When Kim Kimball's parents divorced, she wasn't sure whether she'd ever be able to trust a relationship enough to get married. Then... the universe intervened and sent Paul her way. He knew he was going to marry her the day they met. She learned that opening herself up to being seen and truly being vulnerable brought more love into her life than she might have imagined.

"The more that you open yourself up, the more that you're vulnerable? The more love you're able to receive." Wise words!

Kim Kimball is a self-love coach who helps women stop people pleasing and create kind boundaries. Women who work with Kim learn how to speak up and ask for what they need. No more playing small, no more putting yourself last! As someone who has been coached by Kim, I can tell you that she is fierce and won't let you get away with anything ... in the best possible way. Give her a try. She's incredible.

Find out more at www.kimkimballcoaching.com. Follow her on Instagram at @kimkimballcoaching -- and see beautiful photos. Email her at [email protected].

I was married for about three years, and almost all of that time was dominated by fear of the man I'd married. In this episode, I tell that story, start to finish. It's one of the experiences that defines how I see myself today.

Spousal abuse takes many forms. While my ex-husband never hit me, I lived in a state of constant fear that he would throw something at me that landed, or that he would act on his impulses to hurt me. I still believe that if I'd stayed in that relationship much longer, he would have hurt me.

Telling this story is one of the most vulnerable things I've ever done, but it feels like a moment of reclaiming my agency in my life. I am not ashamed of this story ... although I certainly was ashamed by what was happening behind closed doors at the time.

Telling these stories empowers other women, those who might have experienced something like this or who might be living with someone who treats them poorly, to tell their stories and come out of the shadows.

If you need resources, please reach out to the National Domestic Violence hotline. You can chat with them online https://www.thehotline.org/ or call 1-800-799-7233 (for TTY, 1-800-787-3224).

Three soul sisters sit down to talk about relationship fears, specifically letting themselves be seen in a relationship. What happens when you let your guard down? It's terrifying ... and, sometimes, completely magical.

Thanks to Skye Mercer and Amanda Lipnack (https://www.amandalipnack.com/) for joining me in this fun, laughter-filled conversation. Both Skye and Amanda are amazing career and life coaches. Amanda has a particular knack for relationship coaching, and I've benefited a lot from her wise coaching myself.

Find out more about my March 2019 retreat here: https://www.liznorell.com/harbor/. Snag yourself a spot before they're all gone!

In this episode, I talk with Iris Cullinan, a career and business coach based in Asheville, North Carolina. Iris shares how she faced her fear of failure in a non-obvious way ... namely, by resolving to quit her job and travel the world for two months! In the process, she found herself stuck in traffic on a bus in Nepal for the better part of a whole day, totally sure she was going to wake up in the middle of the night to find the bus tumbling down the side of a mountain. Instead, she not only survived (yay!), but she found a well of resilience she might not have ever discovered if she'd stayed on the "supposed to do this" path in Boston.

Find out more about Iris at her web site: https://www.iriscullinan.com/

The J.K. Rowling quote she mentions at the end is: "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default." This is from her commencement address at Harvard, the full text of which is here: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/.

In this first episode, I talk about my hopes for the podcast and the kinds of fears I hope we'll tackle ... and I share a story from the first time I remember making a conscious decision to push through my fear on something that SCARED THE DAYLIGHTS out of me. What happened? Have a listen.