129. How Executive Women Can Break the Silence and Save Their Relationships with Colette Jane Fehr
Release Date: 04/22/2026
140. How I've Managed Grief and Entrepreneurship (One Year Without My Mom)
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A quick heads-up: this episode discusses grief and the loss of a parent. This week marks one year since Kimberly lost her mom, and in this deeply personal solo episode, she opens up about what it's actually taken to grieve and run a business at the same time. Kimberly shares the eight things that have helped her keep showing up over the past year — from reducing her schedule to therapy, asking her doctor for help, and learning that reduced capacity is still capacity. For anyone in the "sandwich generation" caring for aging parents, anyone grieving right now, or anyone who's ever wondered...
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139. Fear Means Go: Why I've Been Hiding (and What I'm Doing About It)
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138. Building a Brand That Doesn't Need You: Career Contessa's Lauren McGoodwin on Speaking, Pivots, and Power Moves
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137. Overcoming Rejection When You're Pitching Yourself
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Enrollment is open for The Visibility Shift: Go to to learn more, book a sales call, or enroll Episode 136: Overcoming Rejection When You're Pitching Yourself Rejection is part of the deal when you put yourself out there — for a stage, a promotion, a client, or a new direction. In this episode, Kimberly breaks down what makes rejection different when you're the one being pitched, why it's rarely actually about you, and gives listeners a simple three-question tool to use the moment a no lands. In This Episode: Kimberly shares her own experience of pitches that didn't land The Rejection...
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136. How to Build a Speaking Career While Working 9-to-5 with Jasmine Garrett
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135. How to Get Booked, Paid, and Taken Seriously as a Speaker with Elle Petrillo
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134. Career Building, Brand Building, or Wallet Building: How to Choose the Right Speaking Goal
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Register for the Get Booked Blueprint 3-Day Training: Not all stages serve the same purpose — and getting clear on why you're speaking changes everything. In this solo episode, Kimberly Brown breaks down the three categories of speaking she's used throughout her own career to build connections, increase visibility, and close business. Whether you're still in a nine-to-five, building a side hustle, or running a full-time business, this episode will help you get intentional about the stages you pursue and what you're actually going after when you get there. In This Episode:...
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133. How to Become a Referable Speaker
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Register for the Get Booked Blueprint 3-Day Training: In this episode of the Your Next Move Podcast, Kimberly breaks down what separates the speakers who keep getting booked and referred from the ones who deliver a great talk — and then never hear from the room again. Spoiler: it has nothing to do with how polished you are. In This Episode: The one question to ask yourself after every talk: can someone describe what I do without me in the room? The three types of talk titles that travel — and the ones that don't Exactly what to do in the 48 hours after you speak (and why most...
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131. Information Overload Is Keeping You Stuck: How I'm Aligning Everything to 3 Goals for 40 Days
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Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop consuming. In this solo episode, Kimberly gets personal — sharing the moment in her car that made her realize her brain had been "outside" for way too long. She breaks down the three goals that are now her filter for everything: brand building, waist shrinking, and stress annihilating. If it doesn't serve one of those three, it's out. This one is raw, honest, and exactly the permission slip you didn't know you needed. In This Episode: Kimberly shares the driving moment that made her realize she was in information overload She opens...
info_outlineYou can command a boardroom and still go quiet where it matters most. In this powerful conversation, Kimberly sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist and author Colette Jane Fehr to talk about the one thing most of us never saw coming — that silence, not conflict, is what slowly destroys relationships. Colette's new book, The Cost of Quiet, is a timely guide for anyone who has ever kept the peace at the expense of their own voice, and this episode gets deeply personal fast.
We're going deep on:
- Why "keeping the peace" is actually a form of relationship self-abandonment — and how avoidant behavior shows up in ways that have nothing to do with being quiet
- The science of resentment and what it reveals about what you're actually allowing in your relationship
- How high-achieving professional women can advocate fiercely at work but go completely silent at home — and the attachment wiring behind why
- The 24-hour rule for conflict resolution and why coming back matters more than coming back perfectly
- What "Good Girl-itis" is, how it gets conditioned into us, and what it costs us physically, emotionally, and relationally
In This Episode:
- Colette shares the personal experience — including her own divorce — that shaped the framework behind The Cost of Quiet
- Kimberly opens up about her own patterns of self-silencing and the physical toll her first marriage took on her health
- The practical "start small" method Colette gives her clients for learning to speak up when silence has been the default for years
- Why resentment is actually misdirected anger — and how turning the lens back on yourself is the most empowering move you can make
- The Gottman research on what healthy couples actually do when they fight (hint: it's not about fighting less)
- Why high-performing women often retreat into "survival mode" at home and how to interrupt that cycle before the dirty laundry piles up
- Colette's reminder that speaking up is a muscle — and the more you use it, the stronger and more natural it becomes
Stay in touch with Colette: https://www.colettejanefehr.com/ or https://colettejanefehr.substack.com/
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