We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kimberly Marcilene. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kimberly below.
Kimberly, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you recount a story of an unexpected problem you’ve faced along the way?
One of the biggest issues many of us face as businesses owners is depression. It’s one of those things we hide behind the camera, the makeup, the fashion and our customers. Yes we hear it in the news and from some celebrities once it’s too late. As small businesses owners we have to push so much harder to flourish our dreams and make payroll hunni. Loans and grants are harder to receive and everyone is looking for a handout instead of lending a hand. It’s about who you know these days. The long nights of wondering how will I be greater tomorrow than yesterday chiming through our minds. It’s an everyday battle and I personally had to take sometime away from business to focus on my mental and emotional health hunni. I am a Certified Coach but what I found out is that I too need a Coach and therapist. I needed the whole team chile lol. One thing I believe in is telling my truth so no one will ever have too. During my journey of recovery aka repurposing my life I found arts and crafts to be a passion of release for me. During my last Beautiful Bold Empowering Women’s Conference I created some beautiful frames for all my attendees and OMG!!! I shocked myself at how beautiful they turned out. I later began picking up old items from the Goodwill and low and behold I found my joy again. But something keeps calling me to get back to my craft of motivating others and giving back so I began motivating myself first. I can’t move nothing if I can’t move myself chile. So here we are and it’s 2023 and of course BBEW is still my baby but this woman is on a journey of healing. There something about a broken item that leads me to purchasing and I would say it’s because I see me; I see man, I see woman but more importantly I see something rare that can transformed into something so beautiful with just a little TLC and E6000 lol, so I started selling my art work. I give more randomly to strangers, I still buy myself flowers especially baby breaths for that additional touch of love I require. I still shed some tears because the soul needs some good releasing and I read a book now every month. My last read was Cecily Tyson’s autobiography. It was such a great read. I would employ everyone to begin reading more it truly will guide you on this life’s obstacle course. I started decorating my home and I am in love with all the new creations but that itch to help keeps tapping me on my left shoulder so I will enrolling in school for my degree in Psychology. I’m not done living so stay tuned as I write my own Eulogy.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I am Kimberly Marcilene no fake Shit. I say this because it is in my song called “Here I AM” on Amazon music and other platforms. But honestly I am you, A girl from the East side of Detroit who only wants greater for myself, my communities and my family. I found my coaching craft through listening to other people problems and providing good advice at a very young age. I would always be asked “Why you not married” I did marry but that’s another show hunni lol. Later I tapped into manifestation through Bishop Michael Jones of Detroit, MI and bam it worked. Here I am this little hood girl manifesting the things I wanted to see so I started sharing what I learned and just like that years later I became a Certified Motivational Coach. Now one thing I will say is that it took many, many years of free events, helping others businesses flourish for free and many heart aches but would I do it again Yes! It’s something about giving that will somewhere and somehow come back to you double and even sometimes triple fold. My company is Beautiful Bold Empowering Women LLC, and Doing The Most Enterprises LLC. I empower women from the inside while letting them know doing the most is only a problem for others. Doing the Most is only a problem if you make it one. You can listen to some of my shows at dtmpodcast.com and visit bbewomen.com for coaching services and merchandise. Having a business is not a trophy but an obstacle course that you are continually working towards completing each goal despite how tired or unmotivated you are. One of my greatest accomplishments was being entered into the Marquis Who’s Who and The Rick Ross leadership team contacting me but hunni Rick too expensive chile. I’m gone keep it pushing Ricki Ross. But I will say my greatest feeling of achievement is the feedback I receive from doing my women’s conferences and the faces on the women I pay homage to as Beautiful Bold Empowered Woman of the Year. I will leave you with these words “despair will come but keep pushing, eventually that table will turn.”
-Kimberly Marcilene
Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?
Yes, since I have been reading OMG, I have fell in love with it. I use you read Zane cause I could relate at that point in my life but all of a sudden I stopped because the books provided no poise and I personally outgrew that life. So I stopped reading and started watching people for guidance but as I was watching I kept seeing recycled trends that provided me no muse. I just recently picked reading back up and Lord almighty Will Smith book “Will” is just what I need to wake up my sleeping beast. Next was Tabitha Brown “Feeding My Soul” and the famous Cicely Tyson “Just As I Am” Cicely woke up the ambition and drive I laid down due to being depressed but these days I am creating more and checking off my list of to do’s at my pace cause that’s my business per Tabitha Brown. Oh how I fell back in love with reading and how it transformed my way of moving in business now. I am the master of my destiny and each brick aka experience is training for the next chapter. You may have some days where it doesn’t make sense or why me? but it is all planned per Will Smith and honestly it’s the truth.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I had to unlearn that it’s okay to not be available, to not answer my phone, to not say I’m happy when I am really sad. There is nothing wrong with admitting the truth to those deserving of it. I AM HUMAN. I was taking on family and friends as clients and it was very draining. I learned to never take on family and friends as clients because they expect blood hunni lol.
Contact Info:
- Website: bbewomen.com
- Instagram: Kimberly Marcilene
- Facebook: Beautiful Bold Empowering Women
- Youtube: Kimberly Marcilene
Image Credits
Dee Hues Photgraphy