We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kimberly Muniz. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kimberly below.
Kimberly, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.
Being on lockdown during the pandemic was very enlightening and educational as well as transformational. I found the algorithm affectionately coined, “Native TikTok” and that is what led me to a project that literally changed me forever and I am not exaggerating. What was meant to be an act of solidarity and activism, ended up leading me onto my spiritual path, the one I have been searching for my entire life. I do not believe in coincidence, everything happens for a reason even if it is serendipitously. My relationship with many indigenous creators and my revolutionary mindset led me to I set out for Minnesota in August of 2021 to take supplies and money I had raised through my TikTok platform to the water protectors of line3. This is and was an indigenous led movement to protect water and the treaty land being stolen for profit. As I arrived to my week driving between camps with supplies (which were all indigenous woman led I would like to add), I had no idea within the first two hours at being at one, Shell River, I would be changed by a simple walk into the water, with the matriarch of the camp, where we would talk for about 45 minutes and this water which had nourished her people for thousands and thousand of years, would heal me in ways I can never explain. This experience also clarified so many things for my future and the purpose I must live out. I was grateful to have the type of social media pull to bring the level of help I did up there, but it was what the trip did for me that has made the most difference. Whenever I get discouraged about how little effect I seem to be having, I think back to my time in the water when everything became so clear and everything made sense. That’s the power source I pull from to remember my commitment and honor.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
This response was hard for me if I want to be completely honest, so I left it for last and decided to pour my heart into it and not care how vulnerable I am. Today is actually an anniversary for me as well, I celebrate 21 months of sobriety! I do believe my purpose is greater than my circumstances and for that very reason I keep it very real about my housing situation, I also believe that there are many who look at my content and see hope in my honesty. I do know there are many who have told me my most relatable quality is my unapologetic ability to be authentic on social media because I am told all the time to not stop keeping it real, I take that as a great compliment. Because that is where it all started, on social media. Although I was a drunk the first year of my popularity, when I did get sober, that too became a part of my authenticity. At first it seemed my creative force would be my no nonsense way of reading my own demographic of women for filth as well as being a very outspoken voice on racial issues in America. However sobriety changed me, clearly for the better so my content has evolved with me.
Although I do still read my fellow white women for filth, I now talk about the decolonization process for white women and do my best to educate us to the real roles we have played throughout history, how we have been conditioned to believe in a specific way. I also lost over 100 lbs and changed the toxic lifestyle I was living one baby step at a time after getting sober. I speak about this daily on all my platforms. I live the life I preach about because well, first of all I am over 50 and the wear and tear of alcoholism is no small disaster. I also have a permanent injury which I have overcome to lead a very active life, hiking being my favorite activity of choice. I think by sharing my truth daily in real time with my followers has given them a sense of trust and that’s really what it’s about because you cannot help anyone if they do not trust you first. If anything has shifted my content into being more motivational, it is my walk with sobriety. I got sober on my own without the help of a program or a sponsor and I have been brutally honest about my journey. People who struggle with addiction reach out often because I am always gonna be brutally honest about how important sobriety is.
As I have walked my path of sobriety, I have also embarked on a spiritual and healing journey, I do believe my ability to be transparent has led me to a place where followers reach out and ask for advice on life. That is basically where my story is at the present moment. Rebuilding and rebranding QueenKimtheOG and what’s great is I am doing it openly for everyone to see because one thing I believe is, If I can do it, so can you!
That is honestly what road I seem to be going down as far as what I want people to take from my content. I was an alcoholic, I was unhealthy, toxic, codependent, I was stuck in poverty consciousness, but I knew if I could get sober then there was literally nothing I couldn’t accomplish. Even through homelessness I still believe this!
No matter what you are facing you can get through it and become the best version of yourself because of it!
Is there mission driving your creative journey?
In a simple statement… It is my pure intention to be a productive, educational, and vocal part of the change this country needs in order to evolve.
In a deeper statement…
I believe I have not only a purpose, but also an obligation to use my gifts to help change our society as much as I possibly can before I die. I am blessed to have access to education and people that have educated me to such a point, that there is no turning back on what I am here to do. I have always been a “revolutionary ”at heart, but the kicks of life with the help of alcoholism stopped that part of me for decades. Now that I am sober, healing, evolving, and becoming the absolute best version of myself: every aspect of that revolutionary young girl can now come out and do what needs to be done! I am committed to educating white people to our inherent racism, privilege, and miseducation of American history as I stand in solidarity with Black Brown Indigenous and People of Color. That’s the foundation for it all, everything I stand for. Being sober and healthy, breaking curses and traumas brought on generationally is just a part of the decolonization process and that is how I live with such purpose and it is truly the driving force behind my creative journey.
Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?
This is something I face constantly actually, Social media is a fickle beast. One minute people love you and the next, they are talking about you in third person in Your comment section on Your platform. I think what is most difficult for people to understand is the commitment. I mean let’s face it, I’ve lost everything and still I believe I am going to be this well respected educator and life coach. I am homeless for goodness sake, you’d think I’d just give up by now right?! That’s where I trigger most people, in their poverty consciousness. Everyone loves to hear about me losing weight and changing my life to such a healthy one. Everyone loves to hear me talk about sobriety and everyone loves to be motivated. However, when I begin to talk about chasing your dreams and staying committed to the process and never giving up, people get scared. It is hard for some people to understand how I can lose everything for my dreams and goals. I answer the same way every time because it never changes, in fact I only become more grounded in its conviction every time i say it, and that is… I lived my entire life as a drunk, depressed, seeking love from people who abused me, I never thought I was good enough, and truly believed for 25 years: this is all I deserve. I am sober now, there is absolutely NOTHING I cannot succeed at.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/QueenKim71
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenkimtheog/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/queenkimtheog
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/queenkimtheog/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/QueenKimtheOG
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/QueenKimtheOG
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This response was hard for me if I want to be completely honest, so I left it for last and decided to pour my heart into it and not care how vulnerable I am. Today is actually an anniversary for me as well, I celebrate 21 months of sobriety! I do believe my purpose is greater than my circumstances and for that very reason I keep it very real about my housing situation, I also believe that there are many who look at my content and see hope in my honesty. I do know there are many who have told me my most relatable quality is my unapologetic ability to be authentic on social media because I am told all the time to not stop keeping it real, I take that as a great compliment. Because that is where it all started, on social media. Although I was a drunk the first year of my popularity, when I did get sober, that too became a part of my authenticity. At first it seemed my creative force would be my no nonsense way of reading my own demographic of women for filth as well as being a very outspoken voice on racial issues in America. However sobriety changed me, clearly for the better so my content has evolved with me. Although I do still read my fellow white women for filth, I now talk about the decolonization process for white women and do my best to educate us to the real roles we have played throughout history, how we have been conditioned to believe in a specific way. I also lost over 100 lbs and changed the toxic lifestyle I was living one baby step at a time after getting sober. I speak about this daily on all my platforms. I live the life I preach about because well, first of all I am over 50 and the wear and tear of alcoholism is no small disaster. I also have a permanent injury which I have overcome to lead a very active life, hiking being my favorite activity of choice. I think by sharing my truth daily in real time with my followers has given them a sense of trust and that’s really what it’s about because you cannot help anyone if they do not trust you first. If anything has shifted my content into being more motivational, it is my walk with sobriety. I got sober on my own without the help of a program or a sponsor and I have been brutally honest about my journey. People who struggle with addiction reach out often because I am always gonna be brutally honest about how important sobriety is. As I have walked my path of sobriety, I have also embarked on a spiritual and healing journey, I do believe my ability to be transparent has led me to a place where followers reach out and ask for advice on life. That is basically where my story is at the present moment. Rebuilding and rebranding QueenKimtheOG and what’s great is I am doing it openly for everyone to see because one thing I believe is, If I can do it, so can you! That is honestly what road I seem to be going down as far as what I want people to take from my content. I was an alcoholic, I was unhealthy, toxic, codependent, I was stuck in poverty consciousness, but I knew if I could get sober then there was literally nothing I couldn’t accomplish. Even through homelessness I still believe this! No matter what you are facing you can get through it and become the best version of yourself because of it!