The Host of Healthy Wealthy and Wise
Karen Fisher
Senior Loan Officer
Summit Funding, Inc.
Karen.Fisher@summitfunding.net
Pam Hopman
Founder and President
The Hopman Group
As a financial advisor with more than 20 years of experience, Pam creates and grows wealth for her clients throughout the United States. On the personal financial planning side, she had created The Money Profile, a financial behavior analysis tool. With it and her planning process called “The Natural Financial Solution”, she creates conscious personalized financial solutions for every personality.
For businesses, she has a process called Take Flight that addresses the financial missteps made by a business that can, if not addressed and corrected, kill a business. She says “My team and I can’t help ourselves when we see something that can be made better, we have to speak.”
Kimberly Sparling
President
Assistance League of Tucson
Kim is currently President of Assistance League of Tucson, a nonprofit whose mission is volunteers working in the Tucson Community to help those in need. Kim says that she enjoys working with so many talented volunteers to make Tucson a better community for everyone who lives here. Growing up in Southern California, she was an Assisteen during high school. Assisteens is an auxiliary of Assistance League which gives high school age young men and women the opportunity to learn what it means to give back to their community. Kim’s mother has been a member of Assistance League for more than 45 years, so it was only natural that when she moved to Tucson, she volunteered.
Kim has been a member of Assistance League of Tucson for more than ten years and has contributed as Chair of Strategic Planning, Chair of Marketing Communications, Resource Development in charge of grants, legacy gifts, and solicitations as well as serving as webmaster, and working on the property and grounds committee. Assistance League is an all-volunteer organization, so their volunteers do it all from dressing children at Operation School Bell to staffing our Thrift Shop to painting the building.
Prior to joining Assistance League Kim was a Systems Engineer in the field of Network Security. She worked for The MITRE Corporation in Boston and chaired an International Standards Committee on Local Area Network Security. As a graduate of Smith College, she is also active in the Tucson Smith College Alumnae Club which has about 300 members here in Tucson.
Kim has lived in Tucson for 20 years, is married, and enjoys her rescued German shepherd.
Vera Knight
Founder
Play Life Coaching
Vera is a master personal trainer, (1997) and a Lifestyle expert! Vera has been leading the way in the community teaching people the #1 secret to create better health, sustainable weight loss, and a happy life is to get food and life playing on the same team. What began as an side experiment with a small group of clients a few years ago, has turned into a thriving coaching business. She helps women break free from limiting beliefs and helps them to bring the spirit of play into everything they do. Her clients create better for their life, their family, and their career.
Vera is the founder of Play Life Coaching, and creator of Food Freedom the Game. To date, several hundred women, and a few men are flying their Freedom flags of victory. She coaches privately and in small groups. Her clients want to love life, rock their minds, body, & spirit and fully express themselves out in the world! Vera understands the many demands women face today. She helps women to play big. She plays All In with her clients who live from coast to coast. When she’s not coaching, Vera likes to cook, and experiment with new recipes, hang out with family and friends, she watches some mindless TV, loves to read, gets to the beach as often as possible, and is in the early stages of writing a book. Vera’s a certified life coach, and personal trainer, her 20 + years of experience gives her the unique ability to communicate effectively to a room full of women who are hungry to make a lifestyle change.
