Exploring Life Through Inspirational Non-Fiction with Kathy Izard (E37)

Kathy Izard is an award-winning author and speaker who has helped bring transformation to Charlotte in homelessness, housing, and mental health. Her memoir, The Hundred Story Home, has been featured on Katie Couric Media, NPR, and The Today Show, inspiring people to be change-makers in their communities. In 2019, she released A Good Night for Mr. Coleman, a children’s book written to encourage kids to dream big and do good. Kathy’s newest inspirational nonfiction book, The Last Ordinary Hour, was written about her husband’s struggle with rare disease to help others facing loss and uncertainty in their lives. Kathy is the recipient of a Christopher Award, the Bank of America Neighborhood Hero Award, the NC Housing Volunteer of the Year Award, and was recognized as a William J. Clinton Distinguished Guest Lecturer. In the past fifteen years, she has helped raise over $75 million for homelessness and mental health in Charlotte, NC where she has lived for over 30 years. Kathy and her husband have four daughters, including a set of twins and are happily expanding that family to two son-in-laws, a grandson and more on the way.

You can connect with Kathy at the links below:

• Website

• Purchase Kathy’s books:

  • A Hundred Story Home

  • The Last Ordinary Hour

  • A Good Night for Mr. Coleman

• Instagram

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Show Notes

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Books and authors mentioned in the episode:

• Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

• Horse by Geraldine Brooks

• The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Book Flight (within a book flight)

• Barbara Brown Taylor’s books: Learning to Walk in the Dark

  • An Altar in the World

  • Holy Envy

  • Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

• Kate Bowler’s books: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

  • No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

  • The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

• Father Greg Boyle books: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

  • Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

  • The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

Dessert Pairing

• The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail by Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan

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