Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
Deborah Ford is the founder of Grits, Inc., a merchandising company specializing in southern women’s apparel.
In 1995, Ford—then a high school volleyball coach in Birmingham, Alabama—began printing T-shirts emblazoned with “GRITS” (Girls Raised in the South) to inspire her players. The response ...
Read moreDeborah Ford is the founder of Grits, Inc., a merchandising company specializing in southern women’s apparel.
In 1995, Ford—then a high school volleyball coach in Birmingham, Alabama—began printing T-shirts emblazoned with “GRITS” (Girls Raised in the South) to inspire her players. The response she received was so overwhelming that eventually she left her teaching job and started working on the Grits brand full time. Today, Grits, Inc., is a multimillion-dollar business selling books and other merchandise worldwide to southerners and wannabe southerners.
Deborah Ford is the author of THE GRITS GUIDE TO LIFE, a New York Times bestseller and SEBA award winner, which spurred the series of lifestyle books that includes PUTTIN’ ON THE GRITS, GRITS FRIENDS ARE FOREVAH, and BLESS HIS HEART.
Check out Deborah Ford’s website at www.gritsinc.com.
Speaking Topics
- Grits Guide to Life
- Puttin’ On The Grits: A Southern Guide to Entertaining
- Grits Friends Are Friends Forevah
- Bless His Heart: How to Live With a Southern Man
- How to Use Humor to Make Your Business More Successful
- I Do, I Don’t, Well, Maybe One More Time: Southern Girls Guide to Re-Marriage
Miss Grits Guides to:
- Not being miss-taken
- Starting and running your own business
- Your real man: manicures, mansions, and manners
Featured Book
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BLESS HIS HEART
“Funny, wise, charming, and smart . . . GRITS deserves a place on your shelf between GONE WITH THE WIND and THE MEMPHIS JUNIOR LEAGUE COOKBOOK.” —Fannie Flagg
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