Cancer Survivor’s Perspective on Mental Health: “What I’ve learned since cancer, actually, is how I feel is really important…I really like is calm and peace and being chill and finding things funny and just being myself and not worrying about all of it.” — Kim Beam

Kimberly Beam has two master’s degrees, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and a Masters in Social Work. She has authored a book titled “What the Doctors Don’t Tell You: One Woman’s Journey through Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.”

Previously, Kimberly worked as an English teacher for 12 years, specializing in middle and high school English with a focus on creative writing.

She is a qualified mindfulness instructor who particularly enjoys silent retreats. Although she holds certifications as a tarot card reader, reiki master, and breath work instructor, she does not actively utilize these skills. Instead, Kimberly relies on her intuition in her daily life.

Currently, she is taking classes to become a certified intuition instructor and plans to offer classes in the fall, covering topics such as intuition, automatic writing, and a book club. Inspired by her experience during a five-week silent retreat, she founded “Social Work Your Life” to help individuals discover their path to happiness.

Kimberly is currently single and also offers intuitive life coaching, as well as courses on creating one’s dream future career and love relationship through the Social Work Your Life website.

Key Moments

[00:04:39] Hilarious Instagram account cheers you up.

[00:08:46] Hospital worker funds entrepreneurial side gig using dot phrases.

[00:10:13] Entrepreneurship, book club, intuition, scientific proof, atoms.

[00:14:11] Talk, Instagram Live, reels, ramble.

[00:17:11] Hospital drama: Woman seeks social worker assistance from the sparkle wearing social worker.

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Seth [00:00:00]:

Entrepreneurs Enigma is a podcast for the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, the wins and the fails that we all face being entrepreneurs. How we learn from adversity. Every week, I talk to a different entrepreneur with a story to tell. I’m Seth Goldstein. Come with me on the journey. This is Entrepreneurs Enigma. Let’s get started. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another edition of the Entrepreneurs and Digma podcast. I am, as always, your host, Seth. The host with the most. Today I have the one, the only, quite literally, kimberly Beam. Kimbo Beam. Kim Beam. Sparkleys. I also call her Gonzo from time to time. She’s my cousin, so I’m allowed to do that. Kim is a former recovering. I say recovering because she taught adolescence and that you have to recover from that. She’s an author. She is a mindfulness instructor. Oh, she’s incredible. Let me bring her in. Hey, Kim. How’s it going?

Kim [00:01:13]:

Good, Seth. How are you? It’s so good to see you.

Seth [00:01:15]:

It’s so much fun. Yeah, exactly. And Kim’s actually not too far from me. She’s an hour away from me. You’re on the main line of Philly. I’m up in the boonies up in north of you’re.

Kim [00:01:26]:

You’re country?

Seth [00:01:28]:

I’m country. About a mile out of my house. It’s very country up.

Kim [00:01:38]:

I live on traffic.

Seth [00:01:39]:

You live on traffic? Montgomery Avenue.

Kim [00:01:42]:

Yeah, I live on Montgomery. Yeah, I live on traffic.

Seth [00:01:45]:

Literally, if anyone is in Philadelphia area, the Main Line is known for.

Kim [00:01:51]:

Got a lot of lights.

Seth [00:01:53]:

A lot of lights, a lot of traffic. Very populated. Fun area, though. So anyhow, Kim not only being my cousin, which is her claim to fame now I’m joking.

Kim [00:02:03]:

The only thing I do that’s all.

Seth [00:02:06]:

She does, is it was a full time job keeping up with me, right? No, but she wrote a book recently. It was recently, right?

Kim [00:02:14]:

16 2016. It published.

Seth [00:02:17]:

What happened? Oh, yeah, we had the pandemic.

Kim [00:02:19]:

We had the pandemic.

Seth [00:02:21]:

Kind of morphs everything into wackiness, time wise. She published a book in 2016 about her experience with non. What was it? Hodgkins or not? I cannot keep them.

Kim [00:02:31]:

It was hodgkins. Hodgkins is the one you want to roll. If you ever have to roll cancer, you want to roll hodgkins.

Seth [00:02:35]:

So you lucked out.

Kim [00:02:39]:

Exactly. I lucked out. I lucked out.

Seth [00:02:42]:

Oh, my God. So she wrote about a book. Wrote a battle book. She wrote a book. I can’t Speak today about what the doctors don’t tell you about going through cancer. Besides that it sucks. I mean, they will tell you that it sucks. They will not hide the fact that it sucks because it sucks. I saw firsthand how Kim was dealing with it, and Kim’s kick ass. Can I just say that through it was she always had, like, a smile on her face, except for when she was sleeping there’s a lot or vomiting or vomiting or feeling sick. It was awful.

Kim [00:03:13]:

Awful.

Seth [00:03:13]:

Watch you go through it I’m sure going through it yourself was even worse. So you wrote a book on it, and then through it all, you came out the other side. Sparkly, smiley.

Kim [00:03:23]:

I have hair now. The hair, it grew back. They say it grows back thicker and curlier.

Seth [00:03:28]:

Oh, my God.

Kim [00:03:28]:

I don’t know about the thicker part. It’s definitely thinner, but it’s definitely for.

Seth [00:03:33]:

You if you’re watching the video, which you’re probably not, but if you’re watching the video and this is a clip Kim used to have. I’m talking girls don’t usually have ju froze. And Kim didn’t have a Ju fro, but she had like, I mean, the biggest, brown, gorgeous, curly hair. But I’m talking about she had enough hair for, like, three people.

Kim [00:03:53]:

Yeah, I now have enough hair for one person.

Seth [00:03:56]:

That’s where we are thin. So when she says her hair is thin, it’s not thin. It’s normal. It’s true, though, because it does not look thin at all. This is thin. This is non existent point at my head right now, which is bald. So go ahead. I’m rocking Grandpa’s hair.

Kim [00:04:17]:

Well, you know what Grandpa’s best friend Al used to say he was bald with cue ball. You know that mug he had when we were little? It said, bald men do not waste testosterone growing hair.

Seth [00:04:29]:

I love it. I love it.

Kim [00:04:31]:

You have more testosterone if you lose your hair and you’re like, hey, I’ll take the testosterone over the hair.

Seth [00:04:36]:

Exactly. There you go.

Kim [00:04:37]:

Except I won’t. I’ll take the estrogen.

Seth [00:04:39]:

There you go. There you go. So you are the proprietor of Social Work Your Life, which you’ve got to check out the Instagram. Social work. Your life on Instagram is hilarious. Awesome. Yes, I’m biased, and I’m not going to deny that I’m biased, because she’s my cousin and I love her. I’ve known her my whole life. Yada, yada, yada. But Kim is a ray of sunshine, and it’s very intuitive. It’s very helpful. Honestly, if you feel down in the dumps, just go to her feet. She’ll cheer you up. It’s hilarious. She will just cheer you up. And yeah. Yes, I’m biased. I know I’m biased, but I’m enjoying it. And you are also doing Social Work Your Life, so you have courses now.

Kim [00:05:23]:

I do. Okay. So I’ll do a plug for this.

Seth [00:05:27]:

Do a plug, absolutely.

Kim [00:05:28]:

I manifested $100,000. Exactly. My student loans got forgiven, and I had received a letter that said they wouldn’t be forgiven.

Seth [00:05:39]:

Psych.

Kim [00:05:41]:

And then in January, they were like, no, actually, we’re forgiving your student loans. So I’m giving manifesting through Meditation away for the first $10,000 to give back to the fact that the universe gave to me. So if you want to know how I did it, manifesting through meditation for the first, like, 250 people is free.

Seth [00:05:59]:

I love it.

Kim [00:06:00]:

And then there’s a course there on how to create your dream future career. What do you really want to be doing? How do you know what you really want to be doing? How do you get over family training? How do you get over your own stuff? Find what you’re supposed to be doing.

Seth [00:06:13]:

Amen.

Kim [00:06:15]:

And then there’s a course there on finding your love relationship, which, between you and me, Seth, being completely you on a podcast of this podcast, because it’s you, though I’ll be completely candid, it’s sort of ironic that I made the love relationship course, but it’s all the stuff I’m doing. It’s all the stuff I’m doing naturally, just the same way that I would be doing it to make money, the way that I’m bringing in the guy. Right. I’m just teaching you what I’m doing for myself, even to help bring in the person.

Seth [00:06:44]:

That guy has to be pretty damn special. Otherwise he has to mess with me.

Kim [00:06:49]:

Well, yeah, well, he has to mess with me, too. Have you met me? I’m a little intense.

Seth [00:06:56]:

You’re quirky, but in a good way. She doesn’t have a TV, folks, or a microwave. All right, that’s weird. That’s pushing. All right, we got to commit her now. No microwave.

Kim [00:07:07]:

If you have a suicidal ideation or homicidal ideation and not having a TV and not having a microwave are not committable offenses.

Seth [00:07:13]:

Not committable offenses. She knows because guess what? She has a master’s in social work.

Kim [00:07:18]:

Exactly.

Seth [00:07:20]:

She knows that for a fact.

Kim [00:07:21]:

She’s still and I’ve done it, and I’ve committed people. Yeah.

Seth [00:07:26]:

And it wasn’t because they didn’t have a TV or a microwave. We’re going to take a quick break here from our sponsors and get right back to the show.

Kim [00:07:32]:

No, nobody. I never committed anybody because I did not have a TV or a microwave.

Seth [00:07:37]:

Maybe other things around that. Maybe it’s a sign for something. No, I’m joking.

Kim [00:07:41]:

It could be, but I can tell you at this moment I don’t have any si or hi.

Seth [00:07:45]:

What’s good? So done the well, I want to say corporate. You’ve done the teaching of adolescence.

Kim [00:07:54]:

I taught adolescents.

Seth [00:07:55]:

God.

Kim [00:07:56]:

I’ve done therapy in middle school. I’ve done therapy with adults. I’ve done therapy to victims.

Seth [00:08:01]:

I’ve done a lot.

Kim [00:08:02]:

I’m now taking myself out of therapy world. I’ve also done therapy in the community, taking myself out of therapy world and putting myself in the life coach world and bringing together my intuition and my ability to know stuff that I don’t always know how I know it, but I know it.

Seth [00:08:16]:

Yeah.

Kim [00:08:16]:

And bringing that together with life coaching. And then how do I help people create lives they love?

Seth [00:08:23]:

I love it. I love it, love it, love it, love it. So what do you love about being an entrepreneur? What do you love? Being an entrepreneur? That’s a hard word. It’s French. Go figure. Entrepreneur. It’s the name of my podcast. I can’t spell entrepreneur half the time. I have a keystroke that does it for me. I type it EE space and it goes entrepreneurs enigma for me automatically never spell entrepreneurs.

Kim [00:08:46]:

I work at a hospital day job, my day job, so that I can fund my entrepreneurial side hustle. My side hustle is I work at a hospital, and there’s a thing called a dot phrase. So when you go to type something and you can make your own dot phrases in Epic, it’s like one of the biggest online electronical Medicare. So, like, if you type I, for me, I have made a dot phrase that’s period, no needs on. And then as I type it, it just shows up, and I hit enter, and then it spills out the whole sentence that I wanted to say.

Seth [00:09:19]:

Oh, that’s brilliant. I love that. I use active words.

Kim [00:09:23]:

You can dot phrase pretty much anything you want.

Seth [00:09:27]:

Like Kimberly Beam, because it’s a long name.

Kim [00:09:30]:

Well, that’s why we go by Kim. We go by Kim Beam, even though it sounds like an alcohol.

Seth [00:09:34]:

Oh, right. I’ve known you my whole life, I’ve never talked about Kim Beam.

Kim [00:09:39]:

When people say, what’s your last name? I’ll say I’m moonbeam. Sunbeam laser beam. Kim beam. And then I’ll say Jim Beam, even though I really don’t drink. So that also you can probably want to commit me for that, too. Right?

Seth [00:09:49]:

Well, give her a beer then. Commit her, because hilarious, with one beer, she’s swinging from the chandeliers. No, she gets bridge, gets more giggly.

Kim [00:09:59]:

I do. I get giggly.

Seth [00:10:00]:

She gets giggly. And a little off stable. A little.

Kim [00:10:05]:

Yeah, literally. Tipsy.

Seth [00:10:09]:

Tipsy. She tips. It’s pretty funny.

Kim [00:10:13]:

To answer your question about what? About being an entrepreneur. I love that I think it and I can create it them. I’m like, you know what I think I want to do? And then I’m just doing it. So in the fall, I’m going to be offering a book club. In the fall, I’m going to be offering how to hear your own intuition. So if you’re like, what does that even mean? How do you know stuff without knowing it? And there’s scientific proof for it that I can share with you at that time. They can do things with atoms that you would not believe.

Seth [00:10:47]:

And that’s like, we’re not talking about the guy, Adam. We’re talking about atoms.

Kim [00:10:51]:

Atoms. A-T-O-M-S. That like if you split the little things inside the atom and put them in two different states, if you even think about touching one of them, the other one will vibrate. Even if you just think about touching it, the other one will vibrate in another state.

Seth [00:11:06]:

That’s wild.

Kim [00:11:07]:

It’s because we’re all in the same field. And if my energy field is touching your energy field, you’re giving me the opportunity to read your energy field. And if I know how to read your energy field, then I can tell you what you need to know.

Seth [00:11:16]:

That’s wild.

Kim [00:11:18]:

It is wild. So using that information from the energy field and from source or whatever, you want to call the universe. If you’re able to know how to read all of that, then I can use all of that to help you find your path.

Seth [00:11:34]:

I love that.

Kim [00:11:35]:

Yeah.

Seth [00:11:35]:

Check out social. Work your life.

Kim [00:11:38]:

Exactly. I’m going to teach people how to do that for themselves as well. There’s that course coming up in the fall. And there’s another one. Oh, I’m going to teach people how to hear source. If you want to know how to hear source for yourself, I’m going to do an automatic writing course on how to hear source.

Seth [00:11:52]:

That’s awesome. So what keeps you up at night, then? On the flip side, being entrepreneur.

Kim [00:11:58]:

Oh, I was going to be like, nothing keeps me up. I sleep really well. Thanks. It’s the exact same answer, actually. Am I allowed to drop an F bomb here?

Seth [00:12:08]:

You can drop as many F bombs as you want. I actually find it quite hilarious. Hello.

Kim [00:12:11]:

Okay, good. I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. Maybe people do because I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. Really? Honestly, just because I dream it up, is this something people want? Right. Just because I have the idea and I’m like, oh, I think this is a really good idea, doesn’t mean it actually is.

Seth [00:12:29]:

You got to try stuff.

Kim [00:12:30]:

Exactly. You got to try it. My mom, my mom, she says, Mud at the wall. You throw mud at the wall and you find out what sticks. For me, you throw shit at the wall.

Seth [00:12:45]:

Literally, you throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. But I think the term is if.

Kim [00:12:51]:

It’S not cooked, it doesn’t stick.

Seth [00:12:52]:

No, it falls and makes a mess.

Kim [00:12:54]:

Yeah, exactly.

Seth [00:12:55]:

Those are fun. So here’s the big question. What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

Kim [00:13:02]:

So I’m going to go a little woo on you.

Seth [00:13:04]:

Go woo. I like, woo.

Kim [00:13:05]:

Okay. So for me, what I’ve learned since cancer, actually, is how I feel is really important. And so if I’m feeling low and sad and mopey and nothing’s going to work out, I don’t want to live in that because that’s gross. And the worry I used to be in constantly, I was anxiety. High, buzzing anxiety all the time. And so I’ve learned that I really like what I really like is calm and peace and being chill and finding things funny and just being myself and not worrying about all of it. Just sitting in that sense of confidence.

Seth [00:13:49]:

Yes.

Kim [00:13:50]:

And so I have come to a place where I carry that with me, that if I find that I’m no longer in that place of calm, peaceful confidence, that I then flip it around, I’m like, what’s making me off? Why do I feel off? Why do I feel like I’m not grounded in myself?

Seth [00:14:08]:

Then you go on Instagram Live and.

Kim [00:14:11]:

Talk about it, and then I go on Instagram Live and talk about it. Yeah, there’s a lot of lives. So I recently stepped out of the lives, and I’m into some reels. For the last week or so, I’ve been doing a lot of reels, but there’s a lot of lives back there, so if you want to watch me ramble for about 20 minutes, go for it.

Seth [00:14:28]:

And they’re fun. She talks about all kinds of things I do about her non dairy, non gluten recipes. She talks about how that’s helped her. What else have you gone on there?

Kim [00:14:40]:

Did I ever tell you that I feel more grounded in my bones and I feel hollow in my core? Like, my core feels hollow. Well, do you like bloated?

Seth [00:14:49]:

I don’t like to do opposite, because sometimes hollow can have other connotations.

Kim [00:14:54]:

I feel, like, open in my intestinal belly area, and I feel solid in my bones.

Seth [00:15:01]:

That’s good. You need that. You need that.

Kim [00:15:04]:

I like it.

Seth [00:15:05]:

And then one of the best things about her lives is you can see her in Ireland screaming at a car that is too big for its Britches.

Kim [00:15:11]:

That car Cammie. And you get to see I went with friend Cammie. She’s driving the car all the time, and I’m in the passenger seat. Know, me and the car, we named Molly McGee because she had red hair. Attitude.

Seth [00:15:26]:

Oh, she did she ever literally, this car was screaming Cammy when she tried to shift.

Kim [00:15:33]:

Yes.

Seth [00:15:33]:

Now you kind of have to shift to move the car.

Kim [00:15:36]:

They would tell you if you didn’t have your hands at ten and two. So she would have to take her hand off of I guess that’s ten in order to shift, right.

Seth [00:15:46]:

Reversed and you’re reversed.

Kim [00:15:48]:

Yeah. So she’s not taking it off of two. She’s taking it off of ten to reverse or to do whatever. And so she would go to shift, and it would yell at her for taking her hand off of ten.

Seth [00:15:57]:

That’s hilarious. Go figure. These cars are too good for their safe, but they’re obnoxious at the same time.

Kim [00:16:04]:

Well, there was a chip bag in the middle of the road, and the car decided it was something terrible. And on the automatic brakes on us, and I almost ate the dashboard. I was, like, flying forward, and Tammy’s like, what’s going on?

Seth [00:16:15]:

He went out there’s a chip bag, you idiot.

Kim [00:16:18]:

Yeah, well, in Ireland, it would have been a crisp bag, because they call their potato chips crisps.

Seth [00:16:24]:

Crisps. Very proper. Very proper. So where can people find you online, Kim?

Kim [00:16:30]:

Where’s your watering holeworkyourlife.com? And they can get the free course that I’ll have out there, or they can sign up for one on one sessions with me.

Seth [00:16:39]:

Yes, you should.

Kim [00:16:40]:

It’s should. Or they can find me on Instagram@socialworkyourlife.com.

Seth [00:16:47]:

No, this is workyourlife. No, no, you’re right.

Kim [00:16:50]:

It’s just at social work, your life.

Seth [00:16:51]:

At that point, at that point, socialworkyourlife.com is where you go to all the courses and book Time with Kim social work. Your life at Instagram is where you want to go. And then you can see Kim’s fun personality, which is sparkly, literally sparkly, too, because she wears yeah, she’s a sparkly person.

Kim [00:17:11]:

I’m going to tell you a quick story. I was in the hospital yesterday, and there was a woman down the hall who was yelling that she wanted to see the social worker. And they were like, Social worker? And so they were like, okay, we’ll send the social worker in to see you. And then I heard the nurse yell, yeah, she wears a lot of eye makeup. I was like, Is that a bad thing? That makes it sound like it’s a bad thing.

Seth [00:17:30]:

No, it’s you. It’s totally Kim. It’s your brand. Sparkles.

Kim [00:17:35]:

It is. Like, there was a person wearing a dress, a very, like, sequiny dress. I was like, I really like that dress. And the person I was with was like, you really do like sparkle. And I’m like, the whole dress is sequins. It makes me so happy.

Seth [00:17:48]:

Yeah. Your niece’s misfit you wore the sparkliest boots I’ve ever seen in my like.

Kim [00:17:54]:

They’Re like and they’re very uncomfortable. Well, they did have to come off at the end of the night. They were like Dorothy shoes, only purple boots.

Seth [00:18:04]:

They were awesome.

Kim [00:18:05]:

I really love them. They made me so happy.

Seth [00:18:08]:

Exactly. So on that note yes, we will see everyone next time.

Kim [00:18:14]:

Thanks for having me.

Seth [00:18:15]:

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