A quick heads-up: this episode discusses grief and the loss of a parent.

This week marks one year since Kimberly lost her mom, and in this deeply personal solo episode, she opens up about what it's actually taken to grieve and run a business at the same time. Kimberly shares the eight things that have helped her keep showing up over the past year — from reducing her schedule to therapy, asking her doctor for help, and learning that reduced capacity is still capacity. For anyone in the "sandwich generation" caring for aging parents, anyone grieving right now, or anyone who's ever wondered how you're supposed to keep working when your heart is heavy, this one meets you where you are.

In This Episode:

• Why "time off" hits differently as an entrepreneur — and Kimberly's honest take on being "fake offline"
• Reducing her schedule down to two client-facing days and protecting space to simply feel
• Leaning on weekly and biweekly therapy as an unfiltered sounding board
• Talking to her doctor and why she believes there's no shame in getting help ("you don't have to raw dog your grief")
• Apologizing to friends, telling people where she really is, and letting them show up for her
• Giving herself permission to rest and "rot" without guilt
• Drawing on "mom energy" from the women and community around her
• Understanding that every emotion is normal — and journaling to get to the root instead of the surface
• Her bonus lesson: make things easier on yourself, and don't always trust your feelings when you're grieving, because your feeling isn't always the fact

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