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Exceptional
SENIORS
Living Her
Best Life
Marita Tedder
arita spent most of her
adult life as a speaker
Mand writer. From the late
‘70s until 2006, her focus was on
relationships—specializing on “The
Personalities” and other topics of
interest to women. Marita and her
mother, noted Christian speaker
and author Florence Littauer, along and political events throughout the Marita’s Lubbock home, and caring
with her sister Lauren Briggs, held country. She wrote a weekly column for Florence became Marita’s full-
conferences throughout the country, on news-related energy issues time job.
where they trained men and women and was a frequent guest on radio
to be Christian speakers and shows. It was in this role that her Within months, Florence’s health
writers; thousands studied under 20th book, her first in the public- improved to the point that she
their tutelage, books were written affairs genre, was published: Energy didn’t need as much hands-on
and published, and careers were Freedom. attention—which freed up Marita’s
launched. time. As Florence was improving,
Marita’s life changed in early 2012 Marita received a call asking if
Marita’s first book, published in when her husband of 29 years chose she’d remodel a bathroom for the
1982, was called Shades of Beauty. It to leave the marriage. client of a realtor friend. That was
was a book for women, focusing on the start of her remodeling career—
color, wardrobe, and make-up. Her In October 2013, at the New Mexico with dozens of projects completed
last book in the personal-growth Oil and Gas Association’s annual each year. You can find out more at
genre is Wired That Way (published meeting, Marita met Chuck Tedder. TriumphPropertiesLubbock.com.
in 2006)—a comprehensive overview They married in late 2014, and Sadly, a stroke ended Florence’s life
of personality types. It is now Marita moved from Albuquerque, in July 2020.
available as an audio book, and NM to Lubbock, TX.
Kindle Unlimited members can read In Fall 2022, Marita had a dream
it for free. A change in the political climate in that, ultimately, along with her
2016 opened the door for Marita sister Lauren, launched The Best-
In a failed attempt to save her to return to the field of her college Life Project—which brings together
marriage, Marita stepped away education: Interior Design. Marita Marita’s lifetime of experience
from her life’s work in 2006. She began to flip houses in Lubbock. and talent to create a fresh online
was able to parlay her speaking and After she'd completed five houses, resource dedicated to encouraging
writing skills into a decade-long her mother, who was 90 at the and equipping women over 60. The
career, advocating for American time, needed Marita’s help. In 2018, site currently features more than
energy. Marita spoke at industry Florence moved into Chuck and 100 articles on topics ranging from
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