Growing from 1 Client to 17 in 3 Months with Kim Severson

Jamie Berman: [00:00:00] Well, hello everyone. I have a super special guest that you’re gonna love and learn so much from. I have Kim Severson with me today and I cannot wait to dive in with her because I have witnessed Kim Go through such an amazing shift and transformation in what really does not feel like a very long time and her business.

Jamie Berman: And so I asked her to come onto the podcast and share all the things with you all, all of what’s working, what shifts she made, what’s allowed work and business and creating clients to feel. It’s so much easier than it used to. So we have Kim here and I will have you introduce yourself and just tell us what you do.

Jamie Berman: And then we’re going to dive into some fun manifestation 

Kim Severson: stuff. Amazing. Thank you so much, Jamie. I’m so [00:01:00] happy to be here. So my name is Kim Severson. I like to say that I’m the weight loss coach for people who hate dieting. I am the host of a podcast called Weight Loss Doesn’t Have to Suck. And I help people lose weight without deprivation, restriction, all the things that we hate about dieting that just feel like too much and make us want to quit.

Kim Severson: We don’t do any of that. I help my clients lose weight through a lot of connection to their body, communication with their bodies, learning how to listen to what their bodies are telling them and then be able to honor. Those cues and signals. 

Jamie Berman: Who doesn’t want that weight of losing weight? In fact, I mean, that’s really what you have to get to, I think, in order to lose weight long term in a way that’s peaceful.

Jamie Berman: But like, yeah, that’s magic. I love that so much. Me 

Kim Severson: too. It changed my life and I’m so happy to be able to bring that to all of my clients. 

Jamie Berman: That’s amazing. And your business has been booming. It’s been growing. I’ve been watching you just creating [00:02:00] client after client. You had a big quantum leap this past year.

Jamie Berman: Um, I think it was soon after you joined the money manifestation movement, right? 

Kim Severson: Yeah, I went within a couple of months of joining the movement. I went from one single client, and I had a contract coaching job at the time, but one single client in my own practice, just 17. So 

Jamie Berman: quickly. It was crazy. What time period was that?

Kim Severson: I would say that was within three months of starting the movement. It just, things shifted so quickly for me. I couldn’t even believe it. 

Jamie Berman: I have to hear what shifted. I really want to hear, right? Because Like, the thing is when you’re a coach, it’s so fun to coach everyone, but you really don’t know what’s going on internally that’s working for everyone.

Jamie Berman: That’s why I love these podcasts interviews because I learned so much from it, right? I get to see, Ooh, what was it that actually landed? What actually worked? What was it that allowed you to go from one client to 17 in three months? [00:03:00] And it was actually, um, it was so sweet. Some of you in the movement sent me, uh, a birthday message that was just, oh my God, I was crying, hearing all the messages and everything.

Jamie Berman: And what you wrote in there, I’m like, I didn’t even know this, Kim. Like, what you wrote, I wrote it down here because that’s what inspired me. I’m like, I got to get you on the podcast because I want to hear all the things. So you had said, I am so grateful that I found you and your work. I truly believe that it saved my business.

Jamie Berman: Right. And I was like, Oh my gosh, what about this saved your business? I’m so curious to find out more and like what it was that helped so much. 

Kim Severson: Yeah. That is absolutely the truth when I say that I’m not embellishing at all. So I was in kind of a dark period when I found you. Well, I had been following your work for years.

Kim Severson: Like I remember you when I was getting my certification through the Life Coach School and [00:04:00] I had done a bunch of your free trainings. I actually still have notes from one of your free trainings like years ago hanging up on my bulletin board over here. So I had followed your stuff and just like, I don’t know, didn’t, didn’t feel ready to take the leap or got distracted with other things.

Kim Severson: And then my first year of business, it was all about hustle and pushing myself and thinking that I needed to learn how to do business or be an entrepreneur or market the way other people were doing it in this kind of like aggressive hustling way that. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it felt so wrong.

Kim Severson: Like my whole body was resisting all of these things that I was doing, but I just thought that that was the only way. So I was pushing myself and pushing myself and then I eventually burnt out completely. And I was really considering whether entrepreneurship was for me or not. I was leaning toward it not being for me.

Kim Severson: I was really thinking that, like, I knew I [00:05:00] loved coaching. That always felt so natural and wonderful. And I love that part of it. But I thought that every other piece of the business just wasn’t for me. Like I wasn’t wired for it or it wasn’t, you know, it wasn’t made for me because I didn’t want to market in that aggressive way.

Kim Severson: And so I had had a really challenging couple of months leading up to finding your work. And I was like, so burnt out. I was like, I’m not doing anything. I’m not working at all for the next couple of weeks. And I’m just going to look for clarity and I’m going to figure out whether I want to keep building this business or I want to go work for someone else.

Kim Severson: And around that time, you were doing Manifest a thon. I think it had already started, and I kind of jumped in there a couple of days into it and started watching the recordings, just like, this is something interesting, this is something I’m gonna get into, or just see what Jamie’s offering. And I immediately had shifts.

Kim Severson: Immediately just watching that, uh, every day, it just shifted my energy [00:06:00] so much. Um, I started, things just started to feel lighter. I started to feel more hope and possibility about maybe being able to do business my way, or being able to kind of lean on my intuition to guide me. In what the next steps were, but what’s interesting before I started watching Manifestathon, I had decided like I pretty much decided I’m going to just get a job working for somebody else and I wrote down, I want to do that.

Kim Severson: Here’s the salary. I want. I wrote all these details and then I started watching Manifestathon and everything was shifting. Toward the end of the five day program that you were doing, somebody sent me a job posting with so many of the details that I had written down, like the exact salary that I had written down.

Kim Severson: So many of the things that I wanted. But by that time I was like, I had so much renewed hope for my business and so many other ideas for how I could make business work for me that I was like, I don’t even want to work for somebody else [00:07:00] anymore. So. just in that free training. I had a lot of shifts and yeah.

Kim Severson: And then at the end, like I was not planning on joining anything or investing in anything, but you started talking about the movement. I was amazed that it was only 3, 000 for. An entire year. 

Jamie Berman: Let’s edit this because it’s changing. Oh, okay. Good, because it is ridiculously underpriced. Yeah, I saw that and was just like, oh, I’m in.

Jamie Berman: So we’ll edit this part out, but my OBM and my ads person was like, what are you doing? I’m like, you’re right. So I’m like, I’m in. So yeah, this launch, it’s going up there. So, um, so I’m trying not to say the price, so let’s read it. So I was amazed at what, you know, or just say I was amazed the value for the price or something like that.

Jamie Berman: Right, right. Yeah. 

Kim Severson: So, uh, you started talking about what the program entailed. I was blown away by the value for the price even before I got in there and I really [00:08:00] understood the value. Um, and it was just a no brainer at that point. I had had so many energetic shifts during Manifestathon that I was just like, I need more of this.

Kim Severson: I need to be in this energy. I don’t know what’s going to happen in my business. I just know that I feel better when I am doing this work. And so I joined and the rest was history. And you know, what shifted in my business was that I realized that I enjoy it when I’m doing it my way. And my intuition is guiding me toward what is right for me.

Kim Severson: And I started recognizing, like, when I was feeling those full body no’s, all that resistance in my body, uh, in response to the way other people were recommending I did certain things, that was a sign that I could learn to follow and trust. And so that was one of the major things that shifted 

Jamie Berman: for me. So good.

Jamie Berman: So is that what changed then is you allowed yourself to start tuning in and saying no, even though other people say this is the way to do things, you [00:09:00] listen to the inner voice and listen to. It sounds like that part of you inside that’s like, Hmm, is this for me or isn’t this for me? And you actually allowed yourself to listen, which it sounds like previously you didn’t.

Jamie Berman: Is that accurate? 

Kim Severson: 100 percent and What’s funny is because I started where let me say that again You, one of the first things you said in terms of how we decide to show up or what we decide to pursue in business is what feels like fun and what feels like me. And I was like, okay, if I just start there and ask myself those questions, then doing all of these things just feel so natural.

Kim Severson: And it’s interesting because. When I first started in the money manifestation movement, I gave myself the permission to put everything down. You know, I was doing like the webinars and the social media and the email marketing and the funnels and all of that. And I was not enjoying so many pieces of that.

Kim Severson: I always enjoyed the coaching. I always enjoyed my [00:10:00] podcast, but I was like, I’m going to give myself permission to put all this stuff down and just follow those questions. What feels like fun? What feels like me? And I started there. And what’s so fascinating to me now is just, I don’t know, six months later, not that many months later, um, I’m doing these things that I was like, I never want to look at my email sequence ever again, or my funnels ever again, or I never want to be on social media ever again.

Kim Severson: Like that felt so awful to me. And as soon as I started following my intuition and started following my fun. All of these other things, suddenly I was like, I could do TikTok or I could do another webinar. It just, it like opened things up for me. In a way that I wasn’t expecting. If that makes sense. 

Jamie Berman: A hundred percent, because I think it’s like, it’s always, and y’all know, listening to my podcast, if you’ve been listening for a while and all of my clients know, it’s like, it, it’s always, it comes back to what is the energy [00:11:00] behind it, and it sounds like previously the energy was, I have to do these things to be successful.

Jamie Berman: These are the things that I have to do to have a business. Which feels terrible. It feels tight. Then we come from our brain. We’re not listening to like what we actually want to be teaching. We think we have to do it in a certain way and manipulate ourselves into this certain box in order to have a coaching business or any business, right?

Jamie Berman: But it’s like as you give yourself permission to let those things go and tune in. You shifted your energy and then from that energetic shift, then it’s like you can do things from a different way. So what do you think your new thought or your new energy is that’s driving you to maybe want to do a webinar or get on tech talk or social or look at your email sequence?

Jamie Berman: What’s the difference now? Do you think? 

Kim Severson: Well, it’s a couple of things. I think. I, in the past, was forcing myself from that hustly energy. It’s like, I don’t care if I’m inspired or not. I have to obey my calendar. I have to [00:12:00] just create content all the time, every day. And that shift was a big deal for me, to be able to go, like, to be able to go from that to I’m going to create when I’m inspired, which ended up being most of the time anyway.

Kim Severson: I’m feeling that inspiration and creating a good bit of the time. But when I’m not, I give myself permission to kind of rest and rejuvenate. And then I come back to it when I’m ready. So it was just that little energetic shift of like, you don’t have to do this along a certain timeline, or you don’t have to squeeze yourself into these boxes.

Kim Severson: You can, again, follow what feels right to you and feels like fun and trust that the inspiration will come. So that was a big, um, that was a big change for me. And that was really impactful. And then when I let that happen, As I said, I, I was surprised by how much that like inspiration was there all the time.

Kim Severson: And, um, so now really the [00:13:00] shift is I’m not doing anything because I have to do it. I’m not doing anything because I think that that’s what will get results for me in my business. I’m doing it because. I’m inspired to do it. And because I want to help people, I was able to put my energy into like, wait, what is the point here?

Kim Severson: It’s not to like reach certain business goals or check certain boxes. It really is to connect with my clients and help them. And I thought at one point that I could only do that in my sessions. Like, that was the only time I was connecting to clients. But I realized that I’m doing that when I send an email.

Kim Severson: Like, I imagine the person that that is helping. I’m doing that when I do a post on social media. So. It was really just shifting my focus and shifting my energy all along the way. And people 

Jamie Berman: feel it. Why did you get 17 clients in three months, right? Or like 16 additional clients in three months because literally people feel it on the other end.

Jamie Berman: It’s not like a conscious You know, knowing of what it is, [00:14:00] but you can feel the difference whenever you’re watching someone who’s thinking, I have to do this to be successful and I should be doing this and they’re doing a webinar because they’re trying to check it off a box. They’re not doing it with love or passion or thinking about the client, right?

Jamie Berman: Like, they’re in their head thinking, how do I have to do this to be successful versus when you make that 1 shift and I think it really is literally just letting go of I have to do it. You let go of that and it frees you. And then the inspiration, just like you experienced, Kim can just rise up. It can just be there.

Jamie Berman: It can happen. You don’t have to like try so hard. And the way that people receive the energy of I’m literally here to connect with you. I want to help you. I have the answer that you’re looking for and I can’t wait to help you. Like people are just. magnetized and it’s kind of mind blowing. And I know that our like ego brain doesn’t quite get it.

Jamie Berman: It’s like, wait, I’m working so much less, but so much [00:15:00] more is coming in. And it’s scary. And I remember coaching you like the first three months in the movement, you were just like, what’s happening? Like, I don’t get it. I’m working so much less and people are coming in and this doesn’t make sense. And I remember you were like, is this a fluke?

Jamie Berman: Right. And like, we did a lot of work around, like, this is safe and this is actually. Um, sustainable, right? It is something that’s replicable. It, if you just keep doing it, you’ll keep getting clients. Cause I think a lot of people let go of what their brain and what they’ve been taught for so many years, it takes to be successful and you let that go and shift into something different.

Jamie Berman: And it’s like, wait, what this is like messing with my mind. I don’t get it. Right. And it doesn’t work. Yeah. 

Kim Severson: Yeah. It really was mind blowing because. You, you know, you just think that the more I am hustling and working. And actively doing stuff like the more I’m sitting in this office chair, the more productive I’ll [00:16:00] be, the more results I’ll create.

Kim Severson: And just to experiment with like, what if that’s not true? What if prioritizing what feels good to me and prioritizing my energy, what if that actually accelerates my results? And the whole process feels better. It just, you know, it took some time to wrap my brain around that. But of course that is. So much of a kinder way to build a business.

Kim Severson: It feels so much better. Um, so it was. What that’s something that I wanted to say it like this is exactly what I teach my clients with weight loss like anything that feels like you have to force it or you have to follow all these rules and you have to do these things that feel really terrible to you.

Kim Severson: Of course, we want to quit that. It’s like a whole different kind of burnout, right? Like we can’t, we can’t sustain that. So when you shift that in weight loss to like, okay, well, what am I up for today? What’s, what feels doable and [00:17:00] realistic for me today? Let me start there and build on that because I know that those little changes are going to compound.

Kim Severson: It’s the exact same stuff as business. It just, for some reason, took you telling that. to me for me to 

Jamie Berman: really feel it. Oh, most. Yeah. I mean, same for me. Right. I actually started with weight loss was my niche too. And like, you know, uh, relationship with body. And I realized like, I’m like, I do the same work now.

Jamie Berman: It’s just with money. And what’s really fascinating about this is. When I hired Daniella to work with me and help me kind of repurpose content, what we did initially, because I didn’t have a lot of content around money. So I said, take all of my emails about weight loss, body, all my past emails, insert money.

Jamie Berman: Let’s see if it works. It worked! Like, it’s the same thing, right? It’s all about our relationship to something, right? It’s all about, it’s about our energy with it, right? So like, [00:18:00] yeah, that was fascinating how they really do go hand in hand and it’s, yeah. It’s 

Kim Severson: amazing. Yeah. And you can be taking the exact same actions, but if your energy is different, you’re creating completely different results.

Kim Severson: It’s the model too, right? All of this is a 

Jamie Berman: different version of the same thing. Yes. So I’m curious because your kind of trajectory of working with me has been, you got into the movement first, you manifested 17 clients in three months, so you started in there. And then you joined the mastermind and we just completed the retreat last week.

Jamie Berman: So I’m curious in terms of that evolution. What did you find that in the movement you started learning and that started changing for you? Maybe it’s the energy piece. Maybe there’s other pieces. And then what, what about like, as you upgraded into the mastermind, was there anything that was different 

Kim Severson: there?

Kim Severson: So many things. So many things. So, really, a lot of the work that I did [00:19:00] when I first got into the money manifestation movement was around my money stories, which I didn’t even realize were that big of a problem for me or tripping me up as much as they were. And as soon as you had us do, like, the money mindset audit and all of those things in the amazing workbook that I have gone through, Probably like six times at this point, um, cause I keep revealing new layers, but I discovered that I was operating in a lot of money scarcity, despite like looking around at my surroundings and being like, things are pretty good.

Kim Severson: It’s still felt inside. Like I needed to rush to create some kind of results. I don’t know if that came from the, I don’t know how to say that, like maybe I won’t say that part that I don’t want to like compare my like. I hate anyone in the industry, but, um, there was something in me that was just driving this, [00:20:00] this rush to create results.

Kim Severson: And the very first work that I did in the movement was to, instead of scarcity, to start reprogramming those thoughts that were creating scarcity and look for abundance in my daily life now. Like, okay, if nothing ever changes, if not, if my business never grows. I’m done. How are we like perfectly fine and living in abundance now and really cultivating gratitude for things as they are now?

Kim Severson: That’s where I started just kind of dropping a lot of that scarcity and what I noticed at that time Was every time I would spend any money at all I would think about the money going out and the lack. And that’s the very first thing I started turning around. And you recommend that we do this in the program, really just honoring every time you spend money, honoring that money and feeling gratitude and thinking about the good it’s going to do in the world.

Kim Severson: And so that created a lot of. [00:21:00] Um, again, I started prioritizing my energy and prioritizing downtime and really using that time to do thought work, to do intentional manifestation work, to consider that as part of my work day. That was huge for me. Yeah, so I started to just do those things and that’s when the clients started rolling in.

Kim Severson: Which was amazing, and I was feeling better, everything was going so well, but the reason I joined the Mastermind is because none of that felt like my doing. It just felt like random or like a fluke, and I remember you saying, I’m

Kim Severson: trying to remember how I want to say that. Oh, I remember other people in the mastermind at the time saying like, I just learned the skill of making money. Like I just learned that it’s a skill that anybody could learn. And I learned how to do [00:22:00] it. I was like, that’s what I want. I don’t want this to feel like a fluke or that it’s like something beyond my control.

Kim Severson: Or I’m just kind of like waiting here, waiting for clients to come to me. Um, I want to know that this is something that I am creating and that I’m actually in control of the results. And so that’s why I joined the mastermind to take it from like, okay, I know I’m feeling better and I know business is feeling better and I’m watching these results come in.

Kim Severson: I’m watching my business grow, but none of it feels like I’m in control of it. So I joined that soulful six, soulful six figure mastermind to just kind of cement that like. I, this is my process and I can trust it and it works and I know how to go forward. I know the next steps and I really do feel like all of that is true for me now, even though we’ve only been doing the mastermind for a couple of months, 

Jamie Berman: two months, totally a hundred percent.

Jamie Berman: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. What is your process? I’m curious. Like if you were [00:23:00] to think about your, I love asking this question and I think. All the listeners should ask, answer it too, because I know you make money. So don’t say I don’t know how to make money if you’re listening and you’re like, I don’t know how it’s not true.

Jamie Berman: If you have money, you know how to make money. Right. But I would ask him. What is your money making process? Like, how do you manifest money? If you look back at that, the six months that we’ve been working together and you’ve made so much money in your business, did you, and you have made, what did you double your income from the year before or 

Kim Severson: gosh, well, Jamie, I don’t even really.

Kim Severson: Track my numbers that much. Yeah. It must have been at least doubled. But one thing, and this is something I’m still working on and we’ve talked about this a little bit as well, like setting a really, um, specific money goal for me. It brings up a little bit of scarcity and a little bit of rushiness, and so I just like to kind of be like, and I know Daniella said this as well, like, show me [00:24:00] how good it can get.

Kim Severson: I’m not, I’m not focusing on anything super specific, and, um, I just kind of let the process go. Do what it does. I don’t know if I’m explaining that super 

Jamie Berman: well, but yeah. So, so your money making process isn’t to cling to a specific number, but it’s more of a, let me see how good it can get opening up to abundance, what would you say are some of the things like that you, let’s just say if you were to put it into a four simple steps or something like that, or three simple steps of what you would do.

Jamie Berman: If you were in the place you were back in March of last year before we met and you were thinking about, you know, manifesting another, you know, working for someone else and you were like coming to that version of you now. Right. Your future self, which is actually the present you is going back to the you in March, who was questioning, can I do business?

Jamie Berman: What advice would you give to her? 

Kim Severson: [00:25:00] Yeah. Well, we had, we had discussed this on one of our one on one calls and I love the way you helped me kind of find this process within myself. Cause I thought when I joined the mastermind, like, okay, if money is a skill, making money is a skill that anyone can learn. I kind of thought you were going to share that process with us.

Kim Severson: Like here’s, here’s Jamie’s step by step process. But I love that you turn that back on me because it was within me. Like I actually already knew it. I just didn’t, I hadn’t articulated it to myself or I didn’t realize that that wisdom was within me. So when we were on that one on one call, we together outlined what my step by step process was.

Kim Severson: And the first step I realized for me was to really get solid on my offer, like my product, my coaching, to really get solid on exactly what it is that I offer my clients, how it’s unique. And this was step two of the process is to really get to know my ideal client and [00:26:00] why we are like a perfect fit for each other.

Kim Severson: And how my coaching specifically can help them. And then step three, which is sort of the process that I’m in now is just getting out there more, doing more marketing, getting in front of more people, not again, not in a hustly way, but just from that energy of like, I have the solution. I have this very specific way, this very different way of teaching weight loss.

Kim Severson: that, uh, resonates with people and just sharing that and sharing that much more widely than I had been doing. And then part four of the process was, I hate to even use the word selling because it’s like, I think of it more as just helping and revealing, like how, um, so I think of. I hate to even use the word selling.

Kim Severson: I use it. I say [00:27:00] more of just helping because it is showing people like my people, the people who resonate with my approach to weight loss. It’s just explaining what that is to them and how it’s so different from restrictive diets. It’s so different from anything else out there. And the more I share that, which.

Kim Severson: It’s essentially selling, but just the more I explain it, it will resonate with the people who it is meant for. And that’s all I’m doing is just telling them about it and that just thinking about it that way releases so much pressure. Oh my god, 

Jamie Berman: I love it. And you just described what selling actually is.

Jamie Berman: By the way, right? It’s so funny, right? We have this connotation, it’s like icky, it’s this thing, it’s doing things, it’s trying to manipulate people. It’s doing, you know, having to do it in the right way, but actually True selling is what you’ve just described. That’s all selling is. That’s true selling 

Kim Severson: right there.

Kim Severson: Yeah, and I wish more people would describe it that way. Because I was like, I don’t want to be [00:28:00] squeezy. I don’t want to like talk anybody into anything. And that’s not what it is at all. It’s really just, and this is another phrase that you use. It’s like letting your light shine more brightly. Yes. And then the people who are right for you and the people who are aligned with you will see it and know that it is right for them and that’s all you have to do.

Kim Severson: It can be so easy. 

Jamie Berman: Yes, that is it. And doesn’t that sound so much better than, like, some of the things we’ve been told we have to do, right? Which is totally fine. I am not like anti marketing at all. I mean, obviously I market the heck out of my business, but again, it’s like, it’s the energy it’s coming from.

Jamie Berman: So same with selling. It’s like, what is the energy behind your offers? What is the energy behind? When you’re on a consultation, it matters so much and it either attracts people in or repels them. So it’s like marketing is absolutely amazing and you can pick and choose what you want to do. But like, just look at [00:29:00] what are your, what’s your thoughts behind it?

Jamie Berman: What are the feelings behind it? you are selling, you just have different thoughts. It’s not like I’m trying to get them. It’s like, no, I really want to help them. I want to connect with this person. Right. It’s so different. It feels so much more open and expansive. And then you’re like, wait, it doesn’t feel like selling.

Jamie Berman: It is, but it doesn’t feel like what our brain thinks selling feels like. Right. Right. 

Kim Severson: And the whole process of, of shifting my perception of what selling can be and how it can feel started with you telling me about your program on Manifest a thon, which essentially was selling, but it just felt so, like, warm and loving the way you explained it.

Kim Severson: Like, hey, Here’s what’s amazing about this program. And if that’s what you’ve been looking for, which for me, it totally was. Here’s why, you know, it would be amazing for you to, like, it can be that simple and that straightforward. So it was amazing to have that example, seeing you do it and seeing how [00:30:00] natural it could feel.

Jamie Berman: Love it. I love it. And the world gets to benefit because you decided, right, that. You can do things in your way and that it doesn’t have to feel awful. And you can trust your intuition and you can slow down and it’s not urgent. And you reworked, you know, rewired your relationship with money. It’s like, because you have the courage to do all of that.

Jamie Berman: I’m just thinking about how the world is benefiting. There are 17 humans whose lives literally are changed for the rest of their lives. Because you were willing to say, I can help you were willing to shift your energy and do this work, right? I’m just thinking like the contrast of like, even if I hadn’t showed up and did that five day challenge, right?

Jamie Berman: And I wasn’t willing to show up and give from love. Then, you know, you wouldn’t have found this. You might’ve attracted that job, right? It’s just, everything happens. [00:31:00] So divinely, right? The universe was like, no, Kim, you are not supposed to take that job. Right here, drop in here’s manifest it on. And like, you’re meant to have this business.

Jamie Berman: And like, because of that, and you’re just getting started. I mean, this is just. Just, you know, you’re just getting started and yeah, I’m just curious, did anything shift for you during the retreat because we just, you know, we’ve been two months into the mastermind and we just finished up the retreat. Were there any shifts there or anything in terms of like, what’s next?

Kim Severson: Oh, my gosh. So many shifts. So many shifts. Um, well, I will start by saying, so I was working with 17 clients at that one point, but it’s been so many more since then, like clients have finished up and new clients have come in. Yeah. And so as I was sitting in the airport, waiting to board the plane to go to the retreat, I was onboarding a new client.

Kim Severson: And then when I got off the plane after the retreat, I got an alert that another [00:32:00] new client had signed up and was about to start. So I was like, 

Jamie Berman: While being at the retreat and not doing web, right? Like not posting. That’s amazing. I love it. 

Kim Severson: Right. So what a beautiful way to begin the retreat and end the retreat with new clients on either side.

Kim Severson: So that was lovely. And I think also being, I mean, just the, the energy and the atmosphere of the retreat was incredible. And being able to do that at the start of the year was. It’s so lovely to be able to just like get our intentions set and do all of that deep thought work starting out the year. So I feel really set up and I have so much clarity and direction and I’m just ready to like, I’m ready to go.

Kim Severson: So that was all great. It was so, I mean, you brought together the most like wise, powerful group of women I have ever been around. It was incredible. Every single person was. Inspiring [00:33:00] and fascinating to listen to and just to be in their energy. That was incredible. And it was helpful to see there were some women there that were, you know, a couple of steps ahead of me in business and just to see what they were doing and to get inspired by their process and to hear about how they create what they create.

Kim Severson: That was just. Just great. I mean, how often do we have the opportunity to do that and then to be able to kind of hang out with each other and go to dinner and talk business? Totally. It 

Jamie Berman: was great. Totally. So, and that’s another thing that happens when you let yourself be yourself in business, right? And you let yourself like, Hey, what would be.

Jamie Berman: Fun. How do I want to do it? It just being natural, not trying to fit into a box and being someone else. What ends up happening is you manifest clients that are just like you. Like I always say, I manifest clients that I would be best friends with. And then I oftentimes end up being best friends with them.

Jamie Berman: I’m like, I feel like I’m with all my besties right now. Like it’s the best [00:34:00] feeling ever. And everyone’s aligned. And you’re not the only one who said that. Like I had another, one of my clients was like, wow, I think this is the first, Group retreat that like everyone’s on the same place emotionally, right?

Jamie Berman: Well, maybe everyone’s different in terms of like what businesses they do, where they’re at in business, but everyone’s really on the same kind of energy level and the same. emotional level and it was really, really special. So I’m so excited for what’s to come after that. And, you know, you have four more months in the mastermind.

Jamie Berman: So we’re just getting started. 

Kim Severson: Yeah, it was just so perfectly timed to get everything, you know, to, to get aligned, to get centered with what I want to create next in business, right at the beginning of the year, and then be all set up to just hit the ground running and go, I can’t wait. So I wouldn’t, not from a hustling place.

Kim Severson: Yeah, what’s that? And not from a hustly place either, 

Jamie Berman: right? It’s like passion. I mean, I came back from the retreat, even myself. I’m like, I, [00:35:00] I feel like I went on my own retreat. It was like an out of body experience in the best way. And you know, you would think after hosting this huge retreat and setting it all up that I would be tired.

Jamie Berman: And yeah, I was Monday. I got a massage came, I drove home, but yesterday I worked. From like 9 a. m. to like, my husband’s calling me at eight. Like, Jamie, dinner has been sitting here for an hour. Come on. I’m like, it’s okay. It’s okay. You can leave it. I have all this, like, it was just like, passion was coming out of me.

Jamie Berman: And it’s not hustle. It’s like, I just couldn’t keep, it was like, Oh my God, this stuff needs to be birthed through me. Right? Like I have to get it all out in the best way. Yeah. I 

Kim Severson: had the exact same experience. I was on the plane just like filling a notebook with new ideas, new content, like new things I want to talk about on the podcast, even new tools that I want to use with my clients.

Kim Severson: I just had this like Epic download of all kinds of new things that I want to try. So I think that’s another thing too, is like giving yourself that [00:36:00] space. to shift energy to think to kind of just like let your brain flow and let your brain be and coupling that with being with such inspiring, amazing people and doing the work that we did.

Kim Severson: Like, it just opens up these channels 

Jamie Berman: and yeah, that’s why retreats are now a part of my business plan because it does something right. It opens you up being around those kind of people. It’s, it’s different than anything else, right? It’s different than. Being one on one coach is different than just, you know, having mastermind calls, which all of that is like shifts all through, you know, through time, but I feel like going to a retreat, it’s like there is, you get in this vortex that just opens you up in a new way, up levels your self concept.

Jamie Berman: And it’s like, okay, let’s go. Right. And, and then you get to implement that over the next, you know, six months or so. And, uh, I mean throughout time really, but that’s how I love going like every six months. That’s why I host them every six months. So I love that Kim, that’s so [00:37:00] fun. And congratulations on your new clients.

Jamie Berman: Thank you. Yeah. 

Kim Severson: And it’s funny too, because, oh God. Yeah. You coached me through, I had. I had all of, you know, I had that kind of quantum leap. I got all of those 17 clients at once. And then I had a little lull after that. And that’s when I was sort of doubting like, Oh, was that just a one time thing? Would I ever be able to create that again?

Kim Severson: And you were like, well, what if this is just a nice little lull? And it was amazing that it was around the holidays. It was a nice little break. And what if you can just trust that when you are ready? Things will start building again and they are so totally 

Jamie Berman: because I think you secretly wanted a little break because I kind of I 100 percent did.

Jamie Berman: You were like, I think I need this to slow down a little bit. You’re like this manifestation thing is amazing, but this is a lot. Right. And it’s like, also, it’s really important that we have those calibration periods and those down times. So I do really feel like the [00:38:00] universe is always working in our favor and I know things are getting amped up again.

Jamie Berman: So yeah, that’s amazing that you trusted that and you really let yourself enjoy the holidays. So yes, that’s so good. Yes. So I know for sure that there are listeners who are like, Jamie, I love this manifestation stuff and I love it around money and I love it around business, but I do not have a great relationship with my body and I would love to release some weight this year and I would love to do it in a way that feels kind of like this.

Jamie Berman: And yes, and that’s what you do. So I would love to hear a little bit. Just briefly of like your story with that, how you got into it and how you serve people like your, what your, um, your offer is. 

Kim Severson: Yeah. So I came into the coaching world through my own weight loss journey. I worked with a coach to lose weight in 2019.

Kim Severson: After having tried every diet [00:39:00] and every method and every plan and every app under the sun, I tried them all. None of them worked for me. For all the same reasons that business wasn’t working for me. It just felt oppressive. It didn’t feel like my way. It didn’t feel sustainable or realistic in my life. So I was about to give up on weight loss entirely.

Kim Severson: And I just happened across my first coaches podcast. And it was just like. Oh my gosh, everything finally made sense and I realized that there could be a new way for me. So I lost 35 pounds in 2019. I’ve kept them off ever since, which is amazing. It’s one thing to lose the weight. It’s another to maintain it.

Jamie Berman: Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Thanks goodness. 

Kim Severson: All these tools during that time. Um, And at the time I was working in the food and wine world, I was doing events and during COVID, all of that shut down and I had a lot of time to think. And I was just listening to every coaching [00:40:00] podcast I could consume. I just loved this work, but I never thought about doing it professionally.

Kim Severson: And then a friend was like, so you think you should become a coach? And I just started thinking about it more seriously and joined certification and never looked back. It just felt. So right for me. Um, and I knew that I wanted to help people lose weight because That was my gateway into this world and it really just shifted everything for me when I realized that I had the capacity to do That which I did not think would ever happen for me.

Kim Severson: I was like, oh my gosh What can I do? And then the whole world opened up. So the way I teach weight loss is very different than any other diet out there. As I said earlier, all of those things that most people hate about dieting, the restriction, the deprivation, the feeling hangry all the time, having to like count and track and measure every single bite you eat.

Kim Severson: That’s what gets old really quickly, and that’s what people find [00:41:00] unsustainable and oppressive. And we don’t do any of that in my program. I help people lose weight by learning how to connect with their body. So our body is giving us messages all the time. It’s talking to us all day long, but most of us, through a variety of reasons, just We forget how to listen, and so I help people get in tune with what their body is telling them about when to eat, how much to eat, and what to eat for weight loss.

Kim Severson: So they never need an external source ever again. They’ll always know. And they can eat according to what feels good for them, what amounts feel good in their body. When they eat in those amounts, how they feel afterwards, we pay attention to all of that. so that it’s not about like half a cup of this and a teaspoon of that.

Kim Severson: It really is about what’s right for you, what feels good for you. And then, so we, we learn to tune into and listen to our bodies. And then there’s all sorts of reasons we [00:42:00] don’t want to do that, right? Like when we’re stressed and we’re overwhelmed, when we’re tired. There’s all kinds of reasons why we hear our body signals, but we don’t necessarily want to listen to them or honor them.

Kim Severson: And that’s the work that we do in my program as well. I teach you more tools for emotional regulation or having cravings or nervous system dysregulation so that, yeah, we can, we can have food in our lives for fun and enjoyment. But that’s not our only tool for coping with our lives. We have much more effective 

Jamie Berman: tools than that.

Jamie Berman: Amazing. So good. So I definitely want to hear, and I know that they all want to hear where can they connect with you? Where can they find you, follow you, or if they want to work with you, where would be the best place to go? 

Kim Severson: Right. So I have a podcast called weight loss doesn’t have to suck. It’s on all major podcast.

Kim Severson: It’s on all major podcast platforms. So they can find me there. All of my information about pricing or you can book a consult. All of [00:43:00] that is on my website. It’s Kimberly Severson coaching. com. I’m on Instagram and Tik TOK at Kimberly Severson coaching. So yeah, come hang out with me and all the places.

Jamie Berman: Definitely go hang out with her. She’s awesome. Like I said, you know, manifest the best clients. So yes, it’s such an honor to have you on here and share your story and your brilliance. And I am just so happy that you decided to go for it and do things your way. And you were willing to. You know, show up, you joined the movement and you did the work and now look what’s happening.

Jamie Berman: You’re changing the world and I’m so excited for you and I just can’t wait to see what comes this year. 

Kim Severson: So thank you. Yeah, it was. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for having me. As I said, it was divine timing. I found you exactly when I needed you and it just changed everything in my business and I’m so grateful I get to do [00:44:00] business this 

Jamie Berman: way, right?

Jamie Berman: So good. I love it. Thank you, Kim. Oh my gosh. 

Kim Severson: Thank you, Jamie.