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Happy 2023!

January 2023 PUBLISHER

Athena West | athena.west@citylifestyle.com EDITOR

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Happy new year, dear readers and friends! I, for one, am happy to see 2022 go away. I look forward to the newness and hope a new year brings with it.

Our first cover of 2023 is none other than the incomparable Martina McBride. She's been belting out songs since 1992 and she continues her storied career with a bright 2023.

Also in this issue, we talk to Meghan Littlejohn of Orangetheory Fitness.

She provides your first dose of inspiration this year when you read her story and learn how she battled back from a traumatic brain injury.

Harpeth Valley Dermatology, Spring Hill Memorial, Freedom Reigns Ranch and Nashville's Oak Steakhouse all have a story they're excited to tell within the pages of this wonderful issue.

Next month will mark the one year anniversary of Thompson's Station Lifestyle. It has been my greatest pleasure to serve as your editor for this last year. And again, I look forward to a stellar 2023 and continuing to tell the stories of the people, places and things that make up this incredible community.

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P.S. LeAnn Rimes name was spelled incorrectly in the print edition of last month's issue. We deeply regret the error.

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City Scene

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1-7: Faithfully Restored, a nonprofit serving women experiencing loss and hardship, hosted their second annual Girls’ Night Out at The Factory at Franklin. International speaker, author, and artist Anne Neilson was the special guest.

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8-14: Franklin and Thompson’s Station Lifestyle magazines held their annual holiday party at King’s Bowl. Guests brought gifts for the Toys for Tots program and more than 100 gifts were donated by our advertising partners to be distributed to local children in need.

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Positions Open in the Town of Thompson's Station The Town of Thompson’s Station has vacant seats open for the Town Boards and Committees. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen at its regular meeting on January 10, 2023, will nominate and vote to appoint new members to fill vacancies.

• Utility Board • Design Review Committee • Parks Committee • Board of Zoning Appeals • Planning Commission There is also an Alderman position available. All Thompson’s Station residents interested in being considered for nomination, should complete an application no later than 4:00 p.m. on January 5, 2023.

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Franklin's McCreary's To Open in Columbia Everyone's favorite downtown Franklin Irish pub, McCreary's, has announced in a social media post that they will be opening a second location in Columbia. McCreary's Irish Pub will move into the Vahn Dy's Asian Fusion Restaurant & Lounge location on Main Street. "Get ready for us to take over Muletown in 2023 the best way we know how…with a perfectly poured pint of Guinness."

To read the touching post, visit @mccrearysirishpub on Instagram.

Solstice at June Lake Breaks Ground on New Development in Spring Hill Southeast Venture, the June Lake developers, announced that they have broken ground on a new multi-family development. The 10-building, 227-unit project will offer one, two, and three-bedroom apartments and includes a clubhouse, dog park, playground, luxury pool, fitness facility, and surface and premium garage parking.

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ARTICLE BY MARIA DINOIA PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBBY KLEIN

Martina McBride Continues to Shine On This Year WITH A TOUR AND AN EXTENDED COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME EXHIBIT Martina McBride has been singing for as long as she can remember. With a career that spans over 30 years, she just completed 12 dates out on the road for her Joy of Christmas Tour, her 12th year of being on the road this time of year. When asked if she likes being out on the road, she says, "Sometimes. It's a balance thing. I also love being at home. I'm kind of a homebody. I try to balance out my tour where we have equal amounts of time on the road and at home. It's an interesting existence. There's that hour and a half on stage where you're connecting with the audience and it's really special. I wouldn't keep doing it if I didn't enjoy it."

And it's a good thing for all of us that she does enjoy it, because she'll start 2023 with 15 more dates on The Judds: The Final Tour. The new, added dates include stops in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio, Florida, and West Virginia. "I say a prayer of gratitude before every show. A prayer for guidance. And I do my own hair and makeup on tour so that's really my time to switch gears from every day no makeup Martina to glamour and getting ready to go on stage. I like that transition period."

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B ACK STAGE | ARTS + CULTURE

“Be i ng on a t ou r t ogeth e r w ith st rong wom e n wh o s u p por t ea c h oth e r i s j u st a grea t th i ng t o be a pa r t of.”

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“I ’d l o v e t o w r i t e a n ot h e r c o o k b o o k . T h e y a re j u s t a l ot o f w o rk .

T h e re’s a l ot o f w r i t i n g a n d t e s t i n g a n d c o o k i n g . It ’s b e i n g c re a t i v e i n a d i f fe re n t way t h a n m a k i n g m u s i c .”

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In addition to being a repeat Female Vocalist of the Year and a Grammy-nominated singer, Martina is a first-rate cook. She released a cookbook in 2018, Martina's Kitchen Mix: My Recipe Playlist for Real Life Cookbook." I'd love to write another cookbook. They are just a lot of work. There's a lot of writing and testing and cooking. It's being creative in a different way than making music."

She continues, "I love to cook, period. It's my therapy. My place of joy is to be in the kitchen cooking. I love to cook a lot of different things from soups and salads to braised meats and things that take a long time. I've just recently, in the past year and a half, gotten into grilling a little bit. I was always intimidated by the grill for some reason, but I found it's a lot easier than I thought it was. I also have a smoker, so in the winter time, I smoke cheeses."

Martina also has a soft spot for women and children's charities. She explains her global charity initiative, Team Music Is Love. "Team Music Is Love started as a fan initiative. A group of fans contacted me and asked me if they could wear one of my t-shirts to a breast cancer walk. I was like, ‘Sure!’ It started as Team Martina about 15 years ago and I thought we needed a better name. It just kind of grew from there.

It's volunteer-based. We do things sometimes in the cities where we play to help the local communities.

We've done everything from starting a music school for a girls shelter in Guatemala to helping fund an inner city park. We've done a lot of work with food banks. We've done diaper giveaways, baby showers for shelters. We look and see where the need is. It isn't based on one specific cause."

Martina is also really proud of her Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit, Martina McBride: The Power of Her Voice. Fans can catch the exhibit through August of 2023. Says Martina, "They did a great job!"

And what else can we expect from the Kansas native this year? "I'd love to make new music in 2023."

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Thompson’s Station Dermatologists Pile Up The Miles In Pursuit Of Personal And Professional Dreams

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They’re former colleagues who became competitors. Now they’re a husband-and-wife team that operates one of the area’s best known dermatology practices. Drs. Megan Morrison and Pezhman Shoureshi opened Harpeth Valley Dermatology in March 2020. But their journey to Middle Tennessee entailed many hours and miles driving about the country.

After graduating from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, the doctors landed internships at the same hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia.

That’s where their bourgeoning relationship took hold. But they found themselves driving together to distant locales where they’d interview for highly sought-after medical residencies. It was not without its awkward moments.

“It’s a stressful time as you're competing against a lot of applicants just for the opportunity to interview for a few residencies,” says Dr. Shoureshi. Dr. Morrison concurs. “It was an interesting beginning to a relationship. It’s kind of like, ‘I want you to get this residency, but I don’t want you taking my spot!’ But the hours in the car and our common experiences and career paths helped us get to know and understand each other.”

Perhaps it was fate but they both landed residencies at their first choice: Dr. Morrison at Michigan State and Dr. Shoureshi at Case Medical Center in Cleveland. They were apart, but still close enough to

maintain their relationship which led to marriage on November 2, 2013.

“We didn’t see each other that much at the beginning,” says Dr. Morrison. On one of the rare occasions that they were together, Dr. Shoureshi remembers, “going to a piano bar and falling asleep, not from the late night, but the long hours!” Holidays meant more long car rides for the newlyweds. “We would drive to my parents’ home in Florida, and Nashville was halfway,” says Dr. Morrison. “We really liked it and that’s what led us to move here in 2015.”

It doesn’t hurt that both docs possess musical streaks as well. She taught piano prior to med school; he plays guitar, including lap and pedal steel. They’re also frequent patrons of live music events, whether they’re in small neighborhood venues or in Nashville’s large theaters and arenas. Today they reside in downtown Franklin with their 2 1/2-year-old daughter and soon-to-be 1-year-old son. Rural hikes and downtown strolls are favorite family activities.

In addition to Thompson’s Station, there’s a Harpeth Valley Dermatology location in Smyrna. Dr. Morrison is Fellowship-trained in Mohs Micrographic (cancer) Surgery while Dr. Shoureshi practices general dermatology.

Rounding out their staff is Dr. Benjamin Bashline. All three doctors are Board Certified Dermatologists.

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“My mother was born in Spring Hill and she and my father wanted to give back to the community. Thompson’s Station and Columbia were growing rapidly, and they knew there was a need for a funeral home.”

-- Pam Stephens

Spring Hill and the surrounding communities hold a deep and genuine place in the hearts of the family and staff of Spring Hill Memorial Park, Funeral Home and Cremation Services established by the Stephens Family.

Pam Stephens, a third-generation funeral director explains, “My mother was born in Spring Hill and she and my father wanted to give back to the community.

Thompson’s Station and Columbia were growing rapidly, and they knew there was a need for a funeral home.”

With the help of family members, the cemetery was established in 1998 and the funeral home was completed in 2000, which expanded services with Williamson Memorial Funeral Home and Gardens in Franklin.

Pam’s daughter, Mandi Goodrich, joined the business in 2000 and explains how their family tradition of serving families with compassion and care has continued.

“We have a team of family service counselors and funeral directors who follow up with every family we serve, and can provide them with grief resources including a library of books, web resources, and grief share groups. It’s the goal of our entire team to not just be there for the service,

but to make sure we continue to lend a helping hand.”

One of the home’s added values is grief dog Mac who helps families through the grieving process. Mandi learned about grief dogs after attending an industry conference and Mac, a sheepadoodle (English sheep dog and standard poodle), went through extensive training to learn about comforting people. Pam says, “I have to say it was one of the best decisions we ever made! Mac’s role has helped children and grownups during the most difficult times of their lives.”

The patriarch of Williamson Memorial and Spring Hill Memorial, Clyde Stephens, served as President of the Tennessee Funeral Directors Association in 20042005; Pam in 2013-2014, and Mandi is carrying on the family tradition in 2023-2024.

Both funeral homes have community events including Easter sunrise service, Memorial Day placement of flags on veteran’s graves, and a service at which handmade ornaments are placed on trees that represent families served during the current year. Pam and Mandi explain, “It’s an honor and privilege to be a funeral director and work with the teams at Spring Hill Memorial and Williamson Memorial.” SpringHill-memorial.com

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The Littlejohns stuck with the program and eventually decided to open their own studio, relocating from Florida to Williamson County. “We love our community,” she continues. “We hear life changing stories from our members every day. It is so rewarding."

“Life’s hard and people are under a lot of stress. I want them to know that taking a little bit of time for themselves can change everything for the better. The hardest part is showing up. Orangetheory, it is more than a gym, it’s more life.”

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ARTICLE BY SUE BALDANI | PHOTOGRAPHY BY FREEDOM REIGNS RANCH At Freedom Reigns Ranch, people and horses work together to heal one another. Although primarily focused on teenagers, the organization also assists children and young adults who've been through trauma.

Carissa Ramsdell, FRR founder and executive director, can sympathize with those who come to the farm, both human and animal. “Because of the abuse and trauma I endured growing up, I was super angry at the world, at God, and everyone and everything,” she says. “But God basically used my horse, Boston, who was also dealing with a difficult past,

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to save my life. Through working and training with my horse, God unlocked my own heart.”

Freedom Reigns Ranch was officially founded in October of 2015, but Carissa was helping kids with her horse, which she got in 2009, long before that.

“Some kids from church were going through some challenging things, and being outside with one of God’s most beautiful creatures was really something that brought them a lot of peace.”

While caring for and training with Boston, she watched them become more confident

and empowered. “They stepped outside of their own comfort zones in a way that led to growth, not only with a horse, but in their everyday lives. We basically combined a broken horse with a child whose heart had been shattered and watched God heal both at the same time.”

Shortly after, a friend came to volunteer, someone donated a pony, and then she ended up taking a rescue horse that had been abandoned in a dog pen. “It just snowballed, and all of a sudden these kids were coming and more people were coming to help,” says Carissa. “Then more horses needed rescuing too.”

At that point, she knew she had to start her own nonprofit.

“Caring for horses is expensive, plus we felt from the very beginning that we were never supposed to charge anything. So we really needed to create an avenue for folks who believed in what we were doing to support it.”

This summer, the ranch will have officially provided more than 10,000 hours of mentorship. “We have about 50 individuals that come twice a month for the season and some who stay for multiple seasons because they really need this safe space to continue to thrive in their lives,” she says.

For many of these kids, getting up on a horse and trusting it is life-changing. “I see this unbelievable thing happening where they're building this relationship with the horse,” she says. “We usually share that horse's story -- over half of our herd has their own history of abuse, starvation and neglect. As you watch, it's like these puzzle pieces coming together and you see how they realize that the horse that had been thrown away by the world, means the world to them and they connect that with their own life. That then translates into their own emotional sense of well-being.”

The ranch has been leasing about eight acres in Thompson’s Station, which houses 12 horses, but it needs to expand to provide its services to more people. “We have a wait list that extends 12 to 16 months and over a hundred kids are on it,” says Carissa. “Our hope and prayer is for someone to grant or donate 25 to 40 acres somewhere in Southern Williamson County or even Northern Murray County.”

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Carissa says she’s amazed and overwhelmed to be a part of something like this. “Going from not having a reason to live 10 or 15 years ago and feeling like I would never overcome what I had been through to watching so many kids find hope again, there is nothing better. Watching the trajectory of their lives change course because God chose to use a horse to reach their hearts -- I've seen it so many times and it's special every time.”

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LEGGINGS 3 WAY S ARTICLE BY HALEY WILLIAMS

Our suggestions for styling faux leather leggings As we move through the season of spandex when most of us feel we’d rather not leave our stretchy pants, we wanted to feature three distinct looks using the same pair of Foil Snake Print Faux Leather leggings from Spanx.

Whether you’re brunching with the babes or getting ready for date night, these versatile leggings can carry you through from casual to chic. While there are endless ways to wear them, we’re going to show you three ways to start styling them today.

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Who doesn’t love a good brunch with the girls after your workout complete with mimosas to celebrate? Our suggestion is to layer your tank with loose layers and a light jacket to swiftly transition you from the barre to breakfast.

A hat is always a good option to have on hand in case you worked too hard and that hair is showing it. We opted for easy-to-slip-on sockless sneakers that breathe.

Lastly, don’t forget a cute tote or bag. Consider throwing in a clean tank and any makeup or face wipes you may need for freshening up on your way.

Whether you want a bit of a boost, a hint of a lift, or just a little tuck, you won’t go wrong with this versatile shapewear. And with these styling tips, you’re ready to throw them on for any occasion!

MOTO MAMA What we love about Spanx is their inherent ability to elevate your look, regardless of the occasion. Stretchy pants in a faux leather snake design? Say no more. Pair them with edgy booties or colorful pumps for a more elegant aesthetic. Playing with different textures is a good way to add interest and intrigue. Consider a chunky sweater with some unexpected details like the bare shoulder shown here, a thick boucle or intricate detailing. We love a good leather jacket with hardware details draped over the shoulder(s) for chilly evenings as you traverse the town. Pair this look with a gorgeous sparkly clutch and chunky bracelet.

SAT U R DAY SPORTS CH IC Whether you’re headed to a child’s sports game or a bar to watch the big game with your friends, leggings offer the structure and flexibility you’ll want as you find your spot among the fans in the bleachers or indulge in some lovely libations.

Layers are life for this look. We tied a button-down around the waist which is so nice through the colder winter months as both an outfit accessory and a layering piece. Fur-lined high tops provide practical footwear for this look — because who doesn’t love some killer sneaks? A shacket and crossover bag complete the look.

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MAG NO L I A AC R E S , 4 0 0 5 T R OT WO O D AV E , C O LU M B I A | 7 :0 0 A M Runs through January 7 at 4:00 p.m. The Beauty Boost is hosting a getaway to surround women with rest, relaxation and restoration. There will be food, cocktails, gifts, mindfulness sessions along with much more.

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Kayleigh Matthews - Live!

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3rd Annual Clean Foodie Fest 2023

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Barry Manilow: Hits 2023

BRIDGESTONE ARENA | 7:00 PM 2023 marks Manilow’s 50th Anniversary as a recording artist. The tour will highlight the superstar’s greatest hits. Manilow is a Grammy®, TONY®, and EMMY® Award-winning music icon whose success is a benchmark in popular music.

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Five Reasons Why We Love Oak Steakhouse ARTICLE BY MARIA DINOIA

NASHVILLE’S MODERN TAKE ON A CLASSIC AMERICAN STEAKHOUSE

New Executive Chef Scott Kroener Kroener has over 20 years of experience in steakhouses around the country and oversees the kitchen as well as spearheads the steakhouse’s culinary program with a strong focus on seasonal ingredients and reinvented classics. Deliciousness!

The ambiance The soft lighting, the contemporary vibe, the interior aesthetic and the quality service all contribute to the restaurant’s strong character and atmosphere.

Buttercake Nothing tastes finer than this delectable desert with bourbon caramel and rotating gelato. Make sure to save room.

Your tastebuds will thank you.

Robert Spanburgh, Waiter The New Jersey transplant who has lived here now for 23 years, knows a thing or two about customer service. His desire to help people and his attention to detail are second to none. He’s a breath of fresh air.

Monday Martini Hour A weekly special highlighting the steakhouse’s featured martinis, including the Highclere 50/50 and the famous Cumberland River Dirty. Start the week off right from 5-6:30 pm every Monday.

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