Savannah Kean: Fighting for Family, Focused on the Future

Love Bombs
Written By Brooke Taylor, Board Chair

Savannah Kean and her three boys.

Meet Savannah Kean, a 37-year-old wife, mother, and hairstylist with a heart as big as her hometown of Morgantown, Indiana. A proud mother of three talented boys — ages 14, 9, and 6 — Savannah’s life is centered around family, sports, and community. Whether it’s cheering her boys on at football, baseball, or wrestling, or snapping photos of their sporting triumphs, Savannah’s heart beats for her family. But in November 2023, just as she was celebrating her birthday, her world came to a screeching halt.

"I found a lump on my birthday, November 4th," she recalls. "On January 9th, 2024, I got the confirmation. Cancer." What followed was nothing short of a nightmare. Diagnosed with ER+ PR+ HER2- breast cancer, Savannah was told initially she wouldn’t need chemotherapy or radiation. But after her oncotype score came back high, it was a different story — chemotherapy became unavoidable.

The harsh realities of treatment followed swiftly. Bone pain, brain fog, nerve pain, and the physical toll of chemotherapy left Savannah struggling. Her health deteriorated to the point where she was unable to work, resulting in the loss of her job. Even with the constant barrage of setbacks, she tries to stay positive for her family. "I'm trying so hard to keep a positive attitude, but it's getting more and more difficult each day," Savannah shares.

On top of everything, she’s had to contend with financial stress. "I miss out on so much with my family, and sports gear is expensive — they’ve missed out a lot this year." Yet, through it all, Savannah's unwavering love for her family and her determination to push forward shine through.

Savannah’s dream now is to create a space for her to work again when she’s able — a small salon at home. "I’d love to have a salon here so I don’t have to worry about the overhead of rent or a landlord. I want to be able to get back to doing what I love." But her dreams don’t stop there. She also wants to spoil her boys with some much-needed sports gear, and after a difficult year, a weekend away with her husband, Ross, feels long overdue. "We missed our 10-year anniversary in October. He deserves so much. He’s been my rock through all of this."

Savannah’s journey hasn’t been easy, but through it all, she remains determined to keep moving forward — and we’re here to help. The Love Bomb will allow her to spend quality time with her family, invest in her dreams, and hopefully begin turning her luck around.

Savannah, your strength, love for your family, and ability to keep going despite it all is what truly inspires us. Here's to hoping that this Love Bomb is just the start of better days ahead.

Brooke Taylor, Board Chair

Brooke Clay Taylor is the founder of the Rural Gone Urban Foundation, a nonprofit born from her belief in supporting women who are tough as nails—women who don’t let the weight of the world break them.

A ranch girl at heart and a toddler mom, Brooke’s life has been anything but ordinary. Raised on a farm in Indiana, she learned early on that life isn’t fair, but it’s worth fighting for. At six, she lost her dad to colon cancer. By junior high, she traded her small-town roots for life on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma, and by high school, was already proving the world wrong when a guidance counselor deemed her “not college material.”

Brooke’s journey hasn’t been a straight line. After over a decade working in agriculture marketing with internationally recognized brands, she bet on herself and started her own business from the ground up, with just one client and a lot of faith. In 2019, when she gave birth to her daughter, she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. After a season of intense treatment, she was declared cancer-free, but life threw her a curveball when cancer returned in 2022 for round two. And yet, through every challenge, she’s never had to face it alone.

Brooke believes that while you can do a lot on your own, it’s the people in your corner that make the difference. It was this belief that led her to launch the Rural Gone Urban Foundation in 2022, a place for women in need of support—whether they’re pursuing education, building businesses, or battling cancer.

As a self-proclaimed “B student” and a mom to a 5-year-old, Brooke wants women to know they’re worthy of support, regardless of their GPA or their business’s current state. Her foundation is here to help women write their own stories of strength, resilience, and success.

In Brooke’s world, there’s no such thing as too much support—whether you’re in the ring with cancer, starting a business, or just trying to make it through another day.

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