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EMBR with KimberlyWhy Being In-Between Is Braver Than You Think! 9/30/25There’s a special kind of courage needed for the in-between — when one season is ending and the next hasn’t fully begun. In today’s EMBR Morning, we pause with coffee to honor the threshold moments of life.Today’s mantra: I honor the courage it takes to be in between.The last day of September is such a moment — not fully in the past, not yet in the future. Life often feels the same: between jobs, between relationships, between what was and what’s not yet. It’s tempting to rush through, but the in-between i...
2025-09-3001 minEMBR with KimberlyStart Your Day With Courage And Coffee! 9/29/2025Reflection, courage, and growth aren’t just about gratitude — they’re about integration. In this EMBR Morning reflection, we pause with coffee to carry the lessons of September into a new season of transformation.Today’s mantra: I carry my courage forward.This month has been about choosing courage over comfort, taking aligned actions, speaking truth, and embodying growth. But courage isn’t meant to stay in one place — it builds into lasting transformation.✨ Today’s benefit: a reminder that true growth becomes transformation only when it’s carried forward into the next season.A...
2025-09-2901 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy You Should Celebrate Your Growth This Month 9/28/2025Gratitude, growth, courage, and alignment — in this EMBR Mornings reflection we pause with coffee to honor the progress you’ve made this month and practice gratitude for the growth you’ve embodied.Today’s mantra: I am grateful for the growth I’ve lived.We’ve practiced courage, chosen alignment over comfort, spoken truth, and embodied what we’ve learned. Growth has shown up not only in bold leaps, but in quiet consistency, daily habits, and subtle shifts no one else sees.Inspired by The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin H...
2025-09-2802 minEMBR with KimberlyCan Tiny Choices Change Your Life? 9/27/2025Growth doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it shows up in the smallest choices that no one notices — but those choices are shaping who you’re becoming.Today’s mantra: *Small habits reveal lasting growth.*We often think of growth as big milestones: the job change, the leap of faith, the breakthrough moment. But the truth is, real embodiment happens in the everyday — choosing patience when you’re tired, pausing to pray instead of rushing, holding a boundary even when it’s easier to give in.✨ Today’s benefit: a reminder that transformation is lived out in qu...
2025-09-2701 minEMBR with KimberlyTry This Morning Faith Routine With Your Coffee! 9/26/2025Faith in action, walking in truth, and living faith daily — in this EMBR Mornings reflection we pause with coffee to remember that faith grows stronger when it’s lived, not just learned.Today’s mantra: I walk in the truth I’ve received.Scripture reminds us to be not only hearers of the word, but doers also. Growth happens when we embody truth in how we live, love, and lead. Sometimes the wisdom we pray for has already been given in a past season. The invitation is to trust that truth and walk in it to...
2025-09-2601 minEMBR with KimberlyThe Mirror Test of Growth 9/25/2025Growth and transformation begin with reflection. In this EMBR Mornings episode, we pause with coffee to explore how your morning routine and daily choices reveal whether your life is truly in alignment.A mirror doesn’t lie — it reflects what’s already there. In today’s EMBR Morning, we hold up the mirror and ask: does your life reflect the growth you say you want?Today’s mantra: I measure growth by reflection, not illusion.It’s easy to believe we’re growing just because we’re reading books, listening to podcasts, or joining coaching...
2025-09-2501 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Blending Lessons Makes Life Better! 9/24/2025Think of your growth like a recipe: ingredients on their own don’t satisfy — it’s when they’re blended and baked together that they become something nourishing. In this EMBR Morning reflection, we pause with coffee to notice how the pieces of your growth can come together into something whole.Today’s mantra: Integration makes growth nourishing.A little purpose here, a little action there, a sprinkle of gratitude — they’re all valuable on their own. But true transformation comes when you mix them into your daily rhythms until they become a lived recipe for a meaningf...
2025-09-2401 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Do We Forget What We Already Know? 9/23/2025Sometimes the lesson you need isn’t new — it’s one you’ve already learned but haven’t fully lived. In this EMBR Morning reflection, we pause with our coffee to remember that growth isn’t always about adding more. It’s about practicing what’s already within you.Today’s mantra: *I live what I’ve learned.*From classic books like *The Science of Getting Rich* and *The One Thing* to modern podcasts, there’s a common thread:✨ A clear and definite purpose✨ Action — showing up and moving forward✨ Gratitude — the glue t...
2025-09-2302 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Chasing More Isn’t Always Better! 9/22/2025Growth, transformation, and alignment begin with daily habits. In this EMBR Mornings reflection, we pause with coffee to explore how true growth shows up in everyday life—not in perfection, but in presence.If you’ve ever felt caught chasing the next book, podcast, or breakthrough, today’s message will remind you: wisdom is found in integration.True transformation happens when truth moves from your head to your habits. It’s not about doing more, but about alignment—letting your daily actions reflect the truths you already know.✨ Today’s benefit: You’ll leave with a sim...
2025-09-2201 minEMBR with KimberlyTruth Speaks and the Fog Lifts 9/17/25Truth brings clarity, courage, and peace. In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly uses the image of foggy windows to show how holding back truth blurs our inner vision. We can still function, but everything feels distorted — until we speak honestly.When truth is voiced, even quietly, it’s like wiping the glass clean. Life sharpens. The haze lifts. We may not change the situation overnight, but we create the inner space to move forward with peace, clarity, and alignment.☕ EMBR Mornings is your daily pause — a few sacred minutes with coffee in hand — to reset, breat...
2025-09-1701 minEMBR with KimberlySilence Keeps You Stuck, Truth Sets You Free 9/16/25Truth in love, courage, and mindful mornings — that’s what today’s EMBR Mornings reflection is about. Kimberly shares a powerful story of someone trembling as they spoke their truth, and how honesty, even in fear, brought freedom and clarity.Silence may feel safe, but it keeps us stuck. Speaking truth — even quietly — is what opens the door to peace, connection, and alignment. If you’ve been putting off a conversation out of fear, this episode invites you to take one small, courageous step toward honesty today.☕ EMBR Mornings is your daily pause to sip coffee...
2025-09-1601 minEMBR with KimberlyHow Gratitude Multiplies Courage 9/14/25Start your day with peace, clarity, and courage. In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly invites you to pause with your coffee and look back — not at what didn’t happen, but at the aligned leaps you did take this week. Gratitude strengthens courage, turning even the smallest step into confidence for the journey ahead.We explore the truth that aligned leaps aren’t reckless; they are rooted in wisdom and trust. Whether your leap was saying yes, waiting patiently, or even choosing rest, each moment of alignment matters. Inspired by The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sull...
2025-09-1402 min
Honest EcommerceFinding Hidden Opportunities in Customer Behavior | Sam Shames | Embr LabsSam Shames is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Embr Labs, the company behind the Embr Wave: a wristband that heats and cools to help people manage comfort, sleep, stress, and hot flashes.What started as a project in an MIT prototyping competition turned into a 12-year journey building a hardware company from scratch. Along the way, Sam and his co-founders grew Embr Labs to 200,000+ units sold, $50M+ in lifetime revenue, and $66M in venture funding. A $100K Kickstarter goal became $630K in sales, powered by a loyal community they engaged long before launch....
2025-09-0123 minEMBR with KimberlyFeel Stuck? You’re Already Moving Forward! 8/31/25You are already in motion. As August closes, this EMBR Mornings reflection invites you to see the progress you’ve made in quiet ways — realignment, recommitment, and small daily shifts that prepared you for what’s next. September isn’t about starting from zero. It’s about stepping forward with courage, letting go of comfort, and living into the truest version of you.In this short, soul-centered episode, Kimberly guides you to honor the groundwork you’ve laid and embrace the courage September asks of you. Progress doesn’t have to be loud to be real. Transformation happens in the...
2025-08-3102 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Your Daily Routine Is Actually Magical! 8/30/25Your new rhythm is not small — it’s sacred. Every choice you make, every pause to breathe, every quiet promise kept to yourself is shaping the life you’re creating. Transformation isn’t always about grand gestures. More often, it’s born in the small repetitions: the coffee poured before sunrise, the prayer whispered before the day begins, the breath that anchors you in presence instead of rush.In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly reminds us that the rhythms we build are holy ground — scaffolding that holds up the life we’re becoming. Guard those rhythms like treasure, b...
2025-08-3001 minEMBR with KimberlyAre You Wasting Energy On The Wrong Things? 8/29/25Every day, the world hands you a hundred things to care about. Most feel urgent, but very few actually matter. The truth? Distraction steals depth. And depth is where your life bears fruit.In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares how learning to say no — to opportunities, noise, and endless requests — created space to say yes to what truly matters. Focus doesn’t just make you more effective. It gives you your life back.Like a runner keeping her eyes on the finish line, every glance at the crowd is energy lost. The same is true...
2025-08-2901 minEMBR with KimberlyThe Secret Strength of Not Quitting! 8/28/25In a culture that glorifies reinvention, it’s easy to think growth always requires change. But what if your deepest evolution comes from staying rooted? 🌱Today’s EMBR Mornings reflection is an invitation to see stability not as stagnation, but as strategy. Like a tree in the storm, you grow stronger by sending your roots deeper — in your marriage, your calling, your community, or your faith.Growth doesn’t always mean leaving. Sometimes the bravest move is to stay.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are —...
2025-08-2801 minEMBR with KimberlyCan You Really Change Who You Are? 8/27/25You don’t have to stay the same. Evolution is not rejection — it’s an honoring of who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares why growth isn’t betrayal but evidence that you’re alive.Looking back at old versions of ourselves can stir up regret, but what if we chose gratitude instead? Every past version planted seeds that brought you here. Today’s invitation is to release shame around your shift and embrace the permission to grow.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women retu...
2025-08-2701 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Quiet Work Matters More Than You Think. 8/26/25True power isn’t always loud. It’s in the quiet work no one sees — following through on promises you make to yourself, living your values when no one’s watching, and embodying truth in every space you enter.In today’s EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares why integration — aligning who you are in private with who you are in public — is legacy work. The small choices, like speaking truth with kindness or walking away from what doesn’t align, create a ripple far greater than applause or recognition.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to he...
2025-08-2601 minEMBR with KimberlyThe Secret to Sticking With Hard Things! 8/25/25You don’t rise to the level of your goals — you fall to the level of your systems.In this EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares how training for a marathon has revealed a deeper truth: motivation may spark the vision, but consistency and systems carry you to the finish line. From laying out her running shoes the night before to following a structured plan, she shows how small, steady rhythms build identity, strength, and momentum.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are — grounded, beloved, and on purpos...
2025-08-2502 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Does Life Get Better When You Align? 8/24/25Life doesn’t have to feel so hard. When you stop forcing and start aligning with what’s truly meant for you, clarity returns — and with it, a sense of ease and flow.In this EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares how chasing “shiny object” paths and wearing avatars that didn’t fit left her joyless — and how letting go opened the door for her real path to find her. This isn’t about an easier life, but a clearer one. And clarity creates flow.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they trul...
2025-08-2401 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Being Yourself Is Your Superpower! 8/23/25You don’t have to be perfect to make an impact. In fact, your authenticity is what will touch hearts and change lives.In this EMBR Mornings reflection, Kimberly shares how letting go of the polished performance and showing up as your real, human self creates deeper connection and greater influence. When you stop striving for perfection, you open the door to presence, grace, and genuine impact.EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are — grounded, beloved, and on purpose. Each episode is just a few minutes to s...
2025-08-2301 min
Outside the Frame: A Podcast for Wedding Pros to Be Better Humans in Business + LifeOn Divorce + Self-Discovery with Elizabeth Mae of Embr FilmsIn this episode, we invited Elizabeth (Liz) Mae of Embr Films to come on the show and share her story. We talked about: her experience going through a divorce while working in the wedding industrythe in-depth rebranding process for her videography companydealing with mental health challenges while still working to make your couples happyself-reflection and self-discoverybeing a part of the LGBTQ+ community + how other wedding pros can use more inclusive language ...and more!
2025-08-1851 min
WHY DESIGN?From Prototype to 200k Products: The Embr Labs Story with Sam Shames“What happened was just the market need was so strong… it kept pulling us forward.” — Sam Shames In this episode, Chris sits down with Sam Shames — materials engineer, MIT grad, and co-founder of Ember Labs, the company behind the Ember Wave: a wearable that helps people regulate temperature and reclaim comfort on their terms. Over the last 12 years, Sam has led Ember from a student side project to a real business, launching two hardware generations, shipping over 200,000 units, and recently pivoting to a subscription model that’s rare in consumer wearables. We talk produ...
2025-08-0645 minEMBR with KimberlyWelcome to EMBR Mornings. 8/1/25Realign and recommit, rhythm over rush, intentional energy. In this EMBR Mornings preview, we kick off August’s theme—Examine, Move, Balance & Recommit—so you can return to clarity, calm, and your own voice without adding another to-do.Today’s benefit: you’ll discover how tuning into your personal rhythm—rather than racing through routines—restores integrity and fuels sustainable focus for the season ahead.✨ EMBR Mornings is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are—grounded, beloved, and on purpose. Each five-minute episode offers a sacred pause to sip your coffee, breat...
2025-08-0102 minEMBR with KimberlyFeeling Rushed? Here’s Why You Can Pause! 7/22/25**Say yes to rest again, graceful rhythms, pause practice.** In this EMBR Mornings reflection, learn why honoring **rest**—even as life picks up—brings deeper **wisdom** and sustainable **rhythm**, so you can return to softness without guilt.Today’s benefit: you’ll discover how pausing amid motion reduces burnout, renews clarity, and nurtures growth—no permission needed.✨ **EMBR Mornings** is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are—grounded, beloved, and on purpose. Each episode is a sacred pause to sip your coffee, breathe with intention, and remember the ember within.
2025-07-2801 minEMBR with KimberlyWhy Your Body Is the Secret to Calm! 7/19/25**Return to your body, presence in motion, breath-guided practice.** In this EMBR Mornings reflection, learn how surrendering into your physical rhythm—feet on the ground, spine stretching, breath guiding—reopens access to **clarity and peace** without ever leaving your day.Today’s benefit: you’ll discover how inhabiting your body more fully reduces stress, deepens your connection to God, and roots you in the **sacred now**—all while moving through life’s flow.✨ **EMBR Mornings** is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are—grounded, beloved, and on purpose. Each episode offers a...
2025-07-2801 minEMBR with KimberlyDo One Brave Thing | Small Courage, Big Impact 7/20/25**Do one brave thing, small courage counts, presence practice.** In this EMBR Mornings reflection, learn how a quiet act of courage—sending that email, speaking a boundary, whispering a “yes”—can unlock clarity and move you closer to your dreams.Today’s benefit: you’ll discover how leaning into **small courage** guided by presence reduces fear, deepens authenticity, and sets the stage for bigger breakthroughs—no grand gestures required.✨ **EMBR Mornings** is a daily soul-centered reflection to help women return to who they truly are—grounded, beloved, and on purpose. Each episode offers a sacred pause to sip...
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