Proud of Our Karen!

I have been working with this wonderful woman, Karen Smith for 5.5 years, but she never ceases to amaze me with her kindness, grace, contagious joy, and almost-annoying optimism. She WAKES UP HAPPY!! It's the weirdest thing I've ever witnessed. But I adore this woman. To work with her for all these years has been full of challenges, excitement, heartbreak, surprises, lots of laughter, tears, lessons, love, growth, and, yes, lots and lots of happiness!! By the way, she always, always says that all the Beachy Beachers and I were WITH her - not FOR her. Just that one word makes a huge difference.

She is constantly learning and growing herself so that she can help others grow and succeed. She has had storm after storm, challenge after challenge, heartbreak after heartbreak, but she will, in the words of Poppy, "Get Back Up Again!" She is the shining light our world so desperately needs. She handles herself so beautifully solving the world's problems every day, volunteers way too much, gives so much to others, loves all of her precious grandbabies, and does all the things while ALWAYS looking cute!

Last week, Karen was the recipient of the Community Impact Award at the Panama City Beach Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner, and we could not be more proud of her.

"The greatest part of recognizing this individual for this particular award is that we get to highlight how they have positively impacted not just their own business- but so many other small businesses in this room in ways that inspire INTEGRITY. You can’t help but step up to do better and be better when you come in contact with this person."

We love you, Karen!