Have you ever asked yourself, "Am I in the RIGHT RACE?".  

On today's episode, my good friend and Spartan teammate, Bryant Edwards and I talk about being in the RIGHT RACE in life.  

This is not about doing a Spartan race.  It is all about checking in with ourselves on what race we are running and the challenges that happen along the way. 

This is a new 'take' on Kim TALKS.  Bryant is asking the question and I am answering them. 

See you in there! 
OX Kim

Dear Kim is a weekly segment on my podcast, Kim TALKS where you ask a question and I share my humble advice.  All the questions are anonymous. Dear Kim is designed for you to have a safe space to share and for us to converse about questions that not only you & I need advice from … I know many others do to. 

Dear Kim Episode 001 I answer a question that I quite honestly can't believe I am able to answer after all the grief I have experienced. I know to see that experience of sitting in this kind of pain as led to be able to share it with others. With any piece of advice ... take one thing, all of it, or none it. I ask you to be open-minded to be able to heal the best way possible.  

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If you would like to ask a question and it can be featured on Kim TALKS, Dear Kim segment.  Please reach out to me directly at [email protected]Please title it 'Dear Kim'.

*** This advice does not mean you do not seek further help from professionals.  Please reach out to your healthcare professionals if you believe you are in need of more assistance.  Please know you are not alone and that help can be available for you. ***

Anthony Pedersen and I talk about the surface level to the depth of how we feel about social media and what it is doing for us or not ... listen in. We have a lot to say and I believe you will enjoy our opposing sides on it. 

I needed therapy. I don't shy away from sharing that. I also don't believe I should be ashamed of it.  I do know a lot of people don't agree with it. That is cool too. 

I have a core belief that we need a third party to help us in this journey of life. It doesn't need to be therapy. It could be a mentor, energy worker, someone with an unbias and educated approach on the topic/healing at hand. 

In today's episode, you will hear different ways to go about it and the effects it has on you or can if you have not gone down this route.  

I hope this finds you in a place of love, healing, and relief. 

OX Kim

Today's talk with my dear friend, Ellis Funchess ... we will give it to you Straight Up No Chaser.  Ellis and I have a candid conversation about sexuality and our identities.  This is a topic him and I have never openly spoken about. It is our time to come out and share what we have to say and see where it goes.  We know we are not the first to talk about this or the last but we wanted to be someone to talk about it. 

MUCH LOVE TO YOU ELLIS! You make me braver. I adore you and I can not wait for the world to hear and see more of you! 

OX
Kim 
#kimtalks

oh my! This one gives me the chills!!! LOVE TALKS has served me and so many over the last year it has been around.  It is time for an evolution! I introduce you ... Kim TALKS!!!

Kim TALKS: where we can talk about love and loss, happiness and sadness, go-getter and being lazy, beauty and beast, laughter and crying, enough and not enough. All of the above is what I believe life is. I also believe you can have all of them co-exists and live a great life. I got too good at making life black and white. I’m all in on happiness or sadness. No in-between. I’m now learning it can be black and living in color.

Social media when it comes to youth, adults, and businesses is a crucial topic to touch on in our day and age. I go in depth on how I believe we can look at this from tactics and principle way to see how we can boost our self-esteem (bring more awareness) when it comes to social media and our day-to-day.  

You've heard the saying a million times over. But have you really tried it out? You know ... is the grass REALLY greener on the side?

I don't believe we take a minute or a few to realize it when we make this decision or even on the flip side ever make this decision because we are afraid to see if the grass or brown on the other side. 

The saying, "The grass is always greener where YOU water it" stuck out for me and it is why I wanted to talk about it and see where you are at.  I love how its worded because there is a lot of judgment indirectly or directly of how we make our decisions every day. Let alone if we decide to make BIG, LIFE CHANGING ones.

Let's tap into what we can take control of and decide for our best and highest self! 

I'll see you there! 
~ Kim

What are men thinking when it comes to the timeline of our life?

This episode is all around what my friend, Anthony Pedersen has experienced being on the end of what societal norms shows us what our lives 'should' have panned out to be.  

If you ever felt like your life was not going the way it 'should' be going, tune in today and hear what Anthony and I have to say about what the stigma is on how our American Dream 'should' be. 

boy meets girl, the boy asks the girl to marry him, the girl says yes, and they live happily ever after. 

When you realize that the person by your side is not the one, what do you do?

Maybe you try and stay?
Maybe you walk away?

Which door would you open?

Catherine Meyer is one of my oldest and dearest friends.
Now, we added another notch to our relationship belt as we both have something in common.  We both have gone through a divorce and she has become what I like to call her my “Divorce Dalai Lama”.  Some humor to a heavy journey.

We talk about her divorce and the journey I have been going through to shed light on a sensitive subject that most people won’t touch and we’re here to talk about it to make more people not feel alone in the decision and if you choose to go down the path of Divorce.

Cheryl Strayed said this and it is so powerful to the journey of heartbreak, break-up, divorce, whatever you are going through... 

“Go, even though you love him.

Go, even though he’s kind and faithful and dear to you.

Go, even though he’s your best friend and you’re his.

Go, even though you can’t imagine your life without him.

Go, even though he adores you and your leaving will devastate him.

Go, even though your friends will be disappointed or surprised or pissed off or all three.

Go, even though you once said you would stay.

Go, even though you’re afraid of being alone.

Go, even though you’re sure no one will ever love you as well as he does.

Go, even though there is nowhere to go.

Go, even though you don’t know exactly why you can’t stay.

Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”