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How to make the leap from gig worker to prosperous business owner
“When Kimberly Spencer, 32, launched her business-coaching practice, Crown Yourself Enterprises, she says, ‘I literally didn’t know where to start.’ The Burbank, California, resident, who ran a successful Pilates business for 10 years and then underwent training and certification in a formal coaching program, put up a profile on the platform Thumbtack, which offered qualified leads. When Spencer won her first few clients, her confidence began building. ‘It gave me practice in having a sales conversation,’ she said.”(Read more)
How to Avoid Getting Stuck in an “It’s Complicated” Business Status
“It’s a cringeworthy moment when you see a friend change their Facebook relationship from one that’s committed, like “married,” “engaged,” or “in a relationship,” to “it’s complicated.” Ouch. You know their relationship is usually in deep trouble. Everything in life is a relationship. You have a relationship with your partner, a relationship with your spirituality, a relationship with your kids, a relationship with your body. And yes, you have a relationship with your business.” (Read more)
Coach Interview Series: Kimberly Spencer
“Our main objective here at the National Coach Academy is to enable aspiring coaches to reach their full professional potential. One of the most effective ways to educate students about the world of coaching is by offering them a window into the world of real, practicing coaches and showing them all the different ways coaches make a difference in the lives of their clients.
We hope today’s interview adds another insightful glimpse into the dynamic world of coaching.Today we are interviewing Kimberly Spencer. Kim is a High Performance Coach and CEO of Crown Yourself Enterprises.” (Read more.)
HOW TO OVERCOME FOOD FEARS AND LIVE MORE FREELY
It’s no secret that many of us struggle with self-esteem regarding our appearance. Many of us have a hard time attaining or maintaining a specific weight goal, feel self-conscious about our eating habits, and develop food fears. Our latest guest, Kimberly Spencer, is no stranger to these experiences. Though she was once crowned Miss Congeniality, she battled bulimia for years. (Read more.)
The Stories We Tell - A Courageous Story From a Mompreneur
“This is, “The Stories We Tell,” a weekly series of true accounts in all things motherhood. These 100% vulnerable, raw, and ferociously honest tales are taken from the monthly LA-based storytelling event, Mothers Unleashed. This week, we’re sending you Kimberly’s story about the literal blood, sweat, and tears she poured into making herself into the successful mompreneur she is today. Kimberly is the founder of Crown Yourself, a high-performance coaching service.” (Read more.)
The 11 Best Pilates Workout Videos + DVDs
“Recommended by: Kimberly Spencer, Pilates expert and founder of CrownYourself.com, a life coaching, business mindset and digital education company. ‘My high-achieving clients like Pilates that not only emphasizes form, but that also kicks your butt in all the best ways," she says. "When I closed my private studio to build my online coaching community, Blogilates was the number one recommendation.’"(Read more.)
Top 5 Common Performance Problems
Have you ever noticed a disconnect in employee performance but not been able to pinpoint the exact problem? Don’t worry — you’re not alone. With the rapid pace of change in today’s workforce, problems that managers and HR haven’t been trained to handle pop up frequently and unexpectedly “A symptom of the modern workforce is frenzied, non-goal-driven work,” says Kimberly Spencer, CEO of Crown Yourself Enterprises. “It’s a systemic problem. You have to look at your company culture and consciously decide that one of the values of the culture is not having stressful, harried employees.” (Read more)
Success is like an orchestra- and you are the conductor, by Dr. Ely Weinschneider and Kimberly Spencer
As a part of my series about “How extremely busy executives make time to be great parents” I had the pleasure to interview Kimberly Spencer. Kimberly is an award-winning high performance coach, Amazon bestselling author, international motivational speaker, and the founder of CrownYourself.com, helping female entrepreneurs achieve holistic success and alignment in their bodies, businesses, and relationships. (Read more)
MEET KIMBERLY SPENCER OF CROWN YOURSELF
“Today we’d like to introduce you to Kimberly Spencer.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Kimberly. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
’The idea for Crown Yourself came while I was on my 6-week honeymoon in Italy. Three weeks before my wedding, I was bought out of my first online company. I’d just gone through the most challenging summer of my life, got married to the love of my life, and in an AirBnB in a tiny coastal village on the Northern Italian riviera wondering “WTF am I going to do with my life?’” (Read more)
interview with Kimberly Spencer, Founder of CrownYourself.com
“‘You can read all the books, you can watch all the webinars, you can listen to all the coaches saying all the things, but unless you’re actively DOING the thing, you’re stuck in what I call, “Productive Procrastination.” Ideas only come to life by doing the actions that scare the crap out of you.’” (Read more)
HOW TO INTEGRATE EXERCISE INTO YOUR ROUTINE - NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE
““You have to vigilantly prioritize your health daily. At least 30-minutes of exercise a day has to be non-negotiable. Make your health one of your top values. When you do, you’ll show up more present in all of your relationships, your productivity will skyrocket, and you’ll have more energy for the tasks at hand.’” (Read more)
27 Career Experts and Business Leaders Reveal the Jobs with the Best Growth Potential in the Next Decade
“In the next decade, the best job will be…”
"'A high performance coach, communication coach, or success coach. People are starving for connection and communication. With social media, communication has become wider, but lacked depth, only skimming along the surface.' says Kimberly..." (Read more)
Are You Setting SMART Weight Loss Goals or Setting Yourself Up for Failure?
"'Excuses also either go hand in hand with, or like to disguise themselves as, blame. Ever heard someone say, ‘I can’t lose weight because of my genes’, or ‘because of my thyroid’, That’s someone blaming their circumstances and putting their body out of the realm of their control. While, yes, medically, some things may be more difficult for one body to accomplish when compared to another, that doesn’t mean that it can’t be done.' states Kimberly Spencer, Coach, Writer and Owner of Crown Yourself." (Read more)
THE SECRET TO LETTING GO OF YOUR EXCUSES
"Let go of who you are to become who you are meant to be. You 2.0 requires you to eliminate your old excuses. We all make up excuses. They serve as our protection, and we never mean for them to hold use back. But that’s exactly what excuses do. They keep us trapped in our current circumstances. Cutting excuses out of your life leaves you vulnerable to change. The future You, whether massively successful or even slightly different, is still scary. There is no crystal ball to tell you it’s all going to work out just the way you planned. (And odds are, it probably won’t.) Yet, we won’t achieve success by standing still, stuck in our excuses. There must be no more excuses on your path to the new you..." (Read more.)
TOP 5 PRESS RELEASE MISTAKES - DON'T MESS THESE UP!
On a similar note, Kimberly shares this piece of advice: “Too many companies make their press releases all about them, their product. In a world of 24/7 media and information, with everyone vying for attention, more shouting doesn’t make anyone really stop and notice…The best advice is to listen."
NO eXCUSES!
"Appreciate your body for its attributes, whatever they may be. Says Kim, ‘Embrace your uniqueness, because you are one of a kind. And you’re fabulous.’”
success is not a number on a scale
"Weight is just a number. It has no power over you, unless you give it power… There are a lot more important numbers in your life than the numbers on a scale.”
DON'T FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT. cREATE YOUR AUTHENTIC BRAND INSTEAD!
People naturally want to do business with a genuine, authentic person. Your authentic brand is your personality, your appearance, your strengths, and, yes, your weaknesses. It’s YOU, walking confident in all your authentic awesomeness! Owning what you do know…and what you don’t. Knowing exactly who you are, what you are about, and why you’re here. (Read more.)
Miss Norway 2014, Kim MacKenzie [Spencer] Will Bare Her Curves to Promote Healthy Body Image
"[Kimberly Spencer], who struggled with an eating disorder for ten years, now proudly represents a healthy body image. 'Every body is different. If you're a size 4 trying to starve yourself into a 00, you're going to be unhappy...as well as malnourished. I was. It took a long time for me to be able to embrace my curves. But not that I have, 'diet' is just another four letter curse word. I choose happiness and health over fitting myself into someone else's standard of beauty.’”
5 YEARS FULLY RECOVERED
“Kimberly’s belief of soul-work kept her pushing forward…’ Throughout my recovery, it was my belief that I was put on this earth for a reason and that kept me going. Belief in a higher purpose, a higher calling, that my life had meaning because God put me here for a reason, gave me strength and the ability to see beyond the moment, to the larger picture.’”
the beauty of pageants: Lessons learned by strutting in stilettos on stage
“I am a beauty queen. I am not brainless. I used to play with Barbies. I was a size two for about a minute, until I saw a piece of chocolate. I actually do love fitness and all things that glitter. I still occasionally wear my tiara around the house. I may seem like an anomaly from your view of the typical, ‘Pageant girl,’ but I can assure you, I’m not.” (Read more)
7 WORKOUT MOVES THAT WILL MAKE YOU KILL IT IN THE BEDROOM
"Plank is the beginning of a push up. To get into the position, you start on all fours, and then, engaging your core, press your heels back, straightening your legs and tucking your pelvis. It's the best ab exercise on the planet for both men and women. But in bed, this one is for the guys," says Kimberly Spencer.”
8 GUILTY PLEASURE FOODS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOOD FOR YOU
“[Dark chocolate] is also packed with nutrients and minerals: fiber, iron, magnesium, copper, manganese, potassium, phosphorus, zinc and selenium. Plus, unlike its milky counterpart, a small piece of dark chocolate can actually curb your chocolatey cravings faster, and with less sugar and calories.”
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD, SO HOW CAN A FEMALE WRITE ABOUT IT?
"I didn’t set out to write a movie for feminists, or for women. I never even intended to write a “man’s movie.” I especially never intended to write a motocross flick. I didn’t know a lick about supermans and criss crosses until I researched motocross for the fourth draft, when we got branding backing from a motocross team, who said I needed to add motocross to our film in order for their sponsorship. (There were nine drafts in total.) I just wanted to write a good story. A human story."(Read more)
5 Tips to Take Your Fitness to the Next Level
“Clear out all those excuses in your mind that cause you to procrastinate from trying that new class. I’m not strong enough yet. I don’t have time yet. I have to lose ten pounds before I go. If you let these excuses permeate your mind, you will only succeed at not going. Why do we sabotage ourselves before we even begin? Fear. Trying something new is scary. It makes us uncomfortable. Plus we don’t want to feel or look like an idiot. So the first step is to get out of our own way and clean out those excuses. You never know until you try.”
6 MOVES TO PREVENT BLOATING
"Between work, family, and holiday parties, we find more excuses than usual not to go to the gym. As our food consumption increases, our exercise decreases. By New Year’s Day, we have ten pounds worth of resolutions to conquer. What if, instead of this vicious cycle, we were able to prevent the yearly Thanksgiving to New Years tummy expansion? It’s totally possible. We just have to make tummy toning very convenient.”
THE SECRET TO CREATIVITY: Free your fear
"Creating anything, a film, a novel, a painting, even a character, is freaking scary. When you create, you enter into a new realm, the unknown, which sets off your fear synapses. (Don’t worry, this is a totally healthy, human built-in back up machine that warns us of impending danger.) These same synapses fire when you have that gut instinct to not be alone with a guy, or when you feel like you shouldn’t be walking alone at night on Crenshaw below Jefferson. Totally healthy in life. Not necessarily in creation. Our brains just don’t know the difference." (Read more)