In episode 123, Kim welcomes Christine Knowles, the Education Director of the New School in Kennebunk, Maine. The New School is a high school, where students find their voice through arts, activism, and student-driven academics. In this episode, Kim and Christine talk about using a narrative approach to the process of education, and Christine discusses how allowing students to be a part of the democratic process of their own education helps invest them more in the process.

As Kim enjoys a week off visiting family in PA Doug records a solo episode. In this week's episode, he opens up about how he handled the pandemic, what it did to him, and how it created the need to go on anxiety medicine. He also shares helpful strategies that others may be able to use for themselves.

In this episode, Kim sits down with Leia Lowery, the Director of Programs and Outreach with the Kennebunkport Climate Initiative. Leia brings over 20 years of experience in education, curriculum development, and community engagement, specializing in facilitating dynamic educational experiences that create critical thinkers, life-long learners, and productive citizens. She answers Kim's questions on climate change, global warming, and making small changes every day to improve the world we live in.

Steph Lauer is a long-term Spurling client and Maine native who spent seven years of her childhood living in Saudi Arabia. In this episode, she talks about learning to speak Arabic growing up, spending a year in Haiti with her educator parents, and why she considers travel, especially international travel, an important part of her overall wellness.

Chronic pain and chronic illness can feel debilitating, not just because of the physical toll it takes on a person, but also because the journey to finding relief, and answers, can feel like an impossible slog. In this episode, Kim is joined by Spurling client Heather Leach who shares some insights from the roadblocks that have been thrown in her way as she deals with chronic pain. Together, they carry on the conversation about how to keep going when doors continue to be shut in your face.

In this episode, Kim sits down with life coach Emily Clement who tells her story, talks about her journey into life-coaching, and discusses why, at the start of 2020 she sold everything she owned, packed up her car and her pup Tootsie, and lined up speaking engagements all over the country. (And what she did when the pandemic cancelled all of those gigs). It's a fun episode with lots of great knowledge nuggets.

This week Doug welcomes Billy Hofacker onto the show. Billy is a gym owner and financial coach out of Long Island, New York. He shares his very impressive financial story, how he climbed out of over $100,000 in non-mortgage debt, and shares tips and tricks to get your financial health back on track

In episode 116, Kim sits down with Spurling client and Empowerment Coach Amy Lemieux.

Amy talks about the journey of self-discovery that led her to becoming a coach and figuring out how she could best help others, something that she always felt called to do.

She works with moms of tweens, teens and young adults who feel lost. She helps them find their inner badass without sacrificing the needs of their families.

She also helps woman see their strengths and create true, lasting transformation to claim their best lives.

She is an ICF certified Health and Life coach with HCI (Health Coach Institute).

In this On My Mind episode, Kim discusses several of the books she's currently reading, and the "second brain" system that she has adopted to help keep more organized notes and thoughts about those books.

There has been an unprecedented amount of change for all of us in this past year as we have continued to negotiate the COVID 19 pandemic, and with another significant change right around the corner, Kim and Doug discuss some specific strategies for helping you negotiate changes, both big and small.