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Empowering Women To

Be The Best Version Of

Themselves

by Brian K Wright

I had the honor of interviewing Kimberly Miner recently, and we discussed a lot of topics including overcoming

adversity, optimum success, her podcast and her upcoming event Envision You: The Transformation Starts Here.

Brian: Hi, Kimberly. Tell us a little Some of the things that I learned recovering failure. You can’t have

bit about your background. as a ballet dancer have translated success without failure, and if you
well to business, such as learning don’t understand what failure is,
Kimberly: I had 25 years in the how to be committ ed, competi ti ve, how do you know what success is?
corporate world in the packaging and determined. All of those things You have to understand what it
and sales industry. As a regional have been traits that have come means to have everything taken

sales director for five states, it into play in my career. away from you versus what it
involved a lot of traveling to speak means to have everything — having
and train people in that industry. For example, in sales the game the world against you, having

I experienced a lot of success and doesn’t begin until you’re told the odds against you, having to
earned a lot of awards, so I am no. I never looked as no as “no”. struggle. If you don’t understand
very grateful for that. That just means that the sale has what the struggle is, then how
begun and the customer doesn’t do you understand what it means

While I liked being in that industry, have enough information. That’s to have gained anything to have
there was always something more another opportunity for me to gotten to the other side?

that I wanted to do, and I could help you know who I am, and for

never quite put my finger on what me to give you more information That’s what failure means —
that looked like. All I knew was that can help you make a decision. failure teaches you the lessons
that I wanted to own a business. You have to learn to sell through that you need to learn so that you

relationship building, not through understand when you’ve actually

No matter what I did, being number a product. succeeded at something.
one has always been important to Brian: Fantastic. How do you Brian: Fantasti c. What is your big

me. That was something that was recover when you perceive that reason “why” for what you do?
ingrained in me from years as a failures happened in your life?
professional ballet dancer. Kimberly: My reason why is to

Kimberly: It’s interesting you teach others that whatever goes
should ask that question because on in your life, it doesn’t defi ne

my platform in speaking is being a who you are as a person.

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