KimUnity Soulutions Podcast

Left on read is no longer just a status on a text message. In this episode of the KimUnity Soulutions Podcast, Kim the SME reveals how that same silence shows up in meetings, inboxes, and living rooms through familiar phrases like “we’ll circle back” and “I’ll think about it.”

She shares what months of an unanswered workplace concern taught her about how problems grow in the quiet, walks through the real reasons people go silent, from forgotten intentions to outright power plays, and names the moment every leader, parent, and friend should watch for most: not when someone keeps asking, but when they stop.

Whether you are the one waiting or the one who owes the answer, you will walk away with simple, practical ways to close the loop and protect the trust in your relationships at work and at home.

Who have you left on hold and need to reach back out to?  Do it this week and comment 'Done'.

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Whenever a great employee resigns, the scramble begins. In this episode, Kim the SME flips the question and asks why the settled, the ones quietly coasting, choose to stay. Through a personal story about training someone for a role she was passed over for, Kim shows how great employees read the room long before they leave, and why communication includes everything we avoid, delay, and tolerate.

She walks through the reasons people stay comfortable: constant accommodation, no one asking more of them, an upper hand, special favor, tenure that excuses behavior, and the simple truth that staying takes far less energy than leaving. Then she turns the mirror inward, inviting leaders to own their part and inviting all of us to notice where we are settling in our own lives, in relationships, routines, and communities, simply because moving takes effort.

Inside this week’s newsletter, The Communication Ledger, you’ll find a reflection on what tolerance teaches a team and two personal questions to carry into your week.

Curious what an honest stay conversation could reveal? Open the free Questions and Perspectives app at qandpcards.com and play a card with someone who matters to you. Join the weekly newsletter and explore more at https://www.kimunitysoulutions.com/.

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Kim the SME opened this episode of the KimUnity Soulutions Podcast with a question she asked a bakery clerk: will this cookie bend or will it break? From that moment came a powerful reflection on how we respond under pressure. Kim explored why most of us do not break at the first frustration but at the one pressure too many and why some people skip bending entirely and crash out (lose their cool completely) over the smallest things.

She shared how slowing down and extending grace during a tense customer service call turned a short, frustrated operator into a cordial and helpful one. She also pushed back on the Platinum Rule, the idea that you should treat people the way they want to be treated, by reminding listeners that you cannot know how someone wants to be treated until you actually communicate with them.

Her biggest takeaway: conflict prevention will always be superior to conflict resolution, and prevention begins with a pause. Whether it is a manager and a team, coworkers, siblings, cousins, or spouses, the invitation is the same. Be slow to respond, lower the temperature, and choose grace.

Want more reflections like this in your inbox every week? Subscribe to The Communication Ledger, Kim's weekly newsletter, at www.KimUnitySoulutions.com. 

Ready to start practicing softer, deeper conversations today? Open and play the free Questions and Perspectives app at qandpcards.com. One card, one conversation, and you may be amazed at how quickly people open up.

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In this episode, Kim the SME shares a personal story that started with a donut and ended up revealing something much bigger. After searching for the perfect glazed donut and driving across town to find one, Kim discovered her new favorite spot was sitting right next door to a store her husband visits multiple times a week. That small discovery becomes the doorway into a much larger conversation about the people and opportunities we overlook because we assume our blessing has to be far away.

Kim reflects on being passed over for a promotion earlier in her accounting career, not because she lacked the skill or the relationships, but because her organization looked outside instead of within. She challenges listeners, especially managers and leaders, to stop reaching up toward people and resources that feel out of reach, and instead reach out to the people who are already close by. The episode is a reminder that growth in the people around us is often invisible until we take the time to really look, ask, and listen.

Ready to start noticing what has been in front of you the whole time? Open the free Questions and Perspectives app today at qandpcards.com and let one question lead you to a conversation you were not expecting.

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In this episode, Kim the SME offers listeners permission they didn't know they needed: you are not supposed to know everything. She opens up about leaving an imperfect, AI assisted LinkedIn post live instead of quietly deleting it. She uses that small moment to talk about what happens when we stop performing certainty and start getting honest about what we're still learning, in marriages, friendships, parenting, and everyday life, not just at work.

She talks about the real benefit of asking someone else instead of guessing alone, whether that's a mentor, a trusted friend, or a good book, and why staying curious keeps a person, and a team, growing long after certainty runs out.

It's a warm reminder that admitting a gap isn't weakness, it's where real growth begins, and that the people willing to ask are usually the ones who end up learning the most.

Open and play a free round of Kim's Questions and Perspectives cards at qandpcards.com to keep the reflection going.

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This week Kim the SME shares two very different experiences: a joyful networking event she walked into with high expectations and a frustrating drive through order where she expected disappointment before she even reached the counter. Both played out exactly as she anticipated.

Using the distinction between appetite (a desire we can shape) and hunger (a signal our body sends), Kim unpacks how the energy and expectation we carry into any room, whether it is a client meeting, a family dinner, or the start of a hard week, often shapes what we end up receiving.

She is honest that mindset is not a guarantee (the restaurant still owed her better service), but she challenges listeners to notice how often their own bracing for the worst becomes the very thing they experience.

The biggest takeaway: your appetite is a decision, not an accident, and you can reset it before you walk through any door.

Ready to practice this with someone in your life? Open the free Questions and Perspectives app daily at qandpcards.com and turn today's mindset into tonight's conversation.

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This week Kim the SME opens up about a moment that stopped her in her tracks, a simple question that triggered someone she cares about. Instead of reacting, she got curious, and that choice became the heart of this episode.

Kim walks through the real reasons people go out of line or out of character, medication changes, unspoken burdens, timing, protecting someone else's joy, and makes the case that our job in those moments isn't to judge, it's to extend grace.

Using her grandmother in law's story and her own daughter's college acceptance as examples, Kim shows how the most loving thing we can do for someone acting out of character is give them room to cool off without disappearing on them.

Open and play the free Questions and Perspectives app today at qandpcards.com and ask someone in your life a question that gets past the surface.

Welcome back to the KimUnity Soulutions Podcast, where we inspire leadership and humanity within and beyond the workplace.

This throwback episode, "Laid On," is one that keeps resurfacing because the problem it names never really goes away. Kim the SME unpacks what happens to the employees who survive a layoff, the ones left behind carrying the workload, the uncertainty, and the weight of watching colleagues walk out the door. Their responsibilities grow, their stress climbs, and their trust in leadership often quietly erodes, even when no one names it out loud.

If you have ever been on a team after a round of layoffs, you already know this feeling has a name now: being Laid On.

What was your experience? What helped you get through it? Share your story in the comments, someone else reading this may need to hear it.

For a simple way to keep having conversations like this one with your team or the people you love, open and play Questions and Perspectives free at qpcards.com.

Follow, Subscribe, Like, and Share, and pass this one along to a friend or coworker who has lived this too.

Thank you for tuning in.

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In this episode of the KimUnity Soulutions Podcast, Kim the SME reflects on a lesson sparked by her children’s car accident: the importance of leaving space, on the road and in life.

She unpacks how carrying old frustrations, old jobs, and old relationships into new ones creates patterns we do not even realize we are building, and she opens up about her own experience of walking into a new position still weighed down by the last one.

Kim explores the delicate balance between responding too quickly and letting an issue sit so long it resurfaces with more weight than before, and she invites listeners to think about what communication looks like beyond words, through tone, body language, and the space we give each other after a hard moment.

Open and play the free Questions and Perspectives app daily at qandpcards.com to keep this kind of reflection going with the people around you.

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In this episode, Kim the SME shares a raw, real time account of getting scammed out of over $875 while trying to do the responsible thing, notifying her insurance company after her children were in a minor car accident. She walks through every red flag she noticed and ignored, the fake authorization codes, the surprise discount offer, and the moment she realized the number her daughter dialed was never actually connected to their insurance company at all.

Kim connects the experience directly to her core message on communication, showing how intuition is a form of communication we often talk ourselves out of trusting. Listeners walk away with a clear challenge, to slow down, verify their connections, and treat that gut feeling as valuable information rather than an inconvenience.