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In this episode of Your Next Move, Kimberly sits down with Elle Petrillo — founding member of Brand Builders Group and former speakers bureau executive — for a candid, no-holds-barred conversation on what it actually takes to build a speaking career. Recorded live during The Visibility Shift Intensive, this conversation goes beyond motivation and into the real mechanics of getting booked, setting fees, and showing up with a brand that commands the room before you ever open your mouth.

In This Episode:

• Elle Petrillo shares her origin story: getting fired, going through divorce, and rebuilding her identity from scratch — which became the foundation for her personal branding philosophy
• The three reasons every speaker should pursue a speaking engagement: brand building, lead building, or income generating
• Why you should always ask for a client's budget before naming your fee — and how Elle has turned a stated $2,000 budget into a $10,000 booking
• The scrappy, low-cost ways to build a speaker kit and demo video that actually gets you booked
• Kimberly opens up about her own speaking fee journey — and why she's still working up to the number Elle keeps pushing her toward
• Why entrepreneurship doesn't have to mean going full-time, and the real story behind Kimberly's 10-year runway before leaving corporate

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Not all stages serve the same purpose — and getting clear on why you're speaking changes everything. In this solo episode, Kimberly Brown breaks down the three categories of speaking she's used throughout her own career to build connections, increase visibility, and close business. Whether you're still in a nine-to-five, building a side hustle, or running a full-time business, this episode will help you get intentional about the stages you pursue and what you're actually going after when you get there.

In This Episode:

• Kimberly traces her speaking journey back to 2011 after being passed over for a promotion she earned
• She introduces the concept of "accelerated collisions" and how stages create the conditions for meaningful connection
• She breaks down the three speaking categories: career building (relationships and advancement), brand building (thought leadership and trust), and wallet building (cash and/or qualified leads)

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In this episode of the Your Next Move Podcast, Kimberly breaks down what separates the speakers who keep getting booked and referred from the ones who deliver a great talk — and then never hear from the room again. Spoiler: it has nothing to do with how polished you are.

In This Episode:

• The one question to ask yourself after every talk: can someone describe what I do without me in the room?

• The three types of talk titles that travel — and the ones that don't

• Exactly what to do in the 48 hours after you speak (and why most speakers skip this entirely)

• The speaker page, one-sheet, and social presence checklist that makes referring you effortless

Book mentioned: The Referable Speaker by Michael Port and Andrew Davis - https://amzn.to/3PZ8WIU

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Five years of full-time entrepreneurship — and Kimberly isn't showing up with a highlight reel. She's bringing the real: the lessons she had to learn, unlearn, and sometimes relearn on the road to building a multi-six-figure business five years running. This episode is for every entrepreneur who has ever questioned the path, doubted the process, or wondered if it's actually worth it.

In This Episode:

• The strategy Kimberly has consistently returned to as her primary lead generator since 2011 — and why she kept leaving it anyway
• Her evolution from career counselor to global HR director to speaker, coach, author, and beyond — and what that teaches us about identity in entrepreneurship
• Why followers and a following are not the same thing
• The advice she was given about not giving too much away — and why she chose to ignore it
• The launches where no one enrolled, the investments that didn't pay off, and the mindset that kept her going anyway

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Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop consuming. In this solo episode, Kimberly gets personal — sharing the moment in her car that made her realize her brain had been "outside" for way too long. She breaks down the three goals that are now her filter for everything: brand building, waist shrinking, and stress annihilating. If it doesn't serve one of those three, it's out. This one is raw, honest, and exactly the permission slip you didn't know you needed.

In This Episode:

• Kimberly shares the driving moment that made her realize she was in information overload
• She opens up about her weight loss journey, grief, and gaining 13 pounds since losing her mom in August
• She introduces her three focus areas: brand building, waist shrinking, and stress annihilating
• She references the concept of "working procrastination" and how it shows up for her and her clients
• She ties her 40-day challenge back to the core values framework in her book
• She challenges listeners to lock in on their own three goals for the next 40 days

Get on the waitlist for The Visibility Shift: www.kimberlybonline.com/tvs

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She was making over $200,000 a year, had the house, the luxury car, and the career — and she was still broke. In this episode, Kimberly sits down with Naseema McElroy, Labor and Delivery Nurse, personal finance expert, podcast host, and founder of Financially Intentional, for a conversation that is equal parts real talk and roadmap. Naseema paid off nearly one million dollars in debt in under three years — without deprivation — and went on to build a seven-figure net worth while raising three daughters as a single mom. What she shares here is not your typical finance advice.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why high-earning women are often the most financially stuck — and the mindset shift that actually changes it
• What "without deprivation" really looks like inside a debt payoff plan (hint: Disneyland was in the budget)
• The financial reality of divorce that no one talks about until it's too late — and how having a strong financial foundation gave Naseema the power to leave
• The beauty tax, the hair cost, the professional appearance standards — and why Black women need a budget built for their actual reality
• Why most people don't need a financial advisor first — they need a money therapist
• The FIRE movement and how Naseema went from debt-free to millionaire in just a few years
• What she wants her three daughters to inherit beyond money

Connect with Naseema: https://www.financiallyintentional.com/podcast or https://www.instagram.com/financiallyintentional/

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You can command a boardroom and still go quiet where it matters most. In this powerful conversation, Kimberly sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist and author Colette Jane Fehr to talk about the one thing most of us never saw coming — that silence, not conflict, is what slowly destroys relationships. Colette's new book, The Cost of Quiet, is a timely guide for anyone who has ever kept the peace at the expense of their own voice, and this episode gets deeply personal fast.

We're going deep on:

• Why "keeping the peace" is actually a form of relationship self-abandonment — and how avoidant behavior shows up in ways that have nothing to do with being quiet
• The science of resentment and what it reveals about what you're actually allowing in your relationship
• How high-achieving professional women can advocate fiercely at work but go completely silent at home — and the attachment wiring behind why
• The 24-hour rule for conflict resolution and why coming back matters more than coming back perfectly
• What "Good Girl-itis" is, how it gets conditioned into us, and what it costs us physically, emotionally, and relationally

In This Episode:

• Colette shares the personal experience — including her own divorce — that shaped the framework behind The Cost of Quiet
• Kimberly opens up about her own patterns of self-silencing and the physical toll her first marriage took on her health
• The practical "start small" method Colette gives her clients for learning to speak up when silence has been the default for years
• Why resentment is actually misdirected anger — and how turning the lens back on yourself is the most empowering move you can make
• The Gottman research on what healthy couples actually do when they fight (hint: it's not about fighting less)
• Why high-performing women often retreat into "survival mode" at home and how to interrupt that cycle before the dirty laundry piles up
• Colette's reminder that speaking up is a muscle — and the more you use it, the stronger and more natural it becomes

Stay in touch with Colette: https://www.colettejanefehr.com/ or https://colettejanefehr.substack.com/

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Most personal development advice hands you a checklist and calls it transformation. But real growth doesn't work that way. In this episode, Kimberly is breaking down the only framework you actually need — three words that will change how you see yourself and how you move through your life.

This episode is your permission slip to stop waiting and start designing the life you actually want.

We're going deep on:

• Identity — Why who you're becoming matters more than what you're doing

• Learning — The critical step everyone skips between vision and action

• Action — How to move today, tomorrow, and toward the long game

In This Episode:

• Why most personal growth content is just "productivity in a wellness costume"

• The question that will reorient your entire life (hint: it's not "what do you want?")

• How to design your North Star identity — and why specificity is everything

• The difference between passive learning and the kind that actually changes you

• The three time horizons of action: today, tomorrow, and later

• Why you're catastrophically underestimating what you can do in a year

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