In this episode, I'm chatting with Kim Doyal. She runs Kim Doyal, The WordPress Chick podcast, and several other internet businesses.

We're talking about Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell. It's a story Kim shared with me about finding gems right in your own backyard. Many of us have been looking for success, thinking the grass is always greener elsewhere. Is there an opportunity right in front of you that you have not seen? Something you're good at that you are not leveraging? That is the basis of the story and why we sometimes see the success of others as a goal to pursue, when there might be diamonds buried in our own backyard.

Let's get started.

Meet Kim Doyal
Kim Doyal runs the W Chick – podcaster, is a coach, WordPress wizard, proud Genesis junkie and co-founder of the #FtheHustle movement.

According to Kim, when you commit to fully showing up as YOU, everything shifts in your business.

That advice might sound simple, but it took me almost 5 years as an entrepreneur to truly understand the power and the potential of fully showing up as ME.

Show Notes
Kim's Website: The WP Chick
Kim's Twitter link: Kim Doyal
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Jackie:
Hey everybody it's Jackie to with another episode or rethink that FM and I have my guest today, Kim Doyal. Kim hi how are you?


Kim:
I'm fabulous Jackie thank you for having me here. I'm super excited.


Jackie:
Thanks for joining me today. You’ve picked a really interesting topic to discuss, it’s Acres of Diamonds. And I’m going to put that out there as something to think about as we go through the podcast. But before we get started, can you tell
folks who you are and what you do?


Kim:
Absolutely. My...it is so funny you would think I'd have like this great elevator speech but like most online entrepreneurs things evolve and continue to evolve. So my primary business site is the Wordpress chick and it's TheWPChick.com. And you know it's like I've been doing this gosh I'm getting close to nine years now and really you know I have to say that I fell into the Wordpress sites. I'm not a developer I'm not a coder so I'd say I'm more of a customized. But I have a team that does development and coding now but I just fell in love with the platform. It was in 2008. I just was kind of on a mission to find something else I could do from home. I lost my husband in a car accident in 2003 and at the time I was working full time in retail management and anybody who's ever worked anything like it's just there's no quality of life. And so you know my kids were little they were six and two when my husband passed away and so it just you know we all have our own stories our own tragedies and you go through that and you just know that there's something else there's another way to do this there's a better way to live my life. And so I had a little bit of a cushion in 2008 and I had come across internet marketing I had gone to this real estate wealth Expo. So this was clear pre 2008 right, 2006 maybe.

And listening to all this stuff and Tony Robbins was speaking in Robert Kiyosaki and then there were these little you know breakout sessions and this guy was talking about internet marketing and how you was making you know $8000 - $9000 a month selling e-books. And I was like Wow. And I had also at the time I was a big.