100 Episodes In. Here's What I Now
I didn’t start this with a plan. I started it because I was done staying quiet.
That’s the honest version. Not the version with a mission statement and a content calendar. The real one. I sat down, turned on a mic, and said some things out loud that I’d only ever said in my own head. A hundred episodes later, here we are.
Episode 100 drops Sunday. Before it does, I want to tell you what these hundred episodes actually taught me, because it’s not what I thought it would be when I started.
It started with MOVE.
I had no idea where I was going. None. I just knew I couldn’t stay still anymore. Looking back at those first episodes, I can see it now. Every guest in that stretch was teaching me the same lesson without either of us knowing it. You don’t get clarity by waiting around for it. You get it by moving. The strategy shows up later. It always does.
Then it became LOVE.
This is where it got personal. I used to think love meant smoothing things over, keeping the peace, making everyone comfortable. The guests who came through during this stretch wrecked that idea for me. Real love stays in the room when things get uncomfortable. It doesn’t soften the truth to make it easier to swallow. I learned that the hard way, in real time, on the air.
Then it became COVE.
I didn’t build a community. I noticed one trying to happen and got out of the way. That’s the truest thing I can say about how the Council came together. People showed up because they were already ready for a room like this to exist. My job wasn’t to recruit them. It was to make the space and trust that they’d come.
And now we’re looking ABOVE.
This is the chapter I’m still living inside of. Looking at the systems sitting above all of us, including the ones I’ve personally benefited from without ever asking why.
That’s the heaviest lifting of the whole hundred episodes, and I’m nowhere near done with it. I don’t have a tidy bow to put on this one. I just know we keep climbing.
MOVE. LOVE. COVE. ABOVE. One Voice Evolving.
That’s the whole story, in order. Joy first. Then resilience. Then a reckoning with the systems and my own white heritage. Now depth, the kind that doesn’t resolve neatly, the kind I’m still sitting with.
And here’s the thing I want you to know before episode 100 even drops. None of that was the destination. It was the runway.
Wave 2 starts now.
Everything we built in these hundred episodes, every guest, every hard conversation, every risk I almost talked myself out of taking, was the groundwork for what’s coming next.
I don’t have all of it mapped out yet. I’m not going to pretend I do. But I know this much: we move first, the strategy catches up. That’s how this whole thing started, and that’s how the next chapter starts too.
Episode 100 drops in two days. Come listen to where we’ve been. Then stick around, because where we’re going is the part I’m actually excited about.
Raw. Real. Relatable. That hasn’t changed in a hundred episodes, and it’s not changing now.
Welcome to our world!
—Kim
Join us for Wave 2 HERE.
