Lead Anew With Kim

Month: December 2025

  • Closing the Year

    Exploring what it means to let a year be honest rather than impressive, and how quiet growth, clearer boundaries, and steadier self-trust can matter more than visible milestones.

  • Starting Your Career Over in Midlife

    What happens when midlife asks a quieter, braver question: Is this still who I want to be? This Sunday’s reflection explores the courage of starting over in your 40s and 50s, not as failure, but as alignment. It is about listening to the tug beneath the success, honoring the wisdom you have earned, and choosing…

  • A Story About Peace I Did Not Know I Needed

    This article is published in Women Write Publication. A growing, strong community built by women for women.

  • The Quiet Finish Line I Almost Missed

    This week in Lead Anew: Insights and Growth, I explore accomplishments and the becoming that happens along the way. I did not recognize the finish line when I reached it. There was no rush of noise. No dramatic moment of arrival. Just a quiet awareness was settling in as I stood there, realizing how close…

  • The Hardest Skill I Learned In My Second Season

    The Hardest Skill I Learned In My Second Season

    The most difficult conversations don’t fall apart because of what is said; they fall apart because of what we feel while saying it. Controlling your emotions is not about pushing them away. It is about learning how to stay present with them, so they don’t take the wheel. It is about leading yourself through the…

  • The Quiet Victory Before Walking the Stage

    Tonight, I’m sitting with gratitude more than accomplishment. Tomorrow, I walk across the stage to graduate, decades after my last degree, carrying every lesson, detour, and quiet moment of support that made it possible. This one belongs to more than just me.

  • The Soft Strength of Boundaries

    There comes a point in your life when protecting your peace stops feeling like a luxury and starts feeling like survival. It begins quietly, almost imperceptibly, with the moment you realize you can no longer keep sacrificing your well-being for the comfort of others. It is the turning of an inner season, the gentle but…