Warrior Forward: The Podcast

You raise them to leave, and that's the whole job. Then your daughter says she's moving out, and your body acts like somebody pulled the fire alarm. In this solo episode, Kim takes the guest chair to talk about what parenting looks like once your kid is legally an adult and still very much yours. She was born in 1979 and grew up in the fuck around and find out generation, where nobody was coming t...

You Don't Have To Love The Options Election Day is tomorrow, and if your ballot is still sitting somewhere between the permission slip and the grocery list, I ge it. This isn't an episode about who to vote for or why.  Kim won't tell you, and she doesn't want to know. It's about what it means that you get to choose at all, why a working mother's vote carries more weight than she's been told, and h...

In December 2025, Lean In and McKinsey reported that, for the first time, women were less likely than men to say they want a promotion. They called it an "ambition gap." That same report found the gap disappears when women get the same career support as men. Kaleana Quibell left her VP role to consult part-time and stay home with her kids. She thinks we've been asking the wrong question. Kim and K...

Your ambition isn't fading. You might just be done with the ladder. Maybe the next promotion used to light you up, and now the thought of it just makes you tired. Maybe you've quietly told your own goals to "wait until the kids get older." This week on Monday Mindset, I'm separating two things we were sold as one: ambition, and the ladder it came attached to. I share what it looked like to start a...

Jalena is a somatic experiencing practitioner, a fellow military spouse and a mentor. In this episode we get into what SE really is, beyond the Instagram version, where its limits are and why it's so damn powerful. In this episode: The biggest misconceptions about somatic experiencing, and why "going slow" is the point Whether some of what gets called "dysregulation" is just an accurate read of mi...

Somewhere around 8 o'clock every Sunday night, you start auditioning a woman who doesn't exist. Monday-you is up at 5 with her water bottle already full, and she answers every email like she's had a full night's sleep and a massage. And every single Monday, by about 10:15, you fire her. This week I'm questioning the "Sunday reset." The issue isn't the groceries (I'm pro-groceries). It's the idea u...

The holidays hit your body weeks before they hit your calendar. The decorations are still in the garage and somebody's already asking where Christmas is this year. For the default parent, the holiday season doesn't start on a date. It starts with the first question. In this episode Kim talks about why the season shows up in your body weeks early, and shares the ten-second somatic reset she uses wh...

When a journalist asked the internet to help him find out who Jane Doe was, women answered by all becoming her. Then they started telling their own stories. Every time a case like the Cornell 7 breaks, the first question is "why didn't she say something?" I think it's the wrong question. This week I'm asking a different one: what's actually happening in the body of a woman who can't tell, and what...

You can be furious and still take the night off. You scanned the news in the car line and then walked into the 9am like nothing happened. And on the nights you didn't check, you felt guilty for it. According to Gallup's 2026 research, women are more burned out than men and more engaged at work at the same time. In this episode Kim calls out the exhaustion for what it is and makes the case for step...

Grace-Miller Moody was 21 years old, standing in front of four turned chairs on The Voice, singing a song she didn't choose to sing there by accident. Her dad sent the tape in. All four coaches turned around, which almost never happens, and she picked Adam Levine because of a Maroon 5 concert her family went to after her brother came out of remission. She won her Battle. She got cut at the Knockou...

This episode is the four words I've been fumbling for a decade-what do you do-and what happens when the thing you built doesn't fit a box anybody recognises on contact. If you've ever watched somebody's eyes glaze while you explained your own company to them, you already know the tax I'm talking about. In this episode: Why nobody has ever asked my husband who's watching our kids What changed when...

Laura's approach to women's health weaves together her own experience overcoming a major spinal injury, her role as a working mom of three, and an impressive clinical career leading teams in pediatrics, home health, and women's health settings. She founded AURĀE with the goal of helping women reclaim their sense of self and well-being, using her background as a doctorally prepared, board-certified...

Being able to carry something doesn't make it yours to carry. This episode names the two-second window where competence quietly turns into obligation. Tangible takeaway: Find one thing that landed on you this week without anybody actually asking. Just notice it.  "Just because you're capable of carrying it doesn't mean it's still yours to carry." CTA: Check out more on this at Warrior Forward on S...

Katie Southworth paints for a living, but that's not why she's in this chair. Eleven years ago she survived the suicide loss of someone she loved, and instead of going quiet, she picked up a paintbrush. This conversation is about what she built after the worst thing happened to her, and why she built it in color. She describes her work as learning to "reclaim your rainbow after rain." She creates...

Kim shares how success in life actually made her life more compicated and how to leverage having both success and extra responsibilites.  Monday Mindset is a quick drop in to get your mind right for the week! Longer interviews are on Wednesday.  Check out more on this podcast on Substack

We're back for season 4 with so much new!  Find me on Substack for longer writing, honest essays, and the deeper version of everything we talk about here: Warrior Forward: Substack If this episode landed for you — share it with a woman who spent this summer becoming someone she didn't expect.  

Why Is This Still Happening in America in 2026 On September 4th, a Massachusetts jury spent seven days on the Lindsay Clancy case and couldn't reach a verdict. This episode is not about that trial. It's about the question underneath it: why a country with the most expensive healthcare on earth still can't recognize, name, or treat the most dangerous illness a new mother can have. In this episode:...

Some days you handle everything with grace, and some days you accidentally weaponize your inbox against an elementary school educator. Both are true. Both are you. This episode is about the lie we've all been told, that peace is waiting for us on the other side of the chaos. Once the kids are older. Once the business stabilizes. Once we finally get a minute. I'm calling that out for what it is, an...

When my daughter Ava told me she was pregnant, I did not have a clean reaction. Before the joy could land, something else got there first — a mix of shock, fear, grief, and anger I could not name or organize. And for a woman who has spent years doing nervous system work, that undoing was not something I saw coming. In this episode, I am getting real about all of it. Not from the other side. From t...

What does it take to lead in a space that wasn't built for you — while also rebuilding yourself from the inside out? Colleen Clifford is a commercial fisherman who has spent her career navigating two kinds of open water: the literal kind, and the internal landscape of recovery. In this conversation, Colleen shares her journey through alcohol recovery, what it means to show up as a woman in a fierc...

What if the very tool that protected you is now the thing holding you back? In this episode, we're talking about one of the most important — and least talked about — shifts in leadership development: the move from boundaries to standards. Boundaries are necessary. They're healthy. And at a certain point, they're no longer the primary tool you need. A boundary is reactive. A standard is structural....

Capable women don't accumulate responsibility because they ask for it. They accumulate it because no one thinks to ask if they want it. There's a difference. A significant one.   One is a choice. The other is an assumption that your capability equals your availability. And the most subtle, insidious part of this pattern is that it often starts as something that feels good. Being needed feels like...

What if the thing you've poured everything into building… isn't actually protected? In this episode, Kim sits down with Berkley Sweetapple —trademark attorney, business owner, and mother—to have the conversation most female founders avoid until it's too late: the legal side of scaling a business. Because here's the reality no one talks about loudly enough—your brand is an asset. And if it's not pr...

What happens when the very industry you've built your career in… starts to take something from you? In this episode of Warrior Forward , I sit down with Linda Giammarese , an Emmy-recognized creative whose work spans high-level television production, including projects like Pose . But this conversation? It's not about red carpets or recognition. It's about what it costs to operate at that level. W...

How many times have you hit a wall, looked at everything you've built, and thought: I just need to start completely over? New strategy. New offer. New routine. Maybe a whole new life. In this episode, Kim is calling out the pattern that keeps ambitious women stuck in an exhausting loop of rebuilding, relaunching, and reorganizing — without ever actually addressing the real problem. Because here's...