Grace Good
of the circus world The inspiration of a bedsheet hung in a garage and a virtual circus BY JOHN MCBRYDE
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hen his college-age daughter decided she wanted to take her passion for the hula hoop and turn it into a career, Paul Good thought she was simply going through a phase. Grace Good, a 2011 graduate of Centennial High School who is now in her late 20s, picked up the old-fashioned children’s toy when she was enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University. Hula-hooping began as a hobby and then as therapy for anxiety and panic attacks Good was having at the time. Before long, she was developing a repertoire and thought this was something she could do as a professional performer. Dad wasn’t convinced at first. “I thought it was a little fad, something to do on the side while she went to school,” says Good, a former pastor who now runs Rooster Call Ministries. “And then she kept going. I was really impressed with her fortitude to master what she started out to do. She pushes the limits on a lot of things.”
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