside every other month to contribute toiletries and clothes or to grill dinner for them,” Brown says. “We are getting something similar started in Shelby County now that we have a new store there.”

“The community supports us in such a big way, it feels good to give back,” he says. The Browns and their staff support a number of local charities and organizations, as well as Operation Homefront on a national level. Meineke places a big emphasis on supporting veterans, and Brown’s stores offer free oil changes to veterans on Veterans Day. “We run hundreds of cars through our stores on Veterans Day to make sure all of our veterans are taken care of,” he says. They also contribute to Fleur’s Dream, an

While he wishes he could spend more time in his stores, most of Brown’s time is spent in the office working on the overall management of his franchises and looking into opportunities for new development. In the shop working on cars, Brown has found a new way to keep his passion alive. Within the last few years, the car enthusiast began to collect muscle cars from the late 1960s to early 1970s and has already grown his collection to 10. “I love going to car shows and chatting with people who have the same interests,” he says.

And yes, he does have a life outside of the automotive industry. The Browns love spending time with their four grandkids, who, at ages four and under, keep their hands full. As for the future? “This is my 25th year with Meineke, and I still look forward to getting up and going to work every day,” Brown says. “I love it, and there’s a lot left in me.”

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The best gifts for new moms are things that save time and small comforts for sleepdeprived parents like super-soft mix and match pajamas you can find at Soma or a subscription to Shipt or Instacart! They’ll 100 percent appreciate the thoughtfulness of not having to run to the grocery store when they need things for dinner, but the baby is napping. For the Mom Who Needs Quiet The one thing moms can never get enough Does your momma like flowers? Most do, of is alone time, and there are many ways but there are a couple of different options here. For those who like to get their hands to give her that. She might have a preferred massage location or yoga spot that you can dirty in the garden, pop over to your local nursery or gardening and landscaping store grab her a gift card at. Or even better, book and grab a few of their favorite florals. You her an appointment and prepay! She’s sure to love this alone time especially when can purchase pre-potted arrangements or everything is taken care of. pick out a few flats for your mom to make their own combination. There are also For the Active Mom options for those who are less inclined to The best gifts for active mom are obviously garden but prefer fresh cut. If that’s the activities! If your mom is a gal who likes to case, check out thebouqs.com who offers really unique florals that she’s sure to want work out, then maybe buy her a few sessions to try out a new studio in your area. If they to show off.

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are someone who likes to be outdoors, think about gifting her a season pass to your state park. With a pass, they can explore some really great land throughout the state.

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If your mom is one who loves to get crafty and make things, why not sign her up for a local workshop? Find one for decorating florals, creating candles, or hand lettering. Pouring candles is also very fun and maybe more her style. If so, sign her up for a candle pouring workshop in your area.

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Treat your mom to a nice Mother’s Day brunch and no dishes afterward. No one wants to do the dishes on Mother’s Day. No. One. So make reservations at her favorite, local restaurant. Enjoy each other’s company while enjoying some great eats too I don’t think many would say no to brunch. And if you can’t make brunch happen, then grab her a gift card to one of her favorite spots to eat around town.

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This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the Annual Arts on the Green, a Fine Arts and Crafts Show hosted by the Arts Association of Oldham County (AAOC). What started as a small outdoor art show with 15 artist’s booths back in 1999, has grown into an award-winning two-day Festival that includes more than 125 artist’s booths, live music, food, Wine & Beer vendors and children’s activities. It is estimated to bring more than 10,000 visitors to downtown LaGrange, Kentucky on a beautiful, picturesque weekend in early June.

talented artists and had experience planning and executing an outdoor art show. Held on the Oldham County Historical Center grounds, a total of 15 artists set up booths on a cold, rainy day in April. Eventually moved to the first weekend in June, the Arts on the Green show was also moved to its current location at the Oldham Courthouse Lawn. Surrounded by large, old trees, luscious thick grass and that beautiful stately-looking brick building, the existing sidewalks seemed to be a perfect fit for the walkways leading visitors past amazingly talented artists and craftspeople showcasing their work.

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or heart of Arts on the Green. Artist Judy Weganest directed the show for a number of years, followed by Marion Gibson as Director. Gibson ambitiously brought on food vendors and onsite sponsors were added to 2nd Street. Arts on the Green has always been a fine arts juried show with AAOC Board Vice President Jim Cheski leading the charge to select and coordinate talented and artistic judges each year. “We feel strongly about maintaining the quality of the show and our careful selection of judges makes the caliber of it a valuable asset to the creative community,” Cheski says. The show continued to grow, with artist numbers rising and the front lawn almost at capacity. In 2010, current Director Mary

their works. The public has the difficult task of selecting the top winners. Klausing also approached the Oldham County Historical Center to get more involved with the Festival. Under the direction of Nancy Theiss, the Colonial Trade Faire came into being. The history center grounds became a 1700’s Trade Faire. Vendors dressed in period costumes with trinkets and crafts appropriate for the era, adding yet another interesting and fun element to the festival setting.

Klausing was challenged by the AAOC Board to take the show to the next level as more of a Fine Arts and Crafts Festival. They wanted more community outreach and to Tim Curtis, Oldham County Parks grow their mission of “bringing the arts to and Recreation Director had a music Oldham County.” program called “Woodsongs, Old Time Coffeehouse.” Curtis coordinated musicians Children’s activities have always been to play once a month at the John Black an important component of Arts on the Center, and with a little encouragement Green. From finger painting on poster from Klausing, he and the musicians (that paper attached to large cardboard boxes, donate their time) agreed to play at the and an annual notecard contest, to a Arts on the Green Festival. They play both recycling project (coordinated by Elizabeth Saturday and Sunday each year. Kirkwood) last year encouraging children to “create something that made them feel good The festival grew and grew. With the about themselves, family or community.” addition of more artists, food, beer & wine vendors, and onsite sponsors took over the “We always make the children’s art activities Oldham County parking lot. A rest area and fun and creative,” Klausing says. “It’s dining tent with music were added at the surprising and refreshing how creative their 2nd Street Gazebo. artwork is in such a short amount of time.” “As a 501c3 non-profit, the Arts Association Several years ago, an “Emerging Artist of Oldham County is proud to present booth” was formed, giving Oldham County such a beautiful, solid fine arts festival,” says High School students a way to showcase Board of Directors President and artist Ann their artwork. Alvin MacWilliams, AAOC Stroth. “It’s great for the community and a Board Advisor, works with Art Teachers to wonderful part of our organization’s mission select the students that are chosen to display of ‘Bringing the Arts to Oldham County.’”

That mission also includes a large Fall art show (Oldham Arts on City Place), five competitive art shows annually in Gallery 104 (that is also home to 35 member artists), donation of annual scholarships, a partnership with Oldham County Singers and much more. “We’ve come a long way in 22 years,” Stroth adds. This year, Arts on the Green will host more than 125 artist booths with works in 10 artist mediums from paintings, pottery, jewelry, metal and wood, to consumables, craft art, fiber, photography and sculpture. In addition to corporate and business sponsors, there will be five retail sponsors, 10 food vendors, musicians and children’s activities at the Festival. Klausing credits the hard work of countless volunteers, phenomenal artists that participate year after year, and, of course, the amazing support of the community for the

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Within this learning lesson, Holthouse found inspiration for a much larger project. In 2008, he decided to take this concept to a much broader scale in Houston, Texas. Since that time, 10 years have passed and each year brings in more cities and more participants. In 2017, Lauren Coulter, now our City Director of Lemonade Day, and her husband got wind of the project and reached out to sponsor the event in Louisville. “Ten years have passed since the project was started and each year it seems to get bigger and bigger,” Coulter says. “Lemonade Day currently spans across 60 cities throughout the nation with a range of 40,000 kids in Houston participating to 15,000 in Indiana. “This is Louisville’s second year and roughly 660 kids did it. Last year, we had about 300-350 kids join in. The rate has doubled in just one year and we expect it to grow more over time.” Lemonade Day this year will be Saturday, May 18.

technology company. This sale set him up for a lucrative future, but he felt inclined to teach his children the importance of responsibility and hard work. He wanted to teach them to appreciate the benefits of discipline and self-motivation in the way that he had come to understand these traits over time.

As Louisville’s City Director of Lemonade Day, Coulter has many responsibilities she must adhere to in order for each project to be a success. The project relies heavily on like-minded volunteers looking to improve youth education in their communities. Coulter works year-round to acquire more volunteers, sponsors and media attention in order to keep the project growing strong. While it takes a lot of hard work and effort to keep this program alive, the results are well worth the time invested. Lemonade Day teaches the importance of monetary value, community vigilance and responsibility.

Lemonade Day started with a dream that was sparked by Holthouse’s daughter. She wanted to get a pet turtle and Holthouse saw, through this, the opportunity to teach his daughter a valuable lesson. He told her that, in order to acquire the pet, she would have to earn money to pay for it. Her initial response was to put up a lemonade stand which inevitably was so successful that she was able to purchase her turtle with money left over.

While Holthouse gains credit for starting this organization, each city involved depends on the sponsorship of community-oriented individuals looking to bring new opportunities to children in their hometown. The Coulters set their legacy in place long before Lemonade Day by launching multiple successful businesses. However, Lemonade Day may be their biggest achievement in terms of self-determined civic duty.

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The saying goes that, when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, and with a little bit of help, more than 650 kids in Louisville did just that this year. The Coulters, a local entrepreneurial couple, joined a group in 2017 called “Lemonade Day” and sponsored the project in order to bring it to children in the local community. The goal of Lemonade Day is to inspire today’s youth to gain a more intricate understanding of modern business in terms of finance, cooperation and innovation. Lemonade Day was started in 2008 by businessman Michael Holthouse. Holthouse was successful in his initial business endeavors and was, in turn, able to sell his first business to a major

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“My life revolves around my family and my work with my husband,” Coulter says. “We both are trained pharmacists who found a different calling in life than we had anticipated. I have been involved with junior league, volunteer organizations and other local community efforts that have exposed our family to a variety of programs in our city. These learning experiences inspired us to start our own local business. “We were the first ones in Louisville to start an interactive restaurant called Uptown Art on Bardstown Road. It later morphed into LouVino, a place where people could gather together to create, buy and learn about art over snacks and a glass or two of wine. After acquiring a knack for this type of entrepreneurship, we just kind of thought Lemonade Day married that notion with our desire to be engaged in the local philanthropic community.”

”I think it’s important to teach these values early on, while kids are beginning to shape their expectations of the world around them,” Coulter says. “It’s easy for parents, grandparents and other caregivers to simply purchase things for their kids or reward them with things but I think that, because Lemonade Day provides them Lemonade Day is targeted towards with the ability to make their own money, elementary and middle school learning levels. it gives them a stake in the process of

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PUSHING THE ENVELOPE THE MENTAL PREREQUISITE OF ELITE PERFORMANCE Writer / Dr. Dave Schroerlucke

“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?” -Arnold Schwarzenegger How does the mindset of the world’s elite performers differ from the mindset of those who are, well, less elite? This question lies at the heart of the mental performance industry. Seemingly every week a new bestseller hits the shelves touting the latest greatest mental construct or approach that will put you on the path to success. The only problem: you do not have time to read them all. Let’s face it, no one does. What you really need is for someone to distill that vast sea of information down to the absolute essentials.

That’s where I come in. In this article, I am going to go as far as possible with this distillation process and try to crystallize it all down to the single most important mental trait of elite performers – the sine qua non of performance excellence. I wish I could distill it down to just one word for you. But the fact of the matter is, I am unable to find a single word in the English language that perfectly encapsulates what I have in mind. Therefore, I will begin by offering a description of the core mental processes of elite performers and then proceed to play around with finding an adequate label.

TESTING THE LIMITS

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failure is actively sought out as a way of gathering important information on how to improve. Part maverick, part researcher, they are constantly putting themselves in unfamiliar, challenging environments, trying to locate the edge of their current physical, mental and emotional capacities. Individuals who are more risk-averse might call them “gluttons for punishment.” But to these folks, failure can hardly be called punishment. On the contrary, failure is a source of thrill and delight because it signifies that they are on the cusp of learning or growing.

LOVING THE PROCESS

Elite performers also have a high tolerance for risk and uncertainty – particularly with respect to outcome. Like the rest of us, they have no guarantee of ever receiving any tangible reward for their efforts, that they will ever reach any particular level

of excellence or be recognized and acclaimed by the world. But, for them, it is not really about recognition. The greatest joy in life is simply seeing the needle move – to know that the boundary has shifted ever so slightly, even if imperceptible to an external observer. It’s not that they don’t have lofty goals or visions for themselves. They typically do. But the focus is more on progression – moving forward a little at a time. Evidence of incremental improvement is all that is necessary to trigger the feel-good chemicals in the brain that keep them coming back for more.

GETTING A GRIP

Okay, now we need to find a verbal handle for this quality of seeking continual improvement by regularly placing themselves outside of their comfort zone and learning to adapt. What we are aiming at is a sort of an aggregate of an entire constellation of mental qualities that are frequently touted as being part of a champion’s mindset – including self-confidence, optimism, courage, self-discipline and mental toughness, to name just a few. In one way or another, each of these concepts by itself falls short of capturing the mindset that undergirds this relentless daily assault on the discrepancy between what currently is and what could be. In trying to come up with a single phrase that captures this quality, some candidates that I came up with were boundary-testers, edge-seekers and envelope-pushers. “Boundary-testing” sounds like the activity of a petulant four-year-old, and “edge-seeking” is too closely associated with sexual play of the sadomasochistic variety. Thus, “pushing the envelope” is ultimately the best I could do. Looking at the history of this phrase, it actually works quite well. The expression entered the popular lexicon following its appearance in Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book, The Right Stuff,

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about the U.S. space program: “One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was ‘pushing the outside of the envelope’... [That] seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test.”

consequences of transgressing those limits. This sounds about right for our purposes, doesn’t it?

So there you have it. Elite performers are first and foremost envelope pushers. In order to grow and improve as quickly as possible, we need to continually test and stretch the limits of our Within the context of aircraft current capacities. Weaknesses design and testing, the envelope is the set of limitations governing must be transformed into safe operation of an aircraft. Inside strengths. This cannot happen the envelope, the aircraft is able to without stepping outside of our function normally, while moving comfort zones on a regular basis and being willing to be vulnerable outside the envelope stresses — physically, mentally and most the aircraft and threatens system importantly, emotionally. failure. “Pushing the envelope,” then, is a phrase that refers to The process is simple but not easy. the process of testing a new aircraft by taking it right up to the Push Your Envelope, Recover, theoretical limits of performance Repeat. Over and over again. and, if possible, beyond. This is Are you ready to push your done partly to test the calculated envelope? limits and partly to observe the

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