10 Most-Beautiful: Trish Tallon
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Name: Trish Tallon
Age: 50
Occupation: Homemaker, part-time dental hygienist
Hometown: Branson
Family: husband Rick Tallon, and her children are Grant Tallon and Cassie Foreman. Her son-in-law is Doug Foreman, and her grandchildren are Jacob and Anna
Give me three words that describe you
Thoughtful, hopeful, determined
How do you deal with pressure?
I probably take time to read and pray and just be quiet. And run. Then I’ll go for a run. Running or working out are good stress relief.
What motivates you?
My faith in God, my desire to love people, my family and a desire to be healthy and live life to its fullest.
If you could start a new career, what would you do?
If I could start a new career, it would probably be something to do with nutrition counseling. Something like a dietician. That would be like a dream job. Just based on my career choice with dental hygiene, I see where your diet plays a role in your overall health. Just to take it a step further would be to be involved in something like nutrition. That would take my career a step further.
Who are your real-life heroes?
My parents just were great role models as parents. They just taught me how to be loving, be a loving parent and be great encouragers. My husband is one because he would be a person that has really taught me perseverance. In every area, he’s just not a person to give up. He just perseveres, that’s just kind of his attitude in life. I just love that about him. My kids kind of are, too. Kids kind of teach. Especially when they’re teenagers, they teach you to be genuine.
What’s your biggest fear?
Creepy crawly things like spiders, snakes, scorpions. Anything like that would be things that would cause fear.
What’s the best book you’ve read in the past year?
I read all the time. Life’s Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter by Hal Urban. It’s kind of self explanatory. It’s just common sense attitudes about everything in life.
What’s your favorite quote?
Oh, I have a lot. I do calligraphy, and I love to do quotes. Hellen Keller: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
When are you happiest?
At home with my family. Just at home relaxing, at times with family.
Do you have a prized possession?
My bible and my wedding ring.
What part of the world would you like to visit but haven’t?
I’d like to go to Germany. That’s my family heritage, German. We may have an opportunity to go next year. That’s something that would be really neat.
If you could share a taxi from the airport with any celebrity, who would you choose? Why?
Faith Hill. I think she’s somebody who is very talented who hasn’t really let a lot of her fame and everything go to her. She seems to be a pretty grounded individual. She doesn’t seem real into herself. She seems to have and maintained good values.
When you look in a mirror, what do you see?
I probably see myself getting older. I’m 50 this year. There’s a desire in me to like not mentally give into that. Not see the age, but just kind of still have a desire to do a lot of things in life. Not see that as a ‘oh no’ in a bad way, but more of a looking forward to things that I haven’t gotten do. Looking forward to new chapters of my life. To look at it as more of an exciting time, I probably wouldn’t want to go back to being in my 20s again. I’m excited that I can do things now that I couldn’t do before. Like travel, or try different things I haven’t been able to do yet.
If you could go back to a certain age again, what would it be?
I think if I could go back as a teenager and understand being a teenager a little bit differently as I do now, it’d be sort of fun, knowing what I know now. Maybe go back to those high school years and experience friendships a little differently than I did. To go back to those years and not take things as seriously as you did then, take it a little lighter.
What are your goals?
I want to continue learning and never stop learning and growing. I want to continue to work on relationships with family and friends and new relationships. Continue to meet new people. I want to continue to serve others in some sort of volunteer capacity, whatever that might be. I think it would be a goal to age gracefully. I think to continue to grow in my faith. That’s a huge part of who I am, so that would be a goal. Probably a top goal. A lifetime of that.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Probably having my kids. When I was younger, they told me I probably wouldn’t be able to have children. Then I did. To me that was huge to be able to have two kids.
What talent would you most like to have?
I’d love to get into doing some watercolor painting. My mom does that, and that’s kind of something I’d like to do.
When was the last time you did something reckless?
I’m probably not a very reckless or crazy person, honestly. I don’t know the last time I did something real reckless. I couldn’t answer that.
What is your philosophy in life?
When life doesn’t go like you want it to go, look around at the blessings and things you do have in your life. If you just open your eyes to them. Just to not take life for granted, I guess. It’s not always going to go perfect, and it probably won’t. Like I said, keep our eyes open to the blessings that we do have.
If you had $1 million, how would you spend it?
I would find ways to help people anonymously and not let anyone know where it came from. I would give to cancer research, and I also would like to be able to help people anonymously with medical bills who wouldn’t know where the help came from.
What sort of work do you try to avoid or put off?
Raking leaves in the fall. We have a ton of trees in our yard.
What do you worry about most?
I probably worry about what the world will be like for my kids and my grandkids, the future generations. I worry about not resolving conflict with people right away and letting things go. I like to not harbor things like that, and resolve conflicts and not carry bitterness towards people.
Can you describe a situation in which you feel you behaved courageously?
I gave my nephew the Heimlich one time, saved his life. He was choking on a rib, actually, when he was at our house. He was like a teenager, like 14 or 15. I thought that might be a situation where I would panic, I just looked over at him and saw that he was having trouble and then just jumped up and did it. After, I was kind of surprised that I reacted that way.
What mistakes in your life have you learned from?
Times I wish I would have slowed down to listen before responding. Times when I wished I hadn’t taken life quite so seriously.
What was your first job?
My first job would have probably been baby-sitting when I was younger. Gosh, I probably started baby-sitting when I was 12 or 13.
What do you know for sure?
I know for sure what I believe. I’m sure of my Christian beliefs and my faith in God. That is something I know for sure.
