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From YouTube: Aiken Business Matters - May 9, 2016 : BELLA Magazine
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Kathy Huff Cunningham, editor and publisher of BELLA Magazine in Aiken, shares her Aiken roots, lengthy background that culminated in BELLA Magazine, and the challenges of developing content for a diverse audience.
A
Welcome
to
aiken
business
matters,
and
we
are
just
pleased
as
we
could
be
today,
to
have
with
us
Kathy
Cunningham.
She
is
the
owner
and
publisher
of
Bella
magazine
and
I
know
you've
seen
Bella
magazine
around
Aiken,
and
we
want
you
to
get
to
know
a
little
bit
more
about
Bella
magazine
and
a
lot
more
about
Kathy
Kathy.
Welcome
to
the
show
today.
Thank.
A
Kathy,
you
will
you
and
I
have
known
each
other
for
a
number
of
years
and
we
share
a
lot
of
things
things
in
common
having
grown
up
in
aiken.
So
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
and
just
be
transparent
to
audience
that
I
don't
know,
as
I
said,
to
a
guest
I
had
of
the
week
that
I
always
feel
funny
asking
questions
that
I
know
the
answer
to
90.
They
know.
I
know
the
answer
to
well
we're
going
to
do
that
anyway,
so
people
get
to
get
to
know
Kathy
a
little
bit
better.
B
A
B
Farming
town
in
Nebraska,
where
my
father
and
my
uncle
had
been
the
small-town
newspaper
editors
of
a
weekly
newspaper,
so
I
grew
up
with
printers
ink
in
my
blood,
but
moving
here
was
wonderful.
We
loved
Aiken
took
to
it
right
away,
and
every
summer
was
spent
entertaining
all
of
our
relatives
from
the
Midwest
or
we
went
back
there
and
they
either
way
they
knew
all
about.
Aiken
tell.
A
B
One
of
the
boys
in
my
second-grade
class
comes
back
occasionally
to
see
his
mother
and
there's
a
whole
group
of
its
that
gets
together.
So,
even
though
we
didn't
necessarily
keep
in
touch
after
we
graduated
somehow
these
things
come
together
and
people
just
gravitate
toward
the
special
relationships
that
they've
had
you.
A
A
A
A
B
A
A
B
We
dated
that
year,
as
a
matter
of
fact,
we
met
when
we
both
got
a
role
in
The
Odd
Couple
at
the
Aiken
community
Playhouse.
So
we
got
married
and
moved
to
Bloomington
Normal
Illinois.
He
was
with
Owens
Corning
fiberglass.
They
put
him
in
charge
of
a
plant
there,
so
we
moved
to
Illinois
and
after
six
years,
then
we
moved
to
Ohio
a
suburb
of
columbus
ohio
and
I
was
there
than
40
32
years,
even
though
we
divorced
and
I
remarried
I
was
in
Columbus
for
32
years.
What.
B
My
resume
looks
like
I
can't
hold
a
job.
I
think
I've
had
14
careers,
but
so
many
of
them
have
been
entrepreneurial
that
if
I
didn't
like
something
I
just
said
I'm
going
on
to
the
next
thing,
but
I
started
out
as
a
teacher
here
in
Aiken
and
I
taught
for
a
while
in
Illinois,
but
I
was
also
doing
freelance
writing.
I
wrote
the
the
annual
report
for
the
city
of
Bloomington
for
six
years,
I
think
and
then
I
became
the
editor
sales
rep
and
then
editor
of
a
suburban
paper
in
columbus.
A
B
B
Oh
I
be
eventually
became
a
fundraising
consultant.
I
was
a
life
coach,
I
managed
a
small
business
expo
you
name
it.
I
think
I've
done
it,
which.
A
A
B
B
We
had
bought
a
house
here
in
Aiken
and
spent
some
time
here,
but
I
started
spending
more
and
more
time
here
until
finally,
when
I
was
on
the
phone
with
a
girlfriend
in
Ohio
one
day
as
when
I
was
here
in
aiken,
she
said
kathy
the
difference
between
you
in
aiken
and
you
are
you
and
columbus
in
you
and
aiken
is
night
and
day.
You
are
so
happy
there
and
I
thought
about
that
and
moved
is.
A
A
Was
kind
of
interesting
and
you
know,
I
knew
exactly
who
you
were
soon
as
I
saw
you,
so
we
really
haven't
changed
much
over
the
years
ago
other
than
you
look
much
younger
than
I.
Do
oh.
A
Certainly,
do
you
know
moving
back
to
aiken,
for
you
Bob,
you
say
that
with
a
great
deal
of
joy,
I
could
see
that
you
had
that
little
extra
twinkling
you're
out
when
you
made
comment
it
was.
It
was
a
kind
of
like
you
had
that
in
the
back
of
your
mind,
all
the
time
and
you
just
needed
somebody
give
you
that
little
push
to
come
back
well.
B
We
had
already
bought
the
house,
so
I
knew
we
were
going
to
be
spending
more
time
here,
but
at
the
same
time,
I
just
thought
it
would
be
occasional,
but
when
I
spent
so
much
time
down
here
alone
and
saw
a
good
many
of
my
high
school
friends
who
had
either
never
left
or
had
come
back,
I
thought
this.
This
is,
it
has
always
been
a
wonderful
town,
but
this
could
be
a
wonderful
town
for
me
and
so
I
started
talking
to
friends
and
luckily
I
talked
to
the
one
of
the
right
ones.
A
B
A
A
B
A
B
A
It
worked
late
and
and
of
course
I
spent
some
time
with
Fred
and
Fred
was
always
so
gracious
as
our
mayor
and
through
Fred
and
Lee
I
got
involved
with
a
number
of
social
things
in
Aiken
and
Fred
appointed
me
to
the
Planning
Commission.
Probably
a
year
later,
and
but
we've
Lee
and
I
were
always
good
friends.
She
and
I
grew
up
real
close
to
each
other
and
that's
another
one
that
you'd
recognize
anywhere
hasn't
changed
a
bit.
Please
always
been
so
much
like.
A
A
B
B
I
couldn't
find
a
lot
of
those,
and
it
makes
sense
to
me
that
I
couldn't
once
I
started
researching
cooking
and
cookbooks
through
the
years
there.
There
were
not
modern
methods
of
cooking
for
100
100
and
some
years
after
Aiken
was
founded
and
people
don't
want
to
cook
over
an
open
fire
or
make
their
own
baking
soda
from
ashes.
From
the
fireplace
I
mean
what
I
discovered
in
how
the
early
colonial
women
had
to
cook
was.
It
will
boggle
your
mind.
B
What
made
it
fun
and
interesting
and
personal?
So
then,
if
I,
if
I
felt
that
I
wasn't
getting
enough
response
voluntarily,
I
just
started
calling
my
friends
and
badgering
them.
You
have
to
send
me
a
recipe.
So
after
the
cookbook
came
out,
I
realized
that
suddenly
I
had
my
15
minutes
of
fame
I
had
I
was
the
author
of
a
cookbook
and
Beth
Brody
Nicholson,
who
founded
Bella
magazine
in
I
think
it
was
2004
called
me
and
asked
me
to
do
some
writing
for
the
her
Bella
magazine.
B
She
and
her
husband
had
founded
it,
and
so
I
did
write
an
article
and
a
few
months
later
she
called
me
and
said
I'm
thinking
of
selling
the
magazine.
Are
you
interested
so
she
sent
me?
The
financial
information
I
met
with
a
couple
of
CPAs
and
said:
is
this
a
good
deal
and
they
concluded
that
it
was
so
before
buying
it?
I
worked
for
Beth
for
a
couple
of
months,
just.
A
B
Understand
the
business
I
feel
like
everything
I've
ever
done,
that
resume
that
looks
like
I
can't
hold.
A
job
has
led
to
this
magazine
that
that
it's
just
the
epitome
of
what
I
could
do
with
all
the
life
skills
and
the
professional
skills
that
I've
developed
through
the
years,
so
I
can't
say
that
I
jumped
into
it
and
did
well
from
the
beginning,
but
I
was
willing
to
learn
and
that
that
internship,
if
you
will
call
it
with
Beth
at
the
beginning,
was
very
very
helpful
and
then
I
went
cold.
B
B
I
have
to
start
in
advance
and
and
of
course
now
I'm
just
finishing
up
the
May
issue
and
it
will
come
out
sometime
next
week.
It
takes
at
least
four
weeks
to
put
it
together.
I
have
to
sell
the
ads,
but
even
before
I
sell
the
ads
for
the
coming
issue.
I
need
to
have
commitments
from
my
writers
that
they
are
writing
either
the
assignments
or
something
that
I
know
that
they
said
they
would
deliver
to
me.
So
it's
there's
always
something
ongoing.
B
Not
just
with
this
issue
but
or
when
I
say
this
issue,
I
mean
the
one
that
I'm
working
on,
but
the
next
one
or
even
in
the
fall
I've
already
got
some
assignments
out
for
fall
in
hopes
that
that
some
of
my
writers
will
be
busy
over
the
summer
and
I
like
to
have
some
articles
in
my
back
pocket
just
in
case
something
doesn't
work,
I
mean,
for
instance,
last
September
I
had
a
whole
lineup
of
stories
to
run
and
one
by
one
all
my
writers
called
me
and
said:
I
can't
write
this
and
it
wasn't
because
they
didn't
want
to,
but
maybe
the
timing
on
the
event
had
changed
or
they
couldn't
get
hold
of
someone
or
that
person
said
this
is
not
a
good
time.
B
Could
we
do
this
in
another
month?
I
thought
I,
don't
know
what
I'm
going
to
do
I'm
going
to
have
an
empty
magazine.
People
will
open
it
up
and
it'll
just
be
blank,
but
luckily
my
writers
had
other
suggestions
or
I
I'd
say:
can
you
do
this
story
instead
and
it
all
worked
out
so
I've
learned
to
roll
with
it,
but.
A
A
B
B
Fine,
we
have
a
direction
that
we're
heading
in
I,
sell
all
the
ads
I
make
arrangements
for
some
of
the
photography
I
do
all
the
editing,
I
send
all
of
the
edited
material
and
the
images
or
the
photographs
to
my
graphic
designer
who
lives
in
Florida.
He
used
to
live
here
in
Aiken
and
we
used
to
work
together
the
last
week
or
so
before,
printing.
B
B
A
B
Restaurants,
there's
any
number
of
places
where
people
will
pick
it
up
and
read
it
more
than
once
so.
But
besides
the
distribution,
there's
invoicing
and
collections,
okay
mounting
taxes,
you
know,
there's
there's
just
all
of
the
aspects
of
doing
a
business.
It
is
a
business
although,
since
I
remarried
rob,
has
taken
over
a
great
deal
of
the
financial
responsibilities
which
I
love
he's
a
godsend,
I
really.
B
A
A
A
B
I've
lucked
into
a
lot
of
them
I
met
Steve
Hale
when
we
were
on
the
steering
committee
for
celebrate
akin
Anna
Dangerfield
had
written
for
Beth
Brody
when
the
magazine
was
under
her
leadership
and
I
called
her
and
asked.
If
she'd
write
for
me,
she
said
I
can
bring
you
some
more
writers
because
she
was
in
a
writers
group
and
after
that
she
introduced
me
to
Susan
elder
and
I
had
known
Sally
Bradley
from.
B
Teaching
at
aiken
high
school,
but
I
didn't
realize
that
she
was
a
writer,
so
those
two
came
to
work
for
me
and
and
Steve
Phyllis
McClay
came
on
the
recommendation
of
a
friend
who
used
to
work
for
Easy,
Street
and
Karen
guevara
after
she
retired
from
the
the
site.
She
had
done
a
wonderful
story
in
the
last
segment
of
the
series
I
did
on
the
history
of
the
SRS.
She.
A
Did
that
was
very,
very
good.
I
serve
on
the
citizens
advisory
board
for
the
site.
That
was
very.
It
was
neat
to
read
that
and
think
about
all
the
different
aspects
of
of
the
site
out
there,
and
that
was
that
was
certainly.
She
came
from
a
different
perspective
and
I
thought
that
was
really
neat.
Yes,.
B
B
A
You
have
to
have
a
theme
or
an
idea
for
full
rob
for
your
magazine
and
one
thing
that
I
one
of
my
favorite
ones
that
you
folks
have
done,
and
it
goes
back
for
a
couple
of
different
reasons
that
I
guess
it
speaks
of
the
early
days
of
my
youth
and
my
grandparents
on
my
mother's
side.
Both
my
grandfather
and
grandmother
worked
at
aiken
prep
and
a
kid
prep
turned
100
years
old.
A
A
B
A
A
A
B
Beth
and
her
husband
started
the
magazine.
It
started
as
a
woman's
magazine
and
I
think
it
probably
very
much
is
still
considered
a
woman's
magazine,
but
when
I
published
the
four-part
series
on
the
history
of
the
srs
in
2012
September
through
december,
I
think
that
was
a
turning
point
for
the
magazine,
because
all
of
a
sudden
I
was
getting
fan.
B
Mail
from
men
I
got
a
lot
of
letters
from
men
who
said
you
have
done
a
wonderful
service
for
this
community
to
to
go
over
this
history
and
make
everybody
understand
what
we
do
at
the
site.
I
had
a
woman
come
up
to
me
on
the
sidewalk
and
she
said.
Thank
you.
I
never
knew
what
my
husband
did
out
there
and
now
I
understand,
I,
don't
even
know
her
name,
but
I
was
very
happy,
but
since
then
I've
had
male
readers
and
I
try
to
have
something
that's
of
interest
to
both
sexes
and
and
I.
B
A
Think
the
reason
I
even
asked
a
question
because
I
felt
that,
because
earlier
when,
when
you
first
took
it
over
and
Nancy
sort
of
course
would
have
copies
around
the
house
and
things
like
that-
and
she
said:
oh
here's
an
article.
You
need
to
read
this
and
I
do
that.
But
you
know
I
look
at
some
of
the
other
articles
and
it
was
obvious
that
they
were,
you
know,
kind
of
more
mainstream
to
your
your
female
readers,
and
that's.
That
was
a
good
point
about
the
srs
articles.
A
B
A
A
B
A
People
people
may
not
even
understand
that,
so
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
they
knew
that
is
free
and
the
economic
side
of
it,
of
course,
comes
from
your
the
advertisers
that
you
have
and
I
noticed
that
you,
you
have
a
very
consistent
advertising
base
in
there.
You
have
some
very,
very
good
advertise.
You
do
a
welch,
a
good
job
of
presenting
your
clients
interest
in
there,
and
you
have
a
thank
you.
A
A
B
B
B
A
Ernestine
while
she
was
a
good
friend
of
my
mother's
but
artist
thing
was
a
sweet,
sweet
lady
fact,
she
was
instrumental
in
me
pursuing
the
journalism
career.
So
we
did
that
for
a
while
and
got
into
insurance
and
think
like
that.
But
just
so
you
won't
feel
bad
about
going
through.
So
many
different,
erases
I,
don't
think
my
father
at
one
time
said
I,
don't
think
you're
gonna
ever
settle
on
one
person.
What
professional
I
said
I
will
and
I'll.
A
B
Just
want
to
you
know,
tear
my
hair
out
and
and
throw
a
bell
on
the
floor
and
stomp
on
it.
You
know,
but
but
those
moments
pass
and
because
I
really,
what
keeps
me
going
is
people
that
say
I
loved
this
article,
I
loved
what
the
way
you
covered
it.
I
love
the
theme
of
the
issue
or
just
whatever
they
say,
because
people
go
out
of
their
way
to
tell
me
that
how
much
they
enjoy
it
and
that
helps
me
through
the
bad
spots.
I
think,
okay,
this
happens
with
almost
every
issue.
A
As
we
close
out
our
interview,
I
wanted
to
say
one
thing
to
you
that
I
remember
one
of
my
journalism,
professor,
said
to
us
as
a
class.
He
said,
artists
paint
newspaper
magazine,
publishing
all
those
things.
At
the
end
of
the
day.
They
can't
hold
up
a
picture
they
painted,
but
they
paint
with
word
paint.
A
When
you,
when
you
feel
good
at
the
end
of
the
day,
and
you
look
back-
and
you
say
I
created
this-
I
did
this-
I
embraced
it.
I
brought
in
a
lot
of
resources
and
I
took
the
talents
of
so
many
people
and
I
put
this
this
magazine
together
and
when
I
look
at
Bella,
magazine
and
I
think
the
quality
and
the
time
that
you
put
in
it
is
certainly
showing
and
I
just
want
to.
Thank
you
for
being
a
part
of
Aiken
for
making
this
magazine
and
taking
it
and
making
it
even
better.
Well,.
A
B
A
Kathy,
thank
you
for
sharing
your
your
time
with
us
today.
Thank
you
for
sharing
your
heart
with
us
through
your
magazine,
and
you
know
this
is
just
one
show,
but
you
get
to
experience
the
things
that
Kathy
is
is
all
about
by
picking
up
her
magazine
all
over
the
city.
So
thank
you
for
joining
us
again
today
and
again
Kathy.
Thank
you
so
much
for
spending
time
with
us
today,
I.