SJ: Hey there and welcome to a different episode of the Christian Ladies in Enterprise podcast present. It’s so thrilling to have you ever right here at present and what’s much more thrilling is tomorrow is our final Thrive quarterly reset for our companies for 2024. I can’t consider we’re on the finish of the 12 months already. So in the event you haven’t already achieved so and also you’d wish to e book in registrations are nonetheless open.
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ladies are tremendous fascinated with doing the Thrive on-line occasions and we’ll work out a second time and date. for you ladies to affix within the enjoyable too. So this week we’re joined by a beautiful girl who the largest mission by means of her enterprise is to assist girls develop by means of their religion and creativity on the identical time, which I completely love.
Her favourite factor to do on the weekend is thrift, craft, redecorate, hike, stroll, be exterior and go on a date. Ooh, That sounds enjoyable. See? Oh, gosh. Fairly low key, however it’s enjoyable.
Any day is an effective day. So the place are you becoming a member of us from on the planet, Kim?
Kim: I’m in Texas, in the US, within the hill nation of Texas. I do know Texas is larger than a variety of nations, however it’s enormous. So I’m smack dab in the midst of Texas. New Austin and San Antonio. We reside in slightly bitty small city, small Texas city.
SJ: Oh, that’s so cute. I used to be in Texas this 12 months, earlier this 12 months. We had been in Dallas after which I drove all the way down to Waco as a result of I needed to go and see Pippa yeah, Magnolia. It was so enjoyable. It was so enjoyable. Anybody who
Kim: involves Texas is shocked how a lot you may drive. You possibly can simply drive for hours and also you’re nonetheless in Texas.
Nonetheless in Texas.
SJ: Are you able to share with us, Kim, your story of the place you began and the way you bought to the place you might be at present? I do know that you simply’re inventive. I do know that you simply’re very artful and I’d like to know the way you bought to the place you might be.
Kim: It yeah, it’s all of it’s a God story and simply alternative ways and shapes and varieties and I Began a weblog.
I feel gosh this 12 months can be 10 years 10 years in the past, and it simply began out of a spot I used to be married and We had our personal firm and I, and we ended up, my husband and I ended up promoting that enterprise and all people went off and did their factor and he had a brand new job and the youngsters had been doing this.
And I simply cratered and didn’t have something to do. And I simply felt God name me to do a weblog. And it was humorous as a result of I don’t love to put in writing. I’d by no means even actually learn a weblog. And so I knew it was from him. And. I simply began doing it. I didn’t know what I used to be doing, and I actually simply did it for enjoyable in an outlet, like a inventive outlet, type of accountability accomplice, if you’ll, simply to get all of the concepts in my head out into the world.
And that simply developed over time. I made slightly bit of cash doing it on the facet. It was simply enjoyable. Trip cash for our household. I didn’t essentially have to work. After which quick ahead to 2020 and I ended up going by means of a really blindsided, undesirable divorce. And what I didn’t know is that little interest that I believed was going to be my factor when the youngsters left the home, God had teed as much as be my job and my salvation in that scenario.
After which it’s when it went extra full blown the place it allowed me to remain house with my youngsters and supply and nonetheless do, the issues that I really like and that nurture me and nurture girls. And it was simply this lovely preparation that I didn’t However God all the time had the, like he does.
He had me on the again finish and I simply didn’t even know that I would want that. And quick ahead to now, I’ve. I’ve gotten remarried and we’ve moved the small little Texas city. We used to reside up close to Dallas. And God’s simply strolling me by means of. I’m slightly bit in a spot of change with my enterprise, simply had slightly extra room to breathe.
So I’m shifting gears to what I feel is the subsequent chapter and simply trusting actually in that area. And in order that’s the lengthy story wanting how I acquired right here. Over the past 10 years.
SJ: Are you able to inform us slightly bit about your weblog and what it’s all about? Certain, what you’ve been doing with it.
Kim: So after I began the weblog it’s known as salvage residing and it was nearly thrifting makeovers and having a good looking house on a you realize a finances and that Advanced over the past variety of years after I went by means of divorce. I did a web based retailer I wanted to only you realize So I simply get in and do one thing totally different to help my household.
So I began promoting house items and clothes and issues like that. Once I acquired remarried and moved, that a part of the enterprise simply didn’t really feel it simply did. I simply didn’t really feel like I used to be supposed to hold it with me. And so I let that a part of the enterprise go. I had some workers that clearly didn’t transfer with me and I might have needed to change a variety of stuff.
So I simply felt like God Put that half to relaxation. And what I’ve been transferring into continues to be sustaining the weblog and the house decor, however transferring slightly extra into religion based mostly merchandise that I simply really feel are extra what I would like at this area in my life. So a variety of it, after I went by means of the divorce it was COVID and I had a variety of feelings occurring.
The youngsters had been, they got here house for spring break and so they by no means went again to highschool, and so we had been homeschooling. My husband left, our canine died. It was like all of these items. And I simply felt like I used to be, yeah, ingesting from a hearth hose. It was similar to, Oh my gosh, it’s lots. And I had a variety of emotions and I didn’t know what to do with them.
And so that you couldn’t go wherever. You couldn’t do something. My youngsters had been there on a regular basis, which was, sorry, I’ve, they’re me like, anyway, so I had all these emotions. I didn’t know what to do with them. And my youngsters had been all the time there, which isn’t the issue, however I used to be making an attempt to be sturdy for them.
And Maintain myself on the identical time, and it was simply this, it was a large number. It was a large number. Yeah, we name it the
SJ: wilderness season. Yeah, I used to be manner wild. As a result of that’s what it feels such as you’re in. It
Kim: was, I used to be out within the desert. And I began journaling, however not writing journaling, as a result of like I stated earlier, I don’t like to put in writing.
However extra of an inventive journal, and it was only a option to get my emotions on paper that My youngsters wouldn’t discover and browse as a result of I used to be so offended and upset and all of the totally different feelings that you simply undergo. And it was only a manner for me to course of lots. And so I did that on and off for the final couple of years.
After which as soon as I moved right here and acquired settled, In hindsight, I look again and see how useful that was. And it simply feels prefer it’s the subsequent part of my enterprise as a result of it served me so properly that I really feel it could serve different girls properly. It simply feels at this stage in life, slightly extra necessary to me than the opposite a part of the house and all of that stuff, I really feel like I acquired every part stripped away from me in a way and drilled all the way down to what was actually necessary and.
Lots of these issues simply don’t really feel as necessary anymore. And so I’ve a tough time doing them and speaking about them and selling and all the house decor and stuff. It’s simply not the middle of what I do anymore. So I’m shifting with life, and it’s been fascinating and it’s onerous. It’s onerous to shift your enterprise.
Folks need a sure factor from you, and. It’s a must to bear in mind typically that you simply’re in enterprise for your self as a result of you are able to do the issues that be just right for you or the place you are feeling known as or the place you are feeling led. And I’ve an internet site known as Kim Pepper Inventive and that’s the shift.
So there’s nonetheless the weblog over right here after which I’ve this Kim Pepper Inventive over right here, which is leaning into this subsequent part. That was a very lengthy reply to your query. No, I feel it was actually necessary. So I’m not letting go of the opposite one. It’s simply not on the entrance burner, and such a shift.
SJ: I feel every part that you simply shared, there can be so many listeners at present that may be capable of relate along with your story a lot that you simply haven’t overshared or babbled in any respect. It’ll resonate with folks and so they’ll get the season that you simply’re in and what you’ve been by means of and what you’ve gone by means of after which, going, really, this isn’t serving me anymore.
My coronary heart and soul loves it, however isn’t in it. What do we have to do now to pivot? Have a look at this totally different route, new route, no matter it’s you would possibly wish to name it and go, okay, yeah, that is it. That is the season and that is the best way we’re transferring ahead. And as leaders in our companies, even when we’re solo or If we’ve acquired workers or no matter, we’re nonetheless leaders in our enterprise, and it’s nonetheless our job to determine, and suppose, and pray.
This isn’t working anymore, what do we have to do as an alternative? Or, this isn’t working for me anymore, I would like to vary route, and what’s that route? It’s simply being a pure chief, and navigating the season that you simply’re in. I do know for me over the previous couple of years a variety of life adjustments have occurred and I’ve needed to adapt and shift Christian girls in enterprise to ensure we will nonetheless serve the ladies one of the best that we will with the useful resource that we’ve acquired whereas I’ve been in an fascinating season as properly.
So I feel it’s stewarding God’s mission and imaginative and prescient that’s providing you with properly and ensuring we’re being good stewards of it, however with out burning ourselves out on the identical time or simply doing one thing that basically isn’t serving us in our hearts anymore as properly, as a result of the flames do die out. And in the event you’re listening at present and also you’re pondering my flame is dying out, like perhaps it’s time for that pivot, perhaps it’s time for a change, perhaps we’re, We have to do some pruning, like how we coated within the mini sequence that we’ve simply achieved about aligning ourselves and our companies with God.
Some issues, it could be time to prune and it could be time to permit totally different avenues and adventures to start as soon as we’ve achieved that pruning. So don’t be afraid of that prune, however I feel it’s nice that you simply’ve shared that Kim and actually respect that you’ve shared it. It’s onerous, it’s
Kim: onerous to pivot however it’s I feel very vital typically.
SJ: Yeah, particularly after we’ve acquired actually used to how we’ve achieved issues, like even that in itself is an adjustment. Sorry I spoke over you, are you going to share one thing else? No,
Kim: You’re good. I’m simply saying it, it may be troublesome. I imply I feel Particularly in the event you’re doing a little type of on-line or One thing that has a social media facet, as a result of folks, we get up to now the place they need a sure one thing from you, and so they could make you are feeling like it’s essential to keep the place you might be, and so they’re not your boss, that’s
SJ: scorching. Yeah, completely.
Kim: Yeah, say it the way it
SJ: is. So in the event you may share with us then transferring on to 5 ideas of your craft. I’d love so that you can share 5 ideas that you simply’ve purchased from you within the seasons that you simply’ve been in and transferring ahead. And I do know you’ve had a take into consideration ideas that might be actually useful.
For our listeners at present, I’d like to
Kim: hear them. Certain. So my ideas are usually not, essentially for a craft enterprise or something. They’re simply, perhaps they’re extra like life classes. I don’t know, however as they relate to enterprise. And so I feel the primary one which I might say, and it is a onerous one is to make time.
I’m, I feel we’re all actually good at making the excuse. I don’t have sufficient time for this. I’m too busy. We reside in such a busy world. We’re hyper scheduled. We do an excessive amount of. However we do have time. You’ve time for something that you simply wish to have time for. And I feel there are inventive methods to make good use of your time, And it’s a contented steadiness of being versatile, however permitting your schedule to have, sudden issues pop into it.
One of many issues that’s been actually useful for me on scheduling time is doing, utilizing a timer, like an old-fashioned, simply timer, setting a time and saying, I’m allowed, two hours for this process, an hour for this process, half-hour for this process. And never time blocking my day the place, from eight to 9, I’m going to.
Do that the place it’s tremendous inflexible, however simply placing timeframes on issues that helps you determine how a lot time you spend on issues. And I used to be one thing, the period of time we spend on social media simply is obscene. It’s, I can’t even, I feel it’s, you might have time, we’ve time, you might have time for stuff, time to work in your enterprise, to work on your enterprise time to do a pair different issues that I speak about right here.
Return to, it’s all about time to feed your self and to feed what’s going to feed your enterprise and your group. So I feel that’s one in every of my greatest issues is cease making that excuse of I’m, attempt to like busy is a 4 letter phrase, proper? It’s. It’s one of many dirtiest phrases on the market.
We use it as a crutch of I can’t try this or I don’t have time for that. I’m busy. I’m busy. And so I feel whilst
SJ: a trophy, Oh, I’m too busy. Like my life’s busy. That makes me necessary.
Kim: Yeah. And so I feel making an attempt to catch your self whenever you say that phrase and saying, okay, wait, am I actually too busy?
Am I actually, do you might have, do I do have time, we, we find time for no matter it’s we wish to find time for. So actually it’s. It’s an analysis of priorities as properly. In order that’s an enormous one for me. That’s primary. Quantity two, I might say is group is crucial. Looks like an apparent one, however I don’t suppose that all of us do it.
And it’s one other factor of you need to find time for it. and work it into your schedule. Particularly for lots of us that work on-line. It’s very lonely, you’re alone, you’re working from house, you’re by your self. And we all know from the Bible That’s the prime place to be underneath assault. That’s what Devil tries to do, is get you off by your self.
You’re the one one, you’re the one one who feels this manner. That is simply you, it’s your downside. And in the event you don’t have someone to share that with, then You’re going to be underneath assault. And if we’re Christian girls in enterprise, I feel we’re much more underneath assault as a result of what we do is extra attractive.
The enemy isn’t going to chase someone who’s not doing one thing good. So group can look a variety of alternative ways. It doesn’t imply being in a bunch and being a wallflower, and simply watching, however perhaps you might have only one enterprise bestie that you simply talk with commonly.
Like for me I’ve I occur to have a buddy that I’ve been mates with for years and simply in life and she or he has a web based enterprise as properly. And we discuss each Monday morning, each morning at eight o’clock. It’s how we begin our week. And typically we’ve nothing to report. And different instances it’s simply, we speak about that is what I’m going to do that week.
What’s working for you, however it’s additionally that it’s accountability and it’s me having the ability to vent to someone who will get it, who understands what I do. Trigger. Most individuals don’t perceive what we do on-line. And also you’re like, how do you generate profits? What do you do? I don’t, what? So making an attempt to have that dialog with someone who doesn’t get it’s onerous.
And you need to have someone who’s in the identical boat as you. And and it could be a bunch, like a mastermind or a retreat. And I feel these issues are important to appreciate that you’re not alone. Different folks have the identical issues. Generally the options are actually easy. And simply having that, that one thing to lean on is necessary.
That’s what I feel is an important a part of you being profitable in no matter you do. That’s not simply enterprise. That’s life, yeah,
SJ: completely.
Kim: My subsequent one is to mix. What you do. That is the factor that I feel I realized probably the most with the entire journaling that I began again in COVID is I really feel like a variety of us reside in silos.
We’ve got work. We’ve got church. We’ve got faculty. We’ve got youngsters. We’ve got our husbands or relationships. After which, we’ve our no matter we like hobbies on the weekends and so they’re all in these silos. And there’s too typically that we don’t combine these silos collectively. The however are known as buckets, no matter you wish to.
And so that you don’t have time for all of these buckets. It’s simply, you probably have a variety of buckets, it’s simply too many buckets, not sufficient time. However what occurs is whenever you invite one into the opposite, it’s a good looking option to multitask, however it’s additionally permitting all of you to authentically be In all of the locations on the identical time.
So for me, I spotted that after I began to ask God into every part, together with my creativity, it was this crossroads that was a good looking explosion, if you’ll. And it simply let it take off in a manner that was totally different for me. It makes me really feel like after I’m sitting all the way down to create one thing or do a journal, I’m not simply doing.
Artwork or Kim, I’m doing one thing relational with Christ and it feels extra purposeful and it feels Like that mother guilt or that enterprise guilt like I needs to be doing one thing else fades away slightly bit as a result of I’m feeding my soul, which feeds all people else, or I’m rising some lesson that I’m going to have the ability to share with my youngsters or the ladies that I serve or, totally different folks.
It’s a feeding of types. And so I simply suppose that goes. You bought to combine these buckets. It actually ought to simply be an enormous puddle, an enormous pool. And I simply don’t suppose we try this sufficient. I feel we reside I’ve to do that right here and that there, and so they don’t cross over. Does that make sense?
Yeah. And I all the time say that God is a really well mannered particular person, if you’ll. And he likes to be invited. He doesn’t simply go locations. He doesn’t pressure himself. However he sits and he waits and he’s pleased to be invited into no matter it’s you might be doing in any respect something in any respect He desires to be invited in and so I simply don’t suppose we lengthen the invitation very a lot into all the issues You understand, I imply you may go thrifting for the weekend and invite God in and you’ll discuss to him whilst you thrift and you’ll witness to your girlfriend that’s strolling with you, or you may have actually nice talks, or you may pray over, your treasure hunt.
No matter you wish to do, I simply suppose you need to combine all of it.
SJ: Completely. And for individuals who are listening within the UK, thrift retailers, A thrift procuring is charity store procuring, and for my Aussie ladies, thrifting is op store procuring.
Kim: Op store procuring, I haven’t heard that one. After which additionally like storage gross sales or flea markets or what else do you name them?
I don’t know. Like church gross sales, rummage gross sales, all that type of stuff. Ugh, I reside for that. Yeah.
SJ: Vintage retailers, yeah. Classic shops. Completely. Precisely. Sure. All of that. That’s my favorite. I simply thought I’d point out it in case persons are going, what’s thrifting? Is that like stealing?
I do know, they’re oh, that’s not what I’m speaking about. No,
Kim: that’s not what we’re speaking about. It’s so humorous to suppose the way it’s known as various things in other places. Didn’t even cross my thoughts. Feels prefer it’s common. It’s, it simply has a unique title. It
SJ: does, completely. And all of us like it.
Kim: Yeah, it’s a lot enjoyable. It’s a lot enjoyable. When you begin, you may’t cease. It’s addicting, simply so you realize. It’s. Anyway okay, quantity 4. is to by no means cease studying. I simply suppose we’re all the time presupposed to be curious and that goes in a variety of instructions as properly. If you’re an artist, it’s essential to preserve taking artwork courses.
In case you’re a author, it’s essential to take writing courses. If you’re in the event you’re a Christian, it’s essential to preserve taking Bible research or learn books. I feel that there’s totally different seasons for various issues. I’ve had God name me out of Bible examine and we spent a 12 months collectively, and it was lovely as a result of I bear in mind being in a Bible examine and pondering, Oh, that is so fabulous.
I’ll by no means cease doing this Bible examine, this group. And I bear in mind actually clearly, Him being like, no, we’re going to, we’re going to take a seat out. And I used to be like if I’m going to do this, and he was like, yeah, we’re going to take a seat out. And it was one of many greatest development years I had as a result of it was time for me to only dig into my Bible, simply me and God.
And so there are totally different instances for the best way that you simply study, however. It’s nonetheless all the time having this curiosity and this starvation for God’s phrase starvation to
study one thing new and The one factor I’ll say about that’s I really feel like this point in time all people’s bombarding you with info and it could get to be the place it’s overwhelming or An excessive amount of after which you may’t you don’t do something you get paralyzed with info overload And so I feel one in every of my solutions to that slightly bit goes to group these type of all intertwined however I feel being a part of a bunch that’s Hyper targeted on no matter it’s.
You do is an effective option to put the peripherals on that so that you simply’re not You understand, in the event you’re let me consider one thing, in the event you crochet, I don’t know, I don’t crochet in the event you’re, that’s what you do, it’s essential to be, perhaps in a crochet group as a result of in the event you’re simply scrolling Pinterest on a regular basis, you’re like, Oh, I may do that.
I may try this. I may do that. It, it’s so broad and also you, in the event you can slender it down and encompass your self with like minded folks and like minded issues, it helps, that info overload, steal your time and your vitality to the place you get to a degree of paralysis and don’t do something.
After which taking what you study and placing it into motion. There’s a given a take there. So don’t all the time simply study, however really do is actually a part of that as properly. Ever suppose you’re achieved studying. And that type of sounds exhausting typically. But it surely’s not, it may be actually good and a variety of enjoyable.
Truthfully I feel it’s enjoyable, don’t develop stagnant. Don’t let your ft get caught within the concrete, and the final one which I’ll say is that, and it’s actually onerous, however it’s simply be okay to fail and to be dangerous at what you do. I feel it’s about trusting the method. And something that’s value doing isn’t all the time going to be straightforward.
And typically when issues fail is when God will actually flip up his quantity and present up and we don’t give room for that lots. I do know I don’t have a look at, I have a look at failures so personally. And I beat myself up over them, however the fact is that’s the place God is available in and does.
Stunning issues, I really feel like my story is a first-rate instance of what I didn’t see coming. God already had laid the groundwork, however you ha and I simply, I used to be taken to the ground, I needed to be fully stripped and brought to the ground and blindsided after which to construct again up, however, and that was a unique route.
And I nonetheless get mad typically that, issues don’t look the best way that I feel they need to, or they had been gonna, and. I’ve to remind myself that God is aware of infinitely higher than I do. He can see the massive image and it’s okay. If he needed me to be on a unique path, I’d be on a unique path.
If he needed me to have one thing totally different, I might have it. He’s that highly effective and that good. And it’s actually about simply trusting Not simply the method, however actually trusting him on exhibiting up and exhibiting off, ensuring you belief the method, which failure is a part of a variety of processes. I determine it doesn’t all the time work.
And it’s. Okay. I simply, I do know, I simply, I do know so many individuals, the ladies that type of are within the group that I’m with on-line, a variety of them are scared to even begin one thing as a result of it could not come out the best way they need it to. And I really feel that, I get that. It simply looks like, why would I even attempt if I do know it’s not going to work out.
However as soon as once more, this goes again to by no means cease studying. It’s all the time a studying course of. And in the event you can, little nuggets and transfer on to the subsequent factor and do it higher or totally different and simply belief that, okay, perhaps that wasn’t the proper factor for me or perhaps it must look totally different. I feel that’s okay.
So these are my ideas.
SJ: Yeah, completely. I really like that. So only a fast re faucet? Recap. We’ve acquired, primary, ensure you make time. In order that’s permitting your self to not have a full schedule. Permitting your self In case you do schedule to have some white area in it for the sudden and actually understanding, I suppose what you’re saying sure to, and is {that a} precedence?
And is there some issues in your schedule that you simply’re doing, however are usually not essentially a precedence proper now which you can let go so that you simply’re conserving the proper issues in your life for the season that you simply’re in now. for the issues which can be necessary. Quantity two is group is crucial and we’re all about group right here at Christian Ladies in Enterprise.
So making time in your tribe and realizing that you simply don’t should really feel alone and being by yourself, like Kim stated, might be isolating and that’s when the foolish ideas are likely to creep in the place whenever you’ve acquired your girlfriends round you and the ladies round you that consider in you, they’re going to They’re going to name a spade and let you know when that’s not an okay thought and pull you out of your funk.
And that goes for each facet in your life, not essentially simply enterprise. Quantity three mix what you do. And we touched on this once more within the mini sequence that we’ve simply achieved about God and enterprise and bringing it collectively. And that’s how are you going to mix various things so that you’re not feeling One so stretched on an earthly degree, however then in a heavenly degree, how are we together with God in completely every part that we do?
Our religion doesn’t simply activate on Sunday after we step into church after which deactivate after we go away church. It’s with us all through the entire week. So how will we intertwine all that and remembering that if we’re caught with an issue, we will all the time come to the Father and ask for assist it doesn’t matter what it’s, enterprise, Religion, relationship. Quantity 4, by no means cease studying.
So be curious in every part that you simply do. Clearly, there’s a season for every part and relying in your season is dependent upon what you’re going to be studying. However it doesn’t matter what it’s put what you might be studying into motion one of the best which you can. After which quantity 5, be okay to fail and to be dangerous at one thing.
Realized to belief the method and belief the journey as a result of that’s when God’s actually gonna shine. And And assist you shine too in the long term, although we don’t essentially really feel it after we’re in horrible feeling of failure it’s all studying. So that you’ve shared with it slightly bit, however shared with us slightly bit.
How do you incorporate God into your enterprise?
Kim: Enterprise buyer dealing with facet could be very religion based mostly. So that’s. I pray with my group. It’s a variety of what we do is religion based mostly. In order that’s simply very direct. And in the event you, I can elaborate on that if you need, however in the event you have a look at the opposite facet of it, yeah, the again
SJ: finish
Kim: facet, I feel greater than something is a prayer.
And a Holy Spirit and a trusting. And it’s in that, it’s slightly bit what we talked about of, I really feel it in my intestine, which I consider your intestine is the Holy Spirit. It’s time to pivot. This doesn’t write. And a variety of instances what I’ll do is simply say, okay, God, I don’t know what to do. What do I do subsequent?
What’s my subsequent step. And I really feel like I watched him stroll this out a lot after my divorce in enterprise. I used to be, deer within the headlights what am I going to do? What does this appear to be? And I used to be like, I simply don’t know. I don’t know. God, I don’t know what to do. Inform me what to do. And I might simply get these emotions that might bubble up.
That’s the easiest way I can clarify it. And it will simply be perhaps typically over a sequence of days or perhaps weeks that the identical factor would simply bubble up. It could simply bubble up. And I might say, okay, that’s it. That’s my subsequent step. What does that appear to be? And I might transfer on it. And he was proper each single time after I would try this.
And it was simply letting him lead into what the subsequent step was for my enterprise. What do I add? What do I take away? Which manner do I’m going? And a variety of instances it’s counterintuitive to what the world would let you know, it’s slightly bit what I touched on. I’ve a buyer base that desires one thing from me.
They’re prepared to purchase, however I’m not able to promote anymore. And, That’s counterintuitive to what, perhaps most enterprise coaches or individuals who don’t stroll in religion would counsel me or say why don’t you simply try this? There, I can’t clarify it. It’s simply not. It’s not the place I’m presupposed to be.
And you need to simply belief that. And I feel that’s the hardest steadiness of trusting what you are feeling the Lord is main you to do and what the world is telling you to do. And that’s, life basically, however from a enterprise standpoint, that your decisions and route will not be textbook, what folks suppose.
You need to do and what they could be encouraging you to do. And yeah, actually, proper now I’ve have pivoted and it’s been this 12 months that I’ve achieved the sturdy pivot and each few days have prospects saying, are you going to do that anymore? Are you continue to doing this? And I can hear it.
Like I’m leaving you in the event you don’t do that and it’s painful for me as a result of I wish to make all people pleased. And I don’t wish to allow them to down, and it’s painful for me to be like. No, I’m not doing that anymore, and I’m combating it. I’m not going to lie. It’s onerous. It’s onerous to maintain saying no, however I do know that’s not what I’m presupposed to do.
And in order that’s the largest manner that, on the backend, I’ve this battle going and I’ve to let God win it. And I’ve to let him lead.
And that’s how he reveals up on the bottom. And then you definitely get to inform the tales after, hindsight is 2020. After which I get to go, he walked me by means of this. And that’s so enjoyable. That’s so lovely to do. And I’ve the privilege of getting, if anyone is listening, that’s harmless.
Season that I used to be in, in 2020, the place my world simply crumbled. It was terrible. And I wish to return to that lady and inform her it’s going to be okay. And I knew the entire time it will be, I simply didn’t, I couldn’t see it and I couldn’t,
or how I didn’t see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel, however it’s there and someday you simply search for and it’s shining, and I simply, I hope if anyone hears that it’s in that place, that they only preserve your head down, simply preserve doing the work, preserve staying, head above water as greatest you may.
And ultimately I promise you, you’ll search for and it’ll simply, it’ll be a brand new day and it’ll be a shiny day and
it’s actually lovely. Yeah. That’s so good. It’s actually lovely. Yeah.
SJ: That’s so good. Thanks a lot for sharing that. I do know so many individuals will be capable of relate. And I do know that they might respect you saying these phrases. So thanks. And being so genuine with it too. It’s very nice.
Kim: I don’t know the way it’s to be.
SJ: It’s onerous work whenever you’re not so then that’s led us into the subsequent query actually fantastically. What’s been your Bible verse for this season and why?
Kim: So my season’s been lengthy and my Bible verse has been the identical and it’s been It’s Psalm 4610, be nonetheless, know that I’m God, I can be exalted among the many nations, I can be exalted among the many earth.
And I do know it’s a well-liked one, however it began in 2020 and all I may hear God was inform me, be nonetheless. And it was a variety of issues that I needed to control conditions. I needed to seek out issues out. I needed to know the way the story ended. I simply needed all this info and God stored telling me, be nonetheless.
Be nonetheless, I’ll do that. I’ll care for this. And what I discovered was that over the sequence of that 12 months, he would simply drop little nuggets in my lap little items of data that I wanted or little items of peace excellent after I want him, somebody would attain out or I’d discover one thing out or the subsequent step can be apparent and it was lovely and enjoyable. And I didn’t should do all these issues that I needed to do this had been like this me on this panic mode of, I’ve acquired to do that. I’ve acquired to do that. It was similar to, okay, you simply sit again and I’m going to do that. And I do know it’s about God doing the work and him getting the glory.
And after we work too onerous in ourselves, Or we do all that busyness and we try to we try to perhaps one thing does good does occur. It’s really easy to take the credit score for it and never give it the place it’s due. And so whenever you’re on this state of stillness, it’s a very effective line of trusting and watching God stroll issues out, however nonetheless doing no matter you realize, half it’s essential to be doing.
’trigger we don’t. Like in enterprise, you don’t simply sit and have cash dumped in your lap. It’s a must to rise up and do work, however there’s a effective line of overreaching, and we name it sitting within the grace. I like it. So I actually, I acquired these nonetheless tattooed on me in 20, 21, 20, when did I don’t suppose as a result of washed over me.
Simply be nonetheless. I can be exalted. I’m going to stroll you. I’m the one, I’m the one who’s going to do that, however you gotta give me room and also you gotta let me. And I did. And I simply sat again and it was some of the lovely instances in my total life. And I would like to recollect it on a regular basis.
As a result of I’m a sort, I’ve that character. I wish to get in there and I wish to make issues occur. And I would like it to occur now. I’m not affected person. And I’ve to only take a deep breath and say, I belief you. I belief you. I belief you. I can be nonetheless. I’ll watch. I’ll wait. And also you introduced me this far and also you’re not going to only drop me now.
It’s not going to occur. So that’s the verse that has carried me for the final variety of years.
SJ: So good. I like it. That’s superior. Thanks a lot for sharing. So if our listeners needed to seek out you and wish to join with you, the place’s one of the best place to seek out you? You talked about your web site earlier than, however let’s give it one other spruce in the event that they needed to get
Kim: concerned.
So fairly primary and simple. After which I’m Kim Pepper inventive on social. So on Fb and Instagram, it’s Kim Pepper inventive. And people are the primary locations. And in the event you present up in any a kind of, there’s hyperlinks in every single place else, in the event you had been remotely fascinated with digging round, however yeah, so the Kim Pepper inventive is the place I’ve a sequence of programs which can be inventive programs.
Which have that complete religion and creativity intertwined simply to stroll you thru and mannequin that out with totally different tasks. We’ve got a group known as paper and a prayer, and it’s precisely what it appears like. We do paper tasks, journaling, crafting, and that’s the core group that I’ve in my little world of simply girls who.
Or all walks of life, totally different locations and levels of their religion journey. And we pray collectively each week we pray for one another. It’s simply, it’s my favourite place. It’s a candy spot. Of simply girls who, who simply wish to do higher and wish to be inventive and love their properties and love themselves and love the Lord and all of that stuff.
But it surely’s not enterprise. It’s simply, it’s creatives. I like it.
SJ: In case you’re a inventive listening, we’ve acquired all totally different girls from all totally different components of the world and all totally different journeys. So in the event you’re a inventive
Kim: wherever and nonetheless take part, it’s such a fantastic, it’s one advantage of social media and the web.
It’s not all good, however that’s good. I respect
SJ: that. Yeah, that’s superior. All proper. If you wish to join with Kim and naturally we’ll put the hyperlinks within the present notes of the podcast as properly. So please attain out in the event you’re inventive and simply want that religion and artistic place the place you may simply do your inventive stuff and sit within the prayer with Kim and her group.
Go and attain out. We love supporting the Christian girls who’re on the market doing wonderful issues like Kim. And I do know that Kim’s story would have touched lots of people’s hearts who’re listening at present. Know that we’re praying for you, although, you don’t, essentially know you individually.
You’re being prayed for. You aren’t alone. We’re right here for you. And yeah, please be happy to succeed in out. It’s been such a pleasure to have you ever on the present at present. Kim, is there anything you wish to share with the viewers earlier than we go?
Kim: I’m pleased to be right here and hope that something I stated remotely simply helps.
One little nugget. I feel typically that’s all we’d like is one little, one little nugget to get us by means of at present. So I hope I gave that to someone. That
SJ: little little bit of encouragement. I’m positive you probably did. I’m positive you probably did. All proper. You’re listening to the Christian Ladies in Enterprise podcast and we’ll catch you subsequent time.
