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Unknown Speaker  0:10  

Let’s level up time to shine today podcast varsity squad. This is Scott Ferguson in Word episode 273. With my little bit my good friend Kim Brady, kind of we were kind of cross paths back in our college days just crazy ironic how everything comes full circle in this life, which we get into a little bit in our little discussion here. But I did do one booboo, I did not plug her book within our discussion. I feel like a total douchebaggery for doing that. But there is a free giveaway for the book get stuck in lessons from the pitch to build your business by my good friend, Kim Brady. And if you just the first person that puts get stuck in any of our socials, I will get you a mailed autographed copy from my good friend Kim. But Kim is a fantastic fantastic business coach who believes in living your life out loud. And it’s always we before me so it’s somebody that I love being able to be connected to to collaborate with. And I cannot wait to bring you this episode. So without further ado, here’s my really good friend Kim Brady from Kim Brady coaching. Let’s level up. And to shine a podcast varsity squad This is Scott Ferguson, I got a little treat with my good friend Kim Brady from the Left Coast. She’s out in California. But an ironic thing is we’re actually at Western Michigan University together at the same time, we were just off camera and Off mic here talking about places that we used to go up and under like places on my gosh, it was like it was such a fun time. And she is a rock star coach that levels up a lot of the business side of things and her business is Kim Brady business coaching. And just by helping her clients plan, organize identify a game plan for achieving their goals by fostering individual performance for growth based on customized coaching and uncovering blind spots and removing self doubt. Her clients in her build a long term relationship to navigate the rough waters of business ownership with her by their side. She will help you orchestrate the blueprint of your life and business on your own terms. It’s with Kim it’s always we before me, she wants you to find your ripple. Let she wants to work together so you can use the skills and talents to live your life out loud. And Kim, thank you so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself the time to shine today podcast first spot but first, what’s your favorite color? And why?

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Thank you so much for having me, Scott. It’s a pleasure to meet you and reminisce a little bit about being a Bronco way back when and my favorite color is green. emerald green.

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Yeah. Emerald Green. Okay,

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because of the ocean. I am an ocean kid a water kid. And I could not handle being landlocked and Colorado for too long. And Michigan was way too cold. So back home and the ocean you know the ebbs and flows. It’s a metaphor for life. So green for sure.

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Yeah, I’m looking at the Atlantic Right now I’m blessed. I moved out of the mitten myself and I got the Atlantic Ocean on my right side here and I I like to keep her there. You know kind of gives me an energy and I was inner this morning with my Pitbull on the paddleboard. So I really, really appreciate you coming on. So Kim, let’s get you a little story, a little background about where you maybe started and leveled up into coaching and helping other people’s really level up and live the life out loud.

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I think I think that it’s really hard what to to really realize all of the skill sets that we have. And when you think about leveling up, and you think about helping other people, it’s all combination from your life and your experience. And I was a soccer player growing up, my athletic identity is always guided me. And I also came out in college while I was playing soccer and came out as lesbian. And so being able to identify with other people, I just knew I needed to resonate with others in some way. I used to be a family therapist. Then I left that field I used to work with abused, neglected children and left that field. Then I went into sales, left that field, built my own company sold my company two days before COVID Smash the world closed. And then I was doing I was doing small business entrepreneurship helping other small business owners while I was doing that, because they needed assistance. They weren’t like how did you do that? And so kind of this culmination and trifecta of my hugely empathetic side of being a therapist, my sales and business background and entrepreneurship. And people were asking me, how did you build that company? And I said, all because of soccer. I just use athletic and soccer principles to help me build my company. And people had asked me to help them do the same thing. So that’s that’s really kind of how I got into this over the past couple of years and now I’m doing public speaking and I speak on all kinds of issues entrepreneurship, LGBTQ advocacy, etc. So You know, it’s kind of a trifecta and a culmination of my life. So soccer

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ha. So like, it’s funny when I was young as a wrestler and a baseball player, and I really hated soccer, like there’s just people around kicking a ball. And this is a thing now, in full disclosure, like I’m packing my bags to go to watch a Premier League game. Not good, right? So what what really did it for me, Kimmy is that I have a like, you look at a TV back in the day when you’d watch pay lay or something like that the cameras only focused on him kicking the ball. Now it has this wide screen. So you can see the strategy like you can see in basketball, the triangle offense, stuff like that. So like soccer really got me hooked. Now I have down here in South Florida, where I live, it’s such a melting pot, right? Literally my next door neighbor is like the conduit for Colombia soccer. Okay, trains a lot of his Colombian players here. And then they go back there and kick everyone’s ass. Yeah, so but it’s just like the strategy. Let’s talk a little bit about what you found from soccer to really help you level up your life and be able to pay that forward into other people’s lives that might not even know about sports or soccer, what skills did you get?

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Well, I think the thing that was it wasn’t just the skills that was what I was craving, what I was missing from no longer competing at an elite level, I was missing team. And that was something that was gone in the corporate arena, and that that competitive cauldron of sales and all these things, and you realize it’s just this cutthroat dynamic, and I was missing that feeling of team. And sport, in general, is all about discipline, it’s all about practice. It’s all about making mistakes, and moving forward. It’s all about mentorship and coaching. You cannot win a game and soccer by yourself. It fully is just completely translatable to business business, you can’t do it by yourself, it no matter how much you you’re a CEO, or you built a company, and you know, I’m the face of my old company, etc. And then, as I got employees, it was it went from me to we and I created team LBC, my company’s name was a little bit cleaning a little bit was one of my nicknames from soccer. And, you know, it was like, Yeah, every little bit counts. You know, every little bit that we do, you know, you mentioned thank you for being on time, on time is crucial to running a company, the respect that you have for someone else’s time, those things and the discipline of being on time to practice on time to matches, you know, sticking it out to the whistles blown, you don’t quit, I think those are really big keys to business and entrepreneurship, for sure.

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Love that. Love that. So what do you think makes a great coach?

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Empathy?

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And listening to what your client or your kiddo or your mentee or your students or whomever, ultimately coaching is being a teacher? And it’s not necessarily that you have all the answers is that you’re providing and holding space for this person to get to where they want to go? My job is to help them in that process is to align their goals with their actions and holding them accountable. Yes, but also supporting them and holding their hand and saying they can do it, giving them a little bit of belief when they feel fearful. You know, I think I think that’s, that’s,

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yeah, that’s coaching your persona a lot like me, and how I handle a lot of my clients I, let’s say is do the real estate, I don’t consult I coach, I actually see that light bulb go off over their head. I’m asking them powerful questions you like, like you just said, listening with your neck like little like getting in on them and all that senses of listening. I appreciate you saying that. So if I’m out at a networking event, Kim and I impressing flash meeting people in someone’s and I like to just, you know, God gave me one mouth and two ears for a reason. And I’m listening, what kind of things might they be saying? That would make them a good referral contact or connection for Kimber at consult business because

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because I love transition. We can’t do the same thing over and over and over for years and years anymore. We have short attention spans. And so often, a lot of my clients are former athletes. It’s kind of how this happened. They found this resonance with I get you can I understand this sport thing. And when we leave our sport at a high level, we’re lost at times. Like I mentioned, I was just kind of going through these motions at times, and hearing and listening for someone who’s not really happy where they are, and they want to shift but they’re fearful. fear keeps people stuck. And how do you how do you unlock that fear to move them forward and take actionable steps toward that goal that they want? Like we have one life one body one chance, so why stay stuck? You know, I love that your whole focus is level up. Absolutely level up. Take that chance on yourself if you’re not going to Add on yourself, no one else will love that if you’re listening to that, like fear, and I don’t know how to do this, I don’t have the experience. I didn’t either. I’ve never taken a business class and I built a company and sold it. So it’s like, you have to just be willing to learn and, and, and change that that mindset of being fearful of being a beginner, you’re not a beginner, you’re starting from your experience, you’re not a brand new baby who just popped out the womb, right? We have things that and skills that are adaptable, and we can place them wherever we want

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to position, you can mold those people, it’s almost like they during transition, their brain becomes mush in a sense. And they’re looking for that, that spark. So when you’re on a one on one, maybe discovery period, and yeah, looking to kind of like, see if they’re even going to really take them on as a client, or they’re going to take on as a coach, is there any good question that you wish they would ask you during that discovery period, but never do?

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How long did it take you to really get established? Because oftentimes, people see these get rich, quick ideas. They think influencers are amazing. And all of a sudden, they go to seven figures in you know, two seconds in two months, that kind of thing. And I couldn’t care less how old someone is. I learned from younger people all the time, I learned from older people time and age has nothing to do with it. It’s intensity, it’s purposeful living, it’s, you know, how long did it take you it takes as long as it takes, period. I’d love that. You know, it, I can’t give someone a finite timeframe of when their success is going to take off. Some people have taken off faster than I did, right. Other people, they they’re like, Kim, you shot up, like, like, how did you get to six figures in less than 12 months? I had no other choice. It’s not an option. You know, it’s like, you just have to have that discipline. And my friends laugh at me because I was never in the military, though. Like you would have been alright, in the military. Like you’re in

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it, I would have went to war with it any time. You know, I

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love my friends who are military. You guys are amazing. And one of my strategists that I had on my board of directors, my internal board of directors is his ex military’s retired lieutenant colonel from the Air Force. Wow. And, you know, I always talked to people who had better skillsets in me. Sure. You know, and I think that’s who you align with, I align with people smarter than me, I aligned with people better than me. Right? Done it. You know,

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and you’re not afraid to get you’re asking here meaning like you ask the questions, even from younger people, because sometimes just their outlook on things, you see that they’re making it in this like, you and I are like an overnight success that took 1520 years, you know, I’m saying like, yeah, it was such a quick time in 10 years. Right, right. It’s like your therapy, your therapist, your sales, your soccer, it’s like, just like me, it was like, you know, my sports when I was younger, and then, and then military and getting mentored by just some beasts of people that really did it. But it took time, you know, so let me ask you something. Speaking of time. Have you seen the movie Back to the Future? Oh, of

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course. Alright. We’re a product of that period of time. Yes, we are

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in squad. She looks amazing. And we’re the same age. So her do something right. I’m just kidding. But anyway. Yeah, let’s get that DeLorean with Marty McKay. Let’s go back to the double Deuce the 22 year old.

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Oh, gosh. One year old at Western. There you

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go baby. What kind of what knowledge nuggets. You this week on your time to shine today? Would you drop on the 22 year old Kim to maybe help her level up break through or shorten that learning curve just a little bit?

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Quit sooner what you don’t like,

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oh, that’s strong. is in would she have listened? Yes. Okay. All right. Yeah, she probably would have the Scot at that age. But, you know, I was getting

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my master’s degree and I had some really powerful professors that challenged me a lot. So I was in a really good space of being that students. So I think of who I was then I was pretty onry at times, but we all are at 22. But you know, staying stuck. I did that for a while, which is why I’m so focused now on not staying in a stuck place. Sure, using those actual things so, so don’t stay stuck. You know,

Unknown Speaker  14:36  

right. I love it. What was it the Hayward to the Howard business school there. I forget it’s been 25 years so did you

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know this? I was in the psych department. You’re in the psych

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That’s right. You see I

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didn’t take this class I was I was studying all kinds of other things. You know, learning how to diagnose learning how to diagnose people, and that kind of stuff.

Unknown Speaker  14:53  

Gotcha. Gotcha. So how do you want Kim’s? Gosh, remember that little line in between your incarnation date your expiration date your life date and death date on your tombstone hopefully that’s way far in the future but

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how I like to live to be 100 I got to do sir I’m not there yet

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got it. So how do you want that dash remember

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that I’m kind Yeah, that I want others to succeed and then to make a wicked Italian pasta because I was taught that from my grandma’s so yeah, I kept the legacy going.

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So let me ask you something then we’re in Brady is the Python is it

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I know my mom’s my mom’s the full blooded first generation okay,

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what was your last name? Do you mind saying

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yeah, Conte co Auntie Yeah,

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she’s all those people that ended with I live in the east side of Florida. And Gration is from New York. Philly. Awesome. Yeah, we get a lot of them not Dinis on the jackal. loanees and stuff. I love it. I love love. Love it. So what keeps you up at night?

Unknown Speaker  16:02  

My brain it just never stops right. I have to force myself to go to bed and and I have to do meditations. And I can’t read business books past like six o’clock. Otherwise my dreams

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did you and I were like separated. What month were you born? Just curious.

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I’m a Scorpio November Okay, so

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I’m, I’m not 10 months old. Okay, so we were like, kind of separated. Because I’m the same way man. It’s like at night I have to watch kind of like something that has nothing to do with leveling up my business. I’m very guarded about what I let in my brain. But I’ll throw on like a law and order or something just to like, Okay, this is stupid. It’s pertaining. I leave it there. Yeah, I

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read I read murder mysteries.

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I’m a lawyer novel guy. Yeah,

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I’ll read a murder mystery novel. You know, okay, like this library. Like, I spend most of my money on books. It’s ridiculous. And I have this thing. And it’s all business stuff. I’m like, Oh, my God, dude, you have to read something that’s not business related right now. Not coaching related. Like, take it. Take a second I laughed at myself. Yesterday, I finally sat on my porch and put my little every little tabletop, little fire pit. I lit it. And I realized, oh my gosh, I haven’t been out here just chillin with my cat for months. Right. Love your role. Brady’s you know,

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I love it. Take

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a moment, you know? And yeah, I love that.

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So what do you think people misunderstand the most about him?

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That my intensity is not intimidating. Okay, I get told often that I’m intimidating, which I find really strange because I’m actually painfully shy. Like, I can talk to person one on one all day long. But to walk into a networking room and try to quote unquote, work the room is not me. I’m a kid that will stand on the side and observe for a long time and then and then if I get to talk with someone, I go deeper, I go home. So even though I’m an intense person, it’s because I care about what I’m listening to with you. Which is also why I think I feel that I’m a good coach because I genuinely have such an intense want and curiosity of others. So I don’t feel intimidating. And other people have told me that I’m intimidating. And I find that really bizarre.

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It just comes from the athlete and the way you carry yourself I get the same I’m I’m 61 I’m 260 now, okay, well put together. So when I walk in, people are like, well, and then I’m the guy that gets hugs. Again. I’m on the east coast of Florida. Right and they’re all from your they want their space. I’m the guy that’s like Midwest guys. Yeah, give me some love. I love it. I love it. Yeah,

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so I’m tiny. That has been a little bit I was I was five four and weighed nothing. I was 100 pounds soaking wet. You know I graduated I mean I went to college 110 pounds I was so excited to donate blood for the first time I’m 17 Yeah, so i That’s why I was like how my mom’s like your Mighty Mouse just chill out your mighty man was fine.

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So let’s take out of this equation family and anything electronic no computers, no tablets, no. Computer. I started laptops, no cell phone, nothing other than family and those electronic things. What are three things that Kim can’t live without? My

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cat or other animals? I’m a huge animal lover. Okay. My friends and family obviously. And I can’t not have soccer in my life. Okay. Yeah, I’ve got to watch it. I’ve got to celebrate my friends who play it who coach it you know I coach kids I coach a couple teams you know I still keep my toe in the water try to pass the torch of passion of loving the game. I love I love

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it you do time to shine today podcast versus squad we’re back with my awesome sauce little bit sister from another mister Miss Kim Brady. And can we have a loving up lightning round you and I literally could talk an hour on each one of these questions. I know I’m not sure five seconds. Oh No explanations and a bell ringing if you do, I’m just kidding. But seriously, you’re gonna rock through these questions really quick because you really think okay, okay, here we go. Let’s level up. What’s the best leveling up advice Kim’s ever received?

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get stuck in. Yes.

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share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success.

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I wear perfume every day. There you go

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love it. Other than Kim Brady business coaching COMM And of course time to shine today.com Shameless plug what website does Kim go to to level up?

Unknown Speaker  20:33  

Oh, websites? Goodness. Um, oh, five seconds.

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Google Google’s your website today.

Unknown Speaker  20:42  

Thank you. Sorry, I don’t go to websites you’re

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good. So if you see me walking down the street and I have Fergie looks like he’s in his doldrums just not really feeling it. What book are you handing me? Year of?

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Yes. By Shonda Rhimes.

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Love it. Love it. What’s your most commonly used emoji when you text? A blue heart? Love it. Don’t live me on this one. It has to be quick. But if you can stay one age physically, for the rest of your life, keep the knowledge you’ve garnered and continue to gain knowledge physically what age would you stay in?

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Don’t lie 35

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Thank you for putting a three on the front of that. Nicknames growing up. A little bit was okay. New Year’s resolution. I don’t have them. Me to chess or checkers. Checkers. Thank you. favorite charity or an organization like to give your time or money to

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elephants Save the Elephants.

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Thank you love it. Beautiful Creatures. Last question. You can elaborate on this one you better answered a certain way or else you and I are gonna rat round words. But what’s the best decade of music 6070s 80s or 90s? Late 80s There you go. Thank you very much. We grew up in the big hair don’t care yet it all is Love it. Love it. Love it. So, Kim, how can we find you love?

Unknown Speaker  22:02  

Kim Brady business coaching comm is my main website. LinkedIn. I’m on that almost every day and people can just email me Kim at Little Kim a little bit cleaning. Kim at Kim brainy business coaching calm they both work but I no longer have the other company. Kim at Kim Brady business coaching calm,

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beautiful and squad we’ll have all of those in the show notes. I didn’t notice a pop up she offers a free consultation on there. So make sure you go over now that we’re towards the end of the podcast interview. Go over there and visit Kim Brady coaching calm and Kim Do me one last salad and leave us with one last Knowledge Nugget we can take with us internalize and take action on

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that on yourself. Have it really bet on yourself no one else is going to if you don’t believe in yourself,

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I love it in squad we literally had a free masterclass with my awesome sauce. Again, sister from another mister nickname Little bit, you know she if you’re in a transition, and you’re looking to level up in stay focused, then you’re maybe feel a little fearful let us make a warm introduction to Kim. She’s a great coach. She has empathy and set fantastic listening skills, you know, you know, she like metaphors, a lot of things to sports, you have to be disciplined, you have to practice you have to make mistakes. When you fail, you fail forward. And if you’re feeling and feeling poor, that’s a great thing. And Kim will help you navigate that part. You know, if you talk to a coach in a discovery period, how ask them how long did it take you to get where you’re at, and then base a timeline on that. But don’t go in with open expectations because Kim’s going to help you level up to the area that you want to be in. She’s a person that lives purposeful with the tons of intensity and she wants you to do the same. If you’re young and you’re not really interviewed if you’re older and you’re really not into what your passion is quit sooner, you know, don’t do what you don’t like get unstuck as she would say, you know she’s remind she’s gonna be remembered as someone was kind and but wanted others to succeed. But also some of them makes a wicked pasta. You know, she is someone that you might think is intense, intimidating, but really she’s not. She’s just a fantastic listener. And she’s earned her varsity letter here. Time to shine today. She levels up her health. She loves her well. I’m so blessed to know her. And she’s just somebody that I can’t wait to collaborate with more in the future. And Kim, thank you so much for coming on. I love your

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appreciated. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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You’re welcome. Talk soon. You bet. Hey, thanks so much for listening to this episode of time to shine today podcast, proudly brought to you by Sutter in New Jersey real estate real estate excellence who can be reached at 561-249-7266 and online at www dot stutter in nugent.com If you’re a business owner or professional who would like to be interviewed on time to shine today, please visit time to shine today.com Flash gust, if you’d like this up, so please subscribe on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, I Heart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. There’s a link in the show notes to our website. Also there you will see our recommended resources. We hope that you will support our show by supporting that. If you like what you’ve been listening to, it’d be great if you could just give us a five star rating and tell your friends to subscribe while you’re at it. I’m your host, Scott Ferguson. And until next time, let’s level up it’s our time to shine

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