Transformational Coaching Meets Boutique Resorts: Kim Herrlein’s Multifaceted Success Blueprint
My guest today is Kim Herrlein. Kim Herrlein is a visionary entrepreneur, transformational coach, and celebrated author passionate about connecting the dots between creativity, resilience, and empowerment. A native New Yorker who has called the West Coast home for 25 years, Kim's deep love for design, entrepreneurship, transformation, and community has profoundly shaped her professional journey in hospitality and growth mindset training. As the founder of Purveyors of Leisure, Kim manages a portfolio of exceptional vacation rentals and boutique hotels, including her latest venture, The Fainting Couch in Northern California. Her expertise extends to coaching women through her practice, Insight Seeker Coaching, where she helps clients break patterns, embrace their potential, and lead empowered lives through Clarity Catalyst and Creative Action Journey methodologies. In this episode we discuss transformational coaching, grief and loss, boutique hotels, luxury leisure brands, vacation rentals and women's masterminds.
Website - https://www.kimherrlein.com/
IG - https://www.instagram.com/kim_insightseeker/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimherrlein/
Kim's Books - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kim-Herrlein/author/B0B1BSDVHW?
In this episode you will learn:
1 Why choosing to love again and again is the most powerful transformation, even after devastating loss (losing her mother at 21, divorce, her ex-husband's suicide), Kim chose love over bitterness, and that choice changed everything about how she shows up in the world.
2 How to trust your instincts and make choices with intention, instead of getting placed into roles or repeating patterns unconsciously, Kim learned to integrate what she knew intellectually into her body, making choices that honored herself first rather than obligation.
3 The power of energy work and connecting mind, body, and spirit, while therapy helped, it was energy healing that shifted something fundamental inside her, opening her eyes to transformation beyond just intellectual understanding and connecting her to the spiritual side she needed to heal.
“I was fascinated by psychology and communication and that's where I spent my academic years pursuing. " - 00:03:55
“I came up with the concept of the golden thread spiral and in order for people to change, I believe they need to be aware, accept, accountable, aligned actions, and acknowledge." - 00:25:01
"I do think things like the all women mastermind is an important one and things like I have taught men in my courses before and I prefer teaching women.” - 00:53:27
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