Truth and Tonic

12/03/2023

You may know my personal journey (7 years of car accident, stroke, separation, surviving, reviving!). You may not know for the past 6 years I have been working with a client honing my expertise in SALES and customer engagement. Girl, I'm excellent at getting results. And I'm also excellent at teaching others too. I'm owning it. There it is!

I also have an impeccable reputation for action-oriented coaching and teaching other women in business. I've been doing it now for 17 years! With a wee personal break.

I'm KNOWN for cutting through bu****it and getting to the roots and weeds with you so you can clear the muck and get to the good work and good results FAST.

And, I'm opening my doors to do this work together for the first time in a long time! I CANNOT WAIT to dig in with you again.

If you're yearning for transformation in your business life, but personal mucky muck is your nemesis, this is also where I can help you shine. Transformation for women in business is ALWAYS personal. I've always accidentally approached business lessons with personal reflections for you... because it is natural. Now, we own it.

In 2024, as midlife women, we OWN IT. We don't have to live in compartmentalized boxes. WE are beautifully complex, smart, vibrant beings and we are a whole. Not sum of our parts. We are simply whole.

And your personal brand, your story, your legacy, your success will thrive when you focus on your business and life together.

Are you ready?? I am calm, empathetic, action-oriented, crystal clear and laser focused on getting to change fast. I have tools, tips, techniques and help you believe through action! Sound like what you need?

The work starts in 2024. But commitment starts now & so does some 2023 pre-work and fun. DM me. Officially opening doors later this week but space is limited and I can chat with you NOW.

Grit, Growth, Good Vibes!

Kim xo

12/01/2023

I have been a busy bee. 2023 has been a year unlike any other! I have faced the lowest of lowest, the biggest of changes, and found my life completely transformed. And so am I.

Watch this video for some inspo for you. I've had a revival and I want you to have one too and come along for the ride with me!

You will also get to know me. Or get to know more about me lately if you've known me for awhile.

Sharing is fu***ng vulnerable. We all know this. But for me, not sharing is suffocating. And I want you to learn to share too.

There is so much ahead for me... for us... and I want us to do it together! Between Truth & Tonic, GenXo Community and my new art studio, I'm having fun. Professionally and personally my trajectory is bright. Life is hard. But that's okay. Growth comes in the hard parts. Bring it on!

Please visit TRUTHANDTONIC.COM. Website is new -- and in development but lots to explore. And for the love of all that is sacred in pro comms, if it's broken or spelled wrong please DM me.

This is the era of progress not perfection!

Love you. Kim

12/01/2023

Do something for YOU this month! Before you get run ragged and feel depleted, get ahead of it. There is still a whole month of 2023 left to do a bit of a reset and re-evaluation of what you need to leave behind this year... so you can be prepared for 2024 with the best foundation for YOU!

This fun little bingo card will help nudge you along as a reminder.

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09/05/2023

Hello dear friends! It has been a long time. Let me tell you briefly why! On New Years Day of 2021 I suffered a stroke. And since then I have also ended my 21 year marriage. I have recovered from both, found new passions in painting and mingling as a single and finishing raising my wonderful daughters. I have continued to work as a business growth strategist. And life is good right now. Really good!

But it took a journey to get to really good. A hard journey. One where I didn't know if I would make it. But on the other side, my life is completely different and so fkg... good. And I want this level of GOOD for EVERY ambitious GenX woman. So I'm back. I've created a new workshop. And I want you to come!

A taste of what I have learned and why this matters:

I have spent the last 30 years "hustling" for everyone else while also trying to "do it all" for me. ALL AT ONCE. And in that time, I never fully got where I wanted to be in my work, my passions, and my relationships.

Why did I keep doing trying to "hustle" for so long when it wasn't working?

Because that is all I knew. Society told GenX women we could "be anything" and we went ahead and "did everything". All at once. We hustle. Until we cannot. For me, I was constantly excited about possibility but also deeply disappointed for feeling stuck on a treadmill that didn't feel right for me.

But life has a way of tapping your shoulder – or in my case hitting me like a truck a few times – to let you know what you are doing, the way you are doing it, is not working!

I finally listened! I have broken completely free of hustle culture and:
• claimed my time
• reclaimed my life
• redefined success

And now, I'm sharing how you can also quit the hustle culture and leverage your life sh*t into success on your own terms.

And girl, your success and your terms are yours... just yours. It takes a lot of unlearning and relearning to reclaim anything at midlife. Especially knowing you have obligations and responsibilities that infer you cannot. You can! And, I'd love to show you how to get started!

I have spent the past 30 years helping corporate and tech-focused service businesses grow and find the successes they desire. I also have spent the last 20 years raising toddlers to teens full-time while expanding my business leadership to help women find success in spite of, and because of, their real life limitations. Raw and real.

For the past 5 years, I have expanded my personal knowledge to include some brain health, body and mind strategies – that literally saved my own life. I launched a new GenX community. And, I have now curated and incorporated my best business advice with really gritty life skills to specifically guide ambitious GenX women to find a better way, once and for all.

Ambitious midlife women, you are NEEDED.

The world needs to know your talents, ideas, knowledge and experiences. And you need a way to share it without the struggle, tropes, expectations and desires of others in your way. Your life story is rich and you have a living legacy that deserves to be shared. Right now.

If you have ambitions you have yet not fulfilled and simply have not got there yet, time is now! Truly. If not now, when? You are not old, but you are old enough to know time is a precious gift. Now is your time.

Join this fun virtual workshop and quit the hustle culture once and for all – so you can find the best you again.

Join me! I would love to see you again.

~Kim xo

Are you an ambitious GenX woman who is over hustle culture? Lace up your high tops & get ready for this live virtual workshop-style event!

11/11/2020

I gained 205 followers on Twitter over night after losing a few dozen over the past week... for advocating for women. Happens every time! I’m at KimPG https://www.twitter.com/kimpagegluckie and I’m not going to be silenced. 📣 GenX

11/08/2020

Fired up!! My family encouraged a little overnight staycation. I have a vision for my life for the next 2-3 decades and want to invite the women along for the ride. Don’t entirely know what it looks like yet, but after a good sleep and an overdose of Kamala, Stacy, Dr Jill, Maya, Rachel, Chrystia, Janis last night (researching, watching tv)... and bouncing it off my beloved Gen Zs... I think I know what it is. Will share with my friends and formulate my thoughts and share by 2021.

10/22/2020

Long time, no chat! Look at the last post I put on this business page. I am hoping so much that you did find flow and grace. But none of us expected what in the world (literally) would be thrown at us to overcome... and how much flow and grace would be a struggle.

I've fortunately been able to continue to work from home, with client work, and kids under foot and my husband also working from home. None of this is new for us. I've worked from home since my babes were literally babies, 6 months old, almost 2 and 5 when I launched. And now here we are, 12 years later, and I had the absolute blessing of repeating history working at home with my babes hanging around, at ages 12, almost 15 and 17.

COVID-19 pandemic interruptions has given us all great time to think and settle into a core sense of ourselves. And frankly, that is a bit unsettling to settle into some truths. For me, it's just a restless itch. I long for community and connectedness, collaboration and workshops, interaction and inspiration with other women business owners. I have not lost my desire to help small businesses grow and have been blessed to put my knowledge and insight to good work for clients. But I'm also hungry to share that knowledge again. I have not decided in what way or how or when. (I'm still in that post-car accident mode, but slowly inching my way to whatever my normal is going to look like. I cannot fully recover, sadly, but I can change and adapt and share what I've learned).

I'm hungry to hear how you are. How you TRULY are. I'm eager to connect and reconnect. I feel 2021 ahead. I know things will not return to "normal" for any of us, not just me, and that's okay. It's what we do next that counts.

As always, don't be a word hoarder. Share your voice. Stand up for what you know is the truth. And find some tonic. Honesty and laughter where we can find it... that is the way forward.

With flow and grace,
Kim

01/01/2020

May your 2020 be a cycle of flow and grace.